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FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff
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  • A new ODF document standard release.
  • Open source alternative to Help Scout.
  • YouTube clamping down on tech YouTubers.
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  • Ubuntu's Rust transition hitting yet another hurdle.
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  • A new Rust-related problem has cropped up in the land of Ubuntu.
  • ODF 1.4 is here as the next evolution for the open document standard.
  • You can now play classic D3D7 games on Linux with this new project.
  • YouTube recently deleted some Windows 11 bypass tutorials with some absurd claims.
  • Kaspersky antivirus software is now available for Linux users. Personally, I don't use any such software on Linux.

Big Tech being Big Tech. A creator claimed that his videos about bypassing Windows 11's mandatory online account were removed by YouTube.

YouTube Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims ‘Risk of Physical Harm’
When will these Big Tech platforms learn?
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FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff

🧠 What We’re Thinking About

Could GNOME Office be a thing? Roland has some convincing points:

It’s Time to Bring Back GNOME Office (Hope You Remember It)
Those who used GNOME 2 in the 2000’s would remember the now forgotten GNOME Office. I think it’s time to revive that project.
FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux StuffIt's FOSSRoland Taylor
FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff

On a side note, I found out that Flathub is ranking on Google for NSFW keywords.

What a Shame! FlatHub is Ranking on Google for Po*nHub Downloads
And it’s not Google’s fault this time.
FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux StuffIt's FOSSAbhishek Prakash
FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff

🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials, and Learnings

You can fix that annoying issue of GNOME Files not showing image thumbnails on Fedora, btw.

Fixing Image Thumbnails Not Showing Up in GNOME Files on Fedora Linux
Tiny problem but not good for the image of Fedora Linux, pun intended.
FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux StuffIt's FOSSAbhishek Prakash
FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff

Theena suggests some ways to reclaim your data privacy. Switching to a private email service like Proton is one of the recommendations.

If you are absolutely new to the Linux commands, we have a hands-on series to help you out.

Linux Command Tutorials for Absolute Beginners
Never used Linux commands before? No worries. This tutorial series is for absolute beginners to the Linux terminal.
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👷 AI, Homelab and Hardware Corner

Ownership of digital content is an illusion, until you take matters into your own hands. Our self-hosting starter pack should be a good starting point.

The Self-Hosting Starter Pack: 5 Simple Tools I Recommend To Get Started With Your Homelab
Self-hosting isn’t rocket science—if I can do it, so can you!
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✨ Project Highlights

Don't let its name fool you. Calcurse is a powerhouse of a tool that can be your go-to for any calendar management needs (like a boon, almost).

Command Your Calendar: Inside the Minimalist Linux Productivity Tool Calcurse
A classic way to stay organized in the Linux terminal with a classic CLI tool.
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FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff

Help Scout is known for abrupt pricing changes; why not switch to a platform that actually cares?

Tired of Help Scout Pulling the Rug from Under You? Try This Free, Open Source Alternative
Discover how FreeScout lets you run your own help desk without vendor lock-in or surprise price hikes.
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💡 Quick Handy Tip

In the Konsole terminal emulator, you can use the right-click context menu to open any folder with a specific tool. For example, if you are inside a directory, right-click and select the "Open Folder With" option.

From the list, select an application. So, for instance, if Dolphin is selected, the location will be opened in the file manager. If Kate is selected, that location is opened in the editor.

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FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff

Other than that, if you enable the "Underline Files" option in Configure Konsole →Profiles → Edit Profile → Mouse → Miscellaneous, you can even right-click and open files in GUI tools right from the terminal.

🎋 Fun in the FOSSverse

Can you get all the answers to this Linux distro logo quiz?

Guess the Distro from its Logo
There is a logo and four distro names. Guess which one it belongs to. It’s that simple.
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🤣 Meme of the Week: Such words can hurt the soul, you know. 😵

FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More Linux Stuff

🗓️ Tech Trivia: On November 9, 2004, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 was released, introducing a faster, safer web-browsing experience with features like tabbed browsing and popup blocking, marking a major challenge to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominance.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 From the Community: One of the developers of antiX Linux has announced that the first beta release of antiX 25 is now live!

antiX 25 Beta 1 Available for Public Testing
antiX-25-full-beta1available for public testing November 5, 2025 by anticapitalista Here is the first beta iso of antiX-25 (64bit). Bullet point notes for now. based on Debian 13 ‘trixie’ 4 modern systemd-free init systems – runit (default), s6-rc, s6-66 and dinit new default look usual ‘antiX magic’ you should be able to boot live in the non-default init and it should then become the default after install. Please note that user intervention will be required more than previous versions o…
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Distribution Releases: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1, 9.7
/// 12 Nov 2025, 7:55 pm ////// DISTROWATCH ///
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Red Hat, Inc. has released two updated versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - 10.1, the first point release of the distribution's latest stable release, and 9.7, an updated build of RHEL's legacy 9.x branch. "During the excitement of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) launch....
Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS
/// 12 Nov 2025, 6:14 pm ////// GamingOnLinux ///
The day has arrived, Valve have announced a major hardware expansion with multiple devices including the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine.

