Deadlocks are a constant threat in concurrent settings with shared
data; it is thus not surprising that the kernel project has long since
developed tools to detect potential deadlocks so they can be fixed before
they affect production users. Byungchul Park thinks that he has developed
a better tool that can detect more deadlock-prone situations. At the 2025 Open
Source Summit Europe, he presented an introduction to his dependency
tracker (or “DEPT”) tool and the kinds of problems it can detect.

Odoo is the ideal open-source enterprise software for teams and businesses that value flexibility, data privacy, and affordability.

Due to its vast array of productivity apps, one can simply build a unique CRM and ERP platform by choosing the right tools to meet their needs, whether it be project management, e-commerce, inventory management, email marketing or accounting.

While installing and configuring Odoo on Linux doesn’t sound like a difficult task, searching for the desired apps for your job might be challenging. Besides the official Odoo apps, there are thousands of third-party productivity tools that can be integrated into the platform.

The post Top 7 Free Odoo Apps for Linux Users in 2025 appeared first on Linux Today.

Looking for ways to catch errors in your writing? LanguageTool and Eloquent offer simple solutions with no fuss.

Kopia is an open-source backup and restore tool that lets you create encrypted snapshots of your files and store them in cloud storage, on a remote server, on network-attached storage, or on your own computer. It doesn’t create a full image of your machine. Instead, you pick the files and folders you want to back up or restore.

The post Kopia: Open-source encrypted backup tool for Windows, macOS, Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

It’s been a slow news week, but we got some nice gems, including major releases of the LibreOffice office suite, FFmpeg multimedia framework, Firefox web browser, and Thunderbird email client, as well as new updates to the Calibre e-book manager and CachyOS distribution.

On top of that, I tell you all about what’s coming in Firefox 143 and warn you about the end of life of Linux kernel 6.15, Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for August 24th, 2025.

The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 24th, 2025 appeared first on Linux Today.

Arch-based CachyOS’s August 2025 update adds a package dashboard, switches the ISO to an LTS kernel, and improves stability with new bootloader fixes.

The post CachyOS August 2025 Release Brings Package Dashboard, LTS Kernel appeared first on Linux Today.

Calibre 8.9 is here to add support for embedded fonts to HTMLZ output, a color swatch in the results list of the Annotations browser to make seeing the type of highlight easier, and the ability to display the cover of the target book when merging books via drag and drop.

The post Calibre 8.9 E-Book Manager Adds Support for Embedded Fonts to HTMLZ Output appeared first on Linux Today.

BesGnuLinux calls itself lightweight, useful, and stable — but after a wild ride with version 3-0, you might find it’s got a lot more ‘fast and furious’ under the hood.

The post BesGnuLinux: a Lightweight, Fast, Furious, and Stable Distro appeared first on FOSS Force.

Easily install Google Chrome on Debian 13 “Trixie” with this guide, including direct download and repository setup.

But it’s OK to use it for docs and translationsThe latest status report from the FreeBSD Project says no thanks to code generated by LLM-based assistants.…

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Maintaining curl; GNOME governance; Guix in Debian; Tracking untrusted data in the kernel; 32-Bit support; systemd v258.
• Briefs: bcachefs maintenance; Linux from Scratch 12.4; Elf spec; Niri 25.08; Python documentary; GNOME executive director; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Earlier this year Canonical announced plans for using sudo-rs as the Rust-written sudo implementation by default for Ubuntu 25.10 along with Rust Coreutils and other Rust system components. The sudo-rs goal has been achieved with the newest Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs now using this sudo implementation by default…

The GNOME 49 release candidate “49.rc” was just released as we close in on the stable GNOME 49.0 release in two weeks…

The nRF54L15 Connect Kit is a compact platform for evaluating Nordic Semiconductor’s multiprotocol SoC, targeting low-power IoT with support for Bluetooth LE 6.0, Matter, Zigbee and other standards. It builds on the nRF52 Series with higher processing capability and improved efficiency. The kit is based on the nRF54L15-QFAA, which integrates a 128 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 […]

Well, here is some sad news… After the better part of two decades at Red Hat, Hans de Goede shared today he will be leaving the company next month. Hans de Goede during his time at Red Hat has been responsible for countless hardware improvements especially for Linux laptops, serves as the x86 platform subsystem lead maintainer for the Linux kernel, and has done immense work over the past 17 years for bettering Linux hardware support especially on consumer devices…

SUSE’s Lubos Kocman announced today on the behalf of the openSUSE team that they will be providing extended maintenance updates and community support with the upcoming Leap 16 release…

Learn Bash command substitution $(…) with practical examples. Automate scripts, use dynamic filenames, and master Linux scripting easily.

We already conveyed to them weeks ago that we’d pursue full accountability, including costs. This can end up costing them over a million dollars.

Version
25.08 of the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor has been
released. Notable changes include xwayland-satellite
integration, modal exit confirmation, and the introduction of basic
support for screen readers:

A series
of posts by fireborn earlier this year on the screen reader
situation in Linux got me curious: how does one support
screen readers in a Wayland compositor? The documentation is
unfortunately scarce and difficult to find. Thankfully, @DataTriny from the AccessKit project came across my issue,
pointed me at the right protocols, and answered a lot of my questions.

So, as of this release, niri has basic support for screen readers!
We implement the org.freedesktop.a11y.KeyboardMonitor D-Bus
interface for Orca to listen and
grab keyboard keys, and we expose the main niri UI elements via
AccessKit. […]

The current screen reader support and further considerations are
documented on the new Accessibility wiki page.

LWN covered niri in
July.