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1 • Remove it and replace with distro mentioned in comments (by Tim on 2023-12-11 01:13:28 GMT from United States)
Manjaro
2 • Remove it and replace with distro mentioned in comments (by J on 2023-12-11 01:16:46 GMT from United States)
Devuan
3 • Remove it and replace with distro mentioned in comments (by Jacob Alexander Tice on 2023-12-11 02:01:55 GMT from United States)
Mageia (if it still counts)
4 • Remove and Replace (by DaveB on 2023-12-11 02:06:47 GMT from Australia)
I am not going to make a suggestion - there are too many distros out there. Instead look at Distrowatch's own recent rankings. What is often ranking highly, but isn't in the list (and likely to stay popular)? Is there a family of distros that isn't in the list (due to number of siblings) but probably should be there to recognise the family's popularity?
What has been the criteria to make the list in the past?
Just my thoughts :)
5 • CentOS (by 67GTA on 2023-12-11 02:18:29 GMT from United States)
Everybody is just going to spam the comments with thier favorite distro. It should be removed completely or replaced with one of it's successors. Maybe wait and see what comes out of the SUSE RHEL fork.
6 • Replace CentOS with a Fully Free distro (by Andy Prough on 2023-12-11 02:48:24 GMT from Switzerland)
You really should have at least one fully free distro on the "Major Distros" page. Since Debian has turned itself into just another non-free distro, I think you should add Trisquel GNU/Linux, which has received several highly complementary reviews from Jesse over the years.
Software freedom is a major issue for a large portion of GNU/Linux users, and a good way of representing that major category is by putting a fully free one like Trisquel on the Major Distributions page.
7 • The Debian kernel issue is a non-issue (by Ludditus on 2023-12-11 03:25:19 GMT from Romania)
The bug was not specific to Debian. Either way, linux 6.1.66-1 was released in Debian on 2023-12-09, and it fixes the bug. Case closed.
Incidentally, kernel-lt from EPEL for EL9 also released 6.1.66. We're safe.
8 • Remove and Replace (by Jack on 2023-12-11 03:37:36 GMT from United States)
I'm hoping lightning strikes twice, that Gregory Kurtzer and the Rocky team can duplicate CentOS success and continue to provide the community with binary compatible releases that IBM is unable to prevent.
9 • Keep, update with additional info (by Raphaelo on 2023-12-11 04:08:26 GMT from Morocco)
Openmandriva is now a trendsetting pioneer deserving of spotlight (its info is seriously outdated and incomplete), has a rolling release, fixed release for many DEs, architectures and server. In compareason Mageia hasnt quite kept up, big shame theyre not poling their ressources together to improve the codebase that was their common upstream.
Unrelated, but could you change the default distros preselected in the package compare page? Instead of preselecting MX linux and manjaro, consider pure arch, endeavouros and debian, or a different page for specific popular compares leveraging taking into account wether apps are shipped as snap/flatpak and thus are current.
10 • Remove and replace (by Josh Smith on 2023-12-11 05:43:49 GMT from Australia)
I agree with DaveB. Make sure whichever distro you choose seems to have a large and active community so that it is less likely to be discontinued anytime soon (and hence necessitate another similar poll).
11 • CentOS (by Microlinux on 2023-12-11 06:29:31 GMT from France)
I'd say remove it and replace it with Rocky Linux. CentOS had a purpose contained in its name itself (Community Enterprise Operating System). This is no longer true, since the distribution "shifted paradigm" to quote Red Hat's understatement to describe what boiled down to pulling the rug from under our feet. Rocky Linux has taken CentOS' place and is filling that void now. I'm a regular at the Rocky Linux forum, and I see a lot of folks from the CentOS mailing list there, they all seemed to have moved over. Last but not least, Rocky Linux has been initiated by CentOS' initial founder Greg Kurtzer.
