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Ubuntu Kylin
Ubuntu Kylin is an official Ubuntu flavour whose primary goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu optimised for Chinese users (using the Simplified Chinese writing system), although it also supports other languages. The default desktop is called UKUI (Universal Kylin User Interface) which is based on MATE desktop and is developed with the Qt toolkit. UKUI strives to adhere to the friendly-and-simple design concept. The distribution also includes more than 20 applications developed in-house, including Kylin Assistant, Kylin Video, Kylin Screenshots and Software Center.
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| 2025-03-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Finnix 250 |
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The Finnix distribution is a small, self-contained, bootable live Linux distribution for system administrators, based on Debian. The project's latest version is Finnix 250 which marks the project's 25th anniversary. The project's release announcement reports: "Today is a very special day: March 22 is the 25 year anniversary of the first public release of Finnix, the oldest live Linux distribution still in production. Finnix 0.03 was released on March 22, 2000, and to celebrate this anniversary, I'm proud to announce the 35th Finnix release, Finnix 250! Besides the continuing trend of Finnix version number inflation (the previous release was Finnix 126), Finnix 250 is simply a solid regular release, with the following notes: Linux kernel 6.12 (Debian 6.12.17-1); made automatic per-user shared ssh-agent functionality more reliable; added packages: util-linux-extra; Removed packages: reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs (ReiserFS removed from Linux kernel); boot initramfs now checks for build-specific media (will no longer load the first thing it sees which looks vaguely Finnix-like); htop display improvements (primarily better display of large numbers of CPU cores); upstream Debian package updates; many minor fixes and improvements." Download (SHA256): finnix-250.iso (528MB, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-03-21 |
NEW • OS Release: ReactOS 0.4.15 |
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ReactOS is an open source operating system which seeks to be binary compatible with Microsoft Windows. The project has published a new release, version 0.4.15, which includes improvements across all aspects of the operating system. One of the key improvements is with plug and play devices: "Victor Perevertkin (Extravert-ir) has accomplished major rewrites to the Plug and Play Manager in the ReactOS kernel. With these changes, ReactOS now has the ability to run more third party drivers and to boot from USB devices. This also allows ReactOS to boot on chipsets with EHCI, OHCI, and UHCI controllers. This work is a stepping stone to ReactOS being truly compatible with vendor drivers for the Windows operating system. Johannes Anderwald (janderwald) solved an issue where the USB driver would enter an infinite loop when a USB device would not enter the ready state. Fixing this infinite loop allowed ReactOS to boot on more hardware. Thanks to the work of Oleg Dubinskiy, 0.4.15 features many audio improvements. Oleg added support for more audio formats, looped playback of wave files, higher sample rates, and multiple output channels. In addition, Victor Perevertkin imported the open source AC’97 driver from the Windows Driver Kit (WDK)." Additional information is provided in the release announcement. Download (MD5: ReactOS-0.4.15-x86-iso.zip (105MB), ReactOS-0.4.15-x86-live.zip (74MB). |
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| 2025-03-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Kali Linux 2025.1a |
