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[$] Flexible data placement

Category: Linux
Tags: General
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 17:51:48 +0000
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At the 2025 LSFMM+BPF Summit, Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a session on data placement, discussing how to provide hints to enterprise-class SSDs to improve their decision-making on where to store data. The goal is to group data with similar lifetimes together, potentially extending the life of the devices, but requires further details to be worked out.
At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a combined storage and filesystem session on data placement, which concerns how the data on a storage device is actually written. In a discussion that hearkened back to previous summits, the idea is to give hints to enterprise-class SSDs to help them make better choices on where the data should go; hinting was most recently discussed at the summit in 2023. If SSDs can group data with similar lifetimes together, it can lead to longer life for the devices, but there is a need to work out the details.
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Security updates for Friday

Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 13:20:36 +0000
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Multiple Linux distributions have issued security updates to address vulnerabilities, including Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, SUSE, and Ubuntu. The affected packages include web browsers like Firefox and Thunderbird, as well as other software such as Node.js, Golang, and Redis.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, nodejs, openjdk-17, and thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit, and thunderbird), Mageia (kernel), Oracle (ghostscript, glibc, kernel, libxslt, php:8.1, and thunderbird), SUSE (cmctl, firefox-esr, govulncheck-vulndb, java-21-openjdk, libxml2, poppler, python-h11, and redis), and Ubuntu (docker.io, ghostscript, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and micropython).
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A pile of stable kernel updates

Category: Linux
Tags: Linux
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 06:50:20 +0000
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The Linux kernel has released several stable updates, including versions 6.14.5, 6.12.26, 6.6.89, 6.1.136, 5.15.181, and 5.4.293. Each of these updates contains important fixes for various issues and bugs in the Linux kernel.
The 6.14.5, 6.12.26, 6.6.89, 6.1.136, 5.15.181, 5.10.237, and 5.4.293 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog)

Category: Linux
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Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 17:47:25 +0000
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Redis has switched back to an open-source license, offering its software under the Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, following a tumultuous switch to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) earlier this year. The change was led by Redis creator Salvatore "antirez" Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Sets feature and expressed his enthusiasm for returning to an open-source license.
After a somewhat tumultuous switch to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024, Redis has backtracked and is now offering Redis under the Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, CEO Rowan Trollope announced. The change back to an open-source license was led by Redis creator Salvatore "antirez" Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Sets feature for the release. He said:

I'll be honest: I truly wanted the code I wrote for the new Vector Sets data type to be released under an open source license. Writing open source software is too rooted in me: I rarely wrote anything else in my career. I'm too old to start now. This may be childish, but I wrote Vector Sets with a huge amount of enthusiasm exactly because I knew Redis (and my new work) was going to be open source again.

I understand that the core of our work is to improve Redis, to continue building a good system, useful, simple, able to change with the requirements of the software stack. Yet, returning back to an open source license is the basis for such efforts to be coherent with the Redis project, to be accepted by the user base, and to contribute to a human collective effort that is larger than any single company. So, honestly, while I can't take credit for the license switch, I hope I contributed a little bit to it, because today I'm happy. I'm happy that Redis is open source software again, under the terms of the AGPLv3 license.

Since last year's license switch, though, the Valkey project has sprung up as a fork under the original 3-clause BSD license. [Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/)

Celebrating 20 Years of the OASIS Open Document Format

Category: Linux
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Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 16:05:22 +0000
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The Document Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Open Document Format (ODF) being ratified as an OASIS standard, highlighting its importance as the only open standard for office documents. To mark this milestone, The Document Foundation will be publishing a series of presentations and documents on its blog that illustrate the history and unique features of ODF.

The Document Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ratification of the Open Document Format (ODF) as an OASIS standard.

Two decades after its approval in 2005, ODF is the only open standard for office documents, promoting digital independence, interoperability and content transparency worldwide. [...]