12 • Alternatives to WINE (by Alexandru on 2023-12-11 07:17:24 GMT from Romania)
Not quite an alternative to Wine, but I found PlayOnLinux an interesting software (not just for games). It acts as a manager for different Wine versions (both 32 and 64 bit) and allows easy configuration of different applications running on different versions of Wine, all them in one easy to use framework.
13 • Remove and replace (by Alexandru on 2023-12-11 07:18:09 GMT from Romania)
I vote for Alma Linux as replacement for CentOS
14 • Replace CentOS (by Fabio on 2023-12-11 07:56:48 GMT from Italy)
AlmaLinux is officially supported at CERN and has a growing reputation
in scientific community in place of CentOS together with Debian/Ubuntu.
Thus it should be considered
as a natural replacement for CentOS. Also "CentOS stream" can not
be ignored but if it plays now a different role. In any case the old CentOS 7 is yet
alive and widely used.
15 • Distro to Replace CentOS (by Edan on 2023-12-11 08:19:23 GMT from The Netherlands)
Replace it with AlmaLinux, and also add NixOS and Void. They're both independent distributions of quality with decently-sized userbases.
16 • CentOS (by Linuxseekers on 2023-12-11 08:48:50 GMT from Malaysia)
Email openELA for suggestion.
17 • CentOS replacement (by Simon on 2023-12-11 08:55:00 GMT from New Zealand)
Red Hat is the obvious choice. Really it should already have been there instead of CentOS, as all of the Red Hat rebuilds are... well... just rebuilds of Red Hat, the real "major distribution" here. I'm not a fan of the company nor the distro, but surely "major distributions" is not meant to be "favourite distributions", it's meant to recognise the distros that are significant, important and influential ones. Arguably the only distro in the world that's more "major" than Red Hat is Debian: Red Hat towers over some of the others on that list. My next vote would be for Alma as it seems to be stepping into the position that CentOS occupied before Red Hat subverted it, so putting Alma into its position on the major distributions list makes some sense... but Red Hat itself is the more important distro.
18 • what's CentOS? (by jazzfelix on 2023-12-11 09:30:30 GMT from Germany)
I used CentOS for many years on servers at work. I used it even at home just because I was used to how it functioned. And it was a really solid distribution. It was at the time when it was so popular it was in distrowatch's top ten page hit ranking. It is still in the top 100 which honestly amazes me. :) I say remove it and wait for a really shiny new thing to replace it with. In a couple of years newcomers to Linux will not know about Red Hat or CentOS at all. I don't think Alma or Rocky will be able to replace it in the long run. After CentOS was abandoned I switched to Alma. It never felt as polished as CentOS. When IBM was closing Red Hats sources for public I abandoned all rpm based systems. I even lost a big chunk of trust in Linux itself. I am now running FreeBSD on most of my machines as a consequence. And for me that was the best decision in years, because not does it feel as polished as the old CentOS it feels a whole bunch cleaner. It is such a pleasure to code for it. The APIs are much cleaner and documentation is always very helpful.
19 • Replace Centos Linux (by John on 2023-12-11 09:44:49 GMT from United Kingdom)
Replace centos with Almalinux the most trusted and dynamic community Enterprise Linux. Alternatively RHEL is now available for free for the linux community through developer subscription.
20 • Replace (by jc on 2023-12-11 10:37:40 GMT from Switzerland)
Devuan
21 • @17 (by Ali on 2023-12-11 10:49:56 GMT from Iran)
Well said. I wonder why RHEL is not among major distribution. The second choice obviously is CentOS Stream.
22 • Remove the top 10 page... (by Max on 2023-12-11 10:54:10 GMT from France)
I've never really understood this page about the "Major distributions", the "Page Hit Ranking" on right side is clearly the entry point for anybody willing to pick up a new distribution or discovering the wonder of so many Linux/BSD distributions.
But any regular Distrowatch visitor won't learn anything from this "Major distributions" page (already knowing all theses names for a long time) and new comers won't enter the website through this page.
