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21.05.2026 21:50 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products based on Debian GNU/Linux. One of the products, "Virtual Environment", has received a new update and is based on Debian 13 "Trixie". "Proxmox VE 9.2 is built on the robust Debian 13.5 'Trixie' and ships with Linux kernel 7.0 as....

20.05.2026 17:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Red Hat, Inc. has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8, updated builds in RHEL's current and legacy branches: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 are here, evolving the operating system from a foundation to a powerful engine for critical applications,....

19.05.2026 23:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Aleksey Samoilov has announced the release of TileOS 2.0, a major update of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution featuring several popular Wayland tiling compositors, including Sway and River, as well as the newly-added Qtile, niri and miracle-wm: "Final stable release of TileOS 2.0 'Sauropod'. What's new? The package....

19.05.2026 23:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Marja Van Waes has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Mageia 10, the upcoming major update of the project's general-purpose desktop Linux distribution: "You may have noticed that Mageia 10 RC1 was released a few days ago. It contains the new Mageia 10 artwork, like....

19.05.2026 18:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The OpenBSD project, which developes a famously security-oriented operating system, has published OpenBSD 7.9. The new version features several improvements to scheduling, LibreSSL 4.3.0, and many fixes for tmux. The project has also introduced new features and fixes for the OpenSSH utilities: "ssh : validation of shell metacharacters in....

19.05.2026 05:11 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Nixovena Linux AI Labs has announced the release of Zenclora OS 3.0, the latest version of the project's desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and featuring a unified package management system called Zen Package Manager . This release offers two desktop variants - GNOME and....

19.05.2026 00:14 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The NetHydra team has announced the release of NetHydra 2026.2. Formerly knowns as HydraPWK GNU/Linux, NetHydra is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a collection of penetration-testing tools, including tools for information gathering, scanning, stress testing, exploitation, cracking, reversing engineering and forensics. Besides the standard edition called NetHydra "Express",....

18.05.2026 10:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Sylve on FreeBSD News: Debian commits to reproducible builds, Debian publishes updated install media, Haiku introduces SMP support on ARM64 processors, Rocky Linux creates opt-in security repository, Fedora reconsiders AI tools, KDE receives generous donation Questions and answers: The benefit of BleachBit Released last week:....

17.05.2026 05:31 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Shasheen Ediriweera has announced the release of Rescuezilla 2.6.2, the latest version of the project's Ubuntu-based specialist distribution with tools for system recovery. This version is based on Ubuntu 26.04. From the changelog: "Adds release based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute' for best support of new hardware; the....

17.05.2026 00:41 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . RakuOS is an immutable Linux distribution based on Fedora, with a choice of KDE Plasma, GNOME and COSMIC desktops. The project's latest release is based on Fedora 44 and introduces some key changes. "The old behavior : On every image update, your overlay was wiped. The....

13.05.2026 14:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Aditya Shakya has announced the release Archcraft 2026.05.12, an updated build of the project's lightweight, rolling-release distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring the Openbox and bspwm window managers. From the release announcement: "May 2026 ISO image of Archcraft is now available to download. Changelog: updated ISO profile....

13.05.2026 04:31 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Lime Technology, Inc. has announced the release of Unraid OS 7.3.0, the latest version of the company's Linux-based commercial operating system designed for Network-Attached Storage deployments. The new version brings critical security updates and a redesigned onboarding wizard for new installations: "New users getting started with 7.3.0....

11.05.2026 10:33 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Fedora 44 News: Fedora plans to provide AI tools, problems with Ubuntu's new coreutils, TrueNAS extends development cycle, postmarketOS improves boot splash screen, Redox ports tmux Questions and answers: What to do about all the extra fonts? Released last week: OmniOS r151058, Omarchy 3.7.0, Parrot....

10.05.2026 07:30 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The UBports developers have announced the latest version of their project's continuation of the Ubuntu Touch operating system. Version 24.04-1.3 introduces a number of fixes and improves the handling of X11 desktop applications. "Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is a maintenance release of the 24.04-1.x series. This release contains mostly....

09.05.2026 18:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Parrot project has announced the availability of Parrot 7.2. The new version of the Debian-based Linux distribution includes a fix for the Copy Fail Linux kernel exploit, automates handling of Flatpak updates, and applies updates from the upstream Debian branch. "Parrot 7.2 released. Significant updates have also....