The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Emmabuntüs project has published a new update with a focus on improving accessibility options and features. "Our goal was to preserve the spirit of this approach: making accessibility features immediately available without requiring users to memorize numerous keyboard shortcuts. Easy Menu: one key for simple access to....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The openSUSE project has published a new release candidate for the upcoming Leap 16.1 release. Among the various changes is a new immutable mode for Leap: "Leap 16.1 is the first Leap release to offer an Immutable Mode, a transactionally updated system with a read-only root filesystem. This....

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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The NetBSD project has announced the release of NetBSD 10.2, which introduces several fixes and small improvements to the highly portable operating system. "Changes since NetBSD 10.1 - Userspace: calendars: updated dates of moving holidays for 2026. build.sh: fixed various compilation issues with newer GCC versions. build.sh: add....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Univention project has published an update for Univention Corporate Server which introduces new security options, selecting password hashes, performing Keycloak monitoring and simplifies managing Microsoft 365 Classroom tools. "The latest patch-level release of Univention Corporate Server bundles all new features and improvements from the past months onto....

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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The MX Linux project has published a new update to the 25.x series. Along with importing new security fixes and firmware from its Debian parent, the MX Linux project includes a number of new changes: "On the MX side, we have pushed most of our updates as we’ve....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live distribution containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software. The project's latest release, version 3.3.3-37, includes several updates from its parent, along with new boot options: "The underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid'....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Parted Magic project has published a new release. The new version, 26.09, has moved its base from Slackware 15.0 to Slackware's development (Current) branch. The release announcement, available on the distribution's news page states: "There is a new disk cloner in this release. Wipe Free Space has....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The AlmaLinux project has published a new beta snapshot for the 9.x series. "AlmaLinux 9.9 beta introduces new compiler toolsets, new module streams, and improved security. This release adds GCC Toolset 16 alongside updated LLVM and Rust toolsets and brings Node.js 26 and PHP 8.4 as new module....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Simon Long has announced the release of a new feature update of Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for the Raspberry Pi range of single-board computers. The latest version brings an updated look for the Raspberry Pi Desktop and also introduces a new icon dock: "Today....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Fedora project has announced the release of a development snapshot, Fedora 45 beta. The new release introduces new security features and package upgrades: "Fedora Linux 45 replaces the legacy in-kernel console with kmscon, bringing smooth rendering, better Unicode/font support, and enhanced system stability. Fedora Linux 45 now....

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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Utkarsh Gupta has announced an update to the Ubuntu 24.04 long-term support (LTS) branch of Canonical's operating system. The new update, version 24.04.5, introduces fixes and improvements: "Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS, code-named 'Noble Numbat', is here. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, together with the....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Spaced Linux 9.26 has been released. Spaced Linux is a desktop Linux distribution based on Devuan's "Unstable" branch and featuring the MATE desktop environment with the Compiz compositing window manager. "Spaced Linux 9.26 is a major production release focused on upgrade reliability, graphics-driver recovery, desktop startup resilience, signed....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The FreeBSD project has published an update to FreeBSD's 14.x series. The new version, 14.5, provides several fixes and introduces some changes to the userland utilities. "The rc.firewall script now supports reading IP addresses or subnets from on-disk files for the firewall_allowservices and firewall_trusted list variables. Elements that....

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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The NetBSD project has announced the fifth and final update to the NetBSD 9.x series. The NetBSD 9 series will no longer receive security updates. "Announcing NetBSD 9.5. Note: this will be the final release from the netbsd-9 stable branch and also marks the end-of-support for this branch.....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Zenwalk GNU Linux is a Slackware-based desktop distribution. The project's latest snapshot integrates Flatpak support and includes version 7.1.7 of the Linux kernel. "One of the improvements in this milestone is the integration of native Flatpak support directly into the Zenwalk desktop. Flatpak is installed and configured out....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Talos Linux, an independently-developed Linux distribution designed specifically for running Kubernetes (an engine for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications), has been updated to version 1.14.0. The news release enables support for DNS over TLS and HTTPS, and adds Btrfs as a new filesystem option: "Welcome....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Grml is a Debian-based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. The project's latest version is Grml 2026.09 which is based on Debian's Testing branch, known at the time of writing as Forky. "The 2026.09 release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing/forky. As usual it....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project has announced the release of Linux From Scratch 13.1, a document which will assist people in building their own distribution from source code. This version of LFS includes Linux kernel 7.1.8, glibc 2.44 and GCC 16.2.0. "The Linux From Scratch community announces....

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Released last week: Vanilla OS 3, Armbian 26.8, NawaOS 2.0, Butterbian 0.4.0, Ubuntu 26.04.1,....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The ReactOS project develops an open-source operating system which is designed to be compatible with software and drivers created for Microsoft Windows. The project's latest release combines its two editions into one and introduces a new graphical system installer. "We are pleased to announce the release of ReactOS....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Abora OS is general-purpose Linux distribution based on NixOS. The project's latest release, version 2026.08.28 (also tagged as version 4.0.0 and carrying the codename "Everest"), is available in five desktop editions and introduces non-destructive installs onto an existing partition. "Everest ships as five editions: Cosmic, Hyprland, GNOME, KDE....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Liya Linux is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution. The project's latest snapshot, version 2026.08.29, introduces a new versioning scheme, removal of AI content and tools, and a switch from X.Org to XLibre. "AI-generated content and tools have been removed from the default Liya Linux experience. While AI can....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The openKylin project has announced the release of openKylin 3.0, a major upgrade of the project's Linux distribution for desktops and servers, with a custom desktop environment called UKUI and available for x86_64, AArch64 and Loong64 architectures: "OpenAtom openKylin (hereafter referred to as "openKylin") version 3.0 is officially....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The EndeavourOS project has a new release, which is acting as a filler between two major releases. EndeavourOS 2026.08.15 "Titan Nova" fixes some keyboard setup issues, improves support for NVIDIA GPUs, and removes the Budgie desktop environment as an install-time option. "Titan Nova's live environment and offline installer....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Oliver Reiche has announced the release of Ubuntu 26.04.1, an update to the distribution's latest long-term support release. "Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, code-named 'Resolute Raccoon', is here. This release continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open-source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Butterbian project has announced the availability of Butterbian 0.4.0, the latest stable release of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution with out-of-the-box support for the Btrfs filesystem and pre-configured Timeshift that takes incremental snapshots of the installed filesystem at regular intervals. The new version of the distribution updates....