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Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools. The project's latest release, Kali Linux 2025.1a, ships with a new theme and key desktop upgrades, including a jump to Xfce 4.20 and KDE Plasma 6. "After a long wait, we are excited to announce that Plasma 6 is finally available in Kali, specifically version 6.2. This is a major update, as the previous version included in Kali was Plasma 5.27, making the scope of changes difficult to summarize. For a more in - depth look at each release, check out the official announcements: 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2. On our end, we have updated all themes to align with the new environment, featuring refreshed window and desktop visuals. And our favorite new addition from KDE? Floating panels! Our default desktop environment, Xfce, has also had a minor software bump from 4.18 to 4.20. Two years of development has gone this, which was formally released on December 15, 2024. It is the stable series follow-up to the Xfce 4.18 release that made its debut during Christmas of 2022 (Kali 2023.1)." Additional details and screenshots can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256, pkglist): kali-linux-2025.1a-installer-amd64.iso (4,233MB, torrent), kali-linux-2025.1a-installer-netinst-amd64.iso (607MB, torrent). |
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| 2025-03-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: elementary OS 8.0.1 |
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Danielle Foré has announced the release of elementary OS 8.0.1, an updated build of the project's beginner-friendly Linux distribution featuring a custom desktop called Pantheon. This is largely a bug-fix release; it is based on Ubuntu 24.04.2 and it ships with the Linux 6.11 kernel: "It has been a little over 100 days since elementary OS 8 was released and we're proud to announce another round of updates, including a fresh new download. ... We now properly use dark mode brand colors and dark mode screenshots. Plus, when developers provide screenshots for multiple desktop environments, we now prefer the ones intended for our desktop environment, Pantheon. We support the new 'Developer' AppStream tag. And we now support the contribute URL type. System Settings now allows configuring its notifications in System Settings, Notifications. You can turn off bubbles if you don't want to receive notifications about updates, for example. We'll also no longer automatically download updates when on metered connections and send a notification instead. Plus we no longer check for updates in Demo mode." Continue to the release announcement for more information and screenshots. Download: elementaryos-8.0-stable.20250314rc.iso (3,111MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2025-03-18 |
NEW • Development Release: Fedora 42 Beta |
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Matthew Miller has announced the release of Fedora 42 beta. One of the big changes with this release cycle is the elevation of the KDE Plasma spin to be on par with the GNOME/Workstation edition. "KDE Plasma desktop has been promoted to edition status starting with Fedora Linux 42 beta. You can expect to continue to enjoy the same level of quality from Fedora KDE Plasma desktop that you always have. In addition, Fedora KDE Plasma desktop is now supported on Power systems (ppc64le). Also, the full KDE stack (including KDE PIM) is now available on Power and we have installable live images for OpenPOWER-based systems like the Talos Workstation from Raptor Systems. We also have a brand new Spin in Fedora Linux 42 beta - introducing the Fedora COSMIC spin. This new Rust-based desktop environment is developed by System76, makers of Pop!_OS. COSMIC has many unique features, such as hybrid per-workspace window/tiling management, window stacks with tabs to switch between windows...." Additional information is provided in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): Fedora-Workstation-Live-42_Beta-1.4.x86_64.iso (2,276MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-42_Beta-1.4.x86_64.iso (2,722MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-42_Beta-1.4.iso (2,792MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2025-03-17 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1113 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: MocaccinoOS 1.8.1
- News: Murena extends its on-line installer, Garuda experiments with COSMIC, incremental improvements to Haiku, Bodhi tries out new desktop theme, Ubuntu to replace coreutils with Rust alternatives, Chimera drops RISC-V builds, Debian publishes 12.10 media
- Questions and answers: How to contribute to open source
- Released last week: FreeBSD 13.5, IPFire 2.29 Core 192, SystemRescue 12.00
- Torrent corner: Debian, Debian Edu, KDE neon, SparkyLinux
- Opinion poll: Do you own any RISC-V powered devices?
