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Bluestar Linux
Bluestar Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Arch Linux. The Bluestar distribution features up to date packages, a full range of desktop and multimedia software in the default installation and a live desktop DVD.
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| Tips, Tricks, Q&As | | Tips and tricks: Running the Linux-libre kernel |
| Tips and tricks: OpenSSH, pipes and file transfers |
| Tips and tricks: Copying a VCD |
| Tips and tricks: Gathering system information with osquery |
| Tips and tricks: Find common words in text, find high memory processs, cd short-cuts, pushd & popd, record desktop |
| Questions and answers: Keeping track of login times |
| Questions and answers: systemd |
| Questions and answers: Managing services and start-up applications |
| Tips and tricks: Command line tips - using ffmpeg, awk and renice |
| Tips and tricks: Check free disk space, wait for a process, command line spell-check, shutdown PC when CPU gets hot |
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| 2025-04-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 48.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has released version 48.0 of its lightweight operating system for games, system recovery, multimedia, and network services. Version 48.0 focuses on improving multimedia support: "The status of the 4MLinux 48.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 25.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.38, Gnumeric 1.12.59), surf the Internet with Firefox 137.0 and Chrome 135.0, send emails via Thunderbird 128.9, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.4.2, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.21 and SMPlayer 24.5.0, play games powered by Mesa 24.3.3 and Wine 10.4. As always, the new major release has some new features. Kino (IEEE 1394 DV non-linear video editor) is now included out of the box (huge work has been done to make this old application work within a modern operating system). VVenC (H.266/VVC encoder) has been added to the 4MLinux codec pack. FreeTube (desktop application acting as a YouTube client) and Bristol (synthesisers, electric pianos and organs emulator) are now available as downloadable extensions. And finally, the LTS Linux kernel in 4MLinux has been updated to its version 6.12." The release announcement has further details. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-48.0-64bit.iso (1,485MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-04-27 |
NEW • BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.7 |
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The OpenBSD team have released OpenBSD 7.7. The project, which places a high priority on secure code and correct documentation, has improved performance in out of memory situations, improved hibernate support, and introduced new userland features: "Various new userland features - numerous changes to make the imsg API stricter and better, which were followed by adapting all applications across the tree. Allow the user to provide an alternative perfpolicy when on battery, extending the semantics of hw.perfpolicy to provide two buttons to specify desired behavior. This gives users more flexibility in setting the performance when AC-powered vs. battery powered. Made calendar(1) use the environment variable RECIPIENT_EMAIL for sending mails to. Made security(8) use GMT rather than the local timezone when checking for changes in device nodes and setuid files. Avoids false positives when changing timezones. Added a new variable PASSWDSKIP that can be set in /etc/daily.local to prevent security(8) from complaining about specific accounts that have no password." A complete list of chances can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA256, signature, pkglist): amd64/install77.iso (745MB), amd64/install77.img (800MB). |
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| 2025-04-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Archcraft 2025.04.24 |
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Aditya Shakya has announced the release of Archcraft 2025.04.24, a lightweight, Arch-based Linux distribution with a choice of two window managers and a selection of lightweight applications. The available window managers are Openbox (a stacking window manager) and bspwm (a tiling window manager which supports tiling, stacking and tabbing layouts). The new version of Archcraft comes with the latest Linux kernel, version 6.14.3, bspwm 0.9.10, NVIDIA 570.144, Firefox 137.0.2, updated packages from Arch Linux and AUR repositories, and some bug fixes: "The April 2025 ISO image of Archcraft is now available to download. Changelog: updated ISO image profile to archiso 83-1; latest base with new packages; update all Archcraft and AUR packages; updated Openbox and bspwm configurations; fixed issues with rofi menu layouts; fixed Polybar crashes; small improvements and bugs fixed." Read the brief release announcement for all the details. The Archcraft 2025.04.24 ISO image is available for download from SourceForge: archcraft-2025.04.24-x86_64.iso (3,288MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2025-04-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 |
