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Freexian is a services company specialized in Debian GNU/Linux Our services: Extended Long Term Support for Debian Packages, Long Term Support for PHP releases in Debian and Ubuntu, Debian packaging, Consulting, Custom development, Support and Training.

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Freexian @freexian.com · 24/09/2026

#Debian LTS contributors released 58 DLAs fixing 1885 CVEs in August. Linux kernel, chromium and thunderbird had the most number of CVEs fixed. Read the details in our full report at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #chromium #linux #postgresql15 #ruby27 #thunderbird #freexian

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for August. Activity summary During the month of August, 19 contributors have been paid to work on De...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 15/09/2026

The August 2026 contributions report, covering contributions to Debian by Freexian collaborators, is now available at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #debian #freexian #incus #lxc #openssh #gssapi

Debian Contributions: Security-tracker git performance, OpenSSH GSS-API split, Incus replacing lxc in Debian CI and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-08 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 08/09/2026

Debusine now supports debug symbol packages thanks to this year's Debusine GSoC project, debuginfod server. The debuginfod server functionality was added to #Debusine so that it not only hosts -dbgsym packages, but also serves their debug symbols over the debuginfod protocol. #freexian #gsoc

Debusine can now hand you debug symbols!

Contributor: Jugal Patel (Jugal59) Organization: Debian Project: Provide debuginfod server Mentor: Colin Watson About the project and me Your program crashes. You open gdb and get ?? instead of a stac...

Freexian @freexian.com · 01/09/2026

Debian project’s security support for Debian 11 (#bullseye) reached end-of-life yesterday: www.debian.org/News/2026/20... You can maintain the server security by subscribing to our Extended LTS offer if upgrading to a newer release is not an option for you. #debian #freexian #debianelts

Debian -- News -- Debian 11 Long Term Support reaches end-of-life

Freexian @freexian.com · 27/08/2026

#Debian LTS contributors released 52 DLAs fixing 2159 CVEs in July. Notable security updates were released for the #linux kernel, grub2, imagemagick, jq, nginx, nss, poppler, samba and more. Debian LTS team took full responsibility of Debian 12 (#bookworm) in July after its last point release.

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Freexian @freexian.com · 13/08/2026

Organizing DebConf26, adding VLAN support in Debian installer. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in July 2026. Read all the details at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #cpython #debconf26 #vlantagging

Debian Contributions: DebConf 26 organization, d-i VLAN support and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-07 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 27/07/2026

48 #Debian LTS advisories were released in June fixing 231 CVEs for various packages. These include notable security updates for apache2, asterisk, chromium, firefox-esr, havaged, libinput, nginx, thunderbird, tomcat9 and many more. Read the full report: www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, June 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for June. Activity summary During the month of June, 20 cont...

Freexian @freexian.com · 20/07/2026

#Freexian is proud to sponsor the 27th edition of the #Debian conference. Many of our collaborators are involved in the conference preparations. DebConf26 starts today in Santa Fe, Argentina at 1:00 PM UTC. Please visit debconf26.debconf.org for more details about the conference. #debconf26

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Freexian @freexian.com · 17/07/2026

Debian project’s security support for Debian 11 (#bullseye) will end on 31 August 2026. Freexian's Extended LTS for Debian (www.freexian.com/lts/extended...) will now include Debian 11, extending the security support up to 30 June 2031. #debian #freexian #debianelts

Debian Extended LTS by Freexian

This service extends security support for old Debian releases up to 10 years, albeit only on the subset of packages used by the customers of this service.

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Freexian @freexian.com · 15/07/2026

#Freexian collaborators worked on preparations for DebConf 26, Python 3.14 as default transition, debvm, programmable container runtime and many more contributions to #Debian in June 2026. Read all the details at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-...