Also, this list is pretty subjective (even I agree with the list) and Linux distributions are today much more complex that some classic/historical distributions: Manjaro is based on Arch, Devuan on Debian, Mageia on Mandriva, Fedora on RHEL, Mint and Zorin et Elementary on Ubuntu. May NixOS and Void not mainline enough for any new comer that want to try Linux without browsing forums and reading documentation.
So, if much of today Linux most popular distributions are based on Debian, Ubuntu (based on Debian), Arch and REHL, here you are the list of "base" distributions, the historical ones that defined what Linux is today. As Gentoo, Slackware, Mandriva and Suse may not be the base for 50 most popular distributions (defined from "Page Hit Ranking"), they can be excluded.
My take is that this page is confusing new comers that want to try Linux (I won't recommend starting with Gentoo even to my worst enemy) and useless to most of others here.
23 • Remove and replace (by Kerry on 2023-12-11 11:06:48 GMT from United States)
Remove and replace with RHEL Clones (or pick one RHEL clone like you guys handled BSD).
24 • RE: 7 • The Debian kernel issue (by Ludditus on 2023-12-11 11:30:19 GMT from Romania)
I was sleepy and I wrote "kernel-lt from EPEL for EL9 also released 6.1.66" when what I meant was "kernel-lt from ELRepo for EL9 also released 6.1.66".
25 • What should we do with CentOS Linux on our Major Distributions page? (by James on 2023-12-11 11:57:42 GMT from United States)
I don't care should have been an option.
26 • Switch the entry to cover CentOS Stream (by Dave on 2023-12-11 11:57:54 GMT from Australia)
Centos Stream is the official and actual successor to Centos, it's what Centos has become.
People don't like it, but that's not really the point of the question. Replacing the entry with something like Alma or Rocky would be like replacing Ubuntu's entry with Debian because you don't like Canonical or Ubuntu's release model.
It's about reflecting reality of a distro's current state, not making recommendations for alternatives.
I guess making Centos inactive and having Centos Stram as a new distro could make sense too, but you lose the evolution and history.
27 • "Major Distro" Section (by Otis on 2023-12-11 12:00:02 GMT from United States)
Nice of you to ask for user opinion about changes to Distrowatch's pages. You've done that about a few issues here and it's appreciated.
That major distro section is populated by both "core" distros and those that have branched off from those. When I first went there a long time ago I expected to see only Slackware, Debian, Arch, and Gentoo maybe. But there are close relatives of all of those and others farther downstream. It starts right off with Mint, for example.
So, replacing CentOS with any other distro seems not relevant to me, given the ongoing content of the list.
This is not a criticism of that list, just how I see the darned thing. :oD
28 • Major distros... (by Friar Tux on 2023-12-11 14:05:53 GMT from Canada)
Just went over to the Major Distros Page. I have to admit, I've not gone there before. The only other "list" I usually go to, other than the main page, is the ranked distro list on the right of the main column, and, of course, the Comments Page. Anyway, I see why they want to remove CentOS. (Also, I would probably give BSDs their own section. But, that's just me.) My go-to, if I want to see "major distros" is:- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg/2220px-Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg.png
This gives me Linux at a glace.
Having said all that, I would vote to take CentOS out and replace it with the next most used/major distro.
29 • Enterprise Linux (generic)? (by unify on 2023-12-11 14:44:02 GMT from Germany)
Why not replace the entry for CentOS with one for all RHEL-based distros together?
30 • Remove Cent OS and Do Not Replace (by Justin R. on 2023-12-11 14:47:03 GMT from United States)
I voted to remove Cent OS and not replace it with anything. You'll also want to update Fedora's entry at the very bottom where it reads "Suggested alternaives [sic] in the Red Hat family: CentOS". BTW, "alternatives" is spelled incorrectly.
