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How to install KDE neon 20240624

Posted: 2024-06-26 15:40:21
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrvRaUdb3s

KDE neon 20240624 overview | The latest and greatest of KDE community

Posted: 2024-06-25 16:36:36
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzTM0Oxpo8

next-20240625: linux-next

Posted: 2024-06-25 16:22:19
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

Plasma Desktop 6.1 Released with Several Enhancements

Posted: 2024-06-25 16:14:57
Source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Plasma-Desktop-6.1-Released-with-Several-Enhancements

If you're a fan of Plasma Desktop, you should be excited about this new point release.

How Linux is Revolutionizing Education with Open Source Learning

Posted: 2024-06-25 16:00:00
Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-linux-revolutionizing-education-open-source-learning

by George Whittaker

Introduction

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, the importance of equipping students with robust, versatile, and relevant skills cannot be overstated. Among the various tools and platforms available, Linux stands out as a powerful ally in education. As an open-source operating system, Linux offers unparalleled opportunities for learning, innovation, and development. This article delves into how Linux empowers students through open source learning, highlighting its advantages, implementation strategies, and real-world benefits.

The Rise of Open Source in Education

Open source software, characterized by its freely available source code, has a rich history rooted in the principles of collaboration, transparency, and community-driven development. The rise of open source has transformed various sectors, including education. Historically, open source software began as a niche movement but has grown into a mainstream phenomenon, driven by the need for cost-effective, flexible, and innovative solutions.

In education, the adoption of open source software has been particularly significant. It offers educators and institutions the ability to customize and adapt tools to meet specific educational needs. Examples of popular open source software used in education include the Moodle learning management system, the LibreOffice suite, and the versatile Linux operating system itself.

Advantages of Using Linux in Education

Cost-Effectiveness

One of the most compelling reasons for adopting Linux in education is its cost-effectiveness. Unlike proprietary software, which often comes with hefty licensing fees, Linux is available for free. This can result in substantial savings for educational institutions, allowing them to allocate resources to other critical areas such as infrastructure, training, and student support. The financial benefits extend beyond the initial cost, as Linux's open-source nature ensures that there are no hidden fees or unexpected expenses.

Customizability and Flexibility

Linux is renowned for its customizability and flexibility. Educators and IT staff can tailor the operating system to meet specific needs, whether it's configuring a classroom environment, setting up specialized labs, or developing unique educational tools. With a wide range of distributions (distros) available, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian, institutions can choose the version that best fits their requirements. This level of customization is not typically possible with proprietary systems, making Linux a superior choice for educational environments.

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next-20240624: linux-next

Posted: 2024-06-24 18:55:01
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

Garuda Cinnamon 240428 Quick Overview #shorts

Posted: 2024-06-24 16:21:56
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7oubfYLtg4

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1076

Posted: 2024-06-24 00:25:27
Source: https://distrowatch.com/12184

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: openSUSE 15.6 Leap
News: SUSE Liberty program to extend CentOS Linux support, openSUSE testing Leap Micro edition, SUSE Linux Enterprise receives 19 years of support
Questions and answers: Linux's unique and special features
Released last week: Tails 6.4, EasyOS 6.0, SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6,....

6.10-rc5: mainline

Posted: 2024-06-23 21:08:55
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away. RIP Larry Finger

Posted: 2024-06-23 20:33:00
Source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/06/23/2028221/longtime-linux-wireless-developer-passes-away-rip-larry-finger?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Slashdot reader unixbhaskar shared this report from Phoronix: Larry Finger who has contributed to the Linux kernel since 2005 and has seen more than 1,500 kernel patches upstreamed into the mainline Linux kernel has sadly passed away. His wife shared the news of Larry Finger's passing this weekend on the linux-wireless mailing list in a brief statement. Reactions are being shared around the internet. LWN writes: The LWN Kernel Source Database shows that Finger contributed to 94 releases in the (Git era) kernel history, starting with 2.6.16 — 1,464 commits in total. He will be missed... In part to his contributions, the Linux wireless hardware support has come a long way over the past two decades. Larry was a frequent contributor to the Linux Wireless and Linux Kernel mailing lists. (Here's a 2006 discussion he had about Git with Linus Torvalds.) Larry also answered 54 Linux questions on Quora, and in 2005 wrote three articles for Linux Journal. And Larry's GitHub profile shows 122 contributions to open source projects just in 2024. In Reddit's Linux forum, one commenter wrote, "He was 84 years old and was still writing code. What a legend. May he rest in peace."

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Distribution Release: SDesk 2024.06.22

Posted: 2024-06-23 17:05:22
Source: https://distrowatch.com/12183

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. SDesk is an Arch-based Linux distribution which strives for an easy to use, modern approach to desktop computing. The project's latest snapshot is version 2024.06.22 which introduces a number of performance improvements, including a new kernel build. The release announcement shares details: "SDesk now uses the "linux-zen" kernel....