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2025-03-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SystemRescue 12.00 |
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François Dupoux has made available a new major release of SystemRescue, an Arch-based specialist Linux distribution for repairing computer systems and rescuing data. SystemRescue 12.00 updates the Linux kernel to the latest long-term supported (LTS) branch, version 6.12.19, while the included Firefox web browser was brought to version 128.8.0, the latest extended-support release (ESR). Also, the SystemRescue live image now includes bcachefs, a Linux filesystem with support for volume management. The distribution comes with the Xfce desktop which has received an update to version 4.20.1. "Changelog: updated the kernel to the long-term supported Linux 6.12.19; support for bcachefs (kernel module + file system tools + support in GParted); applied workaround to avoid possible display issues affecting GRUB; updated disk utilities: GParted 1.7.0, nwipe 0.38, dump 0.4b49." See the project's changelog page which has the details of all the recent changes and additions. Download SystemRescue 12.00 from SourceForge: systemrescue-12.00-amd64.iso (1,019MB, SHA512, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2025-03-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.29 Core 192 |
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The IPFire project has announced a new update to its distribution for firewalls and routers. The project's new release, version 2.29 Core Update 192, includes an updated Linux kernel with several improvements: "This release rebases the IPFire kernel on Linux 6.12 which is the latest long-term supported version of the Linux kernel. Since the last version, IPFire is going to benefit from various improvements from the Linux kernel development community: Intel and AMD CPUs that support VAES & AVX-512 will have a 162% faster AES-GCM encryption/decryption which will massively improve IPsec throughput; memory alignment optimisation has improved TCP performance of up to 40% due to smaller structs that result in more CPU cache hits; TCP fraglist GRO support has been added, allowing chaining multiple TCP packages together which might improve throughput for PPPoE connections on systems which lack basic checksum offloading; a lot of work has been spent on scheduling which result in the system being able to respond quicker to any load spikes; For IPFire this will result in lower latency when processing packets...." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download: ipfire-2.29-core192-x86_64.iso (510MB), ipfire-2.29-core192-x86_64.img.xz (431MB). |
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| 2025-03-11 |
NEW • BSD Release: FreeBSD 13.5 |
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Colin Percival has announced the availability of FreeBSD 13.5, the final maintenance release of the project's legacy "stable/13" branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE. This is the sixth and final release of the stable/13 branch. Since this release is occurring late in a legacy stable branch, there are few new features; rather, the focus is primarily on maintenance. As such, changes since 13.4-RELEASE consist mostly of bug fixes, driver updates, and new versions of externally-maintained software. FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, aarch64, armv6, armv7, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe and riscv64 architectures. FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded as described below." See the release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (1,089MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (899MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-disc1.iso (865MB, SHA512). |
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| 2025-03-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Garuda Linux 250308 |
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Nico Jensch has announced the release of an updated version of Garuda Linux, a set of Arch-based desktop Linux distributions with a selection popular graphical desktops, including some lesser known ones, such as Sway or Hyprland. The new version, labelled as 250803, introduces Garuda Rani, a graphical settings manager: "We are excited to introduce Garuda Rani, a brand-new application designed to streamline and enhance your Garuda Linux experience. Rani, short for 'Reliable Assistant for Native Installations', is envisioned as the future of Garuda utilities, aiming to eventually replace all existing Garuda applications. Currently, Rani integrates the functionality of our popular Welcome, Gamer and Assistant apps, providing a centralized hub for essential system management and customization tasks." See the release announcement for more information and screenshots. Download (pkglist): garuda-cinnamon-linux-zen-250308.iso (2,605MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-dr460nized-linux-zen-250308.iso (2,930MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-dr460nized-gaming-linux-zen-250308.iso (4,344MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-gnome-linux-zen-250308.iso (2,613MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-hyprland-linux-zen-250308.iso (2,684MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-i3-linux-zen-250308.iso (2,576MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-kde-lite-linux-zen-250308.iso (1,765MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-mokka-linux-zen-250308.iso (3,000MB, SHA256, torrent), garuda-sway-linux-zen-250308.iso (2,615MB, SHA256, torrent), torrent), garuda-xfce-linux-lts-250308.iso (2,659MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2025-03-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9 |
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Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9, the latest stable version of the project's Debian-based specialist live Linux distribution designed for partitioning, backups and disk-cloning tasks. This release drops support for the i386 architecture due to Debian's decision to stop providing i386 kernel packages: "This release of Clonezilla live (3.2.1-9) includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes since 3.2.0-5: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has bee upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2025-03-03; as mentioned in the Debian release mailing list, the i386 Linux kernel packages were dropped in our upstream, the Debian 'Sid' repository, so i686/i686-pae editions of Clonezilla Live will be no more, from this release on, only amd64 (x86-64) releases will be available; Linux kernel was updated to 6.12.17; the Partclone package has been updated to 0.3.33; the exio package has been updated to 2.0.15; Memtest86+ was updated to 7.20; built with updated and patched live-build 20250225; the live-boot package has been updated to new and patched version 20250225; merged lz4 and lz4mt, use 'lz4 -T0' by default...." Please see the release announcement for a complete changelog. Download: clonezilla-live-3.2.1-9-amd64.iso (454MB, SHA512, signature, pkglist). |
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