31 • CentOS poll (by sephiroth7818 on 2023-12-11 15:26:27 GMT from United States)
Replace CentOS with AlmaLinux. Alma is more popular than Rocky in searches on DW. And Alma and Rocky are the major ones that kept the true spirit of CentOS. A true free version of RHEL.
32 • Remove CentOS (by Robert on 2023-12-11 16:38:52 GMT from United States)
Remove CentOS and either do not replace OR replace with more of a category of RHEL alternatives such as Rocky or Alma, they are all basically the same.
33 • CentOS (by David on 2023-12-11 17:03:33 GMT from United Kingdom)
Replace it.
The "major distros " are said to fall into 3 groups: the easy, the technical, and the middle of the road. It could be argued that another important category is those used by major enterprises. Debian is there, OpenSUSE represents (just about) SLE, but we need something like RHEL — Fedora isn't it. The front runner for a CentOS replacement seems to be Alma, which has a lot of corporate backers.
One thing that seems to be missing is a distro in the Mandriva tradition. I don't think many here would trust ALT, good as it is, but you might give a nod to either PCLinuxOS or Mageia.
34 • CentOS alternative (by John on 2023-12-11 17:29:32 GMT from Canada)
Alma Linux please (instead of CentOS)
35 • Remove and Replace (by Ken Harbit on 2023-12-11 17:43:11 GMT from United States)
With Rocky or Alma.
36 • BSD list (by Otis on 2023-12-11 18:31:36 GMT from United States)
@28 Yes indeed on the BSD dedicated section here (is it time? overdue?). BSD development would likely benefit from more exposure, and a separate section for BSD at distrowatch dot com could well help with that; own section = more exposure = more (potential) BSD devs = the wonders of BSD for the masses, not just as a Linux alternative, but of its own strengths.
37 • Remove it and replace with distro mentioned in comments: (by Geo. on 2023-12-11 19:10:03 GMT from Canada)
You don't really have one for old computers, so I would recommend you replace it with Bodhi just because it is more newbie friendly than AntiX or Puppy. 😉
38 • Remove CentOS and replace it with another distro (by dnf5 on 2023-12-11 19:17:46 GMT from Moldova)
Since the CentOS surprise, we switched all our cloud workstation to Rocky Linux.
So I propose to replace it with Rocky or Alma (the one on which more distros are based should get the centos chair in staple 10 distros list)
39 • Major Distros (by Andy on 2023-12-11 19:20:54 GMT from Canada)
Not speaking to CentOS/replacement directly, but here are some as yet unmentioned distros that might deserve a mention on the Major Distros page:
- Alpine Linux
- Pop OS (could be part of the Mint entry)
- Solus (I don't know, maybe)
- Void
40 • Remove it and replace with distro mentioned in comments (by lincoln on 2023-12-11 19:36:30 GMT from Brazil)
seL4
41 • BSD list (by Jyrki on 2023-12-11 19:40:06 GMT from Czechia)
I would also appreciate BSD dedicated section. More and more Linux distros just sucks. Diversity ends, all distros look more and more the same. I really miss that good old time of old Arch, with rc.conf, their own console installer.
The more important is now to preserve BSDs and support them.
42 • Remove it and replace with distro mentioned in comments (by Yan on 2023-12-11 23:45:09 GMT from Canada)
RHEL for now. It's too early to say whether Rocky, Alma, etc., will successfully replace CentOS.
43 • Remove and Replece (by Visitor 0101 on 2023-12-12 00:00:25 GMT from United States)
My vote is for Manjaro
44 • CentOS Stream (by Gary W on 2023-12-12 01:15:31 GMT from Australia)
@17 makes some good points. It looks like I'm in a minority to suggest updating with CentOS Stream, But its key developer (Red Hat) says it's the replacement, and even if it turns out to be not "major", there's no harm done and the matter can be revisited once the dust settles. Alternatives such as Alma and Rocky are not exactly "major" yet either; on that basis, it should be RHEL.
