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| 2025-07-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 49.0 |
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4MLinux, an independently-developed mini distribution with JWM as the preferred window manager, has been updated to version 49.0. The new release brings a large number of updates, including X.Org Server 21.1.16, JWM 2.4.6, GTK 4.18.5, ALSA 1.2.14, Tor 0.4.8.16, PCManFM 1.4.0, OpenSSH 10.0p1 with OpenSSL 3.5.0, mpv 0.40.0 and Mesa 25.1.0. The Wayland display server now appears on the list of add-ons for the very first time, and so is version 6 of the Qt library. "The status of the 4MLinux 49.0 series has been changed to STABLE. As always, the new major release has some new features. 4MLinux can now be installed on Bcachefs partitions, but only in UEFI mode. This release ships with much improved support for mobile devices, via Bluetooth and PTP/MTP protocols. Stella (Atari 2600 VCS emulator) and Brutal Chess have been added to the 4MLinux GamePack collection. Aqualung (music player), Googles (music manager), QWinFF (media converter), Fastfetch (system monitor) are now included out of the box. GIMP4, gnuplot (plots generator), ReZound (audio editor) are available as downloadable extensions. And finally, ready-to-install Intel VAPPI drivers can be found on the 4MLinux live image." See the complete release announcement for additional details and a screenshot of the distribution's default desktop. 4MLinux 49.0 is available for download from SourceForge (MD5): 4MLinux-49.0-64bit.iso (1,668MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: HeliumOS 10 |
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HeliumOS is an atomic and immutable distribution which is built upon AlmaLinux OS. The project has published HeliumOS 10 which uses Btrfs as the default filesystem, zsh for the shell, and offers version 6.12 of the Linux kernel. "HeliumOS 10 has released with some notable changes from earlier alpha releases: Version 6.12 of the Linux kernel from AlmaLinux, signed for secure boot. zsh as default shell, with a polished and minimal configuration. BTRFS as default filesystem, with an option for LUKS full-disk encryption in the installer. Docker is installed by default, see our documentation for more details. HeliumOS build sources were migrated from a collection of Bash scripts to Ansible yaml. These are built using Podman into Bootable Container images... Two critical bugs were found and fixed during the HeliumOS 10 alpha + beta: fixed a bug through the use of HeliumOS 'Edge' edition, some devices using NVIDIA GPUs previously experienced stuttering; automatically recovers from kernel panics resulting from a bug where systemd-remount-fs.service does not function properly on bootc systems." Additional details are available in the release announcement. Download (SHA256): HeliumOS-10-x86_64-boot.iso (3,863MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-28 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1132 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: deepin 25.0.1
- News: A proposal to enable Flathub on Fedora, FreeBSD plans desktop installation option, Wayback publishes its first major release
- Questions and answers: Wars in the open source community
- Released last week: Br OS 12.11, Liya 2.4, OPNsense 25.7, DragonFly BSD 6.4.2, Slackel 8.0 "Openbox"
- Torrent corner: BigLinux, CachyOS, KDE neon, Tails
- Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 3
- Opinion poll: What is one of your favourite classic open source debates?