Debian Contributions: Python 3.14 as default transition, DebConf 26 preparations, debvm, pconr and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-06 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

Freexian @freexian.com · 06/07/2026

We are pleased to announce two new updates to Freexian's PHP LTS offer. PHP 8.5 has been added to the list of supported PHP versions and is available for Debian 10, 11, 12 and 13, as well as Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04.

PHP LTS by Freexian

The PHP LTS service provides alternate PHP releases for various Debian releases.

Freexian @freexian.com · 24/06/2026

#Debian LTS contributors released 56 DLAs fixing 877 CVEs in May, a larger number than usual. The Kernel team deserves a special mention for handling the disclosed vulnerabilities on #linux regarding Local Privilege Escalation with public proof-of-concept exploits. #debianlts #freexian

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for May. Activity summary During the month of May, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian L...

Freexian @freexian.com · 15/06/2026

Improving Go default compatibility in #Debian, trimming build-essential, Python upstream engagement. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to Debian in May 2026. Read all the details at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #golang #openssh #PyConUs

Debian Contributions: Go default compatibility, Trimming build-essential, Python upstream engagement and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-05 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

Freexian @freexian.com · 20/05/2026

37 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 145 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for bind9, firefox-esr, imagemagick, libpng, mbedtls, openssh, packagekit, perl, postgresql-13, python3.9, systemd and many more. #debian #debianlts #freexian

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for April. Activity summary During the month of April, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debi...

Freexian @freexian.com · 15/05/2026

#Freexian collaborators worked on detecting undeclared file conflicts, mini-sprint improving contributors.debian.org, security-tracker performance, fixing dput-ng data loss bug, MiniDebConf Campinas and many more contributions to #Debian in April 2026. #dput-ng #linux #openssh

Debian Contributions: Detecting undeclared file conflicts, contributors.debian.org mini-sprint, security-tracker performance and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-04 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

Freexian @freexian.com · 11/05/2026

In the latest in a series of articles about Debusine, our developers and sysadmins do a deep dive on how they managed to investigate and fix #Debusine workflow performance issues caused by complex interactions between a series of database concurrency and worker communication issues.

Debusine workflow performance issues

During March and April, we had a number of performance issues that made Debusine’s core functions of running work requests and reflecting their results in workflows quite unreliable. Investigating and...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 08/05/2026

Freexian is excited to support MiniDebConf Hamburg, currently underway at dock europe, Hamburg, Germany! The talks are scheduled on May 9 and 10. If you can’t attend in person, the talks will also be live-streamed: hamburg2026.mini.debconf.org #debian #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfHamburg2026 #freexian

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MiniDebConf Hamburg 2025

Freexian @freexian.com · 30/04/2026

A few snapshots of the Freexian team from MiniDebConf Campinas 2026. Our collaborators took part as organizers, speakers, and attendees. Proud to support and engage with the Debian Brasil community. Thanks to everyone who made it a success! #debian #freexian #miniDebConfCampinas #debianbrasil

Digital Photograph of Antonio Terceiro and Lucas Kanashiro, who are Debian Developers and Freexian Collaborators, giving a talk at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026.

They are in an auditorium addressing the audience seated before them. Three projector screens displaying the talk-slides can be seen behind them. Antonio is addressing the audience while Lucas can be seen smiling encouragingly at Antonio.

Digital Photograph of Santiago R.R. and Lucas Kanashiro, who are Debian Developers and Freexian collaborators, giving a talk at MiniDebConf Campinas 2026.

The talk is happening in the same auditorium as in the previous photograph. Two projector screens displaying the talk-slides can be seen behind them. The slide displayed is titled 'História e Background do LTS'. Santiago is addressing the audience, who are not visible in the photograph, and Lucas is looking at the projected slide.

Freexian @freexian.com · 29/04/2026

24 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 250 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in March 2026. These include notable security updates for ansible, asterisk, gimp, gst-plugins-base1.0, gst-plugins-ugly1.0, imagemagick, libpng1.6, linux kernel, roundcube, strongswan and more.