To celebrate this milestone, from today The Document Foundation will be publishing a series of presentations and documents on its blog that illustrate the unique features of ODF, tracing its history from the development and standardisation process through the activities of the Technical Committee for the submission of version 1.3 to ISO and the standardisation of version 1.4.

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Steam Client Update Brings Game Launch Stability

Category: Linux Today
Tags: General
Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 15:30:23 +0000
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A recent Steam client update has improved game syncing and overlay scaling, as well as fixed UI glitches that affected notes and screenshots. The update also brought improvements to game launch stability.

A new Steam client update improves game syncing and overlay scaling and fixes UI glitches that affect notes and screenshots.

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Linux Candy: doge – simple motd script

Category: Linux Today
Tags: General
Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 15:21:54 +0000
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The "Linux Candy" series features interesting open-source software, highlighting unique and visually appealing programs. The latest article in this series focuses on a simple MOTD (Message of the Day) script called "doge", which was first published on Linux Today.

Linux Candy is a series of articles covering interesting eye candy software. We’re only featuring open-source software in this series.

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SWE-agent: Open-source tool uses LLMs to fix issues in GitHub repositories

Category: Linux Today
Tags: AI
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 15:16:01 +0000
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The open-source tool SWE-agent connects powerful language models to real-world tools, allowing them to autonomously perform complex tasks such as fixing bugs in live GitHub repositories and solving cybersecurity challenges. With this tool, language models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 can be used to browse the web, execute custom workflows, and more.

By connecting powerful language models like GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 to real-world tools, the open-source tool SWE-agent allows them to autonomously perform complex tasks: from fixing bugs in live GitHub repositories and solving cybersecurity challenges, to browsing the web or executing custom workflows.

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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Launches with Plasma 6 and New Server Edition

Category: Linux Today
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Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 15:14:40 +0000
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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 has been released, featuring a Linux kernel version 6.14 and various desktop environments including KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 48, and LXQt 2.2. Additionally, this release includes a new Server Edition for users who want to run OpenMandriva as a server operating system.

OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 is here featuring Linux kernel 6.14, KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 48, LXQt 2.2, and a brand new Server Edition.

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Linkerd 2.18 advances open source cloud-native service mesh

Category: Linux Today
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Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 15:13:11 +0000
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The Linkerd project has released version 2.18, which focuses on simplifying operations and improving real-world production scenarios. This release continues the technology's decade-long evolution as an open-source cloud-native service mesh.

Today the project is out with Linkerd 2.18, continuing the technology’s decade-long evolution with improvements focused on operational simplicity and real-world production scenarios.

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Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ crashed some Windows laptops for years

Category: The Verge
Tags: General
Published: 2025-05-03T17:48:22-04:00
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Microsoft employee Raymond Chen revealed that a filter created to deal with certain graphics issues was responsible for making certain Windows laptops crash when playing the music video for Janet Jackson's song "Rhythm Nation". This unusual issue was first reported by Verge readers years ago, and Chen's blog post finally shed light on what caused the problem.
Longtime Verge readers might recall the unusual story of how the music video for a Janet Jackson song, “Rhythm Nation,” could cause certain Windows laptops to crash just by being around when it’s playing. Now, in a blog post spotted by PCWorld, Microsoft employee Raymond Chen has revealed that a filter created to deal with […]
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Apple may stagger next year’s iPhones to make way for a foldable

Category: The Verge
Tags: General
Published: 2025-05-03T14:26:18-04:00
TL;DR: Apple is planning to release its first foldable iPhone in conjunction with the iPhone 18 Pro and "Air" models next year, which will lead to a shuffle in its traditional September release schedule. The standard iPhone 18 model will reportedly be delayed until the spring of the following year, making things more manageable for the company's manufacturing and supply chain processes.
Apple is planning to shuffle its iPhone release schedule next year as it releases the first foldable iPhone to make things more manageable, reports The Information. The plan is for the foldable to come out with the iPhone 18 Pro and “Air” models, while the standard iPhone 18 gets shunted back to the spring of […]
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Trump’s 2026 NASA budget would slash ISS crew and allocate more money for Elon

