Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 Released With Updated Components

Debian GNU/Linux 8.6, the sixth maintenance update of stable Debian 8 ‘Jessie’, has arrived. The existing Debian users need to perform the upgrade to grab the numerous updated packages and security updates. This version arrives ahead of the next year’s anticipated Debian 9 ‘Stretch’. 

he Debian Project has announced the release of the sixth update of its stable distribution Debian 8 ‘Jessie’. This Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 update chiefly brings security updates to this stable Linux distribution and fixes the bugs reported by the users.

It should be noted that this release doesn’t include any new version of Debian 8. Instead, it comes with improvements and package updates. So, if you are running the previous installation, simply perform an update via an up-to-date Debian mirror. This will update the outdated packages to their latest versions.

The Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 stable update brings important corrections to packages like apache2, debian-installer, glibc, openssl, wget, and a lot more.  The release also brings security updates to numerous packages like nginx, drupal7, samba, gimp, openssh, gnupg etc.

The Debian Project mentions that mariadb-10.0 failed to build on the powerpc architecture. However, it has been included in this point release to allow the quicker release of a security bug. The developers expect to deliver the fix later via ‘jessie-updates’.

From Debian 6.8 release, two packages–minit and trn–were removed. While minit faced the flak as it was unmaintained, trn got replaced by more secure trn4.

The complete Debian 6.8 changelog can be found here on Debian’s website. If you are willing to install Debian 8.6 ‘jessie’ right now, you can find the stable images here.

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Black Lab Linux 7.7 Released With Security Fixes And New Software

The Black Lab Linux 7.7, the seventh maintenance update of Black Lab Linux 7 series, has arrived. Based on Ubuntu 14.04 and Linux kernel 3.19, this release incorporates all the latest security updates rolled out to Ubuntu repos. The users can also enjoy updated core apps and Google services in the form of web apps.

he Black Lab Linux development team has announced Black Lab Linux 7.7. It’s the seventh maintenance update to the Black Lab Linux 7 free Linux distribution, which is a long term supported release.
The development team calls this release best-suited for the users who wish to use a distro that’s powerful, offers Long Term Support, and easy to use.

Softpedia’s Marius Nestor notes that Black Lab Linux 7.7 arrives with security fixes and software updates released in the Ubuntu Linux repos.
Black Lab Linux 7.7 release comes with multiple updated core applications. These packages include Chromium Browser 51, Thunderbird, ICE SSB Tool, Gnumeric, Gimp, VLC media player, Audacious, and Abiword.
It’s also interesting to note that 7.7 release comes with the integration of various Google services as web apps. Now you can enjoy Youtube, Google Maps, Google Contacts, Google, Calendar, Google Hangouts, and Google Drive web apps.
The Black Lab Linux development team says that 7.7 release still uses 3.19 kernel because it’s a security and app update. For newer kernel, the preview version of Black Lab Linux 8 is recommended.
The next version, Black Lab Linux 7.8, will be released in February 2017, followed by 7.9 release.
Currently, Black Lab Linux 7 series is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The users can expect to an upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 in Black Lab Linux 10. After that, the project plans to move to Debian.
If you plan to grab the latest ISO build of Black Lab Linux 7.7, you can get it from the project’s website.

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How To Install Bash 4.4 On Linux Distributions

Bash 4.4 has been recently released by GNU. The new version of GNU Project’s shell comes with a long list of useful changes. If your work revolves around Bash, you can grab the source package from GNU’s website and install it.

efore going ahead with Bash 4.4 installation process, make sure that you’ve got everything needed. Just in case you don’t have build-essential package, follow these steps:

Installing GNU Bash 4.4:

• Debian and Ubuntu users (and their derivatives) need to run this command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

• Fedora and Red Hat users need to run the following command:

sudo yum groupinstall “Development Tools” “Legacy Software Development”

After installing these packages, one needs to head to the GNU’s FTP servers and fetch the required source packages. To do this, simply run this command:

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.4.tar.gz

 

 

The next step of installing GNU Bash 4.4 on your Linux distribution involves compiling the source package and installing it. To do this, run the following commands one by one:

tar xf bash-4.4.tar.gz

 

cd bash-4.4

 

./configure

 

 

 

make

 

sudo make install

 

There you go!

sh

 

 

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You May Not be Able to Install Linux on Certain Microsoft Windows “Signature” PCs

Just a few days ago, it was announced that Microsoft is the biggest open source contributor according to data put together by Github. This was hugely welcomed in the Open-source community as many began to have the feeling that the Redmond-based company might be loosening its negative stance against open source, especially Linux.

