Linux News8 things you should never do in Proxmox (unless you want your homelab to crash)
Proxmox has a few buttons you should probably think twice about pressing!
BleachBit 6.0.4 offers faster scanning, improves Linux cleaners
A new version of BleachBit, an open-source system cleaning tool, is out. BleachBit 6.0.4 brings everything I mentioned in my spot on the BleachBit 6.0.4 beta release, including macOS support for the first time – albeit in an early state, and including a Cleaner for Safari and a choice of the (neat) BleachBit CLI or an early GUI. Windows and Linux users all benefit from faster startup times and scanning speeds, and gain new cleaners for Android Studio, Gradle’s cache, fish and Zsh shells and Python CLI. Top-level log files are cleared by the Claude cleaner, and browser “super cookies” […]
ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he's paired that "open-source Windows" OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows x64 games/apps on ReactOS atop native ARM hardware...
Privacy Notes: Markdown Editor With Built-in Encrypted Vault
Privacy Notes offers different kinds of templates, secret vault, burn after reading and an optional zero-knowledge encrypted sync.
System76 Unveils Thelio Mira AI for Local AI Workloads
The new Thelio Mira AI Linux workstation starts at $3,299, offering Ryzen 9000 CPUs, multi-GPU support, and up to 192 GB of GPU memory.
[$] Typst makes big strides
Typst is a system for typesetting documents into various formats: PDF, SVG, PNG, and, in progress, HTML. It is adept at handling technical material, and is often considered to be an eventual LaTeX replacement. We last looked in on Typst a year ago, when it had reached version 0.13. A new version, 0.15, was released in June with lots of new features, including support for variable fonts, MathML, multiple bibliographies, and more. Typst is free, Apache-2.0-licensed software, programmed in Rust.
KDE Frameworks 6.30 Improves KIO, KWallet, and Image Support
KDE Frameworks 6.30 is now available, bringing file handling and performance improvements, KWallet fixes, and better support for several image formats.
NVIDIA 615.71 Linux Driver Adds Proton Support for NVIDIA Reflex
NVIDIA 615.71 is out as a new feature branch Linux driver with Proton support for NVIDIA Reflex, Wayland latency fixes, and Blackwell improvements.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (expat, glib2, microcode_ctl, mrtg, pam, redis, thunderbird, and valkey), Debian (fort-validator, gst-plugins-base1.0, kernel, and slurm-wlm), Fedora (complyctl, libevent, openvpn, and tar), Mageia (dovecot and spice-vdagent), Red Hat (ignition, opentelemetry-collector, and osbuild-composer), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, aws-nitro-enclaves-cli, bzip2, cadvisor, chromium, curl, distribution-registry, emacs, freeciv, fuse-overlayfs, gh, google-guest-agent, GraphicsMagick, hauler, insighttoolkit-devel, java-17-openjdk, libidn, libusb-1_0, libvirt, libvncserver, libzypp, zypper, lkl, lxd, multipath-tools, NetworkManager, perl-Net-DNS, perl-URI, python, python-authlib, python-sqlparse, python-tornado, python3, rpcbind, supergfxctl, systemd, terraform-provider-null, ucode-intel, wget, wireshark, and xen), and Ubuntu (curl, ffmpeg, glibc, hsqldb1.8.0, imagemagick, perl, and vim).
MiDesktop 1.2 Beta Brings KDE 1 Revival Closer to Daily Use
MiDesktop 1.2 enters beta with a new panel, more ported KDE apps, better Firefox support, and improved desktop usability.
Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P WiFi motherboard and it's been working out and performing well as an alternative to the closed-up motherboard firmware.
Arch Linux is not hard to install, by the way
You can have a working Arch system by the end of an afternoon.
XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes
Following last month's initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes...
System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics
System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads...
OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations
The first alpha release of the upcoming OpenSSL 4.1 release is now available for testing with some GREASE and DTLS 1.3 support along with more AVX-512 performance optimizations...