Issue #299 / Oct 2025

I guess we all know the world is getting scary: ideological news bubbles, Internet trackers, social media's "emotional manipulation for dollars" business model. One of the things that scares me the most is the rise of deepfake videos.

antiX 23.2 Full and Ubuntu MATE 25.04

In the news: Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Available for Testing, Debian 13.0 Officially Released, Upcoming Changes for MXLinux, A New Linux AI Assistant in Town, Linux Kernel 6.16 Released with Minor Fixes, EU Sovereign Tech Fund Gains Traction, FreeBSD Promises a Full Desktop Installer, Linux Hits an Important Milestone, Plasma Bigscreen Returns.

Chronicler Zack Brown reports on isolating patch submissions by type, and quantum security.

Use the kernel auditing system to set watches on critical files and system calls and log the activity for later anaylsis.

From its considered basics to its flavor varieties, SparkyLinux is an interesting Debian-based OS.

The strace command-line utility helps you diagnose complex problems by revealing details about the interaction between applications and the Linux kernel.

Create your own rules to detect threats by monitoring system calls.

With a few tools, you can harness the data available in even the most troublesome CSV files.

Linux offers three main commands for moving and renaming. Which you choose depends on your purpose and knowledge.