45 • Centos Stream (by anon on 2023-12-12 02:59:11 GMT from United States)
Replace CentOS with CentOS stream because it is literally the direct replacement for CentOS.
46 • downloads (by Dave Postles on 2023-12-12 10:20:10 GMT from United Kingdom)
I'd rather buy a usb stick with the distro than download 15.2Gb (or anything above 4Gb for that matter).
47 • Alma Linux vs. Rocky Linux (by Microlinux on 2023-12-12 11:36:56 GMT from France)
On a side note : after the most recent move from Red Hat to obfuscate sources, Rocky Linux decided to keep full binary compatibility with upstream RHEL, whereas Alma Linux did not. Which means if you want a RHEL clone, stick with Rocky Linux.
48 • Remove, Replace & Overhaul (by metaBLAG on 2023-12-12 13:30:05 GMT from United States)
While I answered remove and replace, I'd prefer another option not given (R,R&O) but proposed by numerous other commenters, namely:
1) Just replace CentOS with Red Hat. It is the "true" major distro. Leave Fedora as it's pretty major too. Maybe throw in SUSE (Enterprise)? Nah. Update CentOS to Stream or indicate the (major) change to the distro some other way.
2) This may be mission creep but you should consider adding a few more distros such as NixOS, Void, PCLinuxOS and Trisquel. For my money, it you're going to add, I'd seriously consider NixOS for it's niche status and Trisquel, for its longevity (going on 15-20 years) and the fact that as a truly libre distro, that is the true foundation on which all major distros such as Debian and (ugh) Red Hat stand.
3) And yeah, go ahead and make a separate section for BSDs...As we all know, there are at least 2 or 3 major ones & a few nice desktop-centric entries.
I look forward to the conclusion of your next big Distrowatch Meeting to discuss all of this... ;-)
49 • CENT OS (by My 2 CENTs on 2023-12-12 13:53:53 GMT from Singapore)
CENT OS became a major distribution because it is a free copy of RHEL. Anything less than that should not replace it on the major list.
50 • CENTOS (by Victório on 2023-12-12 17:27:51 GMT from Brazil)
RedHat Enterprise Linux
51 • Major Distributions (by eb on 2023-12-12 19:24:22 GMT from France)
9 is a good number, considered as lucky by the chinese !:-)
So CentOS does not deserve to be replaced, since you already selected Fedora.
FreeBSD is aside, and should not figure along Linux distros (?)
@37 : Slackware with only a window manager (no DE) is just excellent for old computers.
Thanks for this poll.
52 • separate section for BSDs (by FARHAAD 1992 on 2023-12-13 08:01:46 GMT from Iran)
I do agree with some other commenters, please make a separate section or list for BSDs.
53 • distro (by Mark on 2023-12-13 13:13:54 GMT from United States)
Replace it with Kodachi !
54 • BSDs at Distrowatch (by Otis on 2023-12-13 17:40:36 GMT from United States)
Regarding adding BSDs to the list, and perhaps more BSD tracking and info in general, there are a couple of dozen active BSD flavors out there including FreeBSD based, NetBSD based, and Open BSD based, what we're doing I think is asking Jesse et al to do more work here.
I wonder if and/or how that's something that will impact the site, Jesse, or others involved and if it would play in on any decision regarding BSD magnification here.
55 • CentOS / CentOS Stream (by R. Cain on 2023-12-13 18:09:40 GMT from United States)
Why are there *still* people who don't understand that CentOS Stream is, unequivocally, NOT CentOS?--and *was not* from the very beginnings of CentOS Stream.
56 • Remove and replace by....EuroLinux (by Erich Friesen on 2023-12-14 00:39:26 GMT from United States)
My strong preference is to replace by EuroLinux, as they really get the spirit and letter of the GPL, they are also great to work with.
57 • Remove & replace with Redhat (by Greg on 2023-12-14 06:24:47 GMT from Canada)
Remove and replace with Redhat
Redhat is a major distribution like Ubuntu. Both are large commercial distributions. IMHO Redhat has contributed more and it has been contributing longer. I'd argue that other commercial distributions should be included too. Suse Linux Enterprise being an example.
