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The Arch Linux project has posted an update about recent service outages that have affected its infrastructure:

The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Forums.

We are aware of the problems that this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors including cost, security, and ethical standards.

The post contains information on workarounds to use during the service disruption, and notes that Arch is not sharing technical details about the attack or mitigation while the attack is still ongoing.

Q4OS is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution offering a choice of a classic-style user interface (Trinity) and a modern desktop environment (KDE Plasma). The project also develops various utilities, such as Desktop Profiler and Software Center, as well as installers for third party applications. In late 2024, Q4OS started offering FreeXP and Free10, two Q4OS variants with Windows-like themes to help users migrate from unsupported Windows versions to Linux.

AnduinOS is an Ubuntu-based distribution which provides a GNOME desktop which has been themed and styled to resemble Windows 11. The project provides a smaller ISO file than its parent with each supported language split into a separate ISO. Snap support, which is included in Ubuntu, has been removed from AnduinOS.

Trixie drops 32-bit x86 support but adds RISC-V and more. Here’s how to try it yourself.

The post Debian 13 Arrives With Major Updates for Linux Users – What’s New in ‘Trixie’ appeared first on Linux Today.

DynFi is a firewall platform based on FreeBSD. The project provides utilities for VPN, IDS, proxy, anti-virus, and packet filtering. Support is provided in several languages, including French, English, and German. DynFi is designed to be deployed on both physical hardware and in virtual environments.

This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H running Linux. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective.

The post ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: Introduction to The Series appeared first on Linux Today.

This week, we got lots of awesome news, now that I am back from my summer vacation. Debian 13 finally arrived, Linux Mint 22.2, Tails 7.0, and NVIDIA 580 driver entered beta testing, Mesa 25.2 arrived for gamers, and Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS is out too this week with new kernel and graphics stacks.

We also got new releases of the Audacity audio editor, Calibre e-book manager, PeaZip archive manager, Darktable RAW image editor, GStreamer multimedia framework, HandBrake video transcoder, KDE Frameworks software suite, KDE Plasma desktop environment, and Amarok music player.

On top of that, Linus Torvalds announced the first Linux 6.17 Release Candidate for public testing. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for August 10th, 2025.

The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 10th, 2025 appeared first on Linux Today.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Proxmox VE 9.0, Plasma 6.4.4, openSUSE turns 20, big changes ahead for MX 25, and more.

The post Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 32 (Aug 4 – 10, 2025) appeared first on Linux Today.

Codenamed “Zara”, Linux Mint 22.2 introduces an HWE (Hardware Enablement) kernel, just like the upstream Ubuntu release, which should boost hardware support, fingerprint authentication for all supported editions via a new Fingwit app, accent color support, improved libAdwaita compatibility, and theme updates.

The post Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Available for Public Beta Testing, Download Now appeared first on Linux Today.

The restartable sequences feature, which was added to the 4.18 kernel in 2018, exists to enable better performance in certain types of threaded applications. While there are users for restartable sequences, they tend to be relatively specialized code; this is not a tool that most application developers reach for. Over time, though, the use of restartable sequences has grown, and it looks to grow further as the feature is tied to new capabilities provided by the kernel. As restartable sequences become less of a niche feature, though, some problems have turned up; fixing one of them may involve an ABI change visible in user space.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libarchive, mingw-sqlite, pki-deps:10.6, and tomcat), Debian (chromium and firefox-esr), Fedora (python3.6 and suricata), Oracle (go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, libarchive, mingw-sqlite, tomcat, and xterm), Red Hat (kernel), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (aws-efs-utils, docker-machine-driver-kvm2, nova, pluto, polaris, and python310), and Ubuntu (ceph, gcc-10, gcc-11, gcc-12, linux-aws-6.8, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-hwe-6.14, linux-oem-6.14, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux-iot, poppler, and tiff).

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9). SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances.

The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized a lightweight cryptography standard to protect even the smallest networked devices from cyberattacks.

Published as Ascon-Based Lightweight Cryptography Standards for Constrained Devices (NIST Special Publication 800-232), the standard offers tools for securing data created and transmitted by billions of IoT devices, along with other small electronics such as RFID tags and medical implants.

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In this article I explain how to install Flatpaks to my microSD card. This is useful given the small size of the eMMC.

The post Firefly AIBOX 3588S – Set up Flatpak to use external disk appeared first on Linux Today.

SparkyLinux 8.0 arrives with a Debian 13 base, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, updated desktops, new tools, and improved installation options.

The post SparkyLinux 8.0 Launches with Debian 13 Base appeared first on Linux Today.

CachyOS delivers top‑tier performance, modern desktop choices, and hassle‑free software management — a standout among Arch‑based distros.

The post CachyOS — Distrowatch’s Top Distro Has Speed, Polish and Features appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to migrate from the old sources.list to the deb822 format in Debian 13 trixie. Update your APT sources for better readability, security, and future compatibility.

The post How to Migrate to deb822 Format in Debian 13 Trixie appeared first on Linux Today.

Go 1.25 lands with major toolchain and runtime enhancements, including experimental GC, encoding/json v2, and new testing/synctest support.

The post Go 1.25 Released with Experimental Garbage Collector and New JSON API appeared first on Linux Today.

The performance-tuned CachyOS takes the crown from Linux Mint, topping DistroWatch’s ranking for the most popular Linux distribution.

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