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Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

iwinfo – provides wifi information about capabilities and network(s)
/// 12 Nov 2025, 11:53 pm ////// Linux Links ///

iwinfo shows information about existing wireless connections along with the result of an optional scan for wireless devices.

The post iwinfo – provides wifi information about capabilities and network(s) appeared first on LinuxLinks.

No Reboots Since 2023
/// 13 Nov 2025, 3:13 am ////// Tux Machines ///
This laptop was last rebooted in 2023
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Intel Finds Great Performance With PostgreSQL's AVX-512 Support
/// 13 Nov 2025, 1:44 am ////// Phoronix ///
Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others...
Google Sues China-Based Hackers Behind $1 Billion Lighthouse Phishing Platform
/// 12 Nov 2025, 3:48 pm ////// The Hacker News ///
Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries. The PhaaS kit is used to conduct large-scale SMS phishing attacks that exploit trusted brands like E-ZPass and USPS to
How to Install Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Discord on Linux Desktop
/// 12 Nov 2025, 7:31 am ////// Tecmint ///
The post How to Install Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Discord on Linux Desktop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Gone are the days when Skype was the go-to VoIP tool for every chat, call, or meeting. While Skype once

The post How to Install Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Discord on Linux Desktop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.
Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering
/// 10 Nov 2025, 12:00 am ////// RedHat ///
Red Hat's most recent posts about Performance, Scale, Chaos and more.LATEST BLOGSEfficient and reproducible LLM inference: Inside Red Hat’s MLPerf Inference v5.1 submissionsOctober 31, 2025 Naveen Miriyalu, Diane Feddema, Michey Mehta, Keith Valin, Michael Goin, Ashish Kamra, Jean HsiaoAs generative AI (gen AI) workloads become central to enterprise applications, benchmarking their inference performance has never been more critical for understanding the limits of their capabilities. In MLPerf Inference v5.1, Meta’s Llama 3.1-8B was featured for the first time. This post presents Red Hat�
Another Linux Malware Discovered
/// 11 Nov 2025, 7:31 pm ////// Linux Magazine ///

Russian hackers use Hyper-V to hide malware within Linux virtual machines.

Linux Mint's upcoming changes include a redesigned Cinnamon Start Menu, a System Information tool
/// 7 Nov 2025, 9:34 am ////// gHacks Technology News ///

The next iteration of Linux Mint is going to make some interesting changes to the user experience, including a redesigned Start Menu for Cinnamon. Clement Lefebvre, aka Clem, the project and development team leader of the distro has published some details about the upcoming features.

This is what the Cinnamon Menu applet, or the Start Menu, looks like in its current style on Linux Mint 22.2.

Linux Mint 22.2 Start Menu design

Here's the dark theme version with the default menu icon.

Linux Mint 22 start menu theme

It looks fine, and works perfectly. Notice how it blurs out the last item in the list?

Linux Mint 22.2 Start Menu customization options

Also, here are the current options for customizing the menu.

Linux Mint 22.2 Start Menu customization

Well, here is a screenshot of the new Start Menu. It's detached from the bottom of the screen, and looks way better.

Linux Mint new start menu design

(Image courtesy: Linux Mint)

It seems to be wider, yet not taller, and still manages to display more items. This design makes better use of the screen real-estate. The sidebar has been expanded and displays the labels of each shortcut. Moving to the right pane, the list of app categories now uses the same 9-dot grid icons like "All Applications" does. Another improvement that this menu will bring is that it has a description for each shortcut. It kind of reminds me of macOS' Settings app.

New Cinnamon menu Linux Mint

(Image courtesy: Linux Mint)

Users will be able to choose where the system buttons are placed (Lock Screen, Log Out, Shut Down), you can choose to keep it as it is, on the left sidebar, or move them to the right of the search bar. Their icons have been redesigned slightly. The search bar can be moved to the bottom of the menu, and this is customizable, so if you like to keep it at the top, you can. If you move the system icons to the left, the search bar will be longer. A customizable Start Menu, imagine that.

The next big change that is heading to Mint users in the future is a new System Reports tool. It has been rebranded as the System Information tool. But, we already have a System Info applet.

