Debian developer Julian Andres Klode sent out a message on Halloween that may give some Debian Linux users and developers a spook: the APT packaging tool next year will begin requiring a Rust compiler. This will place a hard requirement by Debian Linux on Rust support for all architectures. Debian CPU architectures with ports currently but lacking Rust support will either need to see support worked on or be sunset…

In the tutorial, we will explain how to install Joomla on Debian 13 OS. Joomla is a free and open-source CMS (content management system) written in PHP used to build and manage websites and other online applications. Creating content with Joomla has never been easier with the latest versions, and it allows users to easily create and publish web content, blogs, e-commerce stores, forums, etc.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the November 2025 issue.

Julian Andres Klode has announced that the
Debian APT package-management tool will acquire “hard Rust
dependencies sometime after May 2026. “If you maintain a port
without a working Rust toolchain, please ensure it has one within the next
6 months, or sunset the port.“

In the Linux world, two common commands, “ls” and “dir“, replicate each other so well that most Linux users think one of them is an alias or symbolic link to the other.

Pacman 7.1 package manager for Arch Linux enforces signature verification by default, improving package security and sandbox reliability.

Open-source developer Joel Severin today announced his work on porting the Linux kernel to WebAssembly and has successffully gotten the kernel up and running within WASM-capable web browsers…

Kicking off November for Arch Linux users happen to be the releases of Pacman 7.1 as well as Archinstall 3.0.12…

Vaultwarden, a password manager application, is an unofficial Bitwarden server alternative written in Rust. Vaultwarden supports connections through the Bitwarden client and is relatively resource-light compared to the official Bitwarden service. Caddy itself is a modern, easy-to-use web server known for its automated HTTPS management capabilities using Let’s Encrypt.

Restructuring to the Linux kernel’s PCI Resizable BAR “ReBAR” support is set to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle…

Kodi 21.3 has been released today as the latest stable version for this free, open-source, and cross-platform media center and home theater software for Linux, Android, macOS, Windows, and other platforms.

During the month of October on Phoronix were 305 original news articles around Linux/open-source and another 21 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. There was an exciting mix of software and hardware happenings over the past month. Here is a look back at what excited readers the most…

In mid-October a Meta engineer uncovered an RDSEED architectural issue with AMD Zen 5 CPUs. A patch in turn was sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list to disable RDSEED usage on affected Zen 5 processors. AMD this week issued a security bulletin to acknowledge the issue and report that a microcode fix is coming…

KDE Plasma developers continue to be busy landing more fixes for the recently introduced Plasma 6.5 while also lining up more new features for Plasma 6.6…

Learn how to extract text from screenshots and images with spectacle-ocr utility in Linux. Go from image to text in one step!

Shotcut 25.10 was released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems written in Qt and MLT.

Void Linux users can now manage runit services the easy way with Runkit — a fast, simple, and powerful new GUI tool.

As part of today’s Kodi 21.3 release, the Kodi Foundation also published the alpha 2 version of the upcoming Kodi 22 (codename Piers) release, a major update that promises major changes.

Wine 10.18 is now available for capping off the month of October and working toward the code freeze for Wine 11.0 beginning in early December…

Following below is procedure which allows to install on Arch Linux CachyOS v3 repositories along with pacman fork belongs to CachyOS. Proceed as advised in post on Arch Linux KVM Guest deployed via F43/42 KVM Hypervisor . Upgraded Arch Instances have successfully passed via `sudo pacman -Syyu` multiple times during several recent days.