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| 2025-10-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Planeta Tecno OS 7 |
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Pablo Arreche has announced the release of a brand-new version of Planeta Tecno OS, a Uruguayan Linux distribution based on Debian 12, with MATE as the default desktop and a variety of artificial intelligence tools integrated into the desktop. "Today we officially present an improved version of Planeta Tecno OS 7. It brings many updates to performance, interface, tools (including a brand-new launch). These new features are based on the various tests I've conducted and also on the contributions made by the community through comments, reviews, information and queries via this website, the YouTube channel and our social media accounts. Therefore, this is a version that, more than ever, is based on user requests and needs. Below I'll discuss the main changes and their motivations. The first thing you notice when you log in is the new environment. For the first time, we're leaving Xfce and switching to MATE, which is, of course, quite customized. The reason for the change? There are several factors, but we can summarize them as follows: performance - the overall system speed and responsiveness are noticeable; lightness - lower RAM usage in idle mode and also when under heavy workload...." Read the detailed release announcement (in Spanish) for further information. Download: planetatecno_os-7.iso (4,519MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2025-10-24 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Vinari OS 5.0.0 |
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Javier Vintimlla has announced the release of Vinari OS 5.0.0, the latest version of the project's a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and featuring a customised GNOME desktop. Code-named "Krypton", Vinari OS 5.0.0 is the first release that is based on Debian 13. The changelog provides a list of important changes since version 4.0.0: "Debian base is 13.1 'Trixie' now; the Linux kernel has been updated to version 6.12.48; the libwayland-client0 package has been updated to version 1.23.1; the libwayland-server0 package has been updated to version 1.23.1; the PipeWire package has been updated to version 1.4.2; the WirePlumber package has been updated to version 0.5.8; the GNOME desktop environment has been updated to version 48.4; vinari-os-cli-coreutils has been updated to version 5.0.0; Firefox has been updated to version 144.0; Drawing has been updated to version 1.0.2; Geary has been updated to version 46.0; LibreOffice has been updated to version 25.8.2; Eye of GNOME has been deprecated; Loupe has been installed (version 48.1); Ruby has been updated to version 3.3.8; Python has been updated to version 3.13.5; GCC has been updated to version 14.2.0; Dos2Unix has been updated to version 7.5.2...." Vinari OS 5.0.0 is available for download from SourceForge: Vinari-OS-5.0.0-KRYPTON-amd64.iso (2,457MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2025-10-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: HydraPWK GNU/Linux 2025.03 |
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HydraPWK 2025.03 has been released. HydraPWK GNU/Linux, based on Debian's "Testing" branch, is a live distribution designed primarily for penetration testing and security auditing. It contains a collection of penetration testing tools, including tools for information gathering, scanning, stress testing, exploitation, cracking, reversing engineering and forensics. "Today HydraPWK released a new version of HydraPWK, say hello to HydraPWK 2025.03 'Apes'. The best things is, now HydraPWK is defensive too. In other words, the focus isn't just on penetration testing, HydraPWK is now a security auditing toolkit. HydraPWK still the same one-task-one-tool philosophy and all the tools on HydraPWK are curated tools. All the tools we choose are based on real-world use cases. What's new? Updated logo; new tools - Arkime, Elasticsearch; new Polkitd rules; desktop changes; update recommended minimal hardware requirements; tools documentation page; update HydraPWK using a fresh ISO image or APT." Read the release announcement for more information. Download (MD5): hydrapwk-2025.03.251004164-apes-amd64.iso (4,653MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-10-22 |
NEW • BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.8 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 7.8, the latest of the regular biannual updates of the project's free, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. This version adds support for Raspberry Pi 5, among many other changes: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 7.8. This is our 59th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of thirty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 7.8 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system: added support for Raspberry Pi 5 (with console on serial port); implement acpicpu(4) for arm64; on Apple variants, enter DDB when exuart(4) detects a BREAK; on arm64 and riscv64, avoid multiple threads of a process continuously faulting on a single page when pmap_enter(9) is asked to enter a mapping that already exists; make apm and hw.cpuspeed work on Snapdragon X Elite machines; fix processing of GPIO events for pin numbers less than 256 with an _EVT method, fixes power button on various ThinkPads with AMD CPUs...." Continue to the release announcement for a full list of changes and improvements. Download (mirrors, pkglist): amd64/install78.iso (774MB, SHA256, signature), arm64/install78.iso (597MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install78.iso (470MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2025-10-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Ultramarine Linux 42 |
