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Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux. The distribution started as a community remix of Slax, another Slackware-based live CD, with KDE 3 as the default desktop for the i486 edition and a stripped-down KDE 4 as the desktop environment for the x86_64 flavour. There are now several desktop flavours of the distribution, which include editions running Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce.

AlmaLinux OS is an open-source, community-driven project that is built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). AlmaLinux is a completely binary compatible fork of RHEL and it is maintained by AlmaLinux OS Foundation which is a register non-profit.

Archman Linux is an Arch Linux-based distribution which features the Calamares system installer and a pre-configured desktop environment. Archman also features the Pamac package manager for easy installation of new software packages.

Firefox has long had support for multiple profiles to store personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, and user preferences. However, Firefox did not make profiles particularly discoverable or easy to manage. That is about to change; Mozilla has announced that it is launching a profile-management feature that will make it easier to create and switch between profiles. According to the support page for the feature, it will be rolled out to users gradually beginning on October 14.

The Rust for Linux project has been good for Rust, Tyler Mandry, one of the co-leads of Rust's language-design team, said. He gave a talk at Kangrejos 2025 covering upcoming Rust language features and thanking the Rust for Linux developers for helping drive them forward. Afterward, Benno Lossin and Xiangfei Ding went into more detail about their work on the three most important language features for kernel development: field projections, in-place initialization, and arbitrary self types.

Security updates have been issued by Fedora (apptainer, civetweb, mod_http2, openssl, pandoc, and pandoc-cli), Oracle (kernel), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, iputils, kernel, open-vm-tools, and podman), SUSE (cairo, firefox, ghostscript, gimp, gstreamer-plugins-rs, libxslt, logback, openssl-1_0_0, openssl-1_1, python-xmltodict, and rubygem-puma), and Ubuntu (gst-plugins-base1.0, linux-aws-6.8, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-gke, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, and linux-raspi).

Exton Linux is a set of over 15 Linux distributions based on Arch Linux, CRUX, Debian, deepin, Fedora, openSUSE, Puppy Linux and Slackware Linux. They are designed to be lightweight, fast and easy to use. Exton Linux comes with popular pre-configured desktop environments and a set of pre-installed software packages, including web browsers, office suites, multimedia players and development tools. It also includes various customization options, such as the ability to change the appearance of the desktop and install additional software packages. Exton Linux is available in several editions, each tailored to a specific use case, such as general-purpose computing, gaming, multimedia or servers.

Exton Linux is a set of over 15 Linux distributions based on Arch Linux, CRUX, Debian, deepin, Fedora, openSUSE, Puppy Linux and Slackware Linux. They are designed to be lightweight, fast and easy to use. Exton Linux comes with popular pre-configured desktop environments and a set of pre-installed software packages, including web browsers, office suites, multimedia players and development tools. It also includes various customization options, such as the ability to change the appearance of the desktop and install additional software packages. Exton Linux is available in several editions, each tailored to a specific use case, such as general-purpose computing, gaming, multimedia or servers.

T2 is an open-source system development environment (or distribution build kit if you are more familiar with that term). T2 allows the creation of custom distributions with bleeding-edge technology. Currently, the Linux kernel is normally used, but the project is expanding to Hurd, OpenDarwin and OpenBSD. T2 started as a community driven fork from the ROCK Linux Project with the aim to create a decentralised development and a clean framework for spin-off projects and customised distributions.

Version:next-20251008 (linux-next) Released:2025-10-08

Alpine Linux is a community developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, containers, and servers. It was designed with security in mind; it has proactive security features like PaX and SSP that prevent security holes in the software to be exploited. The C library used is musl and the base tools are all in BusyBox. Those are normally found in embedded systems and are smaller than the tools found in GNU/Linux systems.

The first maintenance update of Kdenlive 25.08 video editor improves usability and stability with key fixes for rendering, effects, and project handling.

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The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 came to market in the third quarter of 2024. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, consisting of 4 Zen 5 cores, and 8 Zen 5c cores.

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Highlights of RPM 6.0 include support for enforcing signature checking by default, support for multiple OpenPGP signatures per package, support for OpenPGP v6 and PQC keys and signatures, support for updating previously imported keys, and support for both RPM v4 and v6 packages.

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Bcachefs team released a dedicated APT repository to deliver necessary DKMS packages for users. Here is how to install Bcachefs on Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

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Cybersecurity AI (CAI) is an open-source framework that helps security teams build and run AI-driven tools for offensive and defensive tasks. It’s designed for anyone working in security, including researchers, ethical hackers, IT staff, and organizations that want to use AI to find vulnerabilities, test defenses, and improve their security.

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Powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series on the standard editions and a Linux 6.15 Liquorix kernel on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) editions, MX Linux 25 (codename Infinity) ships with the Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.3.6, and Fluxbox 1.3.7 graphical environments by default.

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Linux is generally more secure than many other operating systems. A key part of this security comes from user management and permissions, which control who can do what on the system. By default, normal users cannot perform system-level operations.

When a regular user needs to make changes that affect the entire system, they must use either the su or sudo command to gain temporary administrative privileges.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 25.10 Beta, LMDE 7 Beta, Zorin 18 Beta, GNOME 49, Systemd 258, Firefox 143, APT adds native history parsing, Torvalds tinkers with GuitarPedal, and more.

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This week we got yet another batch of awesome releases, starting with the GNOME 49 desktop environment and the Tails 7.0 operating system, and continuing with the Firefox 143 web browser, Giada 1.3 loop machine, PorteuX 2.3 and IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197 distributions, and Thunderbird 143 email client.

On top of that, we got beta versions of Fedora Linux 43, LMDE 7, Ubuntu 25.10, Zorin OS 18, KDE Plasma 6.5, and Firefox 144. 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 September 21st, 2025.

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