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Debian’s Technical Committee overrules systemd maintainers, requiring /var/lock to remain writable in line with Debian Policy.

The post Debian TC Overrules systemd Maintainers on /var/lock Permissions appeared first on Linux Today.

The Mobian team releases Trixie, a Debian-based mobile OS update featuring PipeWire, Linux kernel 6.12, and new signing keys.

The post Mobian Trixie Officially Released with Broader Device Support appeared first on Linux Today.

Maltrail is an open-source network traffic detection system designed to spot malicious or suspicious activity. It works by checking traffic against publicly available blacklists, as well as static lists compiled from antivirus reports and user-defined sources. These “trails” can include domain names, URLs, IP addresses, or even HTTP User-Agent values. On top of that, Maltrail can use optional heuristic methods to identify new or unknown threats, such as emerging malware.

The post Maltrail: Open-source Malicious Traffic Detection System appeared first on Linux Today.

Thunderbird 144, an open-source email client, rolls out with bug fixes, improved stability, and an updated Flatpak runtime based on Freedesktop SDK 24.08.

The post Thunderbird 144 Released with Bug Fixes and Flatpak Runtime Update appeared first on Linux Today.

The new Zorin OS 18 builds on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Linux kernel 6.14, bringing a cleaner UI, better performance, and modern desktop polish.

The post Zorin OS 18 Released with Refreshed UI and Smart Window Tiling appeared first on Linux Today.

The Free Software Foundation reveals its technical plans for Librephone, focusing on free firmware and open hardware research.

The post FSF Gives More Details About Its New Librephone Project appeared first on Linux Today.

PostgreSQL (Postgres in short) is an open source, powerful, advanced, high-performance, and stable relational-document database system, which extends the SQL language and includes a wide range of features for secure data storage and management.

It is efficient, reliable, and scalable for handling large, complicated volumes of data and setting up enterprise-level and fault-tolerant environments, while ensuring high data integrity.

Postgres is also highly extensible with features such as advanced indexing, full-text search, and comes with APIs so that you can develop your own solutions to solve your data storage challenges.

In this article, we will explain how to install PostgreSQL 18 (which was just released on September 25, 2025) on an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server and learn essential ways to use it effectively.

The post How to Install and Use PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS appeared first on Linux Today.

Slimbook OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution customised for the Slimbook line of Linux computers assembled in Spain. It offers a choice of GNOME or KDE Plasma desktops on a single ISO image which also includes some custom extensions and utilities. The distribution provides its own repositories for some software, prioritising DEB and Flatpak packages over Ubuntu's snap options. Some of the other interesting features of Slimbook OS include touchpad gestures (enabled by default), Slimbook service notifications, window tiling, the Terminator terminal emulator, a Ulauncher application for fast searching, and a day/night mode switcher.

NethSecurity is a fully-featured open source Linux firewall that streamlines network security deployment in just a few clicks. NethSecurity is a spin-off of the

Besgnulinux is a lightweight, desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "stable" branch. Using the JWM window manager, it is designed to be fast, lightweight and easy to use, suitable for older and low-specification computers. Besgnulinux comes with the Calamares system installer, the Brave web browser, and over 40 custom-built tools to control the systems settings as well as the desktop's look-and-feel.

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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Pixnapping attack; Fil-C; Debian ftpmasters; GoFundMe complaints; Safer user-space access.
• Briefs: Man pages 6.16; Btrfs on AlmaLinux; Fedora Linux 43; ICANN report; PSF grants; Rust Coreutils 0.3.0; Tor Browser 15.0; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Unraid OS is a Linux-based commercial operating system designed to provide an easy-to-use and flexible platform for building and managing a Network-Attached Storage (NAS). Some of Unraid's main features include the ability to mix and match drives of different sizes, an easy-to-use web interface for managing storage, virtual machines and Docker containers, protection to safeguard against drive failures, ability to expand the storage by adding more drives.

Cyrethium is a Debian-based Linux distribution focused on privacy and security. It can route all incoming and outgoing internet traffic through the Tor network. DNSCrypt-Proxy and I2P Router are pre-configured. It provides strong protection against browser attacks with custom hardened Firefox variants. The distribution hosts a wide range of tools designed from scratch for Cyrethium and includes multi-layered hardening against cyber attacks. There are four different editions available: two core and two respins.

Alejandro Colomar has announced the release of version 6.16 of the GNU/Linux man pages. This release includes new or rewritten man pages for fsconfig(), fsmount(), and fsopen(), as well as a number of newly documented interfaces in existing man pages. The release is also available as a PDF book.

ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) has announced a report on "the critical role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) within the Domain Name System (DNS)". The report is aimed at policymakers and examines recent cybersecurity regulations in the US, UK, and EU as they apply to FOSS in the DNS system; it includes findings and guidelines "to strengthen the FOSS ecosystem that is critical to the secure and stable operation of the Internet". From the report's summary:

This ecosystem depends on a global network of maintainers and contributors who are often unpaid volunteers. While many are unpaid volunteers, the DNS space is unique in also relying on a handful of long-lived maintenance organizations. This creates a model based on community collaboration rather than the commercial contracts that define a traditional software supply chain, which introduces unique risks related to financial sustainability for the maintenance organizations and maintainer burnout for volunteers.

These unique characteristics mean that regulatory frameworks designed for proprietary software may not be well-suited for FOSS and therefore could have severe unintended consequences to the stability of critical Internet infrastructure.

Thanks to SSAC member Maarten Aertsen for the tip.

A new class of attacks on Android phones, called "Pixnapping", was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app displays, anything from sensitive email and chats to two-factor authentication (2FA) codes could be captured—and shipped off to an attacker's site.

Talos is a specialist Linux-based operating system for running Kubernetes, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications. Minimal, immutable and hardened, it does not offer any shell or interactive console; instead, all system management is done via remote Application Programming Interface (API) calls, where messages sent from a client application are protected with mutual Transport Layer Security TLS (mTLS) authentication. Talos also delivers atomic updates, thus maintaining the Linux and Kubernetes versions up-to-date. Talos is developed in the USA by Sidero Labs, Inc.

Version 15.0 of the Tor Browser has been released:

This is our first stable release based on Firefox ESR 140, incorporating a year's worth of changes that have been shipped upstream in Firefox. As part of this process, we've also completed our annual ESR transition audit, where we reviewed and addressed around 200 Bugzilla issues for changes in Firefox that may negatively affect the privacy and security of Tor Browser users. Our final reports from this audit are now available in the tor-browser-spec repository on our GitLab instance.

This release inherits the vertical tabs feature, unified search button, as well as other new features and usability improvements in Firefox that have passed the Tor Project's audit.

Debian's ftpmaster team has been responsible for allowing new packages to enter Debian, removing old packages, and otherwise maintaining Debian's package archive for more than two decades. As of October 26, the team is no more and its duties are being split between two new teams. The Archive Operations Team will focus on the infrastructure required to support the Debian archives, and the DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team, which is responsible for reviewing packages entering the new queue. In time, this move could speed up processing of new packages, as well as making the teams more sustainable, but only after new members are recruited and trained. For now, the same folks are doing the work but spread across two teams.