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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Qubes project has a new stable release, Qubes OS 4.3.0, which updates the project's templates for Fedora, Debian and Whonix. The release announcement shares the key changes: "We're pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes OS 4.3.0. This minor release includes a host of new features,....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Barry Kauler has announced the release of EasyOS 7.1, an updated build of the project's experimental Linux distribution built from Devuan: "woofQ2-built EasyOS has version numbering starting from 7.0. It is built from Devuan 'Excalibur' (equivalent to Debian 'Trixie') binary packages, with major structural changes, including based on....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Synex distribution is based on Debian's "Stable" branch and offers a range of desktop variant along with a specialist server edition. Synex 13 "Server" offers predictable networking settings and a custom storage manager which simplifies LVM and encryption management. "ServerHub continues as the modular framework for enterprise....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Chimera Linux is an independent distribution which uses an unusual combination of technologies behind the scenes. Chimera Linux uses BSD userland command-line tools, the Clang/LLVM compiler toolchain, Dinit for service management, and APK for package management. The project's latest snapshot introduces a text-based system installer: "This set has....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Linux Mint team have announced the availability of Linux Mint 22.3 beta. The new development snapshot introduces Cinnamon 6.6 with several small improvements along with a new troubleshooting application. "Linux Mint 22.3 is a long-term support release which will be supported until 2029. It comes with updated....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. RELIANOID, a specialist Debian-based server distribution with network load balancing features to avoid single points of failure, has been updated to version 7.8.0. The new version upgrades the base system to Debian 12 and brings various improvements to its web-based user interface. "RELIANOID 7.8.0 Community Edition represents a....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Mabox Linux team has announced the release of Mabox Linux 25.12. The new version includes a series of updates and improvements to the desktop, volume controls, and introduces autotheming to the live session. "The panel configuration menu was recently enhanced to allow for quick configuration of the....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution which offers a rolling-release upgrade approach. the project's latest snapshot improves on its Lomiri interface support and makes Lomiri available for its PINE64 devices: "As mentioned previously, our collaboration with UBPorts stipulated that we would be assisting in the development of Lomiri....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The MidnightBSD project has announced a new major release, version 4.0, which is available for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 machines. A long list of changes to the base platform and ports collection are covered in the release notes: "Removed libdispatch from base. rc.subr(8) now honors ${name}_env in all....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Kicksecure team has announced the availability of a new version of its security-focused, Debian-based distribution. The new version switches from using the Xfce desktop by default to running LXQt and the base system has been updated to use Debian 13. "port to Debian 13 'Trixie' ram-wipe -....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Emmabuntüs project has announced a new version of their Debian-based distribution. The new release is based on Debian 13 and places a focus on accessibility options: "This new version of our distribution mainly focuses on accessibility improvements, developed as part of our collaboration with our friends at....

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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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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....