The Lustre filesystem has a long history, some of which intersects with Linux. It was added to the staging tree in 2013, but was bounced out of staging in 2018, due to a lack of progress and a development model that was incompatible with the kernel’s. Lustre may be working its way back into the
The KDE Project has announced the Plasma 6.4 release. New features include more flexible tiling features, improvements to the Spectacle screen capture utility, a number of accessibility enhancements, and much more. See the changelog for a complete list of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-bad1.0, konsole, and libblockdev), Oracle (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, gimp, git-lfs, gvisor-tap-vsock, kernel, libvpx, podman, and skopeo), Red Hat (apache-commons-beanutils and thunderbird), Slackware (xorg), SUSE (gdm, golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager, golang-github-prometheus-node_exporter, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, govulncheck-vulndb, grafana, kernel, Multi-Linux Manager, Multi-Linux Manager Client Tools, openssl-3, pam, python-cryptography, python-requests, python-setuptools, python3-requests, SUSE Manager Server, systemd, ucode-intel, xorg-x11-server,
If you regularly use command line text editors you might have heard that Microsoft recently released its own open source one, called Edit. Edit is effectively a remake (or reboot, if you’d rather) of the MS-DOS Editor, but updated to suit current sensibilities. It’s built using Rust and offers “modern interface and input controls similar
The fundamental concept of checkpoint/restore is elegant: capture a process’s state and resurrect it later, perhaps elsewhere. Checkpointing meticulously records a process’s memory, open files, CPU state, and more into a snapshot. Restoration then reconstructs the process from this state. This established technique faces new challenges with GPU-accelerated applications, where low-latency restoration is crucial for
Accessibility features and the work that goes into developing those features often tend to be overlooked and are poorly understood by all but the people who actually depend on such features. At Fedora’s annual developer conference, Flock, Lukáš Tyrychtr sought to improve understanding and raise awareness about accessibility with his session on accessibility barriers and
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, buildah, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, libsoup3, podman, skopeo, sqlite, thunderbird, unbound, valkey, varnish, and xz), Debian (webkit2gtk), Fedora (fido-device-onboard, python-django4.2, rust-git-interactive-rebase-tool, and thunderbird), Red Hat (libsoup), Slackware (libxml2), SUSE (java-11-openjdk, kernel, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (c3p0, dojo, python-django, python3.13, python3.12, python3.11, python3.10, python3.9, python3.8, python3.7,
So, why is Marco Fioretti’s column running on Friday instead of Monday? Because The Donald and Elon had a spat, and he couldn’t wait to tell you what he thinks about it. The post What Trump’s and Musk’s Public Divorce Tells Us About the State of Tech appeared first on Linux Today.
Discover a step-by-step guide to install the Epic Games Store on Ubuntu via the heroic game launcher, lutris, and bottles with practical examples. The post How to Install Epic on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros appeared first on Linux Today.
