Around a year ago I discussed two concerns with software release archives (tarball artifacts) that could be improved to increase confidence in the supply-chain security of software releases. Repeating the goals for simplicity:
Release artifacts …
Read MoreThe 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 23rd, 2025, brings news about GNOME 48, GIMP 3.0, Fedora Linux 42 beta, Blender 4.4, Rescuezilla 2.6, EndeavourOS Mercury Neo, Finnix 250, Calibre 8.0, Kali Linux 2025.1, AerynOS, elementary OS 8.0.1, as well as a…
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Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Bazzite 41
News: Debian Project Leader election underway, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating custom images for the…
The release of Fedora 42 is only a month or so away, so the folks who engineer the project are calling for the user community to help, in a Test Week that starts on Monday.
The post It’s CoreOS Test Week for Fedora 42 and Fedora Users are Needed …
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bryan Poerwo has announced the release of EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, a refreshed build of the Arch Linux-based distribution’s “Mercury” line. The new release updates the Linux kernel to ver…
Read MoreThis is a step by step beginner’s guide shows how to manually download & install the new Gnome Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono fonts in all current Ubuntu releases. GNOME introduced new interface font in version 48, named Adwaita Sans and Adwaita Mono. While, Ubuntu does not ship Adwaita fonts in system repository, user can […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. The project’s latest release, version 2.6, updates the b…
Read MoreEndeavourOS Mercury Neo distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.13.7, updated core components, bug fixes, and an improved installation.
The post EndeavourOS Mercury Neo Launches with KDE Plasma 6.3, NVIDIA 570, and Mesa 25 appear…
GNU Parallel 20250322 (‘Have you said thank you’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry://@GnuParallel:4
Quote of the month:
te amo gnu parallel
— Ayleen I. C. @ayleen_ic
New in this release:
When hitting a –mi…
Read MoreRescuezilla 2.6 distribution is now available for download with a new build based on Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
The post Rescuezilla 2.6 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 24.10 Build appeared firs…
Canonical has announced that it now ‘officially supports’ Ubuntu on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin series of computing modules, designed for low-power AI and machine learning applications. The General Availability (GA) of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for the N…
Read MoreDebian-based Finnix 250 Linux distribution for system administrators is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. Here’s what’s new!
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Finnix distribution is a small, self-contained, bootable live Linux distribution for system administrators, based on Debian. The project’s latest version is Finnix 250 which marks th…
Read MoreVersion 3.19 of GNU mailutils is available for download. This is a bug-fixing release. Noteworthy changes are:
mail: part specifier accepted after any message designator
filters: revise buffer requirements when requesting more input/output
l…
Read MoreDid you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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GNU DBM version 1.25 is available for download. New in this release:
New function: gdbm_open_ext
This function provides a general-purpose interface for opening and creating GDBM files. It combines the possibilities of gdbm_open and gdbm_fd_op…
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. ReactOS is an open source operating system which seeks to be binary compatible with Microsoft Windows. The project has published a new release, version 0.4.15, which includes improvement…
Read MoreA new version of Miracle-WM, the Mir-based tiling window manager developed by Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek is out, the first update to be released this year. Miracle-WM 0.5 adds a number of new features, compatibility enhancements, and (at long l…
Read MoreDid you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!
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