IMHO Don't go off the page rank as it's is misleading. I'd start looking at the number of reviews for distributions. Rating is a separate statistic I'm less fond of unless you look at the number of positive reviews. Very negative reviews are just failed attempts at finding the right one.
58 • Major Distros vs Promoting a Favorite (by Otis on 2023-12-14 13:43:47 GMT from United States)
There are several advocates of various distros suggesting those should be on the Major Distros page (EusroLinux, Kodachi, Manjaro, sel4, Alpine, Solus, etc).
Perhaps it'd be helpful to quote from the Major Distros explanation spiel:
"...all of these are popular and have very active forums or mailing lists where you can ask questions..."
The popularity contest is on the Page Hit Ranking list. The Major Distros list is not that, but, even though there is overlap, an effort to report distros which seem to have influenced the community and even other distros, is my take. Subtle but important differences.
59 • Remove it and replace with Rocky (by Tomas on 2023-12-15 08:08:03 GMT from Japan)
Rocky Linux is the defacto CentOS replacement. Or at least that's what the EPEL adoption statistics show: https://rocky-stats.tiuxo.com/auto.html
60 • Alpine should replace CentOS (by Elcaset on 2023-12-15 09:47:37 GMT from United States)
Alpine should replace CentOS on the list.
61 • Replace with rocky (by Neil Hanlon on 2023-12-15 12:52:24 GMT from United States)
Rocky should replace CentOS on the list :)
62 • Replace with OpenSUSE LEAP (by Jeremy T on 2023-12-15 15:06:44 GMT from United States)
OpenSUSE Leap is binary compatible with SUSE Linux Enterprise, no delays or differences. It is equally stable and reliable from an OS perspective. If the need grows beyond OpenSUSE and self support then a license key install and some command line migration is all that is required to upgrade for support from SUSE and make it SUSE Linux Enterprise. That is roughly what CentOS was to RedHat yet with no direct migration path. However, OpenSUSE is backed with the support of SUSE itself. No worries of a community trying to circumvent licensing or terms and conditions (i.e. Rocky/Alma/etc) with only hopes they will be able to binary compatible with RedHat going forward.
63 • Replace with (by Pero Barreto on 2023-12-15 16:21:49 GMT from Brazil)
I would remove CentOS altogether and put Red Hat Enterprise Linux in its place.
Nonetheless, I would remove entirely all Ubuntu flavors as well. Several Linux Distros have flavours (such as openSUSE) and, besides Ubuntu, they do not have that ridiculous amount of entries.
64 • Remove CentOS (by Justin on 2023-12-15 19:01:38 GMT from United States)
I voted remove without replacement. If you pick a "successor" now, you are playing favorites. None have emerged as the undisputed successor and perhaps none will. You already have Fedora to cover RPM/RHEL distros. The list seems geared to home users, so I would vote against adding Red Hat directly or other distributions, despite the contributions it has made in the past (I want to see them contribute at the same level going forward; these are current major distributions, not past ones).
The list is already long as-is for new comers. Devuan would be nice if it is truly proving to be of similar scale. I've heard it talked about once in a professional circle. Despite how much its users like it (and hate systemd), I just don't see it anywhere. I have wanted to install it but I can never find a real use case for it. The other nice one would be ReactOS, but I would stay away from it. It's just never going to be ready for primetime, and it sends users the wrong impression if the quality and functionality aren't there. What you have on the list already qualifies for me. Maybe PCLinuxOS because I hear it talked about a lot on this forum, but again, I don't see it elsewhere or developers/companies providing support for it. It's always Ubuntu/Debian and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS. I'm not even sure openSUSE belongs on that list anymore.
65 • Replace with Rocky (by Michael on 2023-12-15 19:56:10 GMT from United States)
It is clear by the numbers that Rocky has become the replacement for CentOS.