Linux Mint System Information tool

(Image courtesy: Linux Mint)

Jokes aside, Clem admitted that the old tool is not enough if a user wanted to troubleshoot problems, such as finding what steps they need to do, or how to use a fix. The System Information tool is designed to provide additional data to help users troubleshoot common issues. It as 4 new pages including a USB page that lists devices connected via a USB port along with their type, name and ID.

The GPU page has details about graphics card and hardware acceleration info, while the PCI page that lists details about your computer's internal components and drivers. There is a BIOS page with info about your motherboard, BIOS version, boot mode and secure-boot.

And finally, there is a new tool, System Administration, which has a similar UI, but is meant for admins. Currently, it only has a boot menu, where you can show/hide the boot menu, configure how long it stays open before the default option for dual-booting/multiple kernels. Users can also add boot parameters while troubleshooting hardware problems.

Linux Mint System Administration tool

(Image courtesy: Linux Mint)

When a user asked whether Linux Mint 23 will improve support for Wayland session, i.e. switch from experimental to beta, Clem explained that Wayland Cinnamon is missing a screen locker, and that it’s a complex feature to implement. It may not be ready for Mint 23, but it’s possible. That is very interesting.

The other changes are expected to ship with Mint 22.3 in December 2025.

On a side note, LMDE 6 will reach End of Life on January 1st 2026. Please be aware that LMDE 7 is 64-bit only.

Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. The post Linux Mint's upcoming changes include a redesigned Cinnamon Start Menu, a System Information tool appeared first on gHacks Technology News.

Valve Announces Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR Headset
/// 12 Nov 2025, 6:12 pm ////// 9to5Linux ///

Steam Machines

Valve announces Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR headset products, scheduled for 2026. Here's a first look!

The post Valve Announces Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR Headset appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article without permission. This RSS feed is intended for readers, not scrapers.

The Linux Kernel Looks To 'Bite the Bullet' In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions
/// 11 Nov 2025, 1:00 am ////// Slashdot ///
Linux kernel developers are moving toward enabling Microsoft C Extensions (-fms-extensions) by default in Linux 6.19, with Linus Torvalds signaling no objection. While some dislike relying on Microsoft-style behavior, the patches in kbuild-next suggest the project is ready to "bite the bullet" and adopt the extensions system-wide. Phoronix reports: Rasmus Villemoes argued with Kbuild: enable -fms-extensions that would allow for "prettier code" and others have noted in the past the potential for saving stack space and all around being beneficial in being able to leverage the Microsoft C behavior: "Once in a while, it turns out that enabling -fms-extensions could allow some slightly prettier code. But every time it has come up, the code that had to be used instead has been deemed 'not too awful' and not worth introducing another compiler flag for. That's probably true for each individual case, but then it's somewhat of a chicken/egg situation. If we just 'bite the bullet' as Linus says and enable it once and for all, it is available whenever a use case turns up, and no individual case has to justify it..." The second patch is kbuild: Add '-fms-extensions' to areas with dedicated CFLAGS to ensure -fms-extensions is passed for the CPU architectures that rely on their own CFLAGS being set rather than the main KBUILD_CFLAGS. Linus Torvalds chimed in on the prior mailing list discussion and doesn't appear to be against enabling -fms-extensions beginning with the Linux 6.19 kernel.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Join Us for the Fedora Linux 43 Release Party!
/// 7 Nov 2025, 8:00 am ////// Fedora Magazine ///

The Fedora community is coming together once again to celebrate the release of Fedora Linux 43, and you’re invited! Join us on Friday, November 21, 2025, from 13:00 to 16:00 UTC on Matrix for our virtual Fedora 43 Release Party.

This is our chance to celebrate the latest release, hear from contributors across the project, and see what’s new in Fedora Workstation, KDE, Atomic Desktops, and more. Whether you’re a long-time Fedora user or new to the community, it’s the perfect way to connect with the broader community, learn more about Fedora, and hang out in Matrix chat with your Fedora friends.

We have a lineup of talks and updates from across the Fedora ecosystem, including updates directly from teams who have been working on changes in this release. We’ll kick things off with Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta and Fedora Community Architect Justin Wheeler, followed by sessions with community members like Timothée Ravier on Atomic Desktops, Peter Boy and Petr Bokoč on the new Fedora Docs initiative, and Neal Gompa and Michel Lind discussing the Wayland-only GNOME experience. You’ll also hear from teams across Fedora sharing insights, demos, and what’s next for the project.

Registration is free but required to join the Matrix event room. Once registered, you’ll receive an invitation in your Matrix account before the event begins.

Sign up on the Fedora Linux 43 Release Party event page. We can’t wait to see you there to come celebrate Fedora 43 with us!

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