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Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is an unofficial "libre" variant of Arch Linux. It aims to provide a fully free (as in freedom) distribution based on the packages of the Arch Linux project, with packages optimised for i686 and x86_64 processors. The goal is to give the users complete control over their systems with 100% "libre" software. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is listed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as a fully free software distribution. Besides a standard installation CD image, the project also provides a live/rescue DVD image with MATE as the default desktop environment.
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| 2021-03-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Qubes OS 4.0.4 |
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Andrew David Wong has announced the release of Qubes OS 4.0.4, an updated build of the project's security-focused Linux distribution that provides a way to "compartmentalise" computing tasks into isolated compartments called "qubes": "We are pleased to announce the release of Qubes OS 4.0.4. This is the fourth stable release of Qubes 4.0. It includes many updates over the initial 4.0 release, including: all 4.0 dom0 updates to date; Fedora 32 TemplateVM; Debian 10 TemplateVM; Whonix 15 Gateway and Workstation TemplateVMs; Linux kernel 5.4 by default. If you installed Qubes 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, or 4.0.3 and have fully updated, then your system is already equivalent to a Qubes 4.0.4 installation. No further action is required. Regardless of your current OS, if you wish to install (or reinstall) Qubes 4.0 for any reason, then the 4.0.4 ISO makes this more convenient and secure, since it bundles all Qubes 4.0 updates to date. Please see the installation guide for detailed instructions." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: Qubes-R4.0.4-x86_64.iso (4,959MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-03-04 |
NEW • BSD Release: NomadBSD 1.4 |
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Version 1.4 of NomadBSD, a persistent live system for USB flash drives based on FreeBSD and featuring a graphical user interface built around Openbox, has been released: "We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.4. Changes since 1.3.2: the base system has been upgraded to FreeBSD 12.2-p2; the installer has been improved; problems with booting the installed system via UEFI has been fixed; the suitable graphics card driver will now be installed and set up, instead of using the auto-detection on the installed system; automatic graphics driver detection has been improved and the menu has been removed; if no better graphics driver can be found, VESA or SCFB is used; auto-detection will now only run if the system configuration has changed since the last successful detection; touchpad support has been improved - if X.Org reports a problem with the touchpad, kern.evdev.rcpt_mask is automatically adjusted to use sysmouse." See the release announcement for a complete changelog. Download (pkglist): nomadbsd-1.4.img.lzma (2,318MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-1.4.i386.img.lzma (2,284MB, SHA256). |
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| 2021-03-03 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 15.3 Beta |
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Douglas DeMaio has announced the availability of the beta build of openSUSE 15.3, an updated version of the popular distribution scheduled for a final release in early June: "openSUSE Leap has entered into the beta release phase today for its 15.3 minor version. This openSUSE Leap 15.3 version is a solidified release that focuses more on the building of the distribution rather than refreshing the distribution's packages, but there are some significant changes to the distribution. Many of the packages will remain the same as those in openSUSE Leap 15.2 with a bit of hardware enablement and security backports. An updated version of glibc brings some Power10 support and the Xfce desktop users will have the new 4.16 version. The distribution also gains s390x architecture. The biggest change for this release is how Leap is built and its relationship with SUSE Linux Enterprise." Continue to the release announcement for further details and relevant links. Download (pkglist): openSUSE-Leap-15.3-DVD-x86_64-Current.iso (4,397MB, SHA256, torrent), openSUSE-Leap-15.3-NET-x86_64-Current.iso (129MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2021-03-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.25 Core 154 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.25 Core 154, an updated build of the project's Linux-based distribution designed for routers and firewalls. This version comes with a large number of package upgrades, DNS resolution improvements and WPA3 client support: "The first update of the year will be an enormous one. We have been working hard in the lab to update the underlying operating system to harden and improve IPFire and we have added WPA3 client support and made DNS faster and more resilient against broken Internet connections. This is probably the release with the largest number of package updates. This is necessary for us to keep the system modern and adopt any fixes from upstream projects. The DNS proxy working inside IPFire will now reuse any TLS and TCP connections for DNS resolution making it substantially faster. Before, a TCP or TLS connection had to be opened and closed after a response was received causing a lot of overhead. Please consider if your setup can run DNS-over-TLS to protect your privacy." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (SHA256, pkglist): ipfire-2.25.x86_64-full-core154.iso (307MB, torrent), ipfire-2.25.2gb-ext4.x86_64-full-core154.img.xz (271MB, torrent). |
