Linux Newssystemd 259-rc1 Released With Musl libc Support, New run0 "Empower" Mode
Released a short time ago was systemd 259-rc1 as the first test release toward this next version of this dominant Linux init system and service manager...
Josefsson: Introducing the Debian Libre Live Images
Debian developer Simon Josefsson has announced the Debian Libre Live Images project, to allow installing Debian without any non-free software: Since the 2022 decision on non-free firmware, the official images for bookworm and trixie contains non-free software. The Debian Libre Live Images project provides Live ISO images for Intel/AMD-compatible 64-bit x86 CPUs (amd64) built without any non-free software, suitable for running and installing Debian. The images are similar to the Debian Live Images distributed as Debian live images. He does warn that this is a first public release, so there may be problems. See the current list of known issues before trying the images out.
These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers
These distros know you aren't afraid of a little technical complexity in exchange for greater system control.
Git 2.52 Released With More Preparations Toward Git 3.0
Git 2.52 is out today as the newest feature release of this distributed revision control system and in working toward Git 3.0 that will hopefully release by the end of 2026...
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (gst-plugins-base1.0, lasso, and thunderbird), Fedora (bind9-next, chromium, containerd, fvwm3, luksmeta, opentofu, python-pdfminer, python-uv-build, ruff, rust-get-size-derive2, rust-get-size2, rust-regex, rust-regex-automata, rust-reqsign, rust-reqsign-aws-v4, rust-reqsign-command-execute-tokio, rust-reqsign-core, rust-reqsign-file-read-tokio, rust-reqsign-http-send-reqwest, suricata, uv, and xmedcon), Mageia (apache-commons-beanutils, apache-commons-fileupload, apache-commons-lang, botan2, python-django, spdlog, stardict, webkit2, and yelp-xsl), Slackware (xpdf), and SUSE (bind, chromedriver, firefox, kernel, libxml2, and openssh).
SD Card Formatter for Linux
In a previous article, SD Card Basics, I covered the different SD Cards and their abilities. The member 'aeiou' commented that the SD Card Association has an SD Card Formatter for Linux. There is one for Windows and Mac as well, but we'll look at the Linux version. The page for the Formatter is here. Keep in mind that this is a command-line... https://www.linux.org/threads/sd-card-formatter-for-linux.57148/
Clean Up Your GNOME Panel With This New Extension
Hide unwanted panel icons automatically with Veil.
SUSE Developer Working To Reimplement SSH Using The Zig Programming Language
SUSE engineer Lucas Mülling is leading an effort to work on implementing SSH within the Zig programming language, a popular language for robust, optimal, and reusable software...
VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve just announced VKD3D-Proton 3.0 as a major update to this Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
Updated LLVM/Clang Compiler Enables AVX 10.2 & APX For Intel Nova Lake
Last month when the LLVM/Clang 22 compiler merged support for Intel Nova Lake with the "-march=novalake" target there was no mentions of AVX10 or Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) support. But last week Intel published a new programming reference manual where they confirmed AVX 10.2 and APX for Nova Lake. Now that it's official, Intel compiler engineers are updating the LLVM/Clang (and GCC) compiler support to reflect these ISA additions...
AMD Enterprise AI Suite Announced: End-To-End AI Solution For Kubernetes With Instinct
The AMD ROCm blog just announced a new open-source AMD AI software project: the AMD Enterprise AI Suite as well as AMD Inference Microservices (AIMs)...
Snapchat Opens Valdi Framework to Developers After 8 Years of Internal Use
Enters a crowded UI framework market.
systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc
Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option...
Intel Nova Lake Power Management Bits Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.19
Intel engineers continue working on the Nova Lake next-gen processor enablement for the Linux kernel. In addition to the Intel Xe3P graphics and other early Nova Lake enablement work already queued in "-next" Git branches ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window, the initial power management code is also ready for this next kernel cycle...
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc6
Linus has released 6.18-rc6 for testing. "So we have a slightly larger rc6 than usual, but I think it's just the random noise and a result of pull request timings rather than due to any issues with the release. But I guess we have a couple of weeks remaining to find out."