- Site news: Beginner's Guide, Donations and Sponsors
- New additions: AnuBitux, CalyxOS, spirit OS
- New distributions: AcreetionOS
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-07-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Slackel 8.0 "Openbox" |
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Dimitris Tzemos has announced the release of Slackel 8.0 "Openbox", a Slackware--based Linux distribution. The new version ships several key package upgrades and some custom utilities: "This release is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. The 64-bit ISO image supports UEFI/EFI systems. The ISO images can be used as installation media. This release includes Mozilla Firefox 140.0.4, Mozilla Thunderbird 140.0, Libre Office 25.2.1, Gimp 3.0.4, SMplayer 25.6.0, mpv 0.40.0, MPlayer 20250330, Exaile 4.1.3, Brasero 3.12.3, ISOmaster 1.3.17, Pidgin 2.14.142, Transmission 2.94. It includes Flatpak. GUI tools developed in house also includs: instonusb to create a live Slackel USB stick with persistent encryption file; multibootusb to create a live USB including 32-bit and 64-bit live editions of Slackel; SLI (Slackel Live Installer) to install Slackel to internal or external USB SSD or USB stick; install-upgrade-kernel-ext-usb-gtk GUI tool to install or upgrade Linux kernel for real installations on external USB stick or ssd disk...." Additional information can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA256, pkglist): slackellive64-openbox-8.0.iso (3,433MB), slackellive-openbox-8.0.iso (3,324MB). |
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| 2025-07-25 |
NEW • Development Release: SME Server 11.0 Beta 1 |
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Terry Fage has announced the availability of a new development build of the upcoming SME Server 11.0, the project's Rocky Linux-based server distribution for small and medium enterprises: "The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 11.0 beta 1 which will be the next major release of Koozali SME Server. This release is based on Rocky Linux 8.10. Rocky Linux 8.* has an EOL of 31 May 2029. Key features and updates in Koozali SME Server 11: base OS upgrade - transitioned to Rocky Linux 8.10, replacing CentOS, ensuring continued stability and support; package management enhancements - integration with the Koji build system and Git version control, enabling streamlined RPM package building and repository management; mail server improvements - introduction of Postfix for mail submission, while maintaining Qpsmtpd for final delivery to ensure backward compatibility; server manager overhaul - a new server manager interface has been under development using the Mojolicious real-time web framework, aiming to provide a more modern and user-friendly experience with theming options...." See the release announcement and the release notes for further details. Download: smeserver-11.0beta1-x86_64.iso (3,040MB, MD5). |
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| 2025-07-24 |
NEW • BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 6.4.2 |
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The DragonFly BSD project has published a new update to the operating system's 6.4 series. The new release, DragonFly BSD 6.4.2, fixes a disk size issue when running in a QEMU virtual machine, corrects an issue when using IPv6 addresses, and corrects a problem when a program would crash when creating many child processes. The release announcement reports: "QEMU reported a old style disk geometry that was max 8GB, so the installer would create a too-small volume. The installer now reads true disk size. Panics when using ipv6 under certain circumstances are fixed. Crash caused when a program creates a large number of child processes is fixed. This was seen with Neovim and Chrome." The changelog covers more details and lists smaller changes, including allowing syslog to run on the operating system's install media. "Don't disable syslogd in live CD/USB - we're mounting a tmpfs at /var, so it's okay to write under /var/log. Don't disable syslogd so that it could write the log files that might be helpful; fdisk(8), clear errno in read_disk() to avoid confusing others - for example, even read_disk() succeeded in detecting the sector size and reading, the errno would remain EIO, which could confuse the later code that calls err() or others." Download (MD5, pkglist): dfly-x86_64-6.4.2_REL.iso (747MB), dfly-x86_64-6.4.2_REL.img (1,906MB). |
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| 2025-07-23 |
NEW • BSD Release: OPNsense 25.7 |
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OPNsense is a FreeBSD-based specialist operating system designed for firewalls and routers. The project's latest release, OPNsense 25.7, introduces several changes to the user interface and updates the base system to FreeBSD 14.3. "25.7, nicknamed 'Visionary Viper', features reusable and thoroughly revamped frontend code, an SFTP backup plugin, experimental privilege separation for the GUI, JSON container support for aliases, a new and improved firewall automation GUI, performance enhancements especially for numerous aliases being used at once, Dnsmasq DHCP support, Kea DHCPv6 support, Greek as a new language, FreeBSD 14.3." The release announcement mentions some migration items too: "Deprecated Google Drive backups due to upstream policy changes and moved to plugins for existing users. API URLs registered in the default ACLs have been switched from 'camleCase' to 'snake_case'. API grid return values now offer '%field' for a value description when available. 'field' will now always be the literal value from the configuration. The API previously returned a display value for some field types, but not all. Reverted tunables 'hw.ibrs_disable' and 'vm.pmap.pti' to FreeBSD defaults. If you want these set differently, then add them with an explicit value." Download: OPNsense-25.7-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2 (490MB). |