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| 2021-03-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Linux From Scratch 10.1 |
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Bruce Dubbs has announced the release of Linux From Scratch (LFS) 10.1, a book of step-by-step instruction of building a basic Linux system from source code. This release upgrades most packages to their latest versions: "The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS version 10.1. Major changes include toolchain updates to glibc 2.33 and Binutils 2.36.1. In total, 40 packages were updated since the last release. Changes to the text have also been made throughout the book. The Linux kernel has also been updated to version 5.10.17. In coordination with this release, a new version of LFS using the systemd package is also being released. This package implements the newer systemd style of system initialization and control and is consistent with LFS in most packages." Visit the project' news page to read the brief release announcement. A separate, Beyond Linux From Scratch book, which includes over 1,000 extra packages, is also available in version 10.1; both books are provided in SysVInit and systemd variants. The links: LFS (pkglist) - 10.1 (HTML), 10.1 (PDF), 10.1-systemd (HTML), 10.1-systemd (PDF), BLFS (pkglist) - BLFS-10.1 (HTML), 10.1-systemd (HTML). |
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| 2021-03-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Emmabuntüs DE3-1.04 |
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Patrick d'Emmabuntüs has announced the release of Emmabuntüs DE3-1.04, an updated build of the project's lightweight, Debian-based distribution designed primarily for refurbished computers: "The Emmabuntüs Collective is happy to announce the release of the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition update 3 1.04 (32-bit and 64-bit) based on the Debian 10.8 'Buster' distribution featuring both Xfce and LXQt desktop environments. This new update of our distribution brings an evolution of the way the different languages are supported, like the Emmabuntüs DE4, thanks to the .po file usage, as well as the removal of a number of proprietary software applications, to the benefit of free alternatives. Namely, DWService is replacing Teamviewer, Jami is replacing Skype and finally SMTube is replaced by FreeTube. We also took the opportunity of this new release to remove some obsolete software, like Adobe Flash, Jitsi desktop and Java 8, and to install new versions of Kiwix 2 and Ancestris 10." Here is the full release announcement with screenshots. Download: emmabuntus-de3-amd64-10.8-1.04.iso (3,392MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-03-01 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 906 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: LibreELEC 9.2 and Kodi
- News: PureOS contributes to Linux development, upgrading FreeBSD using snapshots, Red Hat to supply open source infrastructure with free licenses, Void switches back to OpenSSL
- Questions and answers: Auditing large open source projects
- Released last week: GeckoLinux 999.210221.0, Kali Linux 2021.1, Mageia 8
- Torrent corner: 4MLinux, Alpine, CloudReady, GeckoLinux, Kali, KDE neon, Mageia, Nitrux, Tails
- Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 13.0-RC2
- Opinion poll: Do you run Kodi?
- New additions: AlmaLinux
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2021-02-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2021_02_28 |
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Parted Magic is a small live CD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers other applications, such as Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue. The project's latest release is Parted Magic 2021_02_28 which upgrades core packages and addresses an issue with boot image size limiations. "Notable changes for this release: Linux 5.11.2 with NVIDIA driver version 460.56. Forum member ven42 found a program buried on the Internet called 'Fred'. This is a perfect replacement for the old 'pcregedit'. For what ever reason some newer computers cannot load a boot image larger than 250MB. Users would get a message 'error: out of memory'. This was fixed by making the initramfs smaller. Duh. There was another memory error 'Not enough memory to load specified image'. I've seen this on and off with computers for the past 10 years. I had a boot menu entry to fix this by telling the computer how much memory to use. Most people overlooked it or didn't see it. Over the past month I just added mem=32G to all of the boot entries and so far it hasn't caused a problem. Hopefully the memory errors are put to bed once and for all." Further information can be found on the distribution's news page. Parted Magic can be purchased from the distribution's online store for US$11. |
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| 2021-02-27 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 13.0-BETA4 |
