Distribution Release: Voyager Live 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Voyager Live is an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce and GNOME desktop environments. The project's latest release is version 24.04 which is supported through until April of 2029. "This version is based on the Linux 6.8 kernel and Ubuntu 'Noble Numbat' distribution. 24.04 is a five year LTS....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Ubuntu Kylin is an official Ubuntu flavour whose primary goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu optimised for Chinese users (using the Simplified Chinese writing system), although it also supports other languages. The project's 24.04 release includes a number of improvements in the kernel to improve performance....

Distribution Release: Edubuntu 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Erich Eickmeyer has announced the release of Edubuntu 24.04, a special edition of Ubuntu with focus on education. The new release brings a new minimal install option and support for the Raspberry Pi 5 boards, among many other improvements: "We are pleased to announce the release of Edubuntu....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Unity 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Ubuntu Unity is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the Unity7 desktop environment, the former default desktop of Ubuntu. The project has published Ubuntu Unity 24.04, "Noble Numbat" which has swapped out the Ubiquity system installer for Calamares. "We've moved over to Calamares as the installer included in the....

Distribution Release: Kubuntu 24.10

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Aaron Honeycutt has announced that Kubuntu 24.04, a popular member of the Ubuntu family of distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop, has been released. Despite the KDE project's recent release of Plasma 6, the new Kubuntu continues with a tried-and-tested Plasma 5.27 as the default desktop: "The Kubuntu....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Studio 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Erich Eickmeyer has announced the release of Ubuntu Studio 24.04, a new version of this specialist Ubuntu variant preinstalled with a selection of the most common free multimedia applications available. The new release introduces Pipewire 1.0 as the default multimedia server. "The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Budgie 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Nikola Stojic has announced the release of Ubuntu Budgie 24.04. The new release updates the Budgie desktop to version 10.9.1, which brings a broad range of improvements to the desktop, the Budgie control centre. It also introduces various new applets and mini-apps for an enhanced desktop experience. "We....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Ubuntu Cinnamon project has announced the release of Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04, a long-term support (LTS) release. The new version includes Cinnamon 6.0, offers Nemo Actions (along with other Cinnamon spices), and experimental support for Wayland. "I'm proud to present the latest version of Ubuntu Cinnamon – 24.04....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu MATE 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Ubuntu MATE distribution provides the classic MATE desktop environment on top of an Ubuntu base. The project's latest release, version 24.04, ships with MATE 1.26.2 and a new system installer. The release announcement shares the following key changes: "What changed since the Ubuntu MATE 23.10? Here are....

Distribution Release: Xubuntu 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Xubuntu project develops a community edition of Ubuntu featuring the Xfce desktop. The project's latest release introduces a Minimal edition option, swaps out GNOME Software for the Snap Store, and uses Pipewire for handling audio. "Xfce 4.18 is included and well-polished since it’s initial release in December....

Distribution Release: Lubuntu 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Lubuntu is an Ubuntu-based distribution which features the LXQt desktop environment. The project's latest release re-introduces an OEM install option, features a new installer prompt, and provides three install modes: Full, Normal, and Minimal. Minimal provides just a desktop environment with bare essentials, no web browser, and no....

Distribution Release: Ubuntu 24.04

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Utkarsh Gupta has announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04, a long-term support (LTS) release. The latest version of Ubuntu carries the code name "Noble Numbat" and introduces the Subiquity system installer along with ZFS support and GNOME 46. "Our 10th Long Term Supported release sets a new standard....

Distribution Release: OSMC 2024.04-1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Sam Nazarko has announced the release of OSMC 2024.04-1, an open-source media center distribution based on Debian's stable branch and featuring the popular Kodi home theatre software. This release updates Kodi to version 20.5. "We've been working hard to improve OSMC for all platforms and keep things....

Distribution Release: Proxmox 8.2 "Virtual Environment"

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products based on Debian GNU/Linux. The distribution's latest release is Proxmox 8.2 "Virtual Envionment" which is based on Debian 12.5 and includes built-in support for ZFS. "We are excited to announce that our latest software version 8.2 for Proxmox Virtual Environment....

Distribution Release: TrueNAS 24.04.0 "SCALE"

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Pee Jay Latombo has announced the availability of TrueNAS SCALE 24.04, a major new update of iXsystems's specialist, Debian-based distribution designed for NAS (network-attached storage) computers. This release adds new SMB and NFS status pages for active session monitoring and administration: "After a successful beta release and the....

Distribution Release: EndeavourOS 2024.04.20

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bryan Poerwo has announced the release of EndeavourOS 2024.04.20, code-named "Gemini", a major update of the project's desktop Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. This release features KDE Plasma 6, a choice of X11 or Wayland display servers and a Calamares installer ported to the Qt 6 toolkit:....

Distribution Release: Fedora 40

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Matthew Miller has announced the release of Fedora 40. The new release features GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6, and PyTorch for deep learning tasks. The release announcement shares the highlights: "Fedora Workstation Edition features the GNOME desktop environment, now updated to version 46. Check out What's New in....

BSD Release: NetBSD 9.4

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The developers of the highly portable NetBSD operating system have announced the release of an update to their NetBSD 9.x branch. The new NetBSD 9.4 release mostly contains bug fixes and minor upgrades. The project has also issued a warning about the 9.4 release containing an out of....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1067

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: LocalSend - sharing files on a local networkNews: New visual design for APT, Fedora moves closer to being reproducible, openSUSE reaches new reproducible milestone, LXQt 2.0.0 released, AlmaLinux re-adds hardware support removed from RHELQuestions and answers: Detecting supported architecturesReleased last week: KANOTIX....

Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 3.1.2-22

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Clonezilla Live distribution provides disk and partition cloning tools through a live DVD/USB platform. The project's latest release introduces kernel upgrades and reverts the xz package to an older, safe version. "This release of Clonezilla Live (3.1.2-22) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes from....

Distribution Release: KANOTIX 2024

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. KANOTIX is a Linux distribution based on the latest stable release of Debian and available in KDE and LXDE flavours. The project's latest snapshot, KANOTIX 2024, is based on Debian 12. "For Easter 2024 there were new KANOTIX 'Slowfire' ISO images based on Debian 12 'Bookworm'. All editions....

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....