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Bernhard Rosenkränzer has announced the release of OpenMandriva Lx 6.0, a major update of the project's independently-developed distribution that started as a fork of Mandriva Linux back in 2013. "The independent, community-controlled distribution, OpenMandriva Lx 6.0, a fixed-point release (as opposed to the rolling-release branch), is out right now. Main features: KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default (X11 and Wayland available); community spins featuring the latest desktop environments LXQt 2.2.0, GNOME 48.1, Xfce 4.20.1 and COSMIC 1.0 alpha; this also features the first official stable release of the OpenMandriva Server edition; if you run OMLx 6.0 inside VirtualBox, we strongly recommend using the X11 variant, since there are some known problems with Wayland on VirtualBox-emulated GPU; VirtualBox users may need to set VMSVGA controller to boot successfully; it works fine on most hardware and in QEMU with KVM...." See the release announcement and the release notes for further information. Download (pkglist, SHA256): openmandriva-6.0-plasma6-x11.x86_64.iso (3,078MB), openmandriva-6.0-plasma6-wayland.x86_64.iso (3,079MB), openmandriva-6.0-plasma6-x11.znver1.iso (3,178MB), openmandriva-6.0-plasma6-wayland.znver1.iso (3,179MB). Editions with LXQt, GNOME, Xfce and Cosmic desktops, alongside with Server and Slim variants, are also available. |
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| 2025-04-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Commodore OS Vision 3.0 |
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Commodore OS Vision is a 64-bit Linux distribution which maintains a retro C64 style and ships with many games pre-installed. The project's latest release, version 3.0, includes over 200 games. "Commodore OS Vision 3.0 is the largest, games oriented, Linux distribution ever produced, featuring 200+ free linux compatible games as well as an assortment of classic Commodore games and demos that will undoubtedly scratch your nostalgic itch. Commodore OS now has its own BASIC. Commodore OS BASIC V1 is a modern BASIC implementation featuring 3D graphics, built-in sprites, built-in tilemaps, 2D and 3D physics and user types. Future development will be geared towards compiling software for the original C64 and Amiga hardware. With Commodore emulation all set up, a plentitude of pixel based graphics editors (including C64 sprite and charset editors), as well as Amiga MOD and C64 SID trackers, why not build you dream retro game on Commodore OS?" Additional information can be found on the project's release announcement page. Download: CommodoreOSVision3.zip (36,060MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-04-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: CRUX 3.8 |
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The CRUX distribution is a lightweight operating system with software added through a collection of application ports. CRUX 3.8 is the first release in about three years and features upgrades across the system. "CRUX 3.8 comes with a multilib toolchain which includes glibc 2.40, GCC 14.2.0 and Binutils 2.43.1. Kernel: Linux 6.12.23 (LTS). CRUX 3.8 ships with X.Org 7.7 and X.Org Server 21.1.16. CRUX 3.8 includes Wayland 1.23.1. Ports continue to default to X.Org, but Wayland can easily be installed along and run in either pure Wayland or Xwayland mode. If you decide to run a Wayland session, you will need to enable the 'contrib' collection and rebuild a few ports (for example xorg/mesa) to make it fully available. The ISO image is processed with isohybrid and is suitable for burning on a DVD or putting on a USB drive. UEFI support is available during installation with dosfstools, efibootmgr and grub2-efi/syslinux available during installation. Because all bootloaders are in our opt collection now, no bootloader is installed as a core port by default. To give the possibility to select a bootloader, we have added a new menu to setup. Important notes: glibc depends on libxcrypt now, we have added libxcrypt to our core repository; latest shadow depends on libbsd or libmd, we have added both to core...." Additional information is provided in the release notes. Download: crux-3.8.iso (1,672MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2025-04-21 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1118 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Fedora 42
- News: Fedora plans to make most packages reproducible, Nitrux introduces new portable package tools, PINE64 updates multiple devices running flavours of Debian
- Questions and answers: Unexpected characters showing up in Vim
- Released last week: Fedora 42, Ultramarine Linux 41, Manjaro Linux 25.0.0, MX Linux 23.6, T2 SDE 25.4, TrueNAS 25.04.0, deepin 23.1, Murena 2.9
- Torrent corner: deepin, Manjaro Linux, Tails, TUXEDO OS, Ubuntu, Voyager Live 25.04
- Opinion poll: What is your text editor of choice?