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for March. Activity summary During the month of March, 20 co...

Freexian @freexian.com · 20/04/2026

Freexian is proud to be a sponsor of MiniDebConf Campinas 2026 which will take place from April 23 to 25 at the State University of Campinas. The MiniDebCamp is already underway! campinas.mini.debconf.org #debian #debianbrasil #freexian #miniDebConfCampinas

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MiniDebConf Campinas 2026 é um encontro da comunidade Debian brasileira que aconteceentre 23 e 25 de abril de 2026

Freexian @freexian.com · 15/04/2026

Debusine projects in GSoC, incus backend landing in Debian CI and other updates, Salsa CI maintenance. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in March 2026. Read all the details at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #incus #gsoc #debusine #debianci

Debian Contributions: Debusine projects in GSoC, Debian CI updates, Salsa CI maintenance and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-03 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 18/03/2026

35 Debian LTS advisories were released in February fixing 527 CVEs across various packages. These include security fixes for gnutls28, xrdp, ClamAV, tomcat9, zabbix, linux kernel, ceph, glib2.0, MUNGE and many more.

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for February. Activity summary During the month of February,...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 16/03/2026

Debusine's QA pipelines, which checks if #Debian packages are ready to upload, have recently gained a regression tracking mechanism. The regressions are found by checking for new failures in autopkgtests for packages in the archive that depends on the built package.

Regression Tracking in Debusine

Regression Tracking Debusine is a tool designed for Debian developers and Operating System developers in general. Debusine can run QA pipelines to check that Debian packages are ready to upload. This ...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 11/03/2026

Opening DebConf 26 registration, improvements to #Debian CI and many more contributions to Debian were made by #Freexian collaborators in February. Read all the details at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #debianci #debconf26 #openssh

Debian Contributions: Opening DebConf 26 Registration, Debian CI improvements and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-02 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 02/03/2026

Join Freexian and help us grow Debian’s impact! We’re hiring a Senior Sales & Business Development Manager to spearhead the next stage of growth for the sales and business development functions within our organization. #Debian #OpenSource #Freexian #Hiring #TechForGood

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Senior Sales & Business Development Manager | Freexian

Unique job offer to join Freexian as a sales & bizdev manager.

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Freexian @freexian.com · 19/02/2026

33 Debian LTS Advisories fixing 216 CVEs for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in January 2026. These include notable security updates for python 3.9, django 2.2.28, php 7.4, apache2, ceph, Linux 6.1 kernel and more. #python39 #php74 #django #apache2 #ceph #p7zip

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2026

The Debian LTS Team, funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering, is pleased to report its activities for January. Activity summary During the month of January, 20 contributors have been paid to work on ...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 12/02/2026

#Freexian collaborators worked on cross building packages, rebootstrap, refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and many other contributions to #Debian in January 2026. Visit www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... for the complete list and details. #crossbuilding #ruby34 #python314

Debian Contributions: cross building, rebootstrap updates, Refresh of the patch tagging guidelines and more!

Debian Contributions: 2026-01 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 10/02/2026

#Debusine aims to be an integrated solution to build, distribute and maintain a Debian-based distribution. The lower-level pieces of its workflows are called tasks. A few examples are Sbuild, Lintian and Debdiff worker tasks. #freexian

Writing a new worker task for Debusine

Tutorial on how to write a worker task for Debusine

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Freexian @freexian.com · 21/01/2026

41 Debian LTS Advisories were released in December fixing 252 CVEs. These included notable security updates for libsoup2.4, glib2.0, lasso, #roundcube, #mediawiki, python-apt and libpng1.6.

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for December. Activity summary During the month of December,...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 13/01/2026

Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, dh-python development, a hybrid dependency solver for crossqa.debian.net, rebootstrap updates and making Debian CI resistant to the growing scraper traffic. #Freexian collaborators worked on these and many more contributions to #Debian in December 2025.

