Development Release: AlmaLinux OS 9.4 Beta

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The AlmaLinux OS team have published a new development snapshot of the project's platform which is based on source code from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's new beta for version 9.4 places a focus on security and LVM snapshots for easier backup and recovery processes. "The AlmaLinux....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1066

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Fun projects with the Raspberry Pi and PinePhoneNews: Improving GNOME Terminal performance, Mint testing new repository mirrors, Gentoo becomes a Software In the Public Interest projectQuestions and answers: Getting newer versions of software on fixed release distributionsReleased last week: Lakka 5.0Torrent corner:....

Distribution Release: Lakka 5.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Tomáš Kelemen has announced the release of Lakka 5.0, a major new version of the project's lightweight Linux distribution with a goal of transforming a small computer into a full-blown retro-gaming console. This release updates the distribution's build system to LibreELEC 11.0 and adds support to Raspberry Pi....

Development Release: Ubuntu 24.04 Beta

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the beta release of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 (code-named "Noble Numbat"). Delayed by one week due to the backdoor found in the xz data compression library, the Ubuntu 24.04 will be LTS (long-term supported) release with standard security maintenance until April....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1065

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Dr.Parted Live 24.03News: HardenedBSD celebrates its ten year anniversary, Linux Mint to ship HWE kernel by default, Fedora considers making Plasma the desktop for Workstation edition, Ubuntu delays 24.04 beta, AlmaLinux patches kernel flaw ahead of Red Hat, Calculate changes release modelQuestions....

Distribution Release: Archcraft 2024.04.06

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Aditya Shakya has announced the release of a new version of Archcraft, a lightweight, Arch-based Linux distribution with highly customised Openbox and bspwm window managers and a selection of lightweight applications. The new version, labeled as 2024.04.06, brings updated packages and window manager configurations, as well as various....

Distribution Release: AV Linux MXE-23.2

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Glen MacArthur has announced the release of AV Linux MXE-23.2, a bug-fix update of the project's earlier release. AVLinux is based on Debian 12 and MX Linux, it is designed primarily for content creators, and it uses Enlightenment as the default desktop user interface. "This is an ISO....

Distribution Release: Peropesis 2.5

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Peropesis (personal operating system) is a small-scale, minimalist, command-line-based Linux operating system. The project's latest release, Peropesis 2.5, introduces several new tools: "Peropesis 2.5 is released. In the new edition part of the old software was updated and several new software packages were installed. Among the newly installed....

BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.5

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.5, the latest stable version of the free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, in active development since 1996: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.5. This is our 56th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's....

Distribution Release: ROSA 12.5

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. ROSA is a Russian Linux distribution which originally forked from the Mandriva family of distributions. The project's latest release, ROSA 12.5, provides two full features desktops (KDE Plasma and GNOME) along with two lightweight editions (LXQt and Xfce). "ROSA Fresh 12.5 offers a wide selection of installation images,....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1064

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: NixOS 23.11News: FreeBSD Foundation to focus on wireless networking improvements, Ubuntu Pro offers 12 years of support, Qubes OS 4.1 nearing its end of life, liblzma compromised upstreamQuestions and answers: The status of GNU's Hurd kernelReleased last week: RELIANOID 7.2, NetBSD 10.0Torrent....

BSD Release: NetBSD 10.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The portable NetBSD operating system has reached a new milestone with the release of NetBSD 10.0. The new version introduces a number of performance and security improvements: "Benchmarks of NetBSD 10 show huge performance and scalability gains over NetBSD 9.x, especially on multiprocessor and multicore systems, for compute....

Distribution Release: RELIANOID 7.2

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. RELIANOID is a Debian-based Linux distribution for load balancing. The distribution offers a load balancing oriented operating system for testing, development, and quality assurance environments. The project has published an update which improves on the distribution and scheduling of network traffic. "RELIANOID 7.2.0 comes with several key improvements....

Development Release: Fedora 40 Beta

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Fedora team have published a beta snapshot for the upcoming release of Fedora 40. The new beta ships with GNOME 46 and KDE Plasma 6, with the latter offering Wayland as the only login session. "The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fedora....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1063

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Redcore Linux 2401News: Debian Project Leader election begins, Canonical's Snap store serves more malware, Red Hat working on new NVIDIA driver, TrueNAS plans for 13.3 CORE launchQuestions and answers: How slowly can a rolling release upgrade?Released last week: Regata OS 24.0.0Torrent corner:....

Development Release: Dynebolic 4.0.0 Beta

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Dynebolic was a member of the Debian family which was intended to serve the needs of media activists, artists and creative individuals, a practical tool for multimedia production. The project has been dormant for about ten years, but has become active once more. The project has published a....

