The past several years we have seen new releases of the Ruby programming language implementation for Christmas (25 December). This year is no different with Ruby 4.0 having been released this morning…

Learn how to enhance system security by compelling users to change their passwords regularly. Explore step-by-step methods using the passwd and chage commands.

Kitty 0.45 GPU-accelerated terminal introduces a new keyboard-first file selector kitten with fast navigation and rich previews for text, images, videos, and e-books.

FreshRSS 1.28 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator introduces advanced search, new sorting by user date and article length, UI improvements, and more.

Libreboot as the Coreboot downstream focused on free, open-source boot firmware is out with a new test release for Christmas…

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: 2025 retrospective; Dirk and Linus talk; successful open-source documentation projects; verifier-state pruning in BPF; Linux 32-bit timeline; BPF state visualizer; systemd v259.
• Briefs: linux-next maintainer; 2025 TAB; Git in Debian; Elementary OS 8.1; Qubes OS 4.3.0; GDB 17.1; Incus 6.20; systemd v259; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Merry Christmas — or whatever other holiday you celebrate — from all of us at FOSS Force!

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In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to kick out SSH-connected users from the target system from your end as a sysadmin.

Parrot OS 7.0 is now available, introducing KDE Plasma 6, Wayland by default, a Debian 13 base, and a fully rewritten system architecture.

Even with the latest Gparted Live, it’s not easy to dual boot – but it’s worth the hassleHands On It’s been a long time coming but version 1.0 of the first ground-up Rust-based desktop is here… and it is shaping up very well.…

The systemd v259
release was announced on December 17, just three months after
v258. It is a more modest release but still includes a number of
important changes such as a new option for the run0 command
(an alternative to sudo), ability to mount user home directories from the host in virtual
machines, as well as under-the-hood changes with dlopen()
for library linking, the ability to compile systemd with musl libc,
and more.

One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland. Wayback could be used by default on Alpine Linux next year among other distributions. For ending out 2025 development, Wayback 0.3 is now available…

Fabrice Bellard, founder of QEMU and FFmpeg, has published Micro QuickJS, a minimal JavaScript engine targeting embedded and low-memory environments.

As part of our various “year end” articles, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news and hardware reviews of 2025…

The next kernel cycle that will be known as either Linux 6.20 or Linux 7.0 depending upon how Linus Torvalds handles the versioning for this next x.20 milestone. More than likely it will be Linux 7.0 given his historical versioning scheme, but whatever the case, ahead of this next kernel cycle some initialization changes for the CXL subsystem are building up…

As the old year is replaced by the new, here’s Jack Wallen’s wish list for Linux and open source in 2026 — from the desktop to the developers who keep it alive.

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In LLVM Git yesterday for next year’s LLVM 22 release the Qualcomm Xqci RISC-V vendor extension is no longer deemed experimental…

One of the features being worked on for a while with the read-only EROFS file-system is page cache sharing. Besides EROFS being popular on some mobile/embedded devices, this open-source read-only file-system has been quite popular for container usage and there this page cache sharing functionality can provide some significant reductions in RAM usage…

Java is one of the most widely used programming languages worldwide. When considering installing Java 25 on Ubuntu 24.04, developers will find an object-oriented, platform-independent language used to build a range of applications, including web and mobile applications, big data solutions, and even software for cars and planes.

Pinta 3.1 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform paint program written in GTK# for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.