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| 2025-11-17 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 |
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Colin Percival has announced the availability of the first release candidate for the upcoming FreeBSD 15.0, scheduled for final release in early December. The new version will introduce a large number of changes, including the deprecation of fdisk in favor of gpart. Also new in this release is the improved date program which now also supports nanoseconds, while the dtrace utility can now generate machine-readable output in JSON, XML and HTML using libxo. "The first release candidate build of the 15.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Due to a problem affecting VM image builds, we anticipate building an expedited 15.0-RC2. A summary of changes since BETA5 includes: the FreeBSD-base repository is now defined in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf; the FreeBSD-base repository now resides on pkgbase.FreeBSD.org and is signed using different keys from the FreeBSD-ports repository; dynamic gang headers are now supported by the boot loader; many bug fixes, especially to networking and 32-bit compatibility; build fixes to support creation of Google Cloud and Azure images." Here is the template release announcement, with much more detailed information available in the (as yet) incomplete release notes. Download (mirrors): FreeBSD-15.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (1,296MB, SHA512, signature), FreeBSD-15.0-RC1-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (1,149MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2025-11-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Finnix 251 |
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Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux distribution for system administrators, based on Debian's "Testing" branch. The project's latest version, Finnix 251, introduces OCI container images: "Finnix 251 is the first release to distribute official OCI container images. The official Finnix container contains all the same software as the ISO release, and may be launched from Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, etc. This is particularly useful for Kubernetes users, giving you a quick utility shell in the namespace of your choice. The finnix/finnix:latest container currently includes architecture support for amd64, arm64 and riscv64. Otherwise, Finnix 251 is a regular semiannual utility release: Linux kernel 6.16 (Debian 6.16.12); added package - dc3dd; upstream Debian package updates; many minor fixes and improvements. Finnix is a Linux-based utility live distribution. Write it to a USB flash drive or burn it to a CD, boot it, and you're seconds from a root prompt with hundreds of utilities available for recovery, maintenance, testing and more." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA256): finnix-251.iso (577MB, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-11-17 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1148 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Zorin OS 18
- News: NetBSD experiments with sandboxing, postmarketOS unifies its documentation, OpenBSD makes system upgrades more resilient, Canonical offers 15 years of support for Ubuntu, Debian publishes updated media for Trixie
- Questions and answers: Deleting a file with a weird name
- Released last week: Volumio 4.067, SparkyLinux 8.1, Nitrux 5.0.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and 9.7
- Torrent corner: Debian, Debian Edu, KDE neon, SparkyLinux, Tails
- Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 15.0-RC2
- Opinion poll: Using a sandbox
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-11-12 |
NEW • Distribution Releases: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1, 9.7 |
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Red Hat, Inc. has released two updated versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - 10.1, the first point release of the distribution's latest stable release, and 9.7, an updated build of RHEL's legacy 9.x branch. "During the excitement of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL) launch at Red Hat Summit, I kept hearing one question from customers and partners: When would an offline version of the RHEL command-line assistant be available? Today I can announce that it's on the way. As part of the RHEL 10.1 update, an offline, locally available command-line assistant is officially in developer preview. For customers with a Red Hat Satellite subscription, it offers AI-powered RHEL guidance based on decades of enterprise Linux experience. Companies and agencies in finance, government, defense, industrial control, and other heightened-security industries will find it particularly useful. A key advantage of this design is its ability to function in completely disconnected, offline, or air-gapped environments, eliminating the need for external network connectivity." See the What's new in RHEL 10.1 and Introducing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 blog posts for more details, with release notes for both RHEL 10.1 and RHEL 9.7 now also available. Both RHEL 10.1 (pkglist) and RHEL 9.7 (pkglist) can be downloaded from Red Hat's Customer and Developer portals. |
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| 2025-11-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Nitrux 5.0.0 |