Category: The Verge
Tags: General
Published: 2025-05-03T13:24:25-04:00
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The Trump administration has proposed a significant cut to NASA's budget for 2026, which would reduce the size of International Space Station crews and research conducted there. Meanwhile, the proposal prioritizes funding for human missions to Mars, which could benefit Elon Musk's SpaceX and refocus NASA's efforts on long-term exploration goals.
The Trump administration has released a proposal to cut about a quarter of NASA’s 2026 budget, slashing both International Space Station crew sizes and the amount of research done there. At the same time, it sets up new funding that would likely benefit Elon Musk’s SpaceX by prioritizing human missions to Mars, and refocuses on […]
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Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck, take 2

Category: The Verge
Tags: General
Published: 2025-05-03T10:00:00-04:00
TL;DR: As the threat of new tariffs looms, people are preparing by mentally compiling lists of essential items they may need to buy in case prices rise, hoping to avoid financial strain. Last year, the author's workplace surveyed their staff about the products that were most likely to be impacted by price changes, providing insight into what consumers might want to stock up on ahead of time.
While we all wait to find out what effect the upcoming — well, maybe upcoming — tariffs will have on prices, many of us are making mental lists of some of the items we might need that, hopefully, won’t demand a bank loan to be affordable. Last year, we asked the staff members here at […]
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Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 review: powerful graphics, LOUD FANS

Category: The Verge
Tags: General
Published: 2025-05-03T09:30:00-04:00
TL;DR: The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is a gaming laptop that stands out visually with its slim design, RGB lighting, and curved plastic exterior. Underneath its stylish exterior lies powerful hardware and a high-quality OLED display with high resolution and refresh rate, making it a great option for gamers.
The Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 is a gaming laptop, and it sure looks like one. It's an inch thick, weighs 5.5 pounds, and is awash in RGB lighting, stylized text, and curved plastic. This Aorus Master offers powerful hardware and a lovely high-res, high-refresh OLED display. It's the first of several laptops we're reviewing with […]
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In his first 100 days, Trump launched an “all-out assault” on the environment

Category: Ars Technica
Tags: General
Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 11:06:58 +0000
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Environmental groups and legal experts are warning that the threat posed by the Trump administration is unprecedented, posing a significant challenge to environmental protections. This threat is perceived as being on a "new level" in terms of its scope and impact.
The threat posed by Trump’s administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say.
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We finally know a little more about Amazon’s super-secret satellites

Category: Ars Technica
Tags: General
Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 01:08:53 +0000
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Amazon's Kuiper satellites look nothing like SpaceX's Starlink.
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Health care company says Trump tariffs will cost it $60M–$70M this year

Category: Ars Technica
Tags: General
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 21:50:01 +0000
TL;DR: The healthcare sector is preparing for increased costs due to rising prices, which could impact patient care and treatment options. Additionally, the sector may also experience shortages of certain medical supplies or equipment, further complicating healthcare delivery.
The health care sector is bracing for higher prices and potential shortages.
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DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business

Category: Ars Technica
Tags: General
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 21:28:43 +0000
TL;DR: The advertising remedy trial is set to start on September 22. This trial aims to address issues related to advertising, with the exact nature of the problems and solutions not specified in the provided information.
The advertising remedy trial will begin on September 22.
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Editorial: Censoring the scientific enterprise, one grant at a time

Category: Ars Technica
Tags: General
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 21:00:56 +0000
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The termination of recent grants is a sign that there is a broader effort to undermine the scientific community. This attack on science is having a significant impact, causing harm and hindering progress in various fields.
Recent grant terminations are a symptom of a widespread attack on science.
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9 Great Deals on Mother's Day Gifts (2025)

