OpenSSH, the workhorse of secure remote access, has received a welcome update with version 9.6. This release doesn’t just patch security holes; it also throws in some handy new features to keep your remote connections running smoothly and securely.

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Source: Linux Today – OpenSSH 9.6 Arrives: Patching Up and Powering Up

Quick guide to install Firefox ESR on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish LTS for those that prefer using the ESR version of Firefox.

Source: LXer – Guide to install Firefox ESR on Ubuntu 22.04

Linux graphics developers often speak of modern Linux graphics
when they refer to a number of individual software components and how they
interact
with each other.
Among other things, it’s a mix of kernel-managed display resources,
Wayland for compositing, accelerated 3D rendering, and decidedly not X11.
In a two-part series, we will take a fast-paced journey
through the graphics code to see how it converts application data
to pixel data and displays it on the screen. In this installment, we look
at application rendering, Mesa internals, and the
necessary kernel features.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The Linux graphics stack in a nutshell, part 1

DietPi 8.25 introduces support for Orange Pi 3B and PINE64 STAR64, enhancing options for diverse SBC users. Here’s what’s new!

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Source: Linux Today – DietPi 8.25 Enhances User Experience on Multiple Platforms

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P). It lets users download files from the internet. Unlike HTTP and FTTP, BitTorrent is a distributed transfer protocol.

Source: LXer – 7 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients

Version 4.2.0 of the Qubes OS distribution has been released; changes
include a switch to Xfce for the Fedora and Debian templates, a number of
rewritten graphical applications, PipeWire support, and more. See the release
notes for details. (Qubes OS was last covered here in 2021).

Source: LWN.net – Qubes OS 4.2.0 released

OpenSSH
9.6 has been released. It includes some minor improvements and a fix
for the so-called Terrapin
attack.

While cryptographically novel, the security impact of this attack
is fortunately very limited as it only allows deletion of
consecutive messages, and deleting most messages at this stage of
the protocol prevents user authentication from proceeding and
results in a stuck connection.

Source: LWN.net – OpenSSH 9.6 released

Version
121.0 of the Firefox browser is out. Along with the usual pile of
security fixes, this release add the ability to force links to be rendered
with underlines and use of Wayland by default if it is available: “This
brings support for touchpad & touchscreen gestures, swipe-to-nav,
per-monitor DPI settings, better graphics performance, and more.“

Source: LWN.net – Firefox 121.0 released

Qubes OS 4.2.0 features enhanced SELinux support and upgraded Dom0 and Xen. The Debian template is now based on the “Bookworm” release.

Source: LXer – Qubes OS 4.2.0 Rolls Out with Dom0 Rebased to Fedora 37

The 167th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 17th, 2023, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Source: LXer – 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: December 17th, 2023

In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to use the cp command on Linux.

Source: LXer – cp command – How to Copy Files and Directories in Linux

Quick guide covering the steps to install Zabbly Kernel on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish LTS which if required can easily upgrade your Linux Kernel to the latest mainline release.

Source: LXer – How to Install Zabbly Kernel on Ubuntu 22.04

postmarketOS 23.12 has been released today as the latest stable update to this Alpine Linux-based operating system for mobile devices introducing new features, support for new devices, and other enhancements.

Source: LXer – postmarketOS 23.12 Brings the GNOME 45 Desktop to Linux Phones and Tablets

This article describes how to add and remove users on Debian 12. If you’re a Linux user, it’s crucial to have basic skills like adding and removing users. This makes your system more secure by ensuring only authorized users can access protected resources and perform specific actions.

Source: LXer – How to Add and Delete Users on Debian 12

Peter Smails talks community, licensing, and AI pragmatism. Interview Open source companies do not run on goodwill alone, and industry veteran SUSE is walking the tighrope between pleasing the community and charging cold hard cash for some of its wares.…

Source: LXer – SUSE’s Captain Container on sailing the open source seas

This article looks at Synology Container Manager, a lightweight virtualization application which lets you run thousands of Docker containers on a Synology NAS device.

Source: LXer – Synology Container Manager for Beginners

GuardRail OSS offers an API-driven framework for advanced data analysis, bias mitigation, sentiment analysis, content classification, and oversight tailored to an organization’s specific AI needs.

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Source: Linux Today – GuardRail: Open-Source Tool for Data Analysis, AI Content Generation Using OpenAI GPT Models

Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 121 web browser, slated for release on December 19th, 2023, so it’s time to take a closer look at the new features and improvements.

Source: LXer – Mozilla Firefox 121 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

The NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX HW family of adapters is a complex beast,
supporting networking, InfiniBand, RDMA, and more. As a result, the mlx5
kernel driver that supports this hardware is also complex, as is the
interface that it provides to user space. The mlx5 developers have, for a
while now, been proposing
the addition of a new control interface, in the form of a separate virtual
device exported by the kernel, that would make vast amounts of debugging
information available. This driver has encountered some significant
opposition on its way toward the mainline, though, raising a number of
questions about appropriate interfaces and when subsystem maintainers have
veto power over submissions.

Source: LWN.net – [$] The intersection of mlx5, netdev, and lockdown

GNOME 44.7 is here for users who are still using the GNOME 44 desktop environment series and promises to optimize application search in the GNOME Shell, whose performance was improved thanks to the devs addressing a performance degradation caused by a repeated signal leak.

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Source: Linux Today – GNOME 44.7 Optimizes Shell Application Search and Improves Performance