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| 2025-07-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Liya 2.4 |
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Liya is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution. The project's latest release is Liya 2.4 which introduces optimizations and responsiveness improvements. "The system is now optimized for x86_64-v2 and v3, allowing better compiler optimizations, reduced latency, and smarter memory use. If your processor supports v3, I strongly recommend using the corresponding ISO - the speed boost is noticeable across daily tasks. Shoutout to the ALHP project for making microarch-specific builds more accessible. Switched to the Xanmod kernel. Shravya ships with the linux-xanmod kernel by default. This kernel is optimized for responsiveness and performance, making Liya snappier for daily use, gaming, creative workloads, and development. This kernel alone has significantly improved performance in benchmarks and real-world usage. Memory management has been rethought: If your system has more than 8GiB of RAM, zram will be auto-enabled at install time. For systems with 8 GB or less, zswap will be used for better compatibility. These changes improve performance and reduce swap-related disk usage without requiring user intervention." Additional details are provided in the release announcement. Download (MD5): Liya-2.4-x86_64-v2.iso (3,466MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Br OS 12.11 |
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The Br OS project has announced the release of Br OS 12.11. The new version marks a significant milestone as the project has moved away from its Ubuntu base to using Debian as its parent distribution. "Stability is one of the things to expect, Debian 'Stable' is undoubtedly the most stable Linux distribution that exists. Focusing on Debian 'Stable' ensures that each version of Br OS is a long-term supported release with years of support, that is, if the user does not feel safe to upgrade to the next stable version, still have time to upgrade. Br OS 12.11 will have general Debian team support until December 2026 and LTS support until June 2028. Br OS now has its own nomenclature, each version will have its own code name, version 12.11 came with the code name 'Lara'. Despite the long-term support, Br OS 12.11 is a version that aims only to mark the migration to the Debian base, this means that very soon we will be releasing Br OS 13.0 Dira, which is already in the development phase. Br OS 12.11 comes with KDE Plasma 5.27.5, KDE Frameworks 5.103, Qt 5.15.8, Linux kernel 6.1, and Wayland graphics server, with X.Org as an alternative graphics server." Additional information is provided in the release announcement (in Portuguese). Download from SourceForge (MD5): BrOS-12.11_amd64.hybrid.iso (3,760MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.6.1 |
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The Rescuezilla project has pubilshed updated media for its 2.6.x series. The new release fixes a bug with swap partitions remaining mounted during operations and updates the distribution's hardware support. "If you have a blank screen, try 'Graphical Fallback Mode' from the Rescuezilla boot menu (after selecting a language), if that doesn't work, try the alternative ISO image; each variant has slightly different video drivers and Linux kernel versions, so often have slightly different graphics support; adds release based on Ubuntu 25.04 'Plucky' for best support of new hardware; fixed regression where swap partitions stayed unintentionally mounted causing restore and clone operations to destination disks containing Linux swap partitions to fail; re-enabled Image Explorer (beta) after it was temporarily disabled in 2.6.0; enabled Firefox on the Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular' release after it was temporarily excluded in 2.6.0; added ability to specify NFS version - NFSv3, NFSv4 and the (existing default) of automatically negotiating down; improved touchpad support for tap-to-click and multifinger gestures using libinput driver...." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: rescuezilla-2.6.1-64bit.oracular.iso (1,429MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: RELIANOID 7.7.0 |
