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Beginning with the Linux 6.19 kernel, the hung task detector and system lock-up detector are now optionally able to provide greater insight into the issues by dumping additional system information. The new lockup_sys_info and hung_task_sys_info sysctl knobs were merged over as part of the pull requests managed by Andrew Morton.

Andrew Morton first sent in the memory management "MM" updates for Linux 6.19. Overall a number of low-level kernel code clean-ups and various minor optimizations

Use case: I want to mirror a bunch of repositories of a project. I suppose this would be pretty easy with a script.

But to the git part: I fear that the developers might force push things and thus revert commits and de facto delete code.

Is there a way to git clone and auto-checking out to a different branch or something else, to avoid force pulling and reverting commits?

Earlier this year, LWN featured an excellent article titled “Linux’s missing CRL infrastructure”. The article highlighted a number of key issues surrounding traditional Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), but critically noted how even the available measures are effectively ignored by the majority of system-level software on Linux.

One of the motivators for the discussion is that the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) will cease to be supported by Let’s Encrypt. The remaining alternative is to use Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), yet there is little or no support for managing (or even querying) these lists in most Linux system utilities.

To solve this, I’m happy to share that in partnership with rustls maintainers Dirkjan Ochtman and Joe Birr-Pixton, we’re starting the development of upki: a universal PKI tool. This project initially aims to close the revocation gap through the combination of a new system utility and eventual library support for common TLS/SSL libraries such as OpenSSL, GnuTLS and rustls.

Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content.

This past week marked the release of gst-thumbnailers 1.0 Alpha 1 as the inaugural tagged release for this audio/video thumbnailer. Development on this audio/video thumbnailer for GNOME has been led by Sophie Herold.

The Non-Volatile Memory Device (NVDIMM) subsystem updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel. Most notable this cycle for the NVDIMM code is a new open-source driver addition courtesy of Microsoft.

As talked about on Phoronix one month ago, a Microsoft Linux engineer working in official capacity at Microsoft has contributed a "RAMDAX" driver for Linux to allow carving out regions of memory to create persistent memory interfaces exposed as NVDIMM devices.

The Bcachefs project has just released version 1.33 as the “biggest new feature in the past ~2 years” for this modern copy‑on‑write Linux filesystem that supports encryption, snapshots, compression, and more, offering advanced features aimed at rivalling filesystems like Btrfs or ZFS.

The new version brings a major new “reconcile” engine that unifies data and metadata handling, automates replication and recovery, and substantially improves performance, logging, and error reporting under heavy load. But before we get to what’s new in this version, let’s quickly revisit the background.

As we informed you earlier, Bcachefs is undergoing a big transition in how it’s distributed and maintained upstream. In mid-2025, Linus Torvalds dropped Bcachefs from the official Linux kernel 6.17 merge window after a public dispute with lead developer Kent Overstreet.

Not Linux but I figured a review of a Unix system would also be of interest here.

Hi, everyone!

I've been using openSUSE Tumbleweed for a year now, and have had a very good experience with it, with a few minor hiccups happening along the way. I recently got a new M.2 SSD that I want to replace my 6 year old 2.5in SSD (the one currently running openSUSE Tumbleweed) with.

I have used Rescuezilla before so I gave the Clone option on it a try, and it failed about as soon as it started cloning the BTRFS partition. I decided I would try Clonezilla, as maybe it was more updated and could handle it where Rescuezilla could not. I was wrong. they both give out practically as soon as they start partclone on the BTRFS partition. Before I start doing any console commands, basically all I could find were forum posts from 3-4 years back, and besides that, I'm not always too comfortable just blindly putting commands into the terminal when I don't fully know what they are doing, I wanted to reach out to the community and maybe someone can point me in the right direction or tell me what worked for them?

I would like to clone the old 2.5in SSD to the new M.2 SSD, and have everything exactly as it was, just with more space now. Is this possible with any GUI, or if not, can someone please help point me or talk to me about my options? Thank you! :)

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kernel 6.18, Alpine 3.23, NVIDIA Display Driver v590 Beta, VLC 3.0.22, When Linus met Linus, Linux Mint 22.3 nears release, Jolla Linux phone, and more.

Welcome to the 49th week of Linuxiac’s 2025 Weekly Roundup — your go-to source for all things Linux & Open Source. Here’s a look at the biggest Linux and FOSS highlights from the past week (Dec 1 – 7).

Edit: I'm now enlightened and use mpv, I really like the ModernZ OSC (on-screen controls), and uses config files.

IINA is only on macOS. I looked up linux alternatives but none of them seem to have similar looking UIs, at least out of the box. I want the player UI to float on top of the video + with a blurred background, it as shown in the image; or at least the ability to theme it like so.

The set of six branches containing SoC and platform updates/additions for the Linux 6.19 kernel have been merged for enabling a lot of new RISC-V and ARM 64-bit hardware as well as enhancing some existing SoCs/platforms.

Arnd Bergmann sent out all of the SoC updates/additions on Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There is some exciting new hardware, Device Trees for some new ARM machines, and more

I tried downloading a video using yt-dlp but got the following errors :
ERROR: [requests] Unexpected error: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/.ssl-log.key'; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U

ERROR: [urllib] Unexpected error: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/.ssl-log.key'; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U

ERROR: Unable to handle request: Unsupported url scheme: "https" (websockets) + 2 unexpected error(s)

After some troubleshooting, I found that I get a similar error when trying to download a package via pip FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '~/.ssl-log.key'

I tried searching to see if I could regenerate ~/.ssl-log.key but couldn't find anything. Does someone know what caused this issue and how to fix it?

