GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 03, 2025

• Kernel Space

  • Linuxiac ☛ LXD 6.5 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

    LXD, a modern system container and virtual machine manager developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has just released LXD 6.5, marking the fifth feature launch in the 6.x series.

  • Video Cardz ☛ Intel begins Linux enablement of next-gen Nova Lake series

• Instructionals/Technical

  • How to Upgrade from Ubuntu 24.04 or 24.10 to 25.04: A Complete Migration Guide

    As Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) was released in April 2025, although it has just 9 months (End of Life (EOL) January 2026) of support and is not a LTS GNU/Linux from Ubuntu, many Desktop users running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) or 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) want to upgrade.

  • Linuxiac ☛ How to Change OS Icons for VirtualBox Guests

    Learn how to set your own custom OS icons for VirtualBox guests to make your virtual machines more visually organized and easier to identify.

• Games

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ Battlefield 6's Javelin anti-cheat Secure Boot requirement could kill its Steam Deck support

    Battlefield 6 is taking advantage of EA's Javelin anti-cheat system, which enforced Secure Boot and is classified as a kernel-level AC, potentially killing GNU/Linux and Steam Deck support before the game launches.

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ I took a look at AnduinOS, a GNU/Linux distro that feels like home for backdoored Windows users

    More Windows, less pane

  • Slackware Family

    • Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: PorteuX 2.2

      The Slackware-based PorteuX project has published a new release, version 2.2, which introduces several changes to the kernel and includes a fix for Xfce not locking the desktop properly. [...]

• Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

  • Undeadly ☛ Recent new features in OpenSSH

    Development of important software sometimes happens without fanfare. If not for one of our editors noticing by watching commits, we would have missed the fact that Damien Miller (djm@) recently added a couple of notable features to OpenSSH: [...]

  • Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

    • Open Data

      • Rlang ☛ No More Data Gatekeepers: How We’re Making Analytics Accessible to Everyone

        Introducing AMI - Adaptive Media Intelligence, a platform that democratizes data access through conversational analytics, interactive dashboards, and AI-powered insights.

      • Senthil Thyagarajan ☛ No More Data Gatekeepers: How We're Making Analytics Accessible to Everyone

        In the modern enterprise, we’re told that data is our most valuable asset. But for many, it remains locked away, accessible only to a select few. The process is all too familiar: a question arises about a campaign, a ticket is filed, and days—or even weeks—later, a report arrives. By then, the opportunity to act may have already passed.

        This delay, this friction between question and answer, is a major bottleneck to agility and growth. What if we could remove it entirely?

        What if anyone in the organization, from the CMO to a media planner, could get immediate answers from complex datasets simply by asking a question?