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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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Qubes OS is a free and open-source, security-oriented operating system for single-user desktop computing. Qubes OS leverages Xen-based virtualization to allow for the creation and management of isolated compartments called qubes. These qubes, which are implemented as virtual machines (VMs). This allows each component of the operating system to be isolated from other pieces, preenting compromises from spreading or information from leaking.

FunOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution which features the JWM graphical user interface. The project is intended to be more lightweight than official Ubuntu community editions while providing the same application compatibility and hardware support.

Regata OS is a Brazilian Linux distribution based on openSUSE, focusing on desktop and gaming needs. Its main characteristics include a Regata OS store for installing applications and games, out-of-the-box integration with Google Drive, support for a gaming mode via the Vulkan graphics API, an extensive library of games in the Regata OS Game Access portal, support for configuration of hybrid graphics in notebooks, and easy transfer of files between a computer and a smartphone. The distribution's user interface is KDE Plasma.

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a classic desktop experience with many convenient, custom tools and optional out-of-the-box multimedia support. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories. Besides its Ubuntu-based flavour, the project also produces a separate "Debian" edition (called LMDE), based on the latest stable Debian version.

Linus has released 6.17-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle.

Anyway, the merge window did end up looking fairly healthy, despite me having to go through a couple of bisections for trouble spots (one during travels with a laptop - not optimal, but thankfully it was at least one of the "reliable symptoms that bisect right to the culprit" kind). The stats look pretty normal both in patch size and in number of commits.

In the end, 11,404 non-merge changesets found their way into the mainline during the merge window.

Version:6.17-rc1 (mainline) Released:2025-08-10 Source:linux-6.17-rc1.tar.gz Patch:full

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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GXDE OS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution that combines Debian with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), developed by the deepin project. It is based on Debian's "Testing" branch. It ships with up-to-date Linux kernel, base system and applications, and it includes a "Spark Store", a software application marketplace with support for Android applications. The distribution is available for the aarch64 and x86_64 processor architectures.

The Debian Project has released its latest stable version, Debian 13 ("trixie"), which will be supported through 2030. This release includes GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, Xfce 4.20, Linux 6.12, GCC 14.2, Python 3.13, and systemd 257.

This release contains over 14,100 new packages for a total count of 69,830 packages, while over 8,840 packages have been removed as "obsolete". 44,326 packages were updated in this release. The overall disk usage for "trixie" is 403,854,660 kB (403 GB), and is made up of 1,463,291,186 lines of code. [...]

With this broad selection of packages and its traditional wide architecture support, Debian once again stays true to its goal of being "The Universal Operating System". It is suitable for many different use cases: from desktop systems to netbooks; from development servers to cluster systems; and for database, web, and storage servers. At the same time, additional quality assurance efforts like automatic installation and upgrade tests for all packages in Debian's archive ensure that "trixie" fulfills the high expectations that users have of a stable Debian release.

Trixie adds riscv64 as an officially supported architecture, and drops i386 as a regular architecture. Users with i386 systems should not upgrade to trixie; the project recommends reinstalling them as amd64, or retiring the hardware. See the release notes and issues to be aware of before installing or upgrading to trixie.

Debian Edu/Skolelinux is the Debian-edu's Debian Pure Blend distribution. It is aiming to provide an out-of-the-box localised environment tailored for schools and universities. The out-of-the-box environment comes with 75 applications aimed at schools, as well as 17 network services pre-configured for a school environment. The simple, three-question installation requires minimal technical knowledge. Skolelinux is Debian, which means, among other things, that there are no license costs or worries, and that upgrade and maintenance of the software can be done over the Internet with the power of Debian's apt-get. The core goals of Skolelinux are localisation and ease of system administration.