Linux configuration files are often plain text, which makes them easily editable using command-line tools. Among the most powerful of
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Another bug to file under 'once you see it, you can't unseen it' has been fixed in Ubuntu, this one concerning the curved corners on the desktop dock.
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Welcome to the July 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.
This month, our global community of developers, maintainers, and members came together in Denver for Open Source Summit North America. Thank you to our attendees for a vibrant week of innovation, collaboration, and connection! (In case you missed it,SiliconANGLE rounded up 13 key takeaways from the event.)
Here are more of this month’s highlights:
Read on for more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.
Sudoers is the default sudo security policy plugin in Linux; however, experienced system administrators can specify a custom security policy
The post Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.By default, SSH already uses secure data communication between remote machines, but if you want to add an extra security
The post How to Setup Two-Factor Authentication For SSH In Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its "spec-driven" workflow and VS Code compatibility.
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The new Blender 4.5 LTS release features major improvements, including full Vulkan support, faster startup, new Geometry Nodes, HDR and more.
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When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ensure operating system resilience. This article dives into why that matters, how it’s being implemented, and what it could mean for Linux’s long-term robustness.
Tackling the C Legacy: A Fragility ProblemFor over three decades, the Linux kernel has been maintained in C, a language that offers both raw control and notorious pitfalls. Manual memory juggling in C leads to high-risk bugs: buffer overflows, phantom pointers, heap corruption, and race conditions. In fact, memory safety issues account for around two-thirds of all kernel vulnerabilities.
Enter Rust: a systems language designed to eliminate whole classes of these errors through strict compile-time checks, without sacrificing low-level efficiency.
Rust’s Safety Toolkit: What Sets It ApartRust’s most powerful features for kernel reliability include:
Ownership semantics & the borrow checker These enforce rules about who owns a piece of memory at compile-time, no dangling pointers, no double frees.
No runtime garbage collector All abstractions compile down to efficient machine code, ensuring performance remains rock-solid.
Race elimination for free Rust-language concurrency prevents data races statically, eliminating a whole breed of timing-related bugs.
Combined, these attributes strip away entire categories of vulnerabilities that plague C-based code.
A New Layer: The Rust-for-Linux FrameworkThe groundwork for Rust modules in Linux was laid with kernel 6.1, and by version 6.8, the first experimental Rust drivers, covering areas like network PHYs and panic QR logging, were accepted. These drivers coexist with traditional C components, forming a hybrid architecture where Rust is used for new drivers while C remains the backbone.
Crucially, this integration includes:
A Rust bindings crate to interface safely with C internals.
A kernel crate that wraps core kernel structures and APIs for Rust consumption.
This layering enables gradual Rust adoption, developed drivers, not wholesale rewrites.
Early Results: Fewer Bugs, More ConfidenceEvidence is already showing promise:
Memory safety vulnerabilities drop out as code gets written in Rust, tackling roughly two-thirds of past CVEs.
Kernel maintainers are noticeably more comfortable merging Rust patches, citing the added rigor from the borrow checker.
Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.
Current PromotionsGet our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.
Our current supported kernelsPackage Changes (Tue Jul 15 09:23:53 CEST 2025)
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KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.
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Google has said it is 'combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform'. Why is it happening, and will the merger mean the end of ChromeOS as a brand?
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When starting out with Linux, you may encounter the terms “services” and “daemons” quite frequently, which refer to background processes
The post How Linux Services and Daemons Work (and How to Control Them) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.Seeking a fast, modern terminal for Ubuntu? Rio is a cross-platform, hardware-accelerated terminal emulator built in Rust with novel features.
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Hello community, here we have another set of package updates.
Current PromotionsGet our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.
Our current supported kernelsPackage Changes (Thu Jul 10 20:45:34 CEST 2025)
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A sizeable database performance boost is available in the latest release of open source ebook manager, view and converter Calibre, plus plenty of bug fixes.
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You can customise GNOME Shell notifications, including position on screen, RegEx filtering, and custom colours using the Notification Configurator extension.
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