Debian Contributions: dh-python development, Python 3.14 and Ruby 3.4 transitions, Surviving scraper traffic in Debian CI and more!

Debian Contributions: 2025-12 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 31/12/2025

We bid adieu to 2025 with a post detailing how files are stored by Debusine: www.freexian.com/blog/debusin... #debusine #freexian #contentaddressable

How files are stored by Debusine

Debusine is a tool designed for Debian developers and Operating System developers in general. This post describes how Debusine stores and manages files. Debusine has been designed to run a network of ...

Freexian @freexian.com · 22/12/2025

In November, Debian LTS contributors released 33 Debian LTS Advisories, fixing 219 CVEs across multiple packages. Notable updates included security fixes for bind9, unbound, pdfminer, firefox-esr, thunderbird, and the Linux 6.1 kernel.

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, November 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for November. Activity summary During the month of November,...

Freexian @freexian.com · 17/12/2025

Ever thought about APT compatible add-on package repositories for Debian? Like PPAs but having proper compatibility with #Debian, QA tests and automatic built-in snapshot capabilities? Glad to announce #Debusine repositories are now in public beta for Debian developers and maintainers.

Debusine repositories now in beta

We’re happy to announce that Debusine can now be used to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repositories for Debian. This facility is available in public beta to Debian developers and maintainers....

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Freexian @freexian.com · 12/12/2025

Learn about the recent DebConf Video Team Sprint, updates regarding rebootstrap, SBOM tooling in Debian and many other contributions from #Freexian collaborators in our November Debian contributions report. Read the full report here: www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #debian #SBOM #rebootstrap

Debian Contributions: Updates about DebConf Video Team Sprint, rebootstrap, SBOM tooling in Debian and more!

Debian Contributions: 2025-11 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 08/12/2025

We have published a blogpost about the completion of /usr-move transition in Debian. It covers why it was needed after /usr-merge transition and the work done to resolve the issues during the #trixie release cycle. Read more at www.freexian.com/blog/usr_mov... #freexian #debian #usrmerge #usrmove

Debian's /usr-move transition has been completed

By now, the /usr-merge is an old transition. Effectively, it turns top-level directories such as /bin into symbolic links pointing below /usr. That way the entire operating system can be contained bel...

Freexian @freexian.com · 03/12/2025

37 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors in October. These include notable security updates for https-everywhere, openjdk 11 & 17 and intel-microcode.

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, October 2025

The Debian LTS Team, funded by [Freexian’s Debian LTS offering] (https://www.freexian.com/lts/debian/), is pleased to report its activities for October. Activity summary During the month of October, 2...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 25/11/2025

Our new post on #Debusine is about how we brought Dark Mode to the interface. Learn about the neat little tricks we did to enable it for Debusine, and see how we built a site-wide feature out of simple minimalist touches. www.freexian.com/blog/debusin... #bootstrap #css #darkmode #freexian

How we implemented a dark mode in Debusine

And how Bootstrap makes that really easy

Freexian @freexian.com · 13/11/2025

In October 2025, contributions to #Debian by #Freexian collaborators involved upstreaming cPython patches, making autopkgtest for ansible-core robust and more! Read the full report at www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #python #cpython

Debian Contributions: Upstreaming cPython patches, ansible-core autopkgtest robustness and more!

Debian Contributions: 2025-10 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

Freexian @freexian.com · 21/10/2025

38 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates for various packages were released by Debian LTS contributors last month. These include notable security updates for modsecurity-apache, cups, python-django, thunderbird and many more.

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, September 2025

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In September, 20 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are availab...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 14/10/2025

Freexian’s September 2025 Debian contributions report covers a variety of interesting work. Find the full report here - www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #debian #freexian

Debian Contributions: Old Debian Printing software and C23, Work to decommission packages.qa.debian.org, rebootstrap uses *-for-host and more!

