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Artix Linux is a fork (or continuation as an autonomous project) of the Arch-OpenRC and Manjaro-OpenRC projects. Artix Linux offers a lightweight, rolling-release operating system featuring the OpenRC init software. (Alternative spins feature the runit and s6 init software.) Several editions of Artix Linux are available, featuring either a plain command line or one of several desktop environments.

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.

Garuda Linux is a rolling distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system. Unlike Arch Linux, Garuda Linux comes with a graphical installer (Calamares) for easy installation, and other advanced graphical tools for managing your system. Garuda is a performance-oriented distro with many performance enhancing tweaks. Some of the many tweaks include using zram, a performance CPU governor, along with custom memory management software. Garuda Linux has striven to provide system stability by including the Timeshift backup utility.

openmamba GNU/Linux is a distribution for personal computers that can be used on notebooks, desktops, servers and Raspberry Pi computers. It works as an installable live DVD/USB images, offering one of two desktop environments: KDE Plasma or LXQt. The distribution uses RPM packages managed through the DNF package manager. Software can also be fetched and installed from Flatpak repositories.

As a rule, if a package is shipped with a Debian release, users can count on it being available, and updated, for the entire life of the release. If package foo is included in the stable release—currently Debian 13 ("trixie")—a user can reasonably expect that it will continue to be available with security backports as long as that release is supported, though it may not be included in Debian 14 ("forky"). However, it is likely that the Guix package manager will soon be removed from the repositories for Debian 13 and Debian 12 ("bookworm", also called oldstable).

The FastCode site has a lengthy article on how large language models make open-source projects far more vulnerable to XZ-style attacks.

Open source maintainers, already overwhelmed by legitimate contributions, have no realistic way to counter this threat. How do you verify that a helpful contributor with months of solid commits isn't an LLM generated persona? How do you distinguish between genuine community feedback and AI created pressure campaigns? The same tools that make these attacks possible are largely inaccessible to volunteer maintainers. They lack the resources, skills, or time to deploy defensive processes and systems.

The detection problem becomes exponentially harder when LLMs can generate code that passes all existing security reviews, contribution histories that look perfectly normal, and social interactions that feel authentically human. Traditional code analysis tools will struggle against LLM generated backdoors designed specifically to evade detection. Meanwhile, the human intuition that spot social engineering attacks becomes useless when the "humans" are actually sophisticated language models.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, mod_http2, postgresql, postgresql:15, and python39:3.9), Debian (libsndfile), Mageia (ceph, glibc, and golang), Oracle (postgresql and python39:3.9), Red Hat (aide, postgresql:12, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, and postgresql:16), SUSE (git, govulncheck-vulndb, jetty-minimal, nginx, python-future, and ruby2.5), and Ubuntu (imagemagick).

Want to SSH into a VirtualBox Linux guest OS? Here’s how to set it up using bridged networking or NAT with port forwarding.

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Old-school DNA, modern-day muscle. PCLinuxOS keeps rolling forward—faster, friendlier, and ready for anything you throw at it.

The post From Mandrake to Modern: PCLinuxOS Stays Strong appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how dnf5 can automatically install missing commands and rerun them instantly. Works on latest Fedora and any Linux distro using dnf5.

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Describing how desktop Linux is a viable solution for many businesses and consumers facing the EOL deadline for Windows 10.

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Since Linux 6.15 is not a long-term support (LTS) branch, it is now marked as EOL (End of Life) on the kernel.org website. The last maintenance release, Linux 6.15.11, was published today by renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who is now urging users to move to the latest Linux 6.16 kernel series as soon as possible.

The post Linux Kernel 6.15 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.16 appeared first on Linux Today.

Tails 6.19, a privacy-focused Linux distro, is out with updated Tor Browser 14.5.6, Tor client 0.4.8.17, Thunderbird 128.13, plus a Tor Connection fix.

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Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Imperial College London have developed a method for using LLMs to improve incident response planning with a focus on reducing the risk of hallucinations. Their approach uses a smaller, fine-tuned LLM combined with retrieval-augmented generation and decision-theoretic planning.

The post Using lightweight LLMs to cut incident response times and reduce hallucinations appeared first on Linux Today.

ElysiaOS combines the Arch Linux distribution with the Hyprland tiling compositor and a theme based on the Elysia character of the Honkai Impact 3rd mobile game. The distribution also includes a custom settings application, a system updater with support for Pacman and YAY package managers, and a unique GRUB menu.

ClamAV 1.5 antivirus RC is out, bringing FIPS-compliant signature verification, new scan options, and security improvements for testing.

The post What to Expect From ClamAV 1.5 Open-Source Antivirus appeared first on Linux Today.

Groklaw’s storied domain has fallen into unexpected hands. What’s behind the sudden flood of crypto content—and is the site lost for good?

The post Groklaw Domain Hijacked? Site Now Serving Crypto Content appeared first on Linux Today.

The Aiffro K100 is an All-SSD NAS with an Intel N100 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 4 M.2 2280 NVMe slots.

The post Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Introduction to the Series appeared first on Linux Today.

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The GNOME Foundation has announced that Steven Deobald will be leaving the position of Executive Director after just four months.

We are extremely grateful to Steven for all this and more. Despite these many positive achievements, Steven and the board have come to the conclusion that Steven is not the right fit for the Executive Director role at this time. We are therefore bidding Steven a fond farewell.