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parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20251222 (‘Bondi’) released [stable]

GNU Parallel 20251222 (‘Bondi’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4

Quote of the month:

  Used?  gnu parallel is my new favorite toy

    — Eytan Adar @eytan.adar.prof

New in this release:

No new fea…

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GNU Taler news: GNU Taler 1.3 released

We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v1.3.

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GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.26.2

GNUnet 0.26.2

This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.26.1.
It fixes some regressions and minor bugs.

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FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, December 26, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC)

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, December 26 from 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.

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FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, January 9, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC)

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, January 9 from 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.

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Looking Ahead: What 2026 Holds for the Linux Ecosystem

by George Whittaker

Linux has always been more than just a kernel, it’s a living, breathing world of innovation, community collaboration, and divergent use cases. As we roll into 2026,…

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Collection of Ubuntu 24.04 Tutorials Part IV: Camera, Tux Math, Tux Typing, Debian Trixie, and Find and Replace

This is the fourth compilation of our tutorials and other related articles on Ubuntu 24.04 “Noble Numbat,” which have been published here at The Ubuntu Buzz since 2024. In the last compilation, we talked from the List of Ubuntu Default Apps t…

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Parrot OS Switches to KDE Plasma Desktop

Yet another distro is making the move to the KDE Plasma desktop.

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TUXEDO Announces Gemini 17

TUXEDO Computers has released the fourth generation of its Gemini laptop with plenty of updates.

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Top Linux Distributions for Beginners: Friendly, Stable, and Easy to Learn

by George Whittaker

Introduction

Linux has long been known as the operating system of developers and power users, but today it’s far more accessible than ever before. Thanks to user-f…

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health @ Savannah: GNU Health HIS 5.0.5 – Ready for Python 3.14

Dear community

I am happy to announce that since patchset 5.0.5, GNU Health Information system is ready for Python 3.14.

All GNU Health HIS packages have been updated so they allow Python 3.14. The GNU Health GTK client and GNU Health control …

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Overview of 2D animation programs

With the right tool and a bit of artistic talent, you can create two-dimensional cartoons, even without Flash. In this article, we present four animation programs and look at how well they perform in practice.

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Virtual desktops in your web browser with phpVirtualBox

Putting all virtualization tasks on a separate server saves significant resources on the client. phpVirtualBox makes it possible to create, configure, manage, and use remote VMs in a browser window.

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It’s time to take XML out back and shoot it

XML security problems are numerous, but you can take steps to limit your exposure – or you can use a different standard.

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Indexing and searching text with Lucene

Even state-of-the-art computers need to use clever methods to process ever-increasing amounts of document data. The open source Lucene framework uses inverted indexing for fast searches of document collections.

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Using old flash memory as a backup medium

USB sticks and SD cards quickly lose their value, but if a script distributes the data across several such devices, flash memory is still useful as a fast and shockproof backup medium despite limited capacity.

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KDE Software Compilation 4.10

KDE SC 4.10 was released six months after KDE 4.9, adding many new features. In the background, work is in full swing for the next generation, KDE Frameworks 5: a KDE based completely on Qt5 and QML.

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Understanding the transitory /proc filesystem

The mysterious /proc virtual filesystem is a rich mine of information about everything in your system.

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VMware monitoring with OpenNMS

Dynamic resource allocation and migration of virtual machines between hosts mean that VMware environments pose new monitoring challenges. A new version of the free OpenNMS network management tool now includes an option for monitoring VMware-based infra…

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Linux Magazine Full Feed 2025-12-14 15:18:01

Like any self-respecting Linux journalist, I’m often predisposed to take Microsoft to task. For the record, I do manage to spread it around, with occasional reflections on Apple and Google, because I truly believe our universe has room for more than on…

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