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The developers of Ultramarine Linux, a set Fedora-based distributions with a choice of Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce desktops, have announced the release of Ultramarine Linux 42. The new version, based on Fedora 42, brings improvements to the Taidan input method editor and hardware acceleration for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL): "We've put a lot of time into Taidan, our out-of-the-box experience, in Ultramarine 42. It's really matured into a polished and useful tool. We hope to land some more features in Ultramarine 44 this year, so stay tuned to that. Windows Subsystem for Linux users now have hardware acceleration. This means you can run apps inside Ultramarine inside Windows using the GPU from your real device. Hope you have fun with this one. Due to maintenance burden and conflicts, collaboration between Terra and Repology has ended starting in Terra 42. Specifically, Repology requires all Terra sources to be fully accessible via a predictable URL format." Read the full release announcement for more information and for the project's upcoming plans. Download links (pkglist): ultramarine-flagship-42-live-anaconda-x86_64.iso (3,340MB, SHA256), ultramarine-gnome-42-live-anaconda-x86_64.iso (3,144MB, SHA256), ultramarine-plasma-42-live-anaconda-x86_64.iso (3,673MB, SHA256), ultramarine-xfce-42-live-anaconda-x86_64.iso (3,294MB, SHA256). |
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| 2025-10-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 |
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Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based distribution for duplicating and restoring disk images and partitions. The distribution has published an update to its Stable branch which includes a new kernel with new hardware support and updates to its key utilities. "The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2025/Oct/17). The Linux kernel was updated to 6.16.12-1. Partclone was updated to 0.3.38, which includes a fix for a btrfs-related issue. Added a new program, ocs-blkdev-sorter, which allows udev to create Clonezilla alias block devices in /dev/ocs-disks/. This is used by the udev rule 99-ocs-sorted-disks.rules. Added the "-uoab" option to ocs-sr and ocs-live-feed-img to support selecting Clonezilla alias block device names in the TUI. This experimental feature addresses the random ordering of kernel block devices and can currently only be enabled via a command-line parameter. Improved the performance of ocs-get-dev-info. Improved ocs-blk-dev-info to ensure 'jq' works correctly in some cases and to increase efficiency. Added ocs-cmd-screen-sample, which can be used with the "run again" script. It works with screen, tmux, and the console." Additional details can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download (MD5): clonezilla-live-3.3.0-33-amd64.iso (476MB, pkglist). |
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| 2025-10-20 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1144 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Kubuntu 25.10
- News: Fedora community debates inclusion of AI, Free Software Foundation plans to bring free software drivers to select mobile devices, ReactOS addresses newer drivers, Xubuntu reacts to attack
- Tips and tricks: Creating and restoring encrypted backups
- Released last week: Peppermint OS 2025-10-12, FunOS 25.10, Linux Mint 7 "LMDE", Zorin OS 18, Mobian 13.0, AnduinOS 1.4.0
- Torrent corner: AnduinOS, KDE neon, Linux Mint, Tails
- Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3
- Opinion poll: Encrypted backups
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-10-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: AnduinOS 1.4.0 |
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The AnduinOS team has announced the release of AnduinOS 1.4.0, the latest version of the project's Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that offers a familiar and easy-to-use experience for anyone moving to Linux. The new version is based on Ubuntu 25.10 and uses GNOME 49 as the preferred desktop. "AnduinOS has always been built on Ubuntu and one of our core commitments is to keep pace with Ubuntu's release cycle. Whenever a new version of Ubuntu is released, we synchronously roll out a new version of AnduinOS. Now, just over a month after the release of Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing', this version brings a massive number of user experience improvements, such as the complete removal of X11, the new Pytxis terminal, GNOME 49, Linux 6.17, and sudo-rs, among others. These exciting changes significantly enhance the user experience and now, they have fully landed in AnduinOS. Therefore, we are extremely proud to announce the official release of AnduinOS 1.4. This version is built on the latest compilation of Ubuntu 25.10 and is designed to catch up with the latest upstream changes." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information and upgrade instructions. The project provides separate ISO images localised into each of the 22 supported languages; here is a quick link to download the "en_US" variant: AnduinOS-1.4.0-en_US.iso (2,045MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-10-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Mobian 13.0 |