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RELIANOID is a Debian-based Linux distribution for load balancing. The project's latest release, version 7.7, introduces integration with more cloud services and introduces VPN support. "RELIANOID 7.7 marks a major step forward in hybrid and multi-cloud readiness. With full integration for AWS, Azure, and GCP, users can now seamlessly deploy and manage RELIANOID instances across major cloud platforms, unlocking powerful scalability and redundancy options. In addition, the introduction of VPN support significantly extends the platform's capabilities for secure remote access, site-to-site communication, and private cloud extension. The new noid-support utility replaces the legacy supportsave, offering a more modern and comprehensive support data collection tool for faster issue resolution. The system backend has been upgraded to Debian 12.11, ensuring a secure and up-to-date operating environment. The GUI also gets a major refresh, with a full upgrade of Angular libraries and deprecated components removed, resulting in a smoother and more responsive user interface." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download: relianoid_community_adc_installer_v7.7.0_amd64.iso (715MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 7.8 |
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The SparkyLinux project has published an update to its Stable branch which also fixes a package conflict when working with some multimedia packages. "The 8th update of SparkyLinux 7, version 7.8 is out. It is a quarterly point release of SparkyLinux 7 'Orion Belt' of the stable line. SparkyLinux 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 'Bookworm'. Changes: all packages updated from Debian and SparkyLinux Stable repositories as of July 14, 2025; Linux kernel 6.1.140 LTS (6.15.6, 6.12.38 LTS, 6.6.98 LTS in SparkyLinux repositories); LibreOffice 7.4.7 (25.2.3 in Debian Backports repositories); KDE Plasma 5.27.5, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.18, Openbox 3.6.1, Firefox 128.12.0esr (140.0.4 in SparkyLinux repositories), Thunderbird 128.12.0esr; fixed problem with conflicted libraries installed previously from debian-multimedia repository...." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): sparkylinux-7.8-x86_64-lxqt.iso (2,019MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), sparkylinux-7.8-x86_64-mate.iso (2,199MB, SHA256, signature), torrent), sparkylinux-7.8-x86_64-xfce.iso (1,851MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2025-07-14 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1130 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: openSUSE's MicroOS and RefreshOS 2.5
- News: Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchmarked, Red Hat offers additional developer licenses, openSUSE seeks feedback from ARM users, Ubuntu 24.10 reaches the end of its life
- Questions and answers: Sharing aliases between computers
- Released last week: Exton Linux 250707 "DebEX", Parrot 6.4, NethServer 8.5, CachyOS 250713, GParted Live 1.7.0-8
- Torrent corner: CachyOS, Parrot
- Opinion poll: How many aliases does your shell know?
- Site news: Removing old podcasts
- New additions: arcOS, Macaroni OS, TeaLinux, Vipnix LiveCD, Ximper Linux
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-07-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GParted Live 1.7.0-8 |
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Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 1.7.0-8, a new stable release of the project's Debian-based specialist live CD designed for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks. This release release drops support for 32-bit processors due to Debian's decision to no longer pack i386 Linux kernel and it also updates the Linux kernel to version 6.12.37. "The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 1.7.0, updated packages and other improvements. Items of note include: only amd64 (x86-64) images are available going forward - as mentioned in the Debian release mailing list, dropping i386 kernel packages, the i386 Linux kernel packages were dropped in our upstream, Debian 'Sid' repository, hence i686/i686-pae GParted Live will be no more in the future; from this release on, only amd64 (x86-64) release will be available; includes GParted 1.7.0; implemented a mechanism to reduce the possibility of random order of block devices in GParted Live; based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2025-07-12; Linux kernel image updated to 6.12.37. X Desktop GUI fails to display with default boot options? Try Other modes of GParted Live - GParted Live (Safe graphics setting, vga-normal)." Here is the complete release announcement. Download link: gparted-live-1.7.0-8-amd64.iso (484MB, SHA512, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: CachyOS 250713 |
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A new release of CachyOS, a highly-optimised, Arch Linux-based distribution with KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop in live mode, is now available for download. The 250713 version enables users to choose a preferred shell at installation time and defaults to the Wayland display server for new Plasma installations. "This is our fifth release this year, and it includes a long-awaited requested feature, improvements for chwd, and more. The user's shell can now be chosen at installation time. In the package list selection, there is now an option to choose between cachyos-fish-config and cachyos-zsh-config. If neither is selected, the system will default to Bash. The default configuration will still be Fish, as it was before. We received some reports that systemd-oomd was killing processes too early in some cases. We have removed its integration to avoid these issues. For Plasma installations, we are now defaulting to Wayland. For graphics configurations that do not support Wayland (e.g., NVIDIA legacy drivers), the plasma-x11-session will be automatically installed to prevent issues. Additionally, fwupd has been added to the Plasma and GNOME environments." Continue to the release announcement for further details. Download: cachyos-desktop-linux-250713.iso (2,837MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: NethServer 8.5 |
