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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 08, 2025

Updated This Past Day

1. Ethical Hacking Distro Parrot OS 6.4 Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, New Tools

   Parrot Security released Parrot OS 6.4 today as a new ISO snapshot of this Debian-based, security-oriented GNU/Linux distribution for penetration testing and ethical hacking.

2. Welcome to Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”

   The wait is over! Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” has reached totality

3. Geany 2.1 Lightweight IDE Brings Smoother UI, New Filetypes, and Theming Support

   Geany 2.1, a lightweight and user-friendly IDE

4. Tux Machines Happy to Hear PCLinuxOS is Coming Back [original]

   Catastrophic event caused the sites to go offline with a lot of data destroyed

   New

5. OBS Studio 31.1 Released with Multitrack Video Support on Linux

   OBS Studio 31.1 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free software for video recording and live streaming on Linux.

6. Android Leftovers

   How I bulletproof my Android phone against theft

7. openSUSE’s Agama 16 Installer Brings Wayland Support

   openSUSE's new Agama installer v16 now boots with Wayland instead of X11 and offers a new minimal Rescue Mode

8. 6 Alternative CLI Tools I Immediately Install on Linux

   The standard utilities on Linux are boring

9. Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

   There is a free and open source version

10. TravelerOS – Linux distribution built for USB drives

    TravelerOS is a lightweight and stable Linux distribution based on Q4OS, which is Debian based

11. Wayland vs X11 on an Nvidia hybrid graphics laptop

    Yo, remember when I did my Wayland vs X11 benchmarks on an AMD-powered machine

12. Programming Leftovers

    Development picks, only 3 for now

13. Atlassian's "Clown Computing" Move and PostgreSQL Anonymizer 2.3

    postgres stuff

14. GNU/Linux Leftovers

    security and more

15. Retro and Restoration (Also With GNU/Linux)

    3 stories

16. Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, This Week in Linux

    2 new episodes

17. Wayland 1.24 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements

    Wayland, an open-source replacement for the X11 window system protocol and architecture, has been updated to version 1.24 today with various new features and improvements.

18. Linux Kernel and Graphics Drivers

    some kernel level updates

19. Bug Threatens Disk Encryption (Bypass)

    in several distros

20. today's howtos

    Instructionals/Technical posts

21. Linux 6.16-rc5

    it's out now

22. GNOME 49 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Disables X11 Session by Default

    Today, the GNOME Project announced the alpha version of the upcoming GNOME 49 desktop environment series for public testing, giving us a first taste of the new features and enhancements.

23. Proprietary Pushers: WSL, DAWs, Packet, and Let’s Encrypt

    software and more

24. LibreELEC Might Be the Best Linux Distro for Your Mini PC

    When everyone talks about minimalist Linux distros

25. Tiling Shell makes Ubuntu multitasking feel just as good as Windows

    This GNOME extension quickly became one of the most important tools on my PC

26. EMAC SoM-35D1F industrial SO-DIMM SoM features NuvoTon MA35D1 SoC, two GbE interfaces

    It supports Qt for GUI, all standard Linux interfaces for I/Os, and also features real-time control via the Cortex-M4 core

27. GamerCard is a gift card-sized, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W-powered handheld console with a 4-inch color display

    The GamerCard can run thousands of games from various classic systems through emulators available on OS images such as Recalbox

28. Free and Open Source Software

    This is free and open source software

29. Review: GLF OS Omnislash Beta

    Developed by a French-speaking community called Gaming Linux FR (GLF)

30. Kirigami Addons 1.9.0

    Kirigami Addons is a collection of supplementary components for Kirigami applications

31. PANZER-LITE93 with Ubuntu 24.04 Ready for Compact AIoT Edge Computing

    The platform ships with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and a lightweight LXQt desktop environment

32. Year two of freelancing

    It was exactly two years ago today that I left my day job as Engineering Manager of LXD at Canonical and went freelance

33. Stable kernels: Linux 6.15.5, Linux 6.12.36, Linux 6.6.96, and Linux 6.1.143

    I'm announcing the release of the 6.15.5 kernel

34. Today in Techrights

    Some of the latest articles

35. 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 6th, 2025

    The 247th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 6th, 2025.

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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.