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Uri Herrera has announced the release of Nitrux 5.0.0, a major update of the Linux distribution that aims to be "disruptive by design". This is the project's first build featuring an immutable base and the Hyprland Wayland compositor (dropping KDE Plasma in the process). Although Nitrux is built on Debian, it does not ship the traditional Debian package management utilities, relying instead on AppImage, Flatpak, Distrobox and similar utilities to install new software. "We are pleased to announce the launch of Nitrux 5.0.0. This new version combines the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements, and ready-to-use hardware support. Given the massive changes in this release, we recommend a fresh installation using the latest media. There's no planned update path from Nitrux 3.9.1 to 5.0.0; nonetheless, update archives for 5.0.0 and onwards will be available through the Nitrux Update tool. As announced back in June, Nitrux no longer uses the KDE Plasma desktop; beginning with this release, we transition fully to Hyprland. The transition took more than a few weeks, it wasn't just a matter of installation." Read the detailed release announcement for information. Nitrux 5.0.0 comes in two variants, for NVIDIA hardware (cachy-nvopen) and AMD/Intel hardware (liquorix-mesa); download links (pkglist): nitrux-contemporary-cachy-nvopen-997f8883-amd64.iso (3,195MB, SHA512, signature), nitrux-contemporary-liquorix-mesa-f4ee9a13-amd64.iso (2,353MB, SHA512, signature). |
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| 2025-11-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 8.1 |
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Paweł Pijanowski has announced the release of SparkyLinux 8.1, the latest stable release of the project's set of Linux distributions based on Debian 13: "This is a quarterly update of the SparkyLinux 8 'Seven Sisters' stable release. SparkyLinux 8 is based on and is fully compatible with Debian 13 'Trixie'. Main changes: all packages updated from the stable Debian and SparkyLinux repositories as of November 10, 2025; Linux kernel PC 6.12.48-LTS; Linux kernel ARM 6.12.47-LTS; LibreOffice 25.2.3; KDE Plasma 6.3.6; LXQt 2.1.0; MATE 1.26.0; Xfce 4.20; Openbox 3.6.1; Firefox 140.4.0esr (145.0 in repositories); Thunderbird 140.4.0esr. SparkyLinux 8 'Seven Sisters' is available in the amd64 BIOS/UEFI + Secure Boot with Xfce, LXQt, MATE, KDE Plasma, MinimalGUI (Openbox) and MinimalCLI (text mode) and arm64 with Openbox and CLI. If you have SparkyLinux 8 installed, simply keep it up to date, there's no need to reinstall it. Known issue: arm64 Wi-Fi may not be active after the first boot, you must restart the system to automatically enable Wi-Fi." Continue to the release announcement for further details. Download (pkglist): sparkylinux-8.1-x86_64-kde.iso (2,386MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), sparkylinux-8.1-x86_64-lxqt.iso (2,166MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), sparkylinux-8.1-x86_64-mate.iso (2,182MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), sparkylinux-8.1-x86_64-xfce.iso (1,961MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). |
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| 2025-11-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Volumio 4.067 |
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The Volumio team has announced the release of Volumio 4.067, a major update of the project's single-purpose Debian-based Linux distribution designed and fine-tuned exclusively for music playback. This release updates the underlying system to Debian 12: "Today marks something special for us and for everyone who loves what Volumio does. After nearly a year of work, we're releasing Volumio 4 for Raspberry Pi and PC platforms. You might fire it up and think, 'Wait, it looks the same.' And you'd be right. We didn't redesign the interface or move buttons around. What we did was rebuild the foundation. Why this matters? Think of Volumio 4 like replacing the engine in your favorite car. From the driver's seat, everything feels familiar. But under the hood, we've swapped in something more powerful, more efficient, and ready to take you places the old engine simply couldn't go. We've moved to Debian 'Bookworm', which is the technical way of saying we've given Volumio a completely modern foundation. Here's where things get exciting. Volumio 4 works hand in hand with our new Volumio app, which just landed on the app stores. This is the first step in our vision - one seamless ecosystem for music playback, everywhere, for every kind of digital music." See the full release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download (pkglist) the compressed IMG files for standard 64-bit systems or Raspberry Pi single-board computers from here: Volumio-4.067-2025-11-08-x86_amd64.zip (1,218MB), Volumio-4.067-2025-11-08-pi.zip (780MB). |
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| 2025-11-10 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1147 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Fedora 43
- News: Debian introduces Rust dependency into APT, Redox ports process monitors and web engine, Kubuntu website goes off-line, Mint introduces new troubleshooting tools, FreeBSD improves reproducible builds, Flatpak resumes development
- Questions and answers: Size and stability of the Linux kernel
- Released last week: Devuan GNU+Linux 6.0.0, umbrelOS 1.5.0, iodeOS 6.9, Murena 3.2, PorteuX 2.4, MX Linux 25
- Torrent corner: Devuan, FreedomBox, KDE neon, TUXEDO OS
- Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 15.0-RC2
- Opinion poll: Favourite flavour of Fedora?