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NethServer is a Rocky Linux-based application server specifically designed for small offices and medium enterprises. The project's latest version, 8.5, introduces worker node compatiblity checks, new Samba features, S3 backup support. "Worker node version check - A safety check has been added when a new worker node joins the cluster: its core version is now compared with that of the leader node to ensure compatibility. Before joining the cluster, always update the cluster core and ensure the latest core version is used on new worker nodes. Hetzner S3 backup support - Added support for configuring Hetzner S3 as a custom backup destination. Also fixed a bug that prevented renaming custom S3 backup destinations. Samba domain member role and new features - The core Samba application can now be installed from the Software Center and configured as an Active Directory domain member, providing shared folders in a domain File Server role." Additional details can be found in the project's release notes. NethServer does not provide ISO files, instead it offers virtual machine images (for KVM and VMware) and install instructions for adding the project's software to existing installs. Download options and install steps can be found on the project's Installation page. |
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| 2025-07-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parrot 6.4 |
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The Parrot team have announced the release of Parrot 6.4, which will likely be the final release of the 6.x series. "We are proud to announce Parrot Security 6.4, the latest release of our security oriented operating system, this new version comes packed with most of the enhancements that our vibrant community asked for, and it features the amazing work of many new contributors. Many tools, like Metasploit, Sliver, Caido and Empire received important updates, the Linux kernel was updated to a more recent version, and the latest LTS version of Firefox was provided with all our privacy oriented patches. Parrot 6.4 will most likely be the last release of the 6.x branch." The release announcement goes on to share some highlights: "All the Debian compatible tools provided by Microsoft are now available for installation via APT from the official Parrot repository, so we officially support Powershell 7.5, .NET runtime and SDKs from version 5 to version 9 and many more! parrot-menu got new desktop entries (like Sliver, Rocket) and several other launchers got updated." Please note, at the time of writing, the "check hashes" for verifying downloads published on the Parrot website are for version 6.3.2, not the new 6.4 release. Download (pkglist): Parrot-home-6.4_amd64.iso (2,592MB, torrent), Parrot-security-6.4_amd64.iso (5,511MB, torrent). |
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| 2025-07-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Exton Linux 250707 "DebEX" |
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Arne Exton has announced the release of a new "DebEX" edition of Exton Linux, based on the upcoming release of Debian 13. It uses the KDE Plasma 6.3.5 desktop and comes with the Calamares system installer: "I have made a new extra version of DebEX KDE Plasma live system, efi. It's a pure Debian Sid/Trixie (upcoming Debian 13) system. There are no Ubuntu or Kubuntu elements involved in DebEX. DebEX KDE Plasma Sid uses the KDE Plasma Desktop 6.3.5, the latest version, released 2025-05-06, as the desktop environment. Linux kernel 6.15.3 is used. All included packages have been updated to the latest version as of 2025-07-07. VirtualBox Guest Additions and VMware Tools are pre-installed, which means that you can run DebEX KDE in full screen. I've installed the full KDE Plasma desktop using the command 'sudo apt install task-kde-desktop'. In order to save space I have removed LibreOffice. I have added Calamares 3.3.14 installer framework. Now you can choose language when the installation starts. You can even use Calamares in VirtualBox and VMware on non-efi computers without problems. You can also use the Refracta installer." Here is the full release announcement. Download: debex-64bit-trixie-plasma-refractasnapshot-calamares-3420mb-250707.iso (3,506MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-07 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1129 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: GLF OS Omnislash Beta
- News: Alpine seeks to reduce maintenance burden for X11 desktops, Fedora drops proposal for removing 32-bit packages, AlmaLinux extends EPEL support for more CPUs, Ubuntu dropping older RISC-V processors, Rhino Linux working with UBports, PCLinuxOS experiences website outage
- Questions and answers: Is there a worst Linux distro?