Red Hat's RHEL-Based In-Vehicle OS Attains Milestone Safety Certification

Posted: 2024-06-22 21:37:00
Source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/06/22/2135212/red-hats-rhel-based-in-vehicle-os-attains-milestone-safety-certification?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

In 2022, Red Hat announced plans to extend RHEL to the automotive industry through Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System (providing automakers with an open and functionally-safe platform). And this week Red Hat announced it achieved ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification from exida for the Linux math library (libm.so glibc) — a fundamental component of that Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System. From Red Hat's announcement: This milestone underscores Red Hat's pioneering role in obtaining continuous and comprehensive Safety Element out of Context certification for Linux in automotive... This certification demonstrates that the engineering of the math library components individually and as a whole meet or exceed stringent functional safety standards, ensuring substantial reliability and performance for the automotive industry. The certification of the math library is a significant milestone that strengthens the confidence in Linux as a viable platform of choice for safety related automotive applications of the future... By working with the broader open source community, Red Hat can make use of the rigorous testing and analysis performed by Linux maintainers, collaborating across upstream communities to deliver open standards-based solutions. This approach enhances long-term maintainability and limits vendor lock-in, providing greater transparency and performance. Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System is poised to offer a safety certified Linux-based operating system capable of concurrently supporting multiple safety and non-safety related applications in a single instance. These applications include advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), digital cockpit, infotainment, body control, telematics, artificial intelligence (AI) models and more. Red Hat is also working with key industry leaders to deliver pre-tested, pre-integrated software solutions, accelerating the route to market for SDV concepts. "Red Hat is fully committed to attaining continuous and comprehensive safety certification of Linux natively for automotive applications," according to the announcement, "and has the industry's largest pool of Linux maintainers and contributors committed to this initiative..." Or, as Network World puts it, "The phrase 'open source for the open road' is now being used to describe the inevitable fit between the character of Linux and the need for highly customizable code in all sorts of automotive equipment."

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Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory

Posted: 2024-06-22 17:34:00
Source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/06/22/0444257/systemd-2561-addresses-complaint-that-systemd-tmpfiles-could-unexpectedly-delete-your-home-directory?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

"A good portion of my home directory got deleted," complained a bug report for systemd filed last week. It requested an update to a flag for the systemd-tmpfiles tool which cleans up files and directories: "a huge warning next to --purge. This option is dangerous, so it should be made clear that it's dangerous." The Register explains: As long as five years ago, systemd-tmpfiles had moved on past managing only temporary files — as its name might suggest to the unwary. Now it manages all sorts of files created on the fly ... such as things like users' home directories. If you invoke the systemd-tmpfiles --purge command without specifying that very important config file which tells it which files to handle, version 256 will merrily purge your entire home directory. The bug report first drew a cool response from systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft: So an option that is literally documented as saying "all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d/ entry will be deleted", that you knew nothing about, sounded like a "good idea"? Did you even go and look what tmpfiles.d entries you had beforehand? Maybe don't just run random commands that you know nothing about, while ignoring what the documentation tells you? Just a thought eh But the report then triggered "much discussion," reports Phoronix. Some excerpts: Lennart Poettering: "I think we should fail --purge if no config file is specified on the command line. I see no world where an invocation without one would make sense, and it would have caught the problem here." Red Hat open source developer Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek: "We need to rethink how --purge works. The principle of not ever destroying user data is paramount. There can be commands which do remove user data, but they need to be minimized and guarded." Systemd contributor Betonhaus: "Having a function that declares irreplaceable files — such as the contents of a home directory — to be temporary files that can be easily purged, is at best poor user interfacing design and at worst a severe design flaw." But in the end, Phoronix writes, systemd-tmpfiles behavior "is now improved upon." "Merged Wednesday was this patch that now makes systemd-tmpfiles accept a configuration file when running purge. That way the user must knowingly supply the configuration file(s) to which files they would ultimately like removed. The documentation has also been improved upon to make the behavior more clear." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader slack_justyb for sharing the news.

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next-20240621: linux-next

Posted: 2024-06-21 18:34:32
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

How to install Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS

Posted: 2024-06-21 15:54:29
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJuT8zUVdoA

5.10.220: longterm

Posted: 2024-06-21 12:56:22
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

6.9.6: stable

Posted: 2024-06-21 12:43:16
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

6.6.35: longterm

Posted: 2024-06-21 12:38:57
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

6.1.95: longterm

Posted: 2024-06-21 12:36:08
Source: http://www.kernel.org/

SUSE Upgrades Its Distros With 19 Years of Support

Posted: 2024-06-20 23:50:00
Source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/24/06/20/2041244/suse-upgrades-its-distros-with-19-years-of-support?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At SUSECon in Berlin, SUSE, a global Linux and cloud-native software leader, announced significant enhancements across its entire Linux distribution family. These new capabilities focus on providing faster time-to-value and reduced operational costs, emphasizing the importance of choice in today's complex IT landscape. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 Service Pack (SP) 6 is at the heart of these upgrades. This update future-proofs IT workloads with a new Long Term Service (LTS) Pack Support Core. How long is long-term? Would you believe 19 years? This gives SLES the longest-term support period in the enterprise Linux market. Even Ubuntu, for which Canonical recently extended its LTS to 12 years, doesn't come close. You may ask yourself, "Why 19 years?" SUSE General Manager of Business Critical Linux (BCL) Rick Spencer, explained in an interview that the reason is that on 03:14:08 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, aka Coordinated Universal Time) Tuesday, January 19, 2038, we reach the end of computing time. Well, not really, but Linux, and all the other Unix-based operating systems, including some versions of MacOS, reach what's called the Epoch. That's when the time-keeping code in 32-bit Unix-based operating systems reaches the end of the seconds it's been counting since the beginning of time -- 00:00:00 GMT on January 1, 1970, as far as Linux and Unix systems are concerned -- and resets to zero. Just like the Y2K bug, that means that all unpatched 32-bit operating systems and software will have fits. The Linux kernel itself had the problem fixed in 2020's Linux 5.6 kernel, but many other programs haven't dealt with it. Until then, though, if you're still running SLES 15 SP6, you'll be covered. I strongly suggest upgrading before then, but if you want to stick with that distro to the bitter end, you can. The new SLES also boasts enhanced security features like confidential computing support with encryption in memory, utilizing Intel TDX and AMD SEV processors, along with remote attestation via SUSE Manager. Additionally, SLES for SAP Applications 15 SP6 offers a secure and reliable platform for running mission-critical SAP workloads, incorporating innovations from Trento to help system administrators avoid infrastructure issues.

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