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An introduction to the most useful special and environment variables in Bash
Elevate your scripting game with these must-know Bash variables.
[$] A 2025 retrospective
Another year has reached its conclusion. That can only mean one thing: the time has come to take a look back at the predictions we made in January and evaluate just how badly they turned out. Much to our surprise, not all of our predictions were entirely accurate. It has been a wild year in the Linux community and beyond, to say the least.
Kitty Terminal 0.45 Released With New Keyboard-First File Selector Kitten
Kitty 0.45 GPU-accelerated terminal introduces a new keyboard-first file selector kitten with fast navigation and rich previews for text, images, videos, and e-books.
Alternative NAS operating system OpenMediaVault got a big Christmas Eve update
This brings with it several improvements and what will be a disappointment for 32-bit
We Have Another New Linux Phone Before 2025 Ends...And It's Not For You (or For Me)
FuriLabs launches enterprise-only VX1 with MDM capabilities for companies.
Want real privacy? ditch big-tech OSes and go Linux
Are you tired of big tech watching your every move? There's a solution...
[$] What's new in systemd v259
The systemd v259 release was announced on December 17, just three months after v258. It is a more modest release but still includes a number of important changes such as a new option for the run0 command (an alternative to sudo), ability to mount user home directories from the host in virtual machines, as well as under-the-hood changes with dlopen() for library linking, the ability to compile systemd with musl libc, and more.
QEMU 10.2 Released With IO_uring Support For Helping Allow For Greater Performance
As a wonderful gift to open-source Linux virtualization users this Christmas Eve is the release of the QEMU 10.2 emulator...
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, grafana, opentelemetry-collector, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel), and SUSE (cheat, libsoup, mariadb, mozjs52, python310, python315, qemu, rsync, and zk).
OpenMediaVault 8 NAS Launches With Debian 13 Upgrade
OpenMediaVault 8.0 is now available, upgrading the NAS platform to Debian 13 and officially dropping support for legacy CPU architectures.
A beginner's guide on expanding Bash arrays and word splitting
Discover these 4 key principles that demystify one of Bash's most misunderstood concepts.
Pinta 3.1 Image Editor Brings New Grid, Selection Tools, and More
Pinta 3.1, an open-source image-drawing/editing app, is out with improvements to canvas performance, reduced memory usage, and smoother zooming for large images.
Linux Tools Pipe Behavior: Is It a Bug or Feature?
Context-aware commands show how default behavior can be enhanced.
My Holiday Hopes for Linux and Open Source
As the old year is replaced by the new, here’s Jack Wallen’s wish list for Linux and open source in 2026 -- from the desktop to the developers who keep it alive. The post My Holiday Hopes for Linux and Open Source appeared first on FOSS Force.