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| • Issue 1134 (2025-08-11): Rhino Linux 2025.3, thoughts on malware in the AUR, Fedora brings hammered websites back on-line, NetBSD reveals features for version 11, Ubuntu swaps some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA support |
| • Issue 1133 (2025-08-04): Expirion Linux 6.0, running Plasma on Linux Mint, finding distros which support X11, Debian addresses 22 year old bug, FreeBSD discusses potential issues with pkgbase, CDE ported to OpenBSD, Btrfs corruption bug hitting Fedora users, more malware found in Arch User Repository |
| • Issue 1132 (2025-07-28): deepin 25, wars in the open source community, proposal to have Fedora enable Flathub repository, FreeBSD plans desktop install option, Wayback gets its first release |
| • Issue 1131 (2025-07-21): HeliumOS 10.0, settling on one distro, Mint plans new releases, Arch discovers malware in AUR, Plasma Bigscreen returns, Clear Linux discontinued |
| • Issue 1130 (2025-07-14): openSUSE MicroOS and RefreshOS, sharing aliases between computers, 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 |
| • Issue 1129 (2025-07-07): GLF OS Omnislash, the worst Linux distro, Alpine introduces Wayback, Fedora drops plans to stop i686 support, AlmaLinux builds EPEL repository for older CPUs, Ubuntu dropping existing RISC-V device support, Rhino partners with UBports, PCLinuxOS recovering from website outage |
| • Issue 1128 (2025-06-30): AxOS 25.06, AlmaLinux OS 10.0, transferring Flaptak bundles to off-line computers, Ubuntu to boost Intel graphics performance, Fedora considers dropping i686 packages, SDesk switches from SELinux to AppArmor |
| • Issue 1127 (2025-06-23): LastOSLinux 2025-05-25, most unique Linux distro, Haiku stabilises, KDE publishes Plasma 6.4, Arch splits Plasma packages, Slackware infrastructure migrating |
| • Issue 1126 (2025-06-16): SDesk 2025.05.06, renewed interest in Ubuntu Touch, a BASIC device running NetBSD, Ubuntu dropping X11 GNOME session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holding back Pixel source code, Nitrux changing its desktop, EFF turns 35 |
| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
| • Issue 1124 (2025-06-02): Picking up a Pico, tips for protecting privacy, Rhino tests Plasma desktop, Arch installer supports snapshots, new features from UBports, Ubuntu tests monthly snapshots |
| • Issue 1123 (2025-05-26): CRUX 3.8, preventing a laptop from sleeping, FreeBSD improves laptop support, Fedora confirms GNOME X11 session being dropped, HardenedBSD introduces Rust in userland build, KDE developing a virtual machine manager |
| • Issue 1122 (2025-05-19): GoboLinux 017.01, RHEL 10.0 and Debian 12 updates, openSUSE retires YaST, running X11 apps on Wayland |
| • Issue 1121 (2025-05-12): Bluefin 41, custom file manager actions, openSUSE joins End of 10 while dropping Deepin desktop, Fedora offers tips for building atomic distros, Ubuntu considers replacing sudo with sudo-rs |
| • Issue 1120 (2025-05-05): CachyOS 250330, what it means when a distro breaks, Kali updates repository key, Trinity receives an update, UBports tests directory encryption, Gentoo faces losing key infrastructure |
| • Issue 1119 (2025-04-28): Ubuntu MATE 25.04, what is missing from Linux, CachyOS ships OCCT, Debian enters soft freeze, Fedora discusses removing X11 session from GNOME, Murena plans business services, NetBSD on a Wii |
| • Issue 1118 (2025-04-21): Fedora 42, strange characters in Vim, Nitrux introduces new package tools, Fedora extends reproducibility efforts, PINE64 updates multiple devices running Debian |
| • Issue 1117 (2025-04-14): Shebang 25.0, EndeavourOS 2025.03.19, running applications from other distros on the desktop, Debian gets APT upgrade, Mint introduces OEM options for LMDE, postmarketOS packages GNOME 48 and COSMIC, Redox testing USB support |