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The Mobian team has announced the release of Mobian 13.0, a major update of the project's port of the Debian distribution, running the mainline Linux kernel, to smartphones and tablets. It comes in two user interface variants (Phosh and Plasma Mobile) and is available for various popular devices as well as standard 64-bit computers. "Over two years in the making, and with a small delay following the Debian release, we're proud to finally announce that Mobian 'Trixie' has just been released and is therefore our new stable. This release offers images based on Phosh 46.0 and Plasma Mobile 6.3, running a 6.12 kernel for almost all supported devices (the Librem 5 is still using a 6.6 kernel), the list of which is growing as we now provide stable images for the following phones and tablets: PINE64 PinePhone, PinePhone Pro and PineTab, Purism Librem 5, Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL, OnePlus 6 and 6T, Xiaomi Pocophone F1. 'Trixie' images are also available for the following devices, although important hardware features (such as e.g. WiFi or audio) are not working: Fairphone 4 and 5, PINE64 PineTab 2, SHIFT6mq." Read the release announcement and the installation instructions for more information. Here are the download links for the x86_64 architecture (pkglist): mobian-amd64-phosh-13.0.img.xz (2,022MB, SHA256, signature), mobian-amd64-plasma-mobile-13.0.img.xz (2,137MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2025-10-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Zorin OS 18 |
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The Zorin OS distribution has a new update and a new look. Zorin OS 18 features new themes, new layouts, OneDrive integration, and includes a Web Apps tool to integrate web-based software into the desktop. It also includes a new, improved way to tile application windows: "Multitasking just got a whole lot better. Zorin OS 18 introduces a powerful new default window tiling manager that helps you work more efficiently, while being simple to use. Simply drag a window to the top of the screen, and a pop-up will appear where you can drop it on one of the predefined layouts to arrange your windows. It’s that easy, no need to memorise complex keyboard shortcuts. Create your own tiling layouts. Customise tiling behaviour from Zorin Appearance, Windows, Advanced Window Tiling. Enable optional auto tiling and smart window suggestions. Use powerful key bindings and set custom keyboard shortcuts. This feature makes advanced window tiling intuitive for both newcomers and power users, boosting productivity for everyone." Additional information and screenshots can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA256, pkglist): Zorin-OS-18-Core-64-bit.iso (3,608MB), Zorin-OS-18-Education-64-bit.iso (7,655MB). |
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| 2025-10-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Linux Mint 7 "LMDE" |
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The Linux Mint project has announced the release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7, codename "Gigi". The new release is based on Debian 13 "Trixie" and includes the same Cinnamon desktop and applications as the regular, Ubuntu-based Linux Mint edition. "The team is proud to announce the release of LMDE 7 'Gigi'. LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for 'Linux Mint Debian Edition'. Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is also one of our development targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu. LMDE aims to be as similar as possible to Linux Mint, but without using Ubuntu. The package base is provided by Debian instead. Important info: the release notes provide important information about known issues, as well as explanations, workarounds and solutions. Linux Mint 7 comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable." Additional information and a link to upgrade instructions for LMDE 6 users can be found in the release announcement. Download: lmde-7-cinnamon-64bit.iso (2,823MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-10-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: FunOS 25.10 |
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A new version of FunOS, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager, is now available. FunOS 25.10 is based on Ubuntu 25.10 and it brings Linux kernel 6.17, new wallpapers and splash screen, and Rust-based system components: "FunOS 25.10 is the latest release of the FunOS GNU/Linux distribution, based on Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka'. This release brings performance improvements, modern system components, and new Rust-based implementations of core system tools for improved security and stability - all while maintaining the lightweight, fast, and elegant experience FunOS is known for. What's new? FunOS 25.10 inherits the stability, updated packages and core improvements from Ubuntu 25.10, with refinements for speed and simplicity; this release ships with the Linux 6.17 kernel, offering enhanced hardware support, improved power efficiency, and performance optimizations for modern processors and GPUs; the latest Firefox Extended-Support Release (ESR) provides a stable and secure web browsing experience, ideal for users who value long-term support and reliability; FunOS 25.10 introduces 5 new wallpapers sourced from Adobe Stock, giving your desktop a fresh and elegant visual style...." Continue to the release announcement for more details. Download (MD5): funos-25.10-stable.20251014.iso (1,958MB, pkglist). |
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What was the goal for White Box Linux? To provide an unencumbered RPM-based Linux distribution that retains enough compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to retain compatibility with their errata SRPMs. Being based off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3.0 means that a machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until October 2008 since RHEL promises errata availability for 5 years from date of initial release. Or more briefly, to fill the gap between Fedora and RHEL. Why was White Box Linux created? Its initial creation was sponsored by the Beauregard Parish Public Library in DeRidder, USA out of self interest. We have several servers and over 50 workstations running Red Hat Linux and were left high and dry by Red Hat's recent shift in business plan. Our choices were a difficult migration to another distribution or paying Red Hat an annual fee greater than the amortized value of our hardware. So we chose a third path, made possible by the power of open source.... White Box Linux.
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