FESCo members voted 6+1 to include KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland as the only desktop mode available in Fedora 40. Here’s more on that!

Source: LXer – It’s Final: Fedora 40 to Offer Plasma 6, Drops X11 Entirely

Prestashop is a free and open-source e-commerce solution written in PHP. It allows you to self-host and create online stores and grow your online business. In this tutorial, I will guide you step by step through the installation of PrestaShop on a Debian 12 server.

Source: LXer – How to Install Prestashop with Apache and Free Let’s Encrypt SSL on Debian 12

It’s already available on this lightweight Debian spin. A new version of the Trinity desktop is out, with a new window-snapping feature. And that’s not the only way it’s snappy.…

Source: LXer – Trinity desktop’s latest release snaps into action on Q4OS 5.3

Powered by Liquorix kernel 6.4, Nitrux 3.1 ships with the latest Plasma 5.27.9 desktop and NVIDIA 545.29.02 driver. More about that here!

Source: LXer – Nitrux 3.1 Brings Plasma 5.27.9 and Latest Software Updates

Nitrux developer and maintainer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.1 as the latest ISO snapshot for this immutable, systemd-free, and KDE-oriented GNU/Linux distribution.

Source: LXer – Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.1 Brings Revamped Upgrade Utility, Latest KDE Software

After releasing GNOME 45.1 last month as the first point release to the latest GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series, the GNOME Project also published today updates for two important components, GNOME Shell and Mutter.

Source: LXer – GNOME Shell and Mutter 45.1 Released with Xwayland and Wayland Improvements

Assigning multiple IP addresses to a single device or network interface can serve various purposes and offer several benefits, depending on the specific use case. In this detailed tutorial, we will see how to assign multiple IP addresses to a single network card in various Linux operating systems.

Source: LXer – How To Assign Multiple IP Addresses To A Single Network Interface Card In Linux

We’re inclined to subtitle this “A Camera’s Eye View of the Death of a Social Platform.” There are resources here for folks trying to find people they knew on Pebble.

The post Pebble’s Last Day — The Short Life of a Truly Social Site appeared first on FOSS Force.

Source: FOSS Force – Pebble’s Last Day — The Short Life of a Truly Social Site

Step into the Linux world with the best tools. Here are the three best terminal text editors handpicked for beginners’ success.

Source: LXer – 3 Best Linux Terminal Text Editors Perfect for Beginners

Linux firmware upgrading utility fwupd has been updated today to version 1.9.7, a release that adds support for more hardware devices, new features, as well as various bug fixes.

Source: LXer – Fwupd 1.9.7 Adds Support for More Synaptics Prometheus Fingerprint Readers

One of the core objectives of any confidential-computing implementation is
to protect a guest system’s memory from access by actors outside of the
guest itself. The host computer and hypervisor are part of the group that
is to be excluded from such access; indeed, they are often seen as
threat in their own right. Hardware vendors have added features like memory
encryption to make memory inaccessible to the host, but such features can
be difficult to use and are not available on all CPUs, so there is ongoing
interest in software-only solutions that can improve confidentiality. The
guest-first
memory patch set, posted by Sean Christopherson and containing work by
several developers, looks poised to bring some software-based protection to
an upcoming kernel release.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Guest-first memory for KVM

Julia Evans has posted a list of
confusing Git terms and behavior along with explanations of what is
actually going on.

“Your branch is up to date with ‘origin/main’”

This message seems straightforward – it’s saying that your main branch is
up to date with the origin!

But it’s actually a little misleading. You might think that this means that
your main branch is up to date. It doesn’t. What it actually means is – if
you last ran git fetch or git pull 5 days ago, then your main branch is up
to date with all the changes as of 5 days ago.

So if you don’t realize that, it can give you a false sense of security.

Source: LWN.net – Evans: Confusing git terminology

Home
Assistant 2023.11 is available. New features include a to-do list
manager, Matter
1.2 support, customizable tile cards, new integrations, and more. (LWN
looked at Home Assistant last month).

Source: LWN.net – Home Assistant 2023.11 released

The GNU awk text-processing utility, gawk, has released version
5.3.0. The main new features add compatibility with “The One True Awk” (also known
as “BWK awk”); version 5.3.0 adds CSV (comma-separated values) parsing and
the ability to use u escape sequences for Unicode code points.
Read on for other changes in the release.

Source: LWN.net – Gawk 5.3.0 released

The
6.5.10 and 6.1.61 stable kernels have been released. As
usual, they contain important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users of
those series should upgrade.

Source: LWN.net – Stable kernels 6.5.10 and 6.1.61