Solved: for some reason SSLKEYLOGFILE was being set in my shell config, deleting and unsetting it fixed it

One of the most exciting merges this weekend to the Linux 6.19 kernel is establishing the infrastructure for supporting PCI Express link encryption and device authentication. Multiple vendors are working on PCIe link encryption for their hardware while this initial pull begins laying the foundation of AMD SEV-TIO Trusted I/O support for the mainline kernel.

Dan Williams of Intel sent out the pull request for laying out the new PCI infrastructure for PCIe link encryption and device authentication. The first implementation of that new code is the AMD SEV-TIO for Trusted I/O support.

Merged last night for the Linux 6.19 kernel merge window were all of the USB and Thunderbolt driver changes. Standing out this cycle is Apple Silicon devices like the M1 Macs now having working USB3 support on the mainline Linux kernel.

There has been USB3 support in the downstream Asahi Linux project for a while but only now with the mainline Linux 6.19 kernel are the necessary patches in place for enabling USB3 support on these modern Apple Silicon devices... Sans the M3 and M4 Macs that are still being reverse engineered and worked on by the remaining Asahi Linux developers.

This first happened earlier this week (after updating the system last weekend), and for the second time now. Looking it up the general consensus seems to be that any random reboots are a hardware issue, but I've been running this rig (7950x) without issues for years and there are no errors in the journal so I'm skeptical.

I'm not sure if calling what's happening a reboot is correct neither, one second it shows the os, next second the bootloader without the usual indicators that it turned off and on again.

Last time the journal was very clean with a clear separation between the new boot and the old boot but this time it happened when opening a game from steam so the messages from the two boots are printed interleaved (although the timestamps aren't). There's exactly 0.99 seconds between the last message from old boot and the first message from new boot. What's stranger is that my systemd-boot waits for 3 seconds before booting..

I'm asking here to see if anyone else had the same issue and knows what's causing it. I updated the system just now to see if it will help.

Edit: Fuck me, after the update random ui elements (like the Proton version selector on Steam) started spasming. It feels like 2023 wayland+nvidia again

Edit 2: Lsi steam works

Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application. Flowblade 2.24 brings a number of refinements while also interesting is their commentary concerning the future with Wayland and GTK4 porting.

With today's Flowblade 2.24 release there are many UI/UX updates like new ways for creating compound clips and dual trim for sync-relation clips. Plus some enhancements to themes and other user interface / visual changes.

KDE developers continue preparing Plasma 6.6, and although there are still over two months to go before the final stable release (scheduled for February 17, 2026), the team posts weekly updates on the KDE Blogs about what changes to expect from this version. After covering some of them last week, we now have a new batch to look at.

This time, several UI improvements stand out. Desktop items now support Alt-click and Alt-double-click to open their properties, matching the behavior already familiar from Dolphin. Notifications also become less intrusive: when multiple printer cartridges run low on ink simultaneously, Plasma will present a single consolidated alert instead of several separate ones.

Sent in for the Linux 6.19 merge window when it comes to the frame-buffer device "FBDEV" subsystem are just a set of "fixes" for FBDEV drivers and code clean-ups. But it does also include a new console font option for better supporting modern laptops with high density displays.

The FBDEV fixes pull request was already sent out today and subsequently merged by Linus Torvalds in short order. The only notable highlight is the introduction of a Terminus 10x18 console font option.

GParted Live 1.7.0-12 arrives as a new stable update of the popular Debian-based live environment for disk partitioning, delivering GParted 1.7 alongside refreshed system components.

The release marks a significant change in architecture support, as images are now provided exclusively for amd64 systems following Debian’s discontinuation of i386 kernel packages in Sid. As a result, the long-standing i686 and i686-pae editions of GParted Live are no longer available.

I switched to Kubuntu 25.10 on my desktop from Windows 10 and every since, I've noticed that Linux on my primary monitor has felt very choppy with a low FPS. Animations are choppy and slow. As soon as I drag it to my second monitor, everything is faster and has higher FPS. This doesn't happen on Windows. testufo.com shows ~20fps on the problematic monitor I also haven't noticed this behavior with any other programs. There are spikes to 50fps and smoother animations when I open the Firefox menu, but then it goes back to 20fps. Chromium on the same monitor is faster and shows 50+fps. Games on this monitor also are higher fps

The primary monitor is configured to 60Hz, the second monitor is 143.97Hz. I've got an Nvidia GeForce 2070 with the NVIDIA driver (open kernel) metapackage from nvidia-driver-580-open installed, 32GB of RAM, plenty of CPU, and no other programs or tabs open even.

What could cause this issue and how can I fix it?

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

This week saw a bunch of user interface improvements and bug fixing, especially for the drawing tablets, printers, and monitors. Hardware is quirky!

But of course that’s not all; check out the rest, too

A review of the new version of Gnoppix AI Linux from DistroWatch. Seems to be in a fairly poor state and fulfills little of what it actually claims to do. Not shocked from something claiming to be an AI focused Linux distro.