- Released last week: ExTiX 25.7, Melawy Linux 2025.07.04, Linux Kamarada 15.6, MocaccinoOS 1.8.3, Rhino Linux 2025.3
- Torrent corner: KDE neon, Melawy Linux
- Opinion poll: What should we work on next?
- Site news: Description tool tips for distros and packages
- New additions: Arkane Linux, ATZ Linux, CuerdOS, Expirion Linux, Huayra GNU/Linux, LangitKetujuh OS, LibraZiK, LinuxHub Prime, Luberri Linux, Melawy Linux, Sculpt OS, Tribblix, Tsurugi Linux, UBLinux
- New distributions: Vincent OS
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-07-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rhino Linux 2025.3 |
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Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which offers a rolling-release upgrade approach. The project's latest snapshot introduces a rewritten package manager (RPK2) and a new KDE-based desktop environment which uses Plasma 6 packages. "2025.3 images ship with RPK2, our rewrite of Rhino PKG in Nushell, by default. We have already written a blog post detailing the changes that came in RPK2, which we recommend checking out if you haven't already. We also recommend all users review the updated Rhino PKG Wiki or rpk help message to learn about the new commands and shorthands. We have also announced the release of our UBXI KDE Desktop package this release cycle, based on Plasma 6. You can read the full announcement here. Additionally, we want to reiterate that we plan to release official UBXI KDE disk image spins by the end of the year, shipping alongside the standard Unicorn Desktop images, to allow for more desktop options out-of-the-box. Pacstall has had a few major bumps in between Rhino Linux 2025.2 and 2025.3. As we have mentioned before, with Pacstall being integral to Rhino Linux, as well as sharing developers between the projects, we feel it's important to share information about these releases as well." Additional information is provided in the release announcement. Download (SHA256): Rhino-Linux-2025.3-amd64.iso (2,880MB, pkglist), Rhino-Linux-2025.3-arm64.iso (2,740MB). |
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| 2025-07-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: MocaccinoOS 1.8.3 |
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The MocaccinoOS development team has announced the release of MocaccinoOS 1.8.3, a minor update of the project's minimalist, Gentoo-based Linux distribution with a custom package manager called "Luet" and a choice of four popular desktops: "Today we are releasing MocaccinoOS 1.8.3. This is mostly an upgraded version that doesn't introduce too many new features. Everything is compiled against a very recent Gentoo Portage tree. Changes since 1.8.2: Linux kernel is upgraded to 6.12.35 (LTS); Mesa version 25.1.4; Qt updated to 6.9.1; NVIDIA drivers version 570.153.02 (available in repository); KDE Plasma 6.3.5; GNOME 47.3. Issues and improvements: we are aware that MOS images are not fully EFI complaint, certain (mostly older) systems are not booting properly with EFISTUB used in our images. At the moment we do not have a proper solution and the workaround is to change your BIOS settings to boot in legacy mode. Notes for testers: additional software can be installed through Flatpak, docker or the community repository. Please give us feedback by reporting bugs or sharing your ideas with us." Continue to the release announcement for further details. Download links (pkglist): MocaccinoOS-GNOME-0.20250705.iso.tar.xz (1,971MB, SHA256), MocaccinoOS-KDE-0.20250705.iso.tar.xz (2,039MB, SHA256), MocaccinoOS-MATE-0.20250705.iso.tar.xz (1,969MB, SHA256), MocaccinoOS-XFCE-0.20250705.iso.tar.xz (1,873MB, SHA256). |
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| 2025-07-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Linux Kamarada 15.6 |