Category: Wired
Tags: General
Published: Sun, 04 May 2025 10:36:00 +0000
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Consider getting your mom a special gift that's also budget-friendly. Many of the suggestions available are currently on sale, making it an affordable option to show your appreciation.
Get Mom something special and save some money on it, too. Plenty of our recommendations are on sale.
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The Phony Physics of Star Wars Are a Blast

Category: Wired
Tags: General
Published: Sun, 04 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
TL;DR: The depiction of epic battles in space in movies and TV shows is exciting and thrilling, but it's also scientifically inaccurate since such events would be impractical or even impossible due to the harsh conditions of space. However, the artistic license taken to create these scenes makes for a more enjoyable and engaging viewing experience.
Those epic battle scenes in space are awesome—and physically impossible. But hey, it’s more fun this way!
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15 Best Air Purifiers (2025): Coway, AirDoctor, IQAir

Category: Wired
Tags: General
Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 15:07:00 +0000
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WIRED has tested air purifiers to help protect homes from various indoor pollutants such as dust, pet dander, and allergens. These air purifiers have been put through rigorous testing to ensure they effectively remove impurities from the air, providing a healthier living space.
Protect your home against dust, pets, allergies, and more with air purifiers tested firsthand by WIRED.
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7 Best Cordless Vacuums for Your Whole House (2025)

Category: Wired
Tags: General
Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 14:04:00 +0000
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Cordless stick vacuums offer the freedom to clean your house without being restricted by a power cord. With their cordless design, you can easily move around and clean any area without worrying about finding an outlet or running out of power.
Clean your house without the restraint of a power cord with these cordless stick vacuums.
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Matic Robot Vacuum Review: The Best Robot Vacuum

Category: Wired
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Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 13:00:00 +0000
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The described robot vacuum is the highest-rated one that has been tested, earning a perfect score of 10 out of 10. Its exceptional performance makes it stand out from other robot vacuums, making it a top choice for those looking to purchase this type of product.
This is the best robot vacuum we’ve tested, and it scored a rare 10 out of 10.
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[$] Flexible data placement

Category: LWN.net
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Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 17:51:48 +0000
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At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a session on data placement, which involves giving hints to enterprise-class SSDs to optimize data writing. The goal is to group data with similar lifetimes together, potentially extending the life of the devices, but details still need to be worked out.
At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) Kanchan Joshi and Keith Busch led a combined storage and filesystem session on data placement, which concerns how the data on a storage device is actually written. In a discussion that hearkened back to previous summits, the idea is to give hints to enterprise-class SSDs to help them make better choices on where the data should go; hinting was most recently discussed at the summit in 2023. If SSDs can group data with similar lifetimes together, it can lead to longer life for the devices, but there is a need to work out the details.
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Security updates for Friday

Category: LWN.net
Tags: Linux
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 13:20:36 +0000
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Several Linux distributions have issued security updates to fix vulnerabilities in various software packages, including Chromium, Node.js, OpenJDK, Firefox, Thunderbird, and more. The affected distros include Debian, Fedora, Mageia, Oracle, SUSE, and Ubuntu, with each distro having its own set of updated packages.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, nodejs, openjdk-17, and thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit, and thunderbird), Mageia (kernel), Oracle (ghostscript, glibc, kernel, libxslt, php:8.1, and thunderbird), SUSE (cmctl, firefox-esr, govulncheck-vulndb, java-21-openjdk, libxml2, poppler, python-h11, and redis), and Ubuntu (docker.io, ghostscript, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and micropython).
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A pile of stable kernel updates

Category: LWN.net
Tags: Linux
Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 06:50:20 +0000
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Multiple stable kernel updates were recently released, including versions 6.14.5, 6.12.26, 6.6.89, 6.1.136, 5.15.181, 5.10.237, and 5.4.293. Each of these updates contains important fixes for various issues and is considered stable for use in production environments.
The 6.14.5, 6.12.26, 6.6.89, 6.1.136, 5.15.181, 5.10.237, and 5.4.293 stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
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Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog)

