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StarDict plugins on Debian 13 leak selected X11 text over HTTP to Chinese dictionary services, exposing potentially sensitive data.

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Debian Installer Trixie RC 3 is out as the final RC before Debian 13’s release, bringing kernel updates and mirror tweaks.

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FSF’s big summer fundraiser is over and it’s now time for rolling up the sleeves to get those orders shipped!

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Archinstall 3.0.9, a guided installer for Arch Linux, adds U2F authentication, LUKS iteration tweaks, and Bluetooth support.

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GNU C Library 2.42 is out, bringing ISO C23, POSIX.1-2024, faster malloc tcache, and dozens of bug fixes and CVE patches.

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GNU Binutils 2.45 adds SFrame V2 support for s390x and major enhancements for RISC-V, Armv9.6, LoongArch, and x86.

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DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.15 on July 28th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are:
New images for Orange Pi 3 (non LTS version)
New script converting Debian Bookworm to Trixie (Trixie scheduled on 2025-08-09)
NanoPi R5C: MAC address is now static (also after rebooting)
Moonlight (GUI): Unlocked for all ARM and RISC-V systems (excluding ARMv6 RPi)
Unbound: Improvements of installation and cron-job setting
Fixes for Dietpi-Display, DietPi-Dashboard, microblog.pub, Ampache, File Browser, Octoprint
The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_15/

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CD and DVD writers are a thing of the past. You are not likely to find them in modern-day laptops. If your goal is to create a bootable medium, then creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO file remains your best option.

There are quite a number of tools that can help you create a bootable USB drive. Some will even go further and let you create a multi-boot USB drive where you get to choose the OS that you want to install.

Here are some of the widely-used utilities for creating a bootable USB drive from an ISO file in Linux desktop systems.

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Based on the recently released Linux 6.16 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 6.16 kernel promises to clean up blob loading and even an inline blob in newly introduced drivers for Intel QAT 6xxx crypto, ST vd55g1 sensor, ath12k AHB Wi-Fi, Aeonsemi AS21xxx, and MediaTek 25Gb Ethernet PHY, as well as to clean up blob names in new Qualcomm and MediaTek ARM64 devicetree files.

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Vulnhuntr is an open-source tool that finds remotely exploitable vulnerabilities. It uses LLMs and static code analysis to trace how data moves through an application, from user input to server output. This helps it spot complex, multi-step vulnerabilities that traditional tools often miss.

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This is a new series looking at the Radxa ROCK 5T single board computer. It’s billed as an elegant single board computer (SBC) with 8K + 4K dual display.

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MX Linux 25 will offer Wayland by default on KDE, separate init system ISOs, Secure Boot support, and discontinue 32-bit ISO images.

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Fastfetch 2.49 improves GPU and ARM SoC detection and starts phasing out legacy config flags ahead of major changes in v2.50.

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IceWM 3.8.2 window manager for X Window System adds a new “switchmenu” icesh action, improves window switching, and brings various bug fixes.

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Zellij is a modern CLI terminal multiplexer and a great drop-in replacement for Tmux that anyone can use without worrying about keybindings.

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Artemis is an open-source modular vulnerability scanner that checks different aspects of a website’s security and translates the results into easy-to-understand messages that can be shared with the organizations being scanned.

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Hashcat is an open-source password recovery tool that supports five attack modes and more than 300 highly optimized hashing algorithms. It runs on CPUs, GPUs, and other hardware accelerators across Linux, Windows, and macOS, and includes features for distributed password cracking at scale.

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KaOS doesn’t follow the crowd; it sets its own course with a bold KDE twist. This just might be the Linux distro you’ve been waiting for.

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OBS Studio 31.1.2 streaming and recording software patches a bug on Linux that caused Video Capture Devices to stop working unexpectedly.

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In this blog post, we will explain how to enable SSH on Debian 13. SSH, or Secure Shell, is a cryptographic network protocol that allows secure remote access and data transfer between servers or computers over an unsecured network. The following blog post will cover the installation of the OpenSSH server, provide some basic SSH commands, and offer an overview of what SSH is, its purpose, and how it works.

Enabling SSH on Debian 13 is a straightforward process that typically takes around 10 minutes to complete. Let’s get started!

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