1 November 2025 Unifont 17.0.03 is now available.
This is a minor release aligned with Unicode 17.0.0.
This release updates and adds over 100 Chinese ideographs.
Download this release from GNU server mirrors at:
https://ftpmirror ……
Read MoreFrom Arch:
The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result
in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file.
Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the
configuration file was migrated, req…
Hello and welcome to my October free software activities report.
GNU & FSF
GNU Spotlight: I prepared and sent the October GNU Spotlight
to the FSF campaigns team, who will review and publish it on the
FSF’s community blog and as part of the next…
Hello and welcome to my October free software activities report.
GNU & FSF
GNU Spotlight: I prepared and sent the October GNU Spotlight
to the FSF campaigns team, who will review and publish it on the
FSF’s community blog and as part of the next…
GNU Parallel 20251022 (‘Goodall’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
idk who built GNU parallel but I owe them a beer
— ram @h4x0r1ng
New in this release:
No new features….
Read MoreIn Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface. We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In this second part, we’ll turn […]
The post Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two appeared first on Linux.com.
Read MoreThe GNU C Library
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The GNU C Library version 2.42 is now available.
The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU system and
in GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux
as the kernel.
The GN…
Read MoreZorin OS 18 has been released last week at Tuesday, 14th October 2025. This release is special because it comes out coincidentally in the same month Canonical releases Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” and Microsoft ends the life of Windows 10. Curre…
Read MoreThe networking industry is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation, driven by the relentless demands of cloud-scale data centers and the rise of software-defined infrastructure. At the heart of this evolution is the principle of disaggregation: the systematic unbundling of components that were once tightly integrated within proprietary, monolithic systems. This movement began with the separation […]
The post Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Architecture and Integration – Part One appeared first on Linux.com.
Read More BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, October 14, 2025) — The
Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its project to
bring mobile phone freedom to users. “Librephone” is an
initiative to reverse-engineer obstacles preventing mobile
phon…
When teams consider deploying Kubernetes, one of the first questions that arises is: where should it run? The default answer is often the public cloud, thanks to its flexibility and ease of use. However, a growing number of organizations are revisiting the advantages of running Kubernetes directly on bare metal servers. For workloads that demand […]
The post Kubernetes on Bare Metal for Maximum Performance appeared first on Linux.com.
Read MoreCongratulations to Canonical and Ubuntu Community for the release of Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka yesterday Thursday, 9 October 2025! This is the third interim release between last LTS, 24.04 Noble Numbat (NN), and next LTS, designated 26.04 Resolute R…
Read MoreThis tutorial is inspired by errors and fixes we encountered when testing openSUSE Leap 16 yesterday. The problem is a kernel panic at boot time, so we cannot run it the same way we usually run other GNU/Linux operating systems up to today. After looki…
Read MoreUbuntu Live USB or CD lets you boot and use Ubuntu without installing it on your computer. This guide explains how to create, boot, and use a Live USB or CD to explore Linux, troubleshoot systems, or perform installations — all without modifying your e…
Read MoreJenkins is a powerful open-source tool for automating builds and deployments. This guide explains how to install and use Jenkins on Linux, configure it for CI/CD pipelines, and manage jobs efficiently. Perfect for developers and DevOps engineers lookin…
Read MoreInstalling software manually can be time-consuming. PowerShell lets you automate the entire process with simple scripts. This guide shows how to install software silently, handle dependencies, and deploy applications efficiently across systems — saving…
Read MoreopenSUSE Leap 16 is finally released this week on Wednesday 1 October 2025 with the headline “Embrace the chameleon”. This openSUSE Leap release is aligned with its enterprise family OS, SUSE Linux Enterprise 16, which brings a lot of improve…
Read MoreBOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Thursday, October 2, 2025) — The Free
Software Foundation (FSF) announced today that Ian Kelling, senior
systems administrator for the organization and the first union
member to hold a seat on its board, has been elected …