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Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 17:47:25 +0000
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Redis has switched back to an open-source license, specifically the Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3), starting with Redis 8, following a tumultuous period after initially switching to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024. The change was led by Redis creator Salvatore "antirez" Sanfillipo, who wanted to release his new Vector Sets feature under an open-source license and believed it was essential for the project's coherence and acceptance by its user base.
After a somewhat tumultuous switch to the Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024, Redis has backtracked and is now offering Redis under the Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, CEO Rowan Trollope announced. The change back to an open-source license was led by Redis creator Salvatore "antirez" Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Sets feature for the release. He said:

I'll be honest: I truly wanted the code I wrote for the new Vector Sets data type to be released under an open source license. Writing open source software is too rooted in me: I rarely wrote anything else in my career. I'm too old to start now. This may be childish, but I wrote Vector Sets with a huge amount of enthusiasm exactly because I knew Redis (and my new work) was going to be open source again.

I understand that the core of our work is to improve Redis, to continue building a good system, useful, simple, able to change with the requirements of the software stack. Yet, returning back to an open source license is the basis for such efforts to be coherent with the Redis project, to be accepted by the user base, and to contribute to a human collective effort that is larger than any single company. So, honestly, while I can't take credit for the license switch, I hope I contributed a little bit to it, because today I'm happy. I'm happy that Redis is open source software again, under the terms of the AGPLv3 license.

Since last year's license switch, though, the Valkey project has sprung up as a fork under the original 3-clause BSD license. [Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/)

Celebrating 20 Years of the OASIS Open Document Format

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Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 16:05:22 +0000
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The Document Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Open Document Format (ODF) as an OASIS standard, which was ratified in 2005. To mark this milestone, the foundation will be publishing a series of blog posts highlighting ODF's unique features and tracing its history from development to standardization.

The Document Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the ratification of the Open Document Format (ODF) as an OASIS standard.

Two decades after its approval in 2005, ODF is the only open standard for office documents, promoting digital independence, interoperability and content transparency worldwide. [...]

To celebrate this milestone, from today The Document Foundation will be publishing a series of presentations and documents on its blog that illustrate the unique features of ODF, tracing its history from the development and standardisation process through the activities of the Technical Committee for the submission of version 1.3 to ISO and the standardisation of version 1.4.

[Read more](https://lwn.net/Articles/1019672/)

Paprius Icon Set Update Adds New Icons, Plasma 6 Support

Category: OMG! Ubuntu!
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Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 14:30:32 +0000
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A new version of the Papirus icon theme for Ubuntu is available to download, featuring 69 new icons and 18 updated ones. This update also includes packaging and DE changes, and drops support for ePapirus variants since elementaryOS 8.

If you use the Papirus icon theme on Ubuntu, you’ll be pleased to hear a new version is available to download. Frequent updates are a major reason why the Papirus icon set is so popular with Linux users. After all, it’s annoying to switch to a stylish icon set that doesn’t have icons for most of your apps, ruining the vibe. Not so with Papirus. It’s perpetually expanding its coverage through regular updates. Papirus’s second update this year adds 69 new icons—nice—and 18 updated ones. It also includes packaging and DE changes, and deprecates its ePapirus variants since elementaryOS 8 […]

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Canonical Brings Ubuntu 24.04 to Qualcomm Dragonwing Vision Kit

Category: OMG! Ubuntu!
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Published: Fri, 02 May 2025 02:14:12 +0000
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Canonical has released an official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform, specifically tailored for the Qualcomm RB3 (Gen 2) Vision Kit and RB3 (Gen 2 Lite) Vision Kit. This marks the addition of desktop builds to the existing server images available for these devices, providing a powerful development environment with full Ubuntu desktop experience, AI acceleration, and high-performance graphics capabilities.