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-04-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Edubuntu 25.04 |
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Amy Eickmeyer has announced the release of Edubuntu 25.04, the latest stable version of the project's official Ubuntu variant designed to bring the freedom of the Linux desktop and the vast library of open-source education software into the classroom. "We are glad to let you know that we've released Edubuntu 25.04 and we've replaced some of our apps that were no longer supported with similar applications so you can still get the same wonderful experience. New features: this release includes GNOME 48; for Qt-based/KDE apps, we now include themes via Kvantum, mostly as a workaround for the inability to change the accent color in those applications; this theme is based on GNOME's libadwaita, on which the default Ubuntu theme (Yaru) is based; GNOME Notes is dead upstream, for that reason, we have switched to the resurrected GNote; likewise, GNOME Dictionary is also dead upstream and we have replaced it with Artha, which is more of a thesaurus but does dictionary operations as well. Known issues: upon first boot, the system will reboot - this is normal and is the mechanism to set the logo for the login screen; Artha will not launch on a Wayland session." Here is the complete release announcement. Download: edubuntu-25.04-desktop-amd64.iso (5,935MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-04-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Voyager Live 25.04 |
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The Voyager project has released a new version of its Ubuntu-based distribution. The latest version, Voyager Live 25.04, is an interim release offering nine months of support. "I present you Voyager 25.04 final version. A 2-in-1 version with GNOME and Xfce desktops unified in a single distribution. Everything is presented in a colorful style, completely redesigned for this combination, the GNOME 48 desktop coupled with the lighter desktop of Xfce 4.20. In summary, two unified systems, GNOME and Xfce, light, fast, modern, fluid, secure and powerful in a hybrid environment for PCs and tablets. The two desktops are very distinct and their respective applications are mostly seamless, for either environment. Once installed, you can also remove GNOME or Xfce entirely. For the first time, we will be integrating ChatGPT, one AI Chatbot in the terminal without the need for API key in version 3.5, plus the ChatGPT 4th version mini GNOME extension and an option to remove AI." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): Voyager-25.04-amd64.iso (4,250MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-04-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 25.04 |
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The Ubuntu Kylin project has announced the release of Ubuntu Kylin 25.04, an interim release which will receive nine months of support. The project's new release introduces APT 3.0, updates development languages, and ships with the UKUI desktop. "Toolchain ipgrades: GCC: Snapshot of upcoming GCC 15; binutils: Updated to 2.44; glibc: Updated to 2.41; Python: Updated to 3.13.3; LLVM: Defaults to version 20; Rust: Default toolchain is 1.84; Golang: Updated to 1.24; OpenJDK: Versions 24 GA and 25 Early Access Snapshot are now available. Package management: APT has been updated to 3.0. A new dependency solver is automatically used when the classic solver cannot find a solution. It may also be triggered to provide more context in failure cases or to evaluate performance. UKUI desktop environment: Ubuntu Kylin 25.04 features the UKUI desktop environment, designed for visual elegance and ease of use. It provides a wide range of personalized settings, enabling users to build desktop layouts that match their preferences - making daily work more efficient and comfortable." Additional information is provided in the project's release announcement. Download: ubuntukylin-25.04-desktop-amd64.iso (4,311MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-04-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Ubuntu Unity 25.04 |
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Rudra Saraswat has announced the release of Ubuntu Unity 25.04, the latest update of this Ubuntu community edition that integrates the Ubuntu base system with the Unity desktop (an interface which was used by all standard Ubuntu releases prior to 2017 when it was dropped in favour of GNOME). The release announcement warns of a last-minute bug that affects computers with a BIOS firmware: "Ubuntu Unity 25.04 'Plucky Puffin' has now been released. A bug affecting Ubuntu Unity, Kubuntu and Lubuntu was discovered a few hours prior to the release wherein manual partitioning installs on BIOS systems result in unbootable installations. As it could not be fixed in time for the release, we recommend that you do not attempt a manual partitioning install if your computer only has a BIOS. Upgrades from Ubuntu Unity 24.10 will usually be enabled within a few weeks of the release, upon which you should receive a notification prompting you to upgrade to 25.04." The latest release of Ubuntu Unity is available for download from here: ubuntu-unity-25.04-desktop-amd64.iso (3,652MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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