♞ Coming up on 9TO5Linux ♞ Tails 4.25 amnesic incognito live system (a.k.a.
Anonymous OS) is now available for download with a new backup utility
for Persistent Storage and updated components. And Tails 4.25 was released with new backup tool
for persistent storage, and more. Check out the news and see where to download the distro.
The Amnesic Incognito Live System ( Tails ) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB
with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity to the user.
The product comes with various Internet applications including web browser, IRC client,
email and instant messaging client,
all pre-configured with security in mind and all traffic anonymized.
To accomplish this, this incognito system uses the Tor network
to make it difficult to track Internet traffic. If you want to be invisible online all the time,
you should use Tails, which is even used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Now, the Tails development team has announced the general availability of the Tails 4.25 release.
Tails 4.25 has arrived to introduce an all-new, simple backup utility to help users back up
their persistent storage from a USB flash drive they run Tails on to another Tails USB stick.
Contributed by David A. Wheeler, the new backup tool provides a graphical interface and
automated process described in the official Tails documentation on how to back up your persistent
storage via the command line. You can find it under System
Tools > Back Up Persistent Storage. About the tool, the launch announcement says:
"It's very basic and we still want to do something better, but we didn't want to wait
any longer because we know backups are a big issue for our users."
In addition, Tails version 4.25 updates the GRUB boot loader with a new entry called “Tails
(External Hard Drive)”, which allows you to start the operating system anonymously from an external
disk drive or one of those USB flash drives that return Unable encountering media containing an
active file system error when starting Tails. Also new is a shortcut that allows users to
restart Tails when they haven't enabled Unsafe Browser in the welcome screen,
as well as a link that directs users to documentation on how to troubleshoot Wizard.
Under the hood, the new Tails update is powered by the Linux 5.10.70 LTS kernel
and comes with several updated components from the Debian Linux 10 Buster operating system series,
as well as Tor 0.4.6.8 and Tor Browser 11.0.2. Also, some display issues in Unsafe Browser
have been resolved in this release. To learn more about this version of the
distribution, visit the release note . Download and try Tails 4.25
Automatic updates are currently supported. So, if you are using Tails, you can update it right now
by running the command sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgradein a terminal emulator
to get the latest package updates. For new deployments or to use Tails live,
aka directly from a USB flash drive without installing anything on your computer, download
the new ISO image from the official website by going to the distribution's download page .
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