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24.04.2026 05:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Ubuntu Studio team have announced a new version of their media-focused flavour of the Ubuntu family. The new version, 26.04, offers three years of support and continues the evolution path of the previous two long-term support releases: You can trace a clear through-line across recent LTS cycles:....

24.04.2026 01:01 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Ubuntu Cinnamon project has announced the launch of Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04 which ships with version 6.4.13 of the Cinnamon desktop and will receive three years of security updates. The release announcement shares the highlights: "I am proud to announce our latest release: Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.04 Resolute Raccoon!....

24.04.2026 01:01 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Ubuntu Budgie project has published version 26.04 of its Ubuntu community flavour. Ubuntu Budgie 26.04 offers three years of support and makes the leap to a Wayland-only version of the Budgie desktop environment. "Ubuntu Budgie 26.04 LTS is a Long Term Support release, supported for....

24.04.2026 01:01 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Lubuntu project has announced the launch of Lubuntu 26.04. The new long-term support release will receive security updates for three years. Lubuntu 26.04 ships with LXQt 2.3 and migrates some of its low-level program to Rust. "What's new since 24.04 LTS? LXQt 2.3 is now shipped by....

23.04.2026 20:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Canonical has released Ubuntu 26.04 which is a long-term support release. This mean the distribution will receive five years of free support and an optional additional five years of paid support. Many of the key changes in the 26.04 release involve the GNOME desktop, with one significant change....

23.04.2026 20:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Redcore project has published a new version of its Gentoo-based distribution. Redcore Linux 2601 carries the code name 'Vulpecula' and introduces a number of changes behind the scenes, in particular to how the project handles third-party packages. The release announcement reports: "Fully synced with the Gentoo Linux....

23.04.2026 20:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The AlmaLinux project has announced the availability of a development snapshot for AlmaLinux OS 9.8. The new beta offers updated packages, improved security, and packages for Python 3.14. The release announcement shares: "A usual reminder: this is a BETA release. It should not be used for production installations.....

20.04.2026 04:51 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Lakka 6.1 News: FreeBSD Foundation publishes list of compatible laptops, Haiku makes progress on ARM64 port, Mint to extend its development cycle, Linux reaches 7.0 milestone, Debian elects new Project Leader Questions and answers: Free software distributions and source-based distributions Released last week: Raspberry Pi....

18.04.2026 23:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . GhostBSD is a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. The project's latest release, version 26.1, is the first of the GhostBSD series to be based on FreeBSD 15.0. "We are excited to announce the release of GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2. This release marks a major milestone as GhostBSD moves to....

18.04.2026 19:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Solus project has published a new version, Solus 4.9 "Polaris", which introduces a few changes to service management, the installer, and its four desktop editions . "We are now making use of systemd preset files to manage which services are enabled by default.....

17.04.2026 14:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . IceWhale Technology has released ZimaOS 1.6.0, an updated build of the company's independently-developed, Linux-based operating system for personal servers and network-attached storage devices. It features a web-based administration interface and a multi-platform remote access client. "ZimaOS 1.6.0. New: added customizable display for storage devices; added USB class....

16.04.2026 14:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Joshua Webb has announced the release of an updated version of RakuOS, a Fedora-based immutable Linux distribution with a choice of KDE Plasma, GNOME and, newly introduced in this version, COSMIC desktops: "RakuOS Linux 2026.04.15 is a major release and our last major update for the Fedora 43....

16.04.2026 04:22 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Zorin project has published an update to Zorin OS. The latest version of the distribution, Zorin OS 18.1, introduces improved Windows application detection which allows for easy access to native Linux alternatives, the distribution provides tiling window improvements, and updates for the desktop panel. "The panel now....

15.04.2026 04:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Simon Long has announced the release of a new security update of Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for the popular Raspberry Pi single-board computers. The new version, besides bringing the usual range of bug fixes and improvements, also disables the passwordless sudo: "Today we are....

13.04.2026 04:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: pearOS 2026.03 News: Arch Linux adjusts firewall packages, Linux dropping i486 support, Red Hat extends its lifecycle, Debian's APT introduces rollbacks, Redox improves CPU scheduler Questions and answers: Which distributions are adopting age verification? Released last week: deepin 25.1.0 Torrent corner: deepin, Trisquel Upcoming releases: Fedora 44 Opinion....