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Discreete Linux
Discreete Linux (formerly Ubuntu Privacy Remix or UPR) was a modified live DVD based on Debian. Its goal was to provide a completely isolated working environment where private data can be dealt with safely and to protect data against unsolicited access. Networking was intentionally disabled and the live CD was not installable to hard disk.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2023-05-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Armbian 23.05.1 |
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Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards. It is usually based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu and it supports a wide variety of popular ARM-based devices. The project's latest release is version 23.05.1 which adds the i3 window manager as a graphical user interface options. The project's release announcement offers additional details: "We are pleased to announce several improvements and enhancements at the user level: Armbian Bookworm based images: We are introducing Armbian Bookworm-based images, providing the latest features and updates from Debian community. i3 supported: i3 has been added as the fourth officially supported desktop environment, expanding the options available to our users. Fixes and Enhancements: We have addressed issues in key tools such as armbian-installer, armbian-config, and armbian-firstrun, ensuring a smoother user experience. Streamlined Packages: We have optimized our package base, making it nearly identical across different underlying package bases and desktop choices. This standardization improves predictability and enhances security. Consistent Application Packages: Regardless of the chosen package base or desktop environment, the application packages remain the same. This ensures consistent functionality and ease of use." Further details can be found in the changelog. The project's download page lists available supported devices. |
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| 2023-05-29 |
NEW • Development Release: MX Linux 23 Beta 1 |
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Following two unannounced alpha releases, the first beta of MX Linux 23 has been officially released. It is based on the upcoming Debian 12 and features Xfce 4.18, KDE Plasma 5.27 and Fluxbox 1.3.7. "MX Linux 23 beta 1 is now available for testing. MX Linux 23 is built from Debian 12 'Bookworm' and MX repositories. As in past releases, the MX will default to SysVInit but systemd remains an option for installed systems. As well as a ton of under-the-hood work, here are some items that are new in MX Linux 23 beta 1: the installer now supports swap files as well as swap partitions; the 'regular' auto installation will default to swap files; there are many other installer changes, including GUI adjustments, setting of some debconf values to make legacy grub-pc updates more seamless, various fixes for GRUB install functions and cleanup of 'dump' entries that might be clogging up a user's nvram; there is also additional help guidance right in the installer GUI...." Read the complete release announcement for a detailed list of changes and known issues. Download: MX-23_beta1_x64.iso (2,009MB, SHA256, signature), MX-23_KDE_beta1_x64.iso (2,444MB, SHA256, signature), MX-23_fluxbox_beta1_x64.iso (1,734MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2023-05-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Oracle Linux 9.2 |
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Simon Coter has announced the release of Oracle Linux 9 Update 2, the latest stable version of Oracle's distribution built from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2 source code but optionally using a custom-compiled "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)": "The latest releases of Oracle Linux enhance the user experience across on-premises, cloud and edge deployments, with a focus on operational consistency and improved efficiency, to accelerate time-to-market for critical infrastructure assets. Oracle Linux now supports offline upgrades. Offline upgrades can help protect a system during upgrades by performing package installations after a reboot and before libraries that might be affected by package updates have loaded. With this enhancement, running services won't be impacted by operating system updates. With offline upgrades, DNF does not apply the updates directly, but it notifies the systemd process that updates need to be applied." Read the release announcement and the detailed release notes for more information. Download (pkglist): OracleLinux-R9-U2-x86_64-dvd.iso (9,792MB), OracleLinux-R9-U2-x86_64-boot.iso (881MB), OracleLinux-R9-U2-x86_64-boot-uek.iso (908MB). Oracle Linux 8, the distribution's legacy branch, has also been updated, to version 8.8. |
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| 2023-05-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Mageia 9 Beta 2 |
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Yves Brungard has announced that the second beta build of Mageia 9 is now available for download and testing. The new development snapshot upgrades the Linux kernel to version 6.3.3 and KDE Plasma desktop to version 5.27.4. "We are proud to announce the second beta of Mageia 9. Since the release of beta 1 in February 2023 the Mageia team has worked to solve a number of stubborn issues and to provide security fixes and new updates. The following features stand out: Linux kernel 6.3.3, glibc 2.36, GCC 12.3.0, RPM 4.18.0, Chromium 110, Firefox ESR 102.11, LibreOffice 7.5.2, KDE Plasma 5.27.4, GNOME 44, Xfce 4.18.1, LXQt 1.3.0, Mesa 23.1.0. We continue to offer (as few do) installation media for 32-bit and 64-bit systems, 64-bit live images for Plasma, GNOME and Xfce, as well as a 32-bit live image for Xfce." Continue to the release announcement for further details. Download (mirrors): Mageia-9-beta2-x86_64.iso (4,422MB, SHA512, signature, torrent, pkglist), Mageia-9-beta2-Live-GNOME-x86_64.iso (3,876MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-9-beta2-Live-Plasma-x86_64.iso (4,003MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-9-beta2-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso (3,593MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). |