| • Issue 1116 (2025-04-07): The Sense HAT, Android and mobile operating systems, FreeBSD improves on laptops, openSUSE publishes many new updates, Fedora appoints new Project Leader, UBports testing VoLTE |
| • Issue 1115 (2025-03-31): GrapheneOS 2025, the rise of portable package formats, MidnightBSD and openSUSE experiment with new package management features, Plank dock reborn, key infrastructure projects lose funding, postmarketOS to focus on reliability |
| • Issue 1114 (2025-03-24): Bazzite 41, checking which processes are writing to disk, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating images for the Raspberry Pi |
| • Issue 1113 (2025-03-17): MocaccinoOS 1.8.1, how to contribute to open source, Murena extends on-line installer, Garuda tests COSMIC edition, Ubuntu to replace coreutils with Rust alternatives, Chimera Linux drops RISC-V builds |
| • Issue 1112 (2025-03-10): Solus 4.7, distros which work with Secure Boot, UBports publishes bug fix, postmarketOS considers a new name, Debian running on Android |
| • Issue 1111 (2025-03-03): Orbitiny 0.01, the effect of Ubuntu Core Desktop, Gentoo offers disk images, elementary OS invites feature ideas, FreeBSD starts PinePhone Pro port, Mint warns of upcoming Firefox issue |
| • Issue 1110 (2025-02-24): iodeOS 6.0, learning to program, Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its install instructions to offer better privacy, Murena's de-Googled tablet goes on sale |
| • Issue 1109 (2025-02-17): Rhino Linux 2025.1, MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20, replacing X.Org tools with Wayland tools, GhostBSD moving its base to FreeBSD -RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports testing 24.04, Asahi changing its leadership, OBS in dispute with Fedora |
| • Issue 1108 (2025-02-10): Serpent OS 0.24.6, Aurora, sharing swap between distros, Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removinglegacy technologies, Red Hat plans more AI tools for Fedora, TrueNAS merges its editions |
| • Issue 1107 (2025-02-03): siduction 2024.1.0, timing tasks, Lomiri ported to postmarketOS, Alpine joins Open Collective, a new desktop for Linux called Orbitiny |
| • Issue 1106 (2025-01-27): Adelie Linux 1.0 Beta 6, Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5, detecting whether a process is inside a virtual machine, drawing graphics to NetBSD terminal, Nix ported to FreeBSD, GhostBSD hosting desktop conference |
| • Issue 1105 (2025-01-20): CentOS 10 Stream, old Flatpak bundles in software centres, Haiku ports Iceweasel, Oracle shows off debugging tools, rsync vulnerability patched |
| • Issue 1104 (2025-01-13): DAT Linux 2.0, Silly things to do with a minimal computer, Budgie prepares Wayland only releases, SteamOS coming to third-party devices, Murena upgrades its base |
| • Issue 1103 (2025-01-06): elementary OS 8.0, filtering ads with Pi-hole, Debian testing its installer, Pop!_OS faces delays, Ubuntu Studio upgrades not working, Absolute discontinued |
| • Issue 1102 (2024-12-23): Best distros of 2024, changing a process name, Fedora to expand Btrfs support and releases Asahi Remix 41, openSUSE patches out security sandbox and donations from Bottles while ending support for Leap 15.5 |
| • Issue 1101 (2024-12-16): GhostBSD 24.10.1, sending attachments from the command line, openSUSE shows off GPU assignment tool, UBports publishes security update, Murena launches its first tablet, Xfce 4.20 released |
| • Issue 1100 (2024-12-09): Oreon 9.3, differences in speed, IPFire's new appliance, Fedora Asahi Remix gets new video drivers, openSUSE Leap Micro updated, Redox OS running Redox OS |
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