Canonical has announced the first official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform. A beta image of Ubuntu 24.04 desktop compatible with Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, and specifically tailored for the Qualcomm RB3 (Gen 2) Vision Kit and RB3 (Gen 2 Lite) Vision Kit is available for testing. Ubuntu 24.04 server images were previously available for the same model vision kits, so it’s the addition of desktop builds that is an interesting development. Canonical say marrying a full Ubuntu desktop experience married with “powerful AI acceleration with high-performance graphics” in the Dragonwing devices provides “a powerful development environment […]

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We’re Off — Ubuntu 25.10 Opens for Development

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Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 16:19:46 +0000
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Ubuntu 25.10, code-named "Questing Quokka", has opened for development and is expected to be released in October. The project's engineer, Utkarsh Gupta, announced the opening on the Ubuntu mailing list, warning developers that there may be delays as they work to resolve any issues that arise during this initial period.

Development today opened on Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, the next short-term release of Ubuntu, due for release in October. Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta fired the figurative starting pistol for developers in a post to the Ubuntu mailing list, announcing the opening, and the enabling of auto-sync. “As usual, we expect a large influx of builds and autopkgtests in this initial period, which will cause delays. Please help fixing any breakage that occurs,” Gupta adds. It’s only been a couple of weeks since the Ubuntu 25.04 release, but the dedicated devs who spent 6 months diligently shaping that release don’t get much time […]

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Linux App Release Roundup (April 2025)

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Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:10:00 +0000
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In April, several popular Linux apps received software updates, but not all of them were given full blog treatment. The author acknowledges that it's challenging to cover every update and relies on tracking new releases as best they can, with some minor updates being harder to write about.

April saw a solid set of software updates land for an slew of popular Linux apps. In this post, I run through a number of recent releases that didn’t get the “full article” treatment on this blog. Sometimes it’s a challenge to cover everything I want to (especially in an Ubuntu release month, as April was), and some updates are rather minor and hard to say too much about. Also, covering updates relies on me knowing they’re out in a timely fashion. I track as much as I can, as best as I can. But it’s easy for things to […]

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Track Moon Phases From Your Ubuntu Desktop With Luna

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Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:42:54 +0000
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Luna is a GNOME Shell extension for Ubuntu desktops that displays moon phases, including current phase and illumination percentage. With Luna, you can track upcoming changes right from your panel, making it easy to stay informed about the moon's cycles.

Luna brings moon phases to your Ubuntu desktop with a simple GNOME Shell extension. Track current phase, illumination percentage, and upcoming changes right from your panel.

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7 Essential Logseq Plugins I Use and Recommend

Category: It's FOSS
Tags: General
Published: Sat, 03 May 2025 08:56:47 GMT
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You are excited to share your favorite Logseq plugins that you enjoy using for managing your personal knowledge base. You will be highlighting the specific plugins that have made a positive impact on your experience with Logseq and how they help you manage your knowledge effectively.
Sharing my favorite Logseq plugins that I love to use for managing my personal knowledge base.
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FOSS Weekly #25.18: Linux Magazine, Modern Terminals, Muse Pi, apt Guide and More

Category: It's FOSS
Tags: General
Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 05:49:00 GMT
TL;DR: Here is a summary of the phrase "Going retro, going futuristic" in 2 sentences:

This phrase suggests a desire to explore and appreciate both past and future concepts, styles, or technologies, acknowledging the value of learning from history while also embracing innovation and progress. It implies a sense of nostalgia for the past combined with an excitement for what's to come, highlighting the importance of balancing tradition with modernity.
Going retro, going futuristic.
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Exploring Firefox Tab Groups: Has Mozilla Redeemed Itself?