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| 2023-05-17 |
NEW • Development Release: deepin 23 Beta |
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The developers of deepin, a desktop Linux distribution featuring the Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), have announced the availability of the beta release of deepin 23: "deepin 23 beta is one of the phased versions of version 23. It is an upgrade from the 23 alpha version, but it is not recommended for use in your production environment. As a system that focuses on user experience, deepin 23 beta introduces many new features, including DDE changes, terminal, cross-version upgrades and application compatibility improvements. These new features make deepin 23 beta a more modern and efficient operating system that can meet the users' needs and expectations. Based on the needs and opinions of community users of version 23 about other released versions, this beta release has added many new features in terms of functional experience, and has optimized the system and fixed a large number of known issues, further improving the user experience and creating the 'deepin you want'." Continue to the release announcement, available in Chinese and in English, for a detailed list of changes, improvements and bug fixes. Download (mirrors): deepin-desktop-community-23-Beta-amd64.iso (4,188MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2023-05-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rocky Linux 9.2 |
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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest update is Rocky Linux 9.2 which includes a number of fixes and improvements. The release announcement mentions an upgrade issue with Python along with a list of new features: "LVM cloud image variants now remove /etc/lvm/devices/system.devices to resolve issues with PV/VG/LVs upon installation of the images due to being hardcoded to a specific device. An aarch64 kernel with a 64kb page size is now available via the package kernel-64k. nfsrahead, a tool to configure the readahead for NFS mounts, was added. Intel Arc GPU support has been added. The infamous Flatpak bug that breaks all fonts in applications using the default font (Cantarell) has been fixed! Wireguard once again works with SELinux enabled. A more complete list of new features and changes is available in the Rocky Linux 9.2 release notes." Download (SHA256, pkglist): Rocky-9.2-x86_64-dvd.iso (9,018MB, torrent), Rocky-9.2-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,536MB, torrent), Rocky-9.2-x86_64-boot.iso (862MB, torrent). |
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| 2023-05-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Tails 5.13 |
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The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The project has added a few new tools to the distribution in Tails 5.13, including the cURL downloading program which will run over the Tor network by default. Encryption for persistent storage has also been upgraded. "Add curl, a command line tool to download over HTTPS, FTP, and other protocols. curl can be useful for online investigations as an alternative to wget. Everything you do with curl goes through the Tor network. If you want to use curl on a local network, use /usr/bin/curl instead. Use LUKS2 by default for all new Persistent Storage and LUKS encrypted volumes. LUKS2 provide stronger cryptography by default. We will provide a migration plan from LUKS1 to LUKS2 for existing Persistent Storage in Tails 5.14 (early June). Update Tor Browser to 12.0.6." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the changelog. Download (pkglist): tails-amd64-5.13.iso (1,255MB, signature, torrent), tails-amd64-5.13.img (1,265MB, signature, torrent). |
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| 2023-05-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 9.2 |
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The EuroLinux team have announced the availability of EuroLinux 9.2, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2, which includes a number of key package updates. "On May 11, 2023, we released version 9.2 of the EuroLinux operating system. It maintains compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2. EuroLinux 9.2 repositories have been expanded to include Python 3.11, Nginx 1.22, PostgreSQL 15, new versions of Performance Co-Pilot, updated toolsets - Rust 1.66, Go 1.19 and LLVM 15. The new version of the system also introduces a variety of improvements to the web console (cockpit). The Linux kernel has been updated to version 5.14. Key security-related highlights: the OpenSSL secure communications library was rebased to version 3.0.7; SELinux user-space packages were updated to version 3.5; Keylime was rebased to version 6.5.2; OpenSCAP was rebased to version 1.3.7; SCAP Security Guide was rebased to version 0.1.66." Additional details can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): EL-9.2-x86_64-20230510-appstream.iso (8,512MB), EL-9.2-x86_64-20230510-minimal.iso (1,654MB), EL-9.2-x86_64-20230510-boot.iso (864MB). |
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| 2023-05-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: AlmaLinux OS 9.2 |
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Jack Aboutboul has announced the release of AlmaLinux OS 9.2, the latest stable version of the project's Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone: "The AlmaLinux OS Foundation is proud to announce the general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.2, code-named 'Turquoise Kodkod'. AlmaLinux 9.2 provides enhancements and features to the hybrid cloud's foundation and helps deliver workloads, applications and services for multiple environments faster and with less effort. This release includes security updates such as the realmd system role, a SCAP profile, and Ansible content for enhanced system checks to simplify managing security and compliance. Improvements to application streams provide compilers, runtime languages, databases and web server updates. Enhancements to the web console and new system roles make it easier to automate and standardize systems." Please see the release announcement and the release notes for more details. Download (SHA256): AlmaLinux-9.2-x86_64-dvd.iso (8,853MB, torrent, pkglist), AlmaLinux-9.2-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,698MB), AlmaLinux-9.2-x86_64-boot.iso (804MB). AlmaLinux 9.2 is also provided for the aarch64, ppc64le and s390x architectures, while separate "live" images with GNOME, GNOME Mini, KDE Plasma, MATE and Xfce desktops are also available. |