- Site news: Front page filtering options
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-11-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: MX Linux 25 |
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The MX Linux team has announced that version 25 of its distribution is now available. MX Linux 25 is based on Debian 13. The release announcement shares the key new features: "MX Linux 25 is now available for use. MX 25 is built from Debian 13 'Trixie' and MX repositories. All releases come with systemd. The Xfce, Xfce AHS and Fluxbox releases are also available in SysVInt variants. SysvVInit ISO images are clearly labeled such in the filen ame. Reasons for this change from past editions are in this blog post. Major desktop versions: Xfce 4.20, Fluxbox 1.3.7, KDE Plasma 6.3.6. Most ISO images come with the latest 6.12.48 kernel from the Debian 'Stable' repositories. The Xfce AHS variants have the 6.16 Liquorix kernels. The antiX live system has been modified to work better with systemd as the init system. To those that want to run live systems as a primary system, the SysVInit editions support better the antiX live system. The Qt-based GUI MX Tools have been migrated to Qt 6. Most apps have also received bug fixes and translation updates. Our long-time updater tool, apt-notifier, has been replaced with a new tool, mx-updater." Download (pkglist): MX-25_Xfce_x64.iso (2,659MB, SHA256, signature), MX-25_Xfce_sysvinit_x64.iso (2,628MB, SHA256, signature), MX-25_KDE_x64.iso (3,159MB, SHA256, signature), MX-25_fluxbox_x64.iso (2,142MB, SHA256, signature), MX-25_fluxbox_sysvinit_x64.iso (2,140MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2025-11-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: PorteuX 2.4 |
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The PorteuX development team has release PorteuX 2.4, the latest version of the project's set of lightweight and stripped-down Linux distribution featuring a number of popular desktop environments. This release presents a new desktop option, the COSMIC desktop developed by System 76: "This release brings the COSMIC desktop environment for 'current'. Bear in mind it's still in beta, so expect many issues, including cosmic-osd running at full CPU load (already reported). This is the last PorteuX release that will include a version based on Slackware stable. After much consideration, we decided that this version is just too old and brings no advantage over the current version, which is extensively tested before each PorteuX release. Changes: fixed date/time during boot time; fixed cheatcode from using UUID not having a trailing slash; fixed Cinnamon rendering in Wayland; fixed cropped title bar in Xfce; fixed small title bar icons in Openbox...." See the changelog for a complete list of changes and bug fixes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): porteux-2.4-current-cinnamon-6.4.13-x86_64.iso (543M), porteux-2.4-current-cosmic-beta5-x86_64.iso (639M), porteux-2.4-current-gnome-49.1-x86_64.iso (553MB), porteux-2.4-current-kde-6.5.2-x86_64.iso (629MB), porteux-v2.4-current-lxde-0.11.1-x86_64.iso (517M), porteux-2.4-current-lxqt-2.3.0-x86_64.iso (539MB), porteux-2.4-current-mate-1.28.2-x86_64.iso (523MB), porteux-2.4-current-xfce-4.20-x86_64.iso (519MB). |
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| 2025-11-06 |
NEW • Mobile OS Release: Murena 3.2 |
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The Murena team have announced a new version of its /e/OS operating system for mobile devices. The new 3.2 version features notifications when apps are leaking data and customization options for the side button on the Fairphone 6. There are also improvements to the project's software centre: "In Advanced Privacy, users are now informed in real time when apps attempt to leak data, with simple controls to manage notifications. The App Lounge has also been refined: app sizes from F-Droid are now displayed, and common apps are shown based on region for a better browsing experience. For Fairphone (Gen.6) users, /e/OS 3.2 introduces customization of the side button, allowing you to assign your preferred actions. While the dedicated Moments feature from Android is not yet available, this new customization gives you more flexibility in how you use the button. A major improvement has been implemented to the Fairphone (Gen.6). Fairphone Camera app is now available on /e/OS, enjoy an even better camera experience on your phone." Additional details are offered in the project's newsletter and in the release notes. A list of supported devices and install options are available on Murena's devices page. |
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| 2025-11-05 |
NEW • Mobile OS Release: iodéOS 6.9 |
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The iodéOS team have announced the availability of iodéOS 6.9. The new version focuses on security and user accounts, enabling automatic reboot after a period of inactivity, full signing out of user accounts, and better protection of device settings. "Full logout for secondary users - secondary users can now be fully logged out of the device, rather than just switching accounts. This ensures a cleaner separation of user environments and better privacy for everyone sharing the device. Also included in iodéOS 4 and later versions. Private Space and Work Profiles for secondary users - secondary users can now use Private Space and Work Profiles, allowing them to leverage apps like Shelter for better data isolation. This is ideal for families or teams who need to keep personal and work data separate, even on shared devices. Work Profiles also included in iodéOS 5. App links (deep links) let apps open specific URLs directly instead of defaulting to the browser. With iodéOS 6.9, apps can now automatically validate these links if configured, eliminating the need for manual approval and making the experience smoother and more efficient." The project's release announcement has further details. Download and install options are available through the project's Installation page. |
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Gibraltar was a Debian-based firewall package which was bootable directly from a CD-ROM, so hard disk installation was not necessary. The configuration data was optionally stored on a hard disk, floppy disk or USB storage device. Gibraltar was specifically developed for small to medium-size enterprises and fulfils all demands for an up-to-date firewall package. In times where the threats of viruses, worms, trojan horses or hackers are increasing rapidly, Gibraltar offers an extensive protection of internet connections. Besides a commercial release of Gibraltar a free edition was also available.
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