Distribution Release: Regata OS 24.0.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Josué Vicente has announced the release of Regata OS 24.0.0, a major update of the project's openSUSE-based distribution with focus on desktop and gaming needs. This version introduces the recently-released KDE Plasma 6: "The Regata OS 24 'Arctic Fox' is now available for download. This update brings the....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1062

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: KDE neon 20240303 and 20240304News: Canonical turns 20, Pop!_OS creates new software centre, openSUSE packages Plasma 6Questions and answers: Set access permissions for all new files in a directory?Released last week: CachyOS 240313, Univention Corporate Server 5.0-7, Void 20240314Torrent corner: KDE neon,....

Distribution Release: 4MLinux 45.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. 4MLinux is a small, indepedent distribution which focuses on four areas: network services, games, multimedia, and system rescue. The project's latest release, version 45.0, offers video scaling, new games, and upgrades the OpenSSL version to OpenSSL 3 from 1.1. "As always, the new major release has some new....

Distribution Release: ALT Linux 10.2

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. ALT Linux is a project which produces multiple editions of an independent distribution for Russian speakers. The project's latest release, version 10.2, enables installing the distribution to Btrfs pools, includes Timeshift for working with filesystem snapshots, and includes an OEM install mode. "Computer manufacturers will be interested in....

Distribution Release: Void 20240314

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Void project produces an independent, rolling release Linux distribution. The project's latest snapshot provides a keyboard layout selector on the login screen, enables the chrony network time daemon, and supports Raspberry Pi 5 computers. The distribution's release announcement shares the details: "Some highlights of this release: A....

Distribution Release: Univention Corporate Server 5.0-7

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Univention Corporate Server (UCS) is an enterprise-class distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. The project has published an update to its 5.0 series which introduces blocklists for the Univention Directory Manager. "A new feature in UCS is “blocklists” for the Univention Directory Manager (UDM). This feature allows UDM to....

Distribution Release: CachyOS 240313

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. CachyOS, a user-friendly and highly-optimised Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, has received a significant update. Its version 240313 features the brand-new KDE Plasma 6 desktop with Qt 6 and the Wayland display server by default: "This is our third release in 2024 and brings quite big changes.....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1061

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: A PinePhone as a mobile desktop computer?News: NixBSD launched, Fedora looks at porting COSMIC and dropping GNOME's X11 session, postmarketOS to adopt systemd, Linux Mint replacing HexChatQuestions and answers: Restarting background services on a scheduleReleased last week: FreeBSD 13.3, Zorin OS 17.1Torrent....

Distribution Release: Zorin OS 17.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution which features layouts, themes, and compatibility tools to provide new Linux users with a more familiar environment. The latest version of Zorin OS focuses on cross-platform application compatibility and isolation, shipping with the latest stable version of WINE and Bottles: "When you....

Development Release: openSUSE 15.6 Beta

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The openSUSE project has unveiled a beta snapshot of the project's upcoming openSUSE 15.6 "Leap" release. The new release will include updates to virtually all system components as well as the GNOME and Plasma desktops: "Built on top of SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 Service Pack 6, the Beta,....

BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.3

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Colin Percival has announced the release of FreeBSD 13.3, the production release in the legacy branch of the popular BSD-derived operating system: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/13 branch. Some of the....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1060

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: AV Linux MX-23.1News: Highlighting OpenBSD features, Qubes certifies the NitroPC Pro 2, LXQt prepares for Wayland, KDE launches Plasma 6Questions and answers: Bootstrapping a network connectionReleased last week: Tails 6.0, Zentyal Server 8.0, Grml 2024.02, Kali Linux 2024.1Torrent corner: Grml, Kali Linux,....

Distribution Release: OpenMediaVault 7.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. OpenMediaVault is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) solution based on Debian GNU/Linux. The project's latest release, OpenMediaVault 7.0, is based on Debian 12 introduces new notification and monitoring tools to make managing the NAS more efficient. "The changelog will list all improvements in this version alongside the following: upgrade....

Distribution Release: Linux From Scratch 12.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bruce Dubbs has announced the release of version 12.1 of Linux From Scratch, a project providing a book containing step-by-step instructions to build a custom Linux system from scratch. A separate book called "Beyond Linux From Scratch", which contains instructions for installing and configuring various packages on top....

Distribution Release: Murena 1.20

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Murena project provides an Android-based, mobile operating system which strives to replace Google proprietary apps with open source alternatives along with a range of privacy protecting features. The project's latest release, version 1.20, improves third-party application support, enforces more strict rules on privacy ratings for third-party apps,....

Distribution Release: GParted Live 1.6.0-1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Following the recent new release of the GParted disk partitioning software, the GParted Live distribution has also received an update to version 1.6.0-1. GParted Live is a specialist live CD image designed for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks; it is based on Debian's "unstable" branch. Besides GParted....

Distribution Release: KDE neon 20240228

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Hot on the heals of the KDE 6 MegaRelease announcement comes an updated build of KDE neon. The latest version, labelled as 20240228, continues to be based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, but it integrates the brand-new KDE releases, including Plasma 6, KDE Frameworks 6 and all the applications....