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The fourth beta snapshot of FreeBSD 13.0 is now available for download and testing. This is an unplanned release which means that the final build of FreeBSD 13.0 has been rescheduled to arrive a week later than originally envisaged, on 30 March. "The fourth BETA build of the 13.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 13.0-BETA3 includes: a possible race between jail_remove(2) and fork(2) had been fixed; an issue with the pf(4) osfp configuration had been fixed; an update to the ena(4) driver had been added; a bug fix to flex(1) had been addressed; fixes for FreeBSD-SA-21:06.xen and FreeBSD-SA-21:03.pam_login_access had been addressed; a fix to ZFS to address a potential system crash if scrubbing after removing a slog device had been addressed; other miscellaneous fixes." See the release announcement and the (incomplete, work-in-progress) release notes for further information. Download: FreeBSD-13.0-BETA4-amd64-disc1.iso (928MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.0-BETA4-i386-disc1.iso (755MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-02-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Mageia 8 |
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Mageia is a community fork of the now-discontinued Mandriva distribution. The Mageia distribution provides a general purpose operating system with a focus on easy to use, pre-configured desktop environments. The project's latest release is Mageia 8 which improves boot time performance, mostly removes dependencies on Python 2, and package management information is now compressed using Zstd to make updating parsing package data faster. "Faster package metadata parsing Urpmi metadata are compressed with Zstd instead of xz, resulting in faster parsing. Python 2 is mostly dead Most python2 modules and software were removed. The ARM (Advanced RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) Machine) port rebooted during Mageia 7 days has been enhanced. The core is available for ARMv7 and AArch64. There is no traditional installer for now, and it is still considered experimental, but most of the distribution was built successfully on both architectures (see our ARM status overview for details). The plan is to provide installation images for popular ARM devices in the coming months. There is no ETA for those as of Mageia 8's release. Drakboot is now somewhat able to set up UEFI on AArch64." Additional information can be found in the distribution's release notes. Download (pkglist): Mageia-8-x86_64.iso (4,290MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-8-Live-GNOME-x86_64.iso (3,053MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-8-Live-Plasma-x86_64.iso (3,433MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-8-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso (2,806MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-02-24 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Kali Linux 2021.1 |
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Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools. The project's first release of the year is Kali Linux 2021.1. "Today we’re pushing out the first Kali Linux release of the year with Kali Linux 2021.1. This edition brings enhancements of existing features, and is ready to be downloaded or upgraded if you have an existing Kali Linux installation. The summary of the changelog since the 2020.4 release from November 2020 is: Xfce 4.16 - Our preferred and current default desktop environment has been updated and tweaked. KDE 5.20 - Plasma also received a version bump. Terminals - mate-terminal, terminator and tilix all had various work carried out on them. Command Not Found - A helping hand to say if a program needs to be installed. Partnership with more tool authors - BC Security and Joohoi have been producing great tools and we want to support them. New tools and updates - Multiple new tools have been added to Kali and are ready for you. Kali NetHunter - New BusyBox and Rucky version, and boot-animation. Kali ARM - Preliminary support for Parallels on Apple Silicon (Apple M1) and Raspberry Pi 400 (WiFi Support)." Details on the changes and features available in the new version can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download (SHA256) (pkglist): kali-linux-2021.1-installer-amd64.iso (4,093MB, torrent), kali-linux-2021.1-live-amd64.iso (3,425MB, torrent), kali-linux-2021.1-installer-netinst-amd64.iso (379MB, torrent). |
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| 2021-02-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GeckoLinux 999.210221.0 |
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GeckoLinux is an openSUSE-based distribution which features both fixed and rolling-release editions. The project's latest rolling-release snapshot, version 999.210221, introduces updated desktop environments and a number of fixes. The project's release announcement shares the available desktop versions and details on improvements: "Plasma 5.21, Framework 5.79.0, KDE applications 20.12 - improved font legibility with main user interface fonts colors changed to pure black; fixed screen brightness hotkeys bug; fixed a bug causing delays in initial loading of desktop icons and notifications; GNOME 3.38; Budgie 10.5.2 - improved behavior of Nemo desktop icons; eliminated transparency from bottom panel for better visibility and contrast; Xfce 4.16; Cinnamon 4.8.6 - improved behavior of Nemo desktop icons; relocated mounted drives applet; MATE 1.24.1; Pantheon (various component versions); LXQt 0.16." The distribution is available in nine editions. Download (MD5, pkglist)): GeckoLinux_ROLLING_Cinnamon.x86_64-999.210221.0.iso (1,430MB), GeckoLinux_ROLLING_Budgie.x86_64-999.210221.0.iso (1,478MB), GeckoLinux_ROLLING_Gnome.x86_64-999.210221.0.iso (1,458MB). |
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