Debian Contributions: 2025-09 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 26/09/2025

27 Debian LTS Advisories about security updates were released by Debian LTS contributors in August 2025. These included critical security updates for gnutls28, mdebtls, apache2 and openjdk-17 in addition to other security updates.

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, August 2025

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In August, 21 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available:...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 12/09/2025

We have a new blog post on Debusine to share with you! It's our first design story for the UI, covering our unique approach towards JavaScript. Read more about us using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript here: www.freexian.com/blog/debusin... #Debusine #Django #JavaScript

Using JavaScript in Debusine without depending on JavaScript

Guidelines and tradeoffs for JavaScript use in Debusine UI

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Freexian @freexian.com · 12/09/2025

The critical security updates for angular.js, tomcat9, mediawiki, php7.4 and more landed in Debian 11 "bullseye" by the efforts of the Debian LTS team in July 2025. The security tracker sprint involving members from the LTS team and Debian Security team also happened during July as part of DebCamp25

Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2025

Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering. Debian LTS contributors In July, 17 contributors have been paid to work on Debian LTS, their reports are available: A...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 11/09/2025

Our August 2025 Debian Contributions report is out! We have updates on preparing for the setup.py install deprecation in setuptools, Salsa CI, the Debian 13 “trixie” release and more. Full report here: www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #freexian #debian #trixie #setuptools #salsaci

Debian Contributions: Preparing for setup.py install deprecation, Salsa CI, Debian 13 "trixie" release and more!

Debian Contributions: 2025-08 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

Freexian @freexian.com · 21/08/2025

Interested in how Debian LTS works and what’s ahead? The recorded BoF session from #DebConf25 is now online! Watch the recording here: meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-m... #debian #debianLTS #linuxsecurity #freexian

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Freexian @freexian.com · 12/08/2025

Freexian’s July 2025 Debian contributions report highlights our active role in Debian, from sponsoring and participating in DebConf 25 to contributing talks, infrastructure work, and community planning. Full details: www.freexian.com/blog/debian-... #debian #freexian #debconf25 #OpenSSH #CrossBuild

Debian Contributions: DebConf 25, OpenSSH upgrades, Cross compilation collaboration and more!

Debian Contributions: 2025-07 Contributing to Debian is part of Freexian’s mission. This article covers the latest achievements of Freexian and their collaborators. All of this is made possible by org...

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Freexian @freexian.com · 11/08/2025

Debian 13 “trixie” is now the new Debian stable! It will be supported for the next 5 years by the Debian Security team (security-team.debian.org) and Debian LTS (wiki.debian.org/LTS) team, with up to 10 years of support via Freexian’s Extended LTS (www.freexian.com/lts/extended/). #debian #trixie

Debian Extended LTS by Freexian

This service extends security support for old Debian releases up to 10 years, albeit only on the subset of packages used by the customers of this service.

Freexian @freexian.com · 08/08/2025

Curious about how Debusine workflows actually work in practice? Check out the recorded BoF session from #DebConf25! Learn about current developer workflows, challenges, and community discussions on what’s possible and what’s next for #Debusine. meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-m... #Debian

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Freexian @freexian.com · 07/08/2025

@cjwatson.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy from #Freexian gave a great talk at #DebConf25: “Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads” debconf25.debconf.org/talks/29-usi...

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Using Debusine to pre-test your unstable uploads - DebConf25

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Freexian @freexian.com · 06/08/2025

*UEFI Secure Boot Signing with Debusine* How do you handle Secure Boot signing for Debian-based systems? We've just published a detailed write-up on how Freexian uses Debusine to manage UEFI Secure Boot signing for Debian 10 ELTS. #Debian #UEFI #SecureBoot #Debusine #Freexian #LinuxSecurity

Secure boot signing with Debusine

Debusine aims to be an integrated solution to build, distribute and maintain a Debian-based distribution. At Debconf 25, we talked about using it to pre-test uploads to Debian unstable, and also touch...

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