Distribution Release: Kali Linux 2024.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools. The project has published its first snapshot of the year, Kali Linux 2024.1. The release announcement outlines the distribution's latest changes: "Hello 2024! Today we are unveiling Kali Linux 2024.1. As this is our....

Distribution Release: Grml 2024.02

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Grml is a live distribution based on Debian. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. The project's latest release, Grml 2024.02, runs on Linux kernel 6.6 and introduces several new options for the grml-live utility as well as zsh....

Distribution Release: Zentyal Server 8.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Zentyal has announced the release of Zentyal Server 8.0, a major new update of the project's Ubuntu-based server distribution featuring a domain and directory server, native compatibility with MS Active Directory, mail server, and gateway and infrastructure server. A community edition is available for free download, while commercial....

Distribution Release: Tails 6.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. 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's latest release, version 6.0, places a focus on accessing storage and protecting the user from malicious storage devices. "Tails 6.0 warns you about errors....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1059

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Warp terminal with AINews: Canonical's Snap store found to be distributing malware, Red Hat considers updating its CPU requirements, UBports working on VoLTE and backup utilityQuestions and answers: Navigating manual pagesReleased last week: Ubuntu 22.04.4, antiX 23.1, Armbian 24.2.1, Accessible-Coconut 22.04.3, Tiny....

Distribution Release: Tiny Core Linux 15.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Version 15.0 of Tiny Core Linux, an independently-developed, minimalist and modular distribution with community-built extensions, has been released. This latest version ships with Linux kernel 6.6.8 and an updated toolchain, including glibc 2.38: "Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Tiny Core Linux 15.0. Changelog....

Distribution Release: Accessible-Coconut 22.04.3

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Zendalona team, which develops free and open-source accessibility software for visually-impaired users, has release an updated version of Accessible-Coconut, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution with integrated accessibility features. The new version 22.04.3, is based on the latest long-term supported variant of Ubuntu MATE: "It is evident from the....

Distribution Release: Armbian 24.2.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Armbian team has announced the release of Armbian 24.2, the latest version of the project's Debian and Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed primarily for ARM development boards. It supports a large range of popular armhf, aarch64 and riscv64 devices: "We're excited to announce the latest Armbian release, 24.2,....

Distribution Release: antiX 23.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. antiX, a systemd-free Linux distribution based on Debian's "stable" branch, has received a minor update to version 23.1: "antiX 23.1 'Arditi del Popolo' is a bug-fix release based on Debian 'Bookworm'. As usual, we offer completely systemd-free and elogind-free flavours for both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. Features: based....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu 22.04.4

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Ubuntu team has announced an update to the distribution's 22.04 LTS release. The new update, 22.04.4, mostly fixes security bugs and includes a new install image for ARM servers: "As usual, this point release includes many updates and updated installation media has been provided so that fewer....

Development Release: FreeBSD 13.3-BETA3

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The FreeBSD project has released a new development snapshot for FreeBSD 13.3. The new snapshot, BETA 3, updates Sendmail, fixes a kernel panic bug, and corrects an issue with creating RISCV binaries. The release announcement lists the changes since the previous BETA snapshot: "The third BETA build of....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1058

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Drauger OS 7.6News: UBports changes release version scheme, TrueNAS to offer faster deduplication, FreeBSD plans to phase out 32-bit processor support, System76 prepares to launch COSMIC desktopQuestions and answers: How much disk space to allocateReleased last week: SparkyLinux 2024.02, GhostBSD 24.01.1Torrent corner:....

BSD Release: GhostBSD 24.01.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. GhostBSD is a desktop-oriented operating system based on FreeBSD. The project's latest release, GhostBSD 24.01.1, is based on FreeBSD 14-STABLE and changes the way the root and first users are handled at install time. "This new release is based on FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE. Update Station got a significant change....

Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 2024.02

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. SparkyLinux is a lightweight, Debian based distribution which is available in several editions. The project's latest release is from its semi-rolling branch. "This is an update of Sparky semi-rolling ISO images of the Debian Testing line, which provides fixed CLI Installer issue of installing Sparky on Btrfs and....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1057

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Adelie Linux 1.0 BetaNews: Debian works to prepare packages against 2038 bug and updates install media, elementary OS splits application and system updates, Redox makes it easier to port Linux software, Fedora announces Atomic DesktopsQuestions and answers: Rolling release vs fixed for....

Development Release: Grml 2024.02 RC1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Grml is a bootable CD (live CD) based on Debian GNU/Linux. It includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators. The project has published a release candidate which introduces a number of improvements and is based on Debian's Testing "Trixie" branch.....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1056

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: wattOS R13News: Linux Mint faces challenges with Wayland, HardenedBSD offers blocks against foreign USB devices, Damn Small Linux returns, Gentoo publishes x86-64-v3 repository, Linux distributions patch glibc security flawQuestions and answers: Differences in performance between ISO writing toolsReleased last week: OPNsense 24.1,....