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Antônio Vinicius Menezes Medeiros has announced the release of Linux Kamarada 15.6, an updated version of the project's general-purpose, openSUSE-based distribution. This new build updates the GNOME desktop to version 45 and improves its integration with smartphones with the help of the GSConnect GNOME extension. "I am proud to announce that Linux Kamarada 15.6 is ready for everyone to use. Linux Kamarada is a Linux distribution based on openSUSE Leap and is intended for use on desktops at home and at work, in both private companies and government entities. It features the essential software selection for any Linux installation and a nice-looking modern desktop. The most notable update was to the GNOME desktop, which on Linux Kamarada 15.4 and 15.5 was at version 41, and is now at 45. The GNOME desktop has a new quick settings menu. Its new design makes it easy to quickly see the status (whether WiFi is on or off, whether Bluetooth is on or off) as well as change commonly-used settings (connect to a WiFi network, pair a Bluetooth device). Settings which previously required digging into menus can now be changed with the click of button." See the release announcement for more information and screenshots. Download Linux Kamarada 15.6 from SourceForge: Linux_Kamarada-15.6-x86_64-Build9.1.iso (2,596MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2025-07-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Melawy Linux 2025.07.04 |
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Valeria Fadeeva has announced the release of a new version of Melawy Linux, an Arch-based desktop Linux distribution with a customised KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. The new version, labelled as 2025.07.04, comes with updated packages as well as various important changes. Most notably, the distribution now uses the XanMod kernel, a general-purpose Linux kernel with custom settings and third-party patches. Previously, Melawy Linux used a kernel built by CachyOS for improved performance and responsiveness, but the CachyOS kernel does not work on some laptops. Also, the XanMod kernel offers support for Waydroid, a container-based method that enables Android to run in a containerized environment on Linux systems. The new release also comes with unspecified bug fixes. Visit the project's news page to read the brief release announcement (in Russian) and to see the screenshots. Although Melawy Linux is a Russian project, the distribution defaults to an English-language user interface. The latest version, provided in "Base" and "Developer" editions, is available in for download from SourceForge as split ISO images or as torrents (pkglist): Melawy-Linux-Base-System-2025.07.04-x86_64.iso (7,443MB, torrent, SHA256, signature), Melawy-Linux-Developer-Edition-2025.07.04-x86_64.iso (11,707MB, torrent, SHA256, signature). |
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NEW • Distribution Release: ExTiX 25.7 |
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Arne Exton has announced the availability of a new version of ExTiX, based on the recently-released deepin 25 and featuring the Deepin desktop: "I released a new version of ExTiX Deepin today. The previous ExTiX Deepin edition with deepin 23 stable is from 2024-08-16. This ExTiX Build is based on deepin 25 stable (the latest version) released by Deepin Technology on June 26, 2025. ExTiX 25.7 uses Linux kernel 6.15.3. ExTiX 25.7 works in the same way as all other ExTiX editions, i.e. you can install it to hard drive while running the system live; use the Refracta installer for that. You can also create your own live installable deepin 25 system with Refracta Snapshot. New functions: VirtualBox Guest Additions are not pre-installed; you can run ExTiX from RAM; you can only use the Refracta installer for hard drive installations; I have installed Firefox as a replacement for deepin's browser; I've added the Synaptic package manager; you can watch Netflix while running Firefox." Continue to the release announcement for full details and screenshots. Download: extix-25.7-deepin25-refractasnapshot-5370mb-250701.iso (5,506MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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