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News: Jolla is working on a new Linux phone, Germany is saving money with Linux, Ubuntu to package AMD software for AI tasks, Fedora demonstrates how not to use AI tools to manage a system, Haiku ports Go language
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Kali Linux team have announced a new version of their Debian-based distribution. The security and forensics platform includes new updates to the Plasma and GNOME desktops along with better Wayland support for instances running inside virtual machines. "Now that GNOME has moved to only supporting Wayland, and....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2025.12, an updated stable release of the project's Debian-based live Linux system designed of system administrators: "We are proud to announce our new stable release, version 2025.12, code-named 'Postwurfsendung'. Like the previous release, version 2025.08, live ISO images are available....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Pop!_OS 24.04, a major new version of System76's desktop Linux distribution, has been released. Based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support version, Pop!_OS 24.04 is the project's first stable version that ships the COSMIC desktop environment, developed in-house: "If you're ambitious enough, or maybe just crazy enough, there eventually....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Parrot team has announced the availability of a new development snapshot. Parrot 7.0 beta swaps out the MATE desktop for using KDE Plasma by default, while the base distribution has been updated to Debian 13, and several custom applications have received some updates: "This new version introduces....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Univention team has announced the release of Univention Corporate Server 5.2-4. The new version introduces unifies locked account statuses, drops support for PXE Server installs, and introduces some fixes for Keycloak: "As always, the new release contains numerous updates and smaller improvements. A selection: Synchronization of the....

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Review: FreeBSD 15.0
News: Canonical presents plans for Ubuntu 26.04, SparkyLinux publishes updated CDE packages, Redox OS gets modesetting driver
Tips and tricks: Fun command line tricks
Released last week: FreeBSD 15.0, Alpine Linux 3.23.0, GLF OS 26.05, Oracle Linux 10.1, CuerdOS 2.0
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CuerdOS team has released version 2.0 of its Debian-based operating system, upgrading its base to Debian 13 "Trixie" in the process. The new version includes the 6.12 Linux kernel and switches the default web brower to Vivaldi: "Update to the new Debian release: Trixie (13). New Fastfetch....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 10.1, an updated release of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "Oracle Linux 10.1 is now generally available for 64-bit Intel and AMD (x86_64) and 64-bit Arm (aarch64) platforms. This release includes the following....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Gaming Linux FR has announced the release of GLF OS 26.05, code-named "Phoenix", an important update of the project's NixOS-based Linux distribution with focus on desktop computing and gaming. The new version brings updated desktops and system components, Linux kernel 6.17 and various bug fixes: "Say hello to....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Alpine Linux team has announced a new version of its lightweight distribution. The project's latest release, version 3.23.0, introduces a new version of the apk package manager and makes some adjustments to how kernel packages are handled. It also features the new long-term supported Linux kernel, version....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The FreeBSD project has announced the release of FreeBSD 15.0. The new version introduces the option of installing the operating system using the pkg package manager and updates the version of ZFS on the system. "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD....

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Review: Gnoppix AI Linux 25_10
News: openSUSE updates Tumbleweed's boot loader, Fedora plans improved handling of broken packages, KDE Plasma 6.8 to become Wayland-only, FreeBSD publishes status report
Questions and answers: Does the distribution really matter?
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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM (and other) development boards. It is usually based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu. The proejct's latest snapshot is version 25.11.1 and it features a wider range of hardware support and Btrfs boot support.....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The NixOS project has published a new release, NixOS 25.11, which carries the codename Xantusia. The new release offers seven months of support and many updates: "Hey everyone, we are jopejoe1 and Leona Maroni, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS. We are very proud to....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CachyOS project, which develops a highly-optimised, Arch Linux-based distribution with the latest KDE Plasma as the default live desktop, has updated its ISO image to version 251129: "This is our seventh release this year, bringing better accessibility, changes to mkinitcpio, and more. First, we are pleased to....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Solus project has published a snapshot of its rolling release distribution. The new version, labelled 4.8, replaces the old software centre, does away with Python 2, and completes the usr-merge process. "In October, we made the jump to a new epoch, the final chapter of our Usr-Merge....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The 4MLinux project has announced a new release of the minimal distribution. 4MLinux 50.0 includes package updates, new games and new file managers. "As always, the new major release has some new features. Support for webcam devices has been greatly improved (via Zbar and V4L2 Viewer). Old (yet....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Bryan Poerwo has announced the release of a brand-new version of EndeavourOS, an Arch Linux-based distribution with a customised KDE Plasma as the default desktop and the Calamares system installer. This new release carries the code name "Ganymede": "The long wait is over, Ganymede has arrived. The live....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Glen MacArthur has announced the release of AV Linux MXE-25, a major update of the project's MX Linux-based distribution designed primarily for content creators, with Enlightenment as the default desktop user interface. The new version is based on the recently-released MX Linux 25. Additionally, a brand-new flavour, called....