It looks like Microsoft is  open-source friendly only when it benefits according to a Reddit post made by an owner of a Yoga 900 ISK2 Ultrabook, Microsoft hates it when its customers want to install Linux or any other operating systems for that matter on its PCs.

When Microsoft announced the Windows 10 operating system, open source enthusiasts felt betrayed because right after the launch of the OS, reports began to go around that OEMs will be able to force-enable UEFI Secure Boot that only allows the users to boot Microsoft-approved operating systems on locked-down PCs.

Secure Boot feature in the UEFI firmware checks the OS to ensure that they’re signed by a digital signature commonly seen on devices like Surface and Surface 2. While Windows 8 allowed the user to disable Secure Boot and install other operating systems like Linux, Windows 10 does not.

The affected user posted this warning on Reddit — “Warning: Microsoft Signature PC program now requires that you can’t run Linux. Lenovo’s recent Ultrabooks among affected systems.”

The user BaronHK also complained about it on the Best Buy review section about why Yoga 900 ISK2 Ultrabook has been set to stop people from using Linux, here’s what a Lenovo Product Expert replied—

“This system has a Signature Edition of Windows 10 Home installed. It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft.”

Microsoft never announced anywhere that it is banning Linux from being installed on other computers like the Yoga 900 ISK2 Ultrabook and it reminds to be seen whether the company’s Linux endeavour was just a PR stunt to appear likeable among Linux enthusiasts or  is this all Lenovo’s doing.

Download The New GNOME 3.22 And MATE 1.16 Now

After 6 months of development, the new GNOME 3.22 comes complete with a total of 22980 changes thanks to the contribution of about 775 participators.

The GNOME team plans to make this version available for Fedora Workstation 25 as the desktop environment, with its major highlight coming in the form of Flatpak integration – a framework with the aim of helping app developers package and share their software across various distros more easily.

GNOME 3.22 also comes with a revamped app store. The renovated landing page now displays more applications and the category section makes for an easier navigation. There’s also a change to the color-coded badges.

Nautilus (the files application) can now batch rename files and perform better sorting and view controls. GNOME also received improvements to its Keyboard Settings, dconf Editor, Calendar, Polari, Videos, and Boxes, among other apps.

Check out the GNOME 3.22 Release Notes for a detailed list  of changes

MATE 1.16

MATE 1.16, just like its counterpart, has arrived after 6 months of continous development, with this release focusing on bug fixes, improvements in GTK3+ compatibility and migrating components to newer libraries. The GTK3+ support has therefore been improved across the entire MATE Desktop.

Application and theme support for GTK+ 3.22 is one of the major changes that have come in MATE 1.16. More applications are built against GTK3+ only, including apps like MATE Notification Daemon, MATE Session Manager, MATE Polkit, Engrampa, and MATE Terminal.

The development team has worked to decouple some applications from libmate-dekstop and port some to GApplcation. You can read the complete MATE 1.16 Changelog for a detailed list of changes

New Features In Fedora 25 Linux

New Features In Fedora 25 Linux: Red Hat is the most loved open source operating systems around, Red Hat continues to offer a present day Linux computing device experience.

Features included in Fedora:

Fedora updated it’s operating system with major changes coming to Fedora 25. Due to multiple security-related concerns in X11, Wayland is being welcomed by the open source community.

Another important change in Fedora 25 is the implementation of the Storage project–as a replacement for UDisks2–for making changes to storage disks.

This upcoming linux distro launch comes with guide for installing debuginfo programs in parallel. this can make the lives of sysadmins less difficult as they’ll be able to see which utility is causing which hassle.

Fedora 25 will come with up to date openjdk and community security offerings (nss). the release may also include perl 5.24 and ruby on rails five.0.

Other essential additions will come within the shape of ghc 7.zero and assist for unicode nine.zero. a brand new fedora media write will also come along to make it easy to put in writing fedora snap shots to usb. on this release, killuserprocess=sure might be enabled via default with systemd.

The alternative adjustments are the removal of perl from construct root, the addition of updated node.js 6.x, the introduction of applications for the rust compiler, up to date erlang 19, and golang 1.7.

The very last launch of fedora 25 will inform us extra about the brand new functions. so, are you excited about the approaching main launch of fedora? percentage your perspectives inside the feedback section beneath.

Fedora 25 Release Date:

In advance, the fedora mission had decided November 8 as the release date for fedora 25 final release. but, because of some foremost modifications coming to the working device, the builders needed to put off the date.

Searching at the fedora 25 release time table web page, it looks like the fedora 25 very last release will arrive on November 15.

The alpha release is expected to reach on august 30, observed via the beta launch on October 11. just earlier than the final launch, fedora 25 is predicted to go into the very last freeze on November 1.