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| 2023-05-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 |
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Red Hat, Inc. has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2: "Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and the forthcoming availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8. These new releases further Red Hat’s efforts to simplify and streamline complex Linux platform tasks across the hybrid cloud, from datacenters to public clouds to edge deployments, helping IT teams to better overcome staffing and skill shortages and improve efficiency in critical infrastructure areas. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and 8.8 continue to expand the capabilities of system roles, Red Hat Enterprise Linux-specific Ansible content that helps bring greater consistency and efficiency at scale by automating common administrative tasks. This means that a number of common Linux roles, from Microsoft SQL Server to virtual private networks (VPNs), can be readily configured, credentialed and deployed with rudimentary Linux knowledge." See the press release and the detailed release notes for further information. RHEL 9.2 is available on its customer portal as a free upgrade, as a 60-day trial for potential new customers, or as a free download (pkglist) for registered developers. |
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| 2023-05-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 3.18.0 |
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Alpine Linux is a community-developed operating system designed for routers, firewalls, VPNs, VoIP boxes, containers and servers. The project's latest release is Alpine Linux 3.18.0 which offers version 6.1 of the Linux kernel with signed binaries, musl libc 1.2.4 which features TCP fallback for DNS, and Python 3.11. "We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.18.0, the first in the v3.18 stable series. Highlights: Linux kernel 6.1 - with signed kernel modules; musl libc 1.2.4 - now with TCP fallback in DNS resolver; Python 3.11; Ruby 3.2; Node.js (current) 20.1; GNOME 44; Go 1.20; KDE Plasma 5.27; Rust 1.69; experimental support for unattended installs via tiny-cloud. Linux kernel modules are now signed; verified modules are not enforced by default, so 3rd party modules with akms still works. All packages for ppc64le, x86, and x86_64 was linked with DT_RELR. This should have reduced size of compiled binaries. Python pre-compiled files (pyc) are now shipped in separate packages. It is now possible to avoid install those and save space by doing apk add !pyc." Additional information is provided through the distribution's release notes. Download: alpine-standard-3.18.0-x86_64.iso (189MB, SHA256, signature), alpine-extended-3.18.0-x86_64.iso (840MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2023-05-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Br OS 23.04 |
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Anderson Marques has announced the release of Br OS 23.04. Br OS, developed in Brazil, is an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop and a set of applications designed for web content creation. This release marks the project's third anniversary. An interesting new feature of the release is an integration of ChatGPT directly in the work area. It can be accessed by an icon located on the right side of the start menu. After clicking on the icon, the user can login with an OpenAI account or create a new account. It is important to stress that ChatGPT does not have any power over the user's computer; it runs isolated inside the application. This was purposely done to prevent ChatGPT from accessing any data on the computer. In this way, the only data ChatGPT will collect are limited to those typed by the user while interacting with the application. Br OS 23.04 ships with Linux kernel 6.2, KDE Plasma 5.27.4 and Qt 5.15.8. Other items on the changelog include various interface improvements and bug fixes. See the release announcement and the changelog (both links in Portuguese) for more information and a screenshot. Download (MD5): br-os-23.04-desktop-amd64.iso (4,452MB, pkglist). |
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| 2023-05-03 |
NEW • Development Release: Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre 3.0 Beta 2 |
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Dragora GNU/Linux-Libre is a distribution created from scratch with the intention of providing a stable, multi-platform and multi-purpose operating system. It is built upon 100% free software. The project has published its second beta release for version 3.0 (the previous beta was published about three years ago) which includes several updates and a migration from Python 2 to Python 3. "The performance has been greatly improved compared to -beta1. The hybrid live ISO creation has been enhanced. Now the ISO image includes all software packages to date, the initial screen where you can choose to run the current (full) version of the live system, or where you can install it on hard disk. It is worth mentioning that the password requirement has been removed. All Dragora tools have been improved, including better messaging and bug fixes in the code. Dragora now features the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE). The LLVM compiler (version 15.0.7) has been added to this beta, along with the Rust programming language (version 1.64.0). As part of version control systems, this beta now includes Fossil 2.20, Mercurial 6.4.2, cvs 1.12.13, rcs-5.10.1." Additional details are provided in the project's release announcement. Download: dragora-3.0-amd64-beta2-dvd.iso (3,792MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist). |
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