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31.03.2026 00:50 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Elive project has pubished a new stable release of its Debian-based distribution featuring the Englightenment desktop. The new version uses Debian 12 as a base and offers both versions 16 and 27 of the Enlightenment interface. "Unique features on this release: OpenRC: Included optional init....

31.03.2026 00:50 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The 4MLinux project has published an update for its lightweight distribution. 4MLinux 51.0 includes a few key changes, including new media playing options. "The status of the 4MLinux 51.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 26.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.7, GIMP 3.0.8,....

30.03.2026 05:01 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: NetBSD jails News: Ubuntu joins Rust Foundation and plans to trim GRUB features, Peppermint works on new utilities, PINE64 showcases new features on open hardware Questions and answers: Publishing new software for Linux Released last week: ML4W OS 2.12.0, Kali Linux 2026.1 Torrent corner: Kali Linux Opinion....

28.03.2026 19:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . François Dupoux has released SystemRescue 13.00, a significant update of the project's Arch-based specialist Linux distribution designed primarily to repair installed systems and to rescue data from damaged drives. This is the distribution's first release that features Linux kernel 6.18, the latest long-term supported kernel branch, and it....

28.03.2026 13:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Elmar Hanlhofer has announced the release of Plop Linux 26.1, an updated build of the project's independently-developed Linux distribution for desktops and servers, designed for advanced Linux users. It is available for the i486, x86_64 and armv6l architectures. The distribution's changelog page provides details about all the recent....

27.03.2026 04:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Edubuntu team, along with other members of the Ubuntu official editions, published a development snapshot for the projects' upcoming 26.04 release. The new beta previews technologies which will appear in the upcoming long-term support release. The Edubuntu release announcement shares highlights for the community edition: "This....

25.03.2026 05:01 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Kali Linux team has published a new version of its distribution with the launch of Kali Linux 2026.1. The new version includes a classic theme which makes the desktop resemble the project's first release, which happened 20 years ago. There are also several new tools included in....

23.03.2026 14:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Stephan Raabe has published a new version of ML4W OS, an Arch Linux-based distribution featuring a heavily customised Hyprland tiling compositor and with advanced configuration of Hyprland using its "dotfiles". The new release, version 2.12.0, delivers a new Welcome App, several new keybindings and a variety of minor....

23.03.2026 03:20 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Argent Linux 1.5.3 News: Manjaro team goes on strike, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA driver support and introduces RISC-V packages, systemd introduces age tracking Questions and answers: Disk space required by Linux Released last week: Peropesis 3.2, Asahi Linux 43, Parted Magic 2026_03_20, Emmabuntus DE6-1.01, antiX 26,....

22.03.2026 16:01 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Arne Exton has announced the release of an updated build in the "ExLight" branch of Exton Linux. Based on Debian 13, it features the Enlightenment 0.27.1 window manager: "I've made a new version of ExLight with the Enlightenment 0.27.1 desktop environment, Refracta Snapshot (to create your own Debian....

21.03.2026 18:03 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The antiX project has published a new stable release, version 26, which offers five init implementation options and several window managers. "antiX 26 'Stephen Kapos' is a new release based on Debian 'Trixie' and which includes 5 init systems . The default init....

21.03.2026 01:42 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Emmabuntüs project has published an update to its Debian Edition 6 branch, which is based on Debian 13 "Trixie". The new release splits the distribution into two editions: Core and Full. "The Emmabuntüs Collective is pleased to announce the release, on March 20, 2026, of the update....

21.03.2026 01:42 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The first beta release of Mageia 10, the upcoming major update of the project's general-purpose desktop Linux distribution, is now available for download and testing. It comes with Linux kernel 6.18, KDE Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49. "Having been approved by the Council, the Mageia 10 beta 1....

21.03.2026 01:42 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Parted Magic project has published a new version, 2026_03_20, which introduces new tools. "This is the most significant release of Parted Magic since the introduction of the original Secure Erase GUI in 2013. The new Secure Erase GUI addresses the full range of compliance gaps and feature....

18.03.2026 19:24 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Asahi Linux is an open-source project that ports Fedora to Apple computers that use Apple's Silicon-powered processors. The project's latest version is Fedora Asahi Remix 43. "We are happy to announce the general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 43. This release brings Fedora Linux 43 to Apple....