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Tags: General
Published: Thu, 01 May 2025 05:10:17 GMT
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Firefox's Tab Groups feature helps users organize their tabs efficiently, but how effective is it really? The author will share their personal experience with the feature to give readers an idea of its efficiency.
Firefox's Tab Groups help you organize tabs efficiently. But how efficiently? Let me share my experience.
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Journals and Contents: Two Special Pages in Logseq

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Tags: General
Published: Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:46:58 GMT
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You can enhance the functionality of your Logseq knowledge base by utilizing its Journals and Contents pages for tasks such as managing projects and bookmarking useful information. By doing so, you can increase the overall usefulness of your knowledge base.
From task management to bookmarking, extend the usefulness of your knowledge base by using the Journals and Contents pages in Logseq.
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Dual Booting CachyOS and Windows

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Tags: General
Published: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:04:44 GMT
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CachyOS, a Linux distribution rooted in the Arch domain, can be dual-booted with Windows, which is an unexpected feature for a distro in this category. This compatibility makes it possible to run both CachyOS and Windows simultaneously on the same computer.
Dual booting CachyOS with Windows is pretty standard and that's surprising for a distro in Arch domain.
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Enabling system-wide DNS over TLS

Category: Fedora Magazine
Tags: General
Published: Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0000
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This article provides instructions on how to enable DNS over TLS (DoT) on your system, including at boot time, with support available in Fedora 42. Additionally, it will guide you through setting up encrypted DNS for system installation, which can be tried with Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 43).
This article will guide you to enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on your running system and at boot time. Support is avaliable in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation, if you want to try it with current Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 43). Background Traditionally, DNS queries are […]
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The Fedora Project history and family tree

Category: Fedora Magazine
Tags: Red Hat
Published: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0000
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The Fedora Project was established in 2003 as a proving ground for testing and refining new ideas in Linux, with the goal of driving innovation and community engagement. Since its inception, Fedora has served as a global hub for Linux contributors to collaborate and develop new concepts, building on Red Hat Linux's legacy.
This article provides a short overview and history of the Fedora Project. Introduction The Fedora Project has become known for Linux innovation. Since its inception in 2003, Fedora has been a proving ground where new ideas in Linux are tested and refined by a global community of contributors. Its creation sprang from Red Hat Linux’s […]
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Full Steam Ahead with RISC-V and Fedora Linux 42

Category: Fedora Magazine
Tags: General
Published: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0000
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The Fedora RISC-V SIG (Special Interest Group) has successfully released RISC-V images for Fedora Linux 42 on schedule, meeting their goal of timely delivery. This achievement is significant because it brings the group closer to achieving "primary" status for RISC-V, indicating a high level of support and stability for the platform.
The Fedora RISC-V SIG is excited to share that our RISC-V images for Fedora Linux 42 have landed on-time and without delay! If you’ve been watching our progress over the past few releases, you know that staying on schedule is a big deal, especially given our goals of eventually gaining “primary” status for RISC-V as […]
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How to rebase to Fedora Linux 42 on Silverblue

Category: Fedora Magazine
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:46:18 +0000
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Fedora Silverblue is an operating system built on Fedora Linux, suitable for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. The OS offers advantages such as being able to roll back in case of problems, and this article provides instructions on how to rebase to Fedora Linux 42 on a Fedora Silverblue system.
Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to rebase to Fedora Linux 42 on your Fedora Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not […]
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New in Fedora: Running x86 programs on ARM systems

Category: Fedora Magazine
Tags: General
Published: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:41:45 +0000
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The newly released Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42 introduces support for running x86 and x86-64 programs on ARM systems without modification, thanks to the integration of an emulation stack originally developed for Fedora Asahi Remix. This feature is now available on all ARM-based Fedora Linux systems, enabling greater compatibility and flexibility.
The newly released Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42 introduces out-of-box support for running x86 and x86-64 programs on ARM systems. This is accomplished by leveraging the emulation stack originally developed for Fedora Asahi Remix. This work is now integrated into Fedora Linux proper. This makes it available for all ARM systems running Fedora Linux, not […]
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