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31.10.2024 17:50 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Jerry Bezencon has announced the release of Linux Lite 7.2, an update to the project's Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop. The new release includes a new update manager, a new theme manager, and the website now offers a chatbot intended to offer techniical support for Linux Lite's....

31.10.2024 11:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Raffaele Forte has announced the release of BackBox Linux 9 un updated build of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a collection of ethical hacking tools. This release continues updates the base system to the the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 and uses the 6.8 Linux kernel: "BackBox Linux 9....

31.10.2024 00:20 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Br OS is a Brazilian Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. The project's latest release, Br OS 24.10, ships with the Plasma 6 desktop environment and enabled Wayland by default. "With KDE Plasma 6, comes Qt 6, which opens up a huge range....

30.10.2024 19:03 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The TrueNAS project has released a new version of its SCALE branch for network-attached storage devices. The latest version of TrueNAS introduces support for Docker containers, new monitoring widgets, and expanded SMART support. "The TrueNAS Apps feature backend moves from Kubernetes to Docker to streamline App deployment and....

29.10.2024 20:20 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Fedora team have announced the release of Fedora 41. The project latest release ships with version 6.11 of the Linux kernel, RPM 4.20, and GNOME 47 for the project's Workstation edition. This release also removes GNOME's X11 support in the Workstation edition. "Fedora Workstation 41 is based....

28.10.2024 21:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Raspberry Pi organization has launched a new version of the project's Linux distribution, Raspberry Pi OS. The new version introduces a number of changes, with the most visible being the shift to using a Wayland desktop session by default. "After much optimisation for our hardware, we have....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: DebLight OS 1 News: AlmaLinux OS introduces Kitten branch, openSUSE updates its look, Ubuntu turns 20 Questions and answers: Backing up crontab Released last week: SKUDONET 7.2.0, Parrot 6.2 Torrent corner: Endless OS, Parrot Upcoming releases: Fedora 41, Linux Lite 7.2, FreeBSD 14.2-BETA1 Opinion poll: How do you....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Parrot is a Debian-based, security-oriented distribution featuring a collection of utilities designed for penetration testing, computer forensics, reverse engineering, hacking, privacy, anonymity and cryptography. The project's latest release, version 6.2, introduces several package upgrades and a new tool called Rocket. "Parrot team is happy....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Antonio Rendón Ruiz has announced the release of SKUDONET 7.2.0, un updated version of the project's specialist Debian-based distribution whose primary purpose is to serve as a load balancer and application delivery system. This new release brings various improvements in the IPDS module,....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Kubuntu 24.10 News: Debian upgrading Perl packages, UBports adding VoLTE support, Android to get option to run GNU/Linux applications Questions and answers: Atomic systems vs immutable distributions Released last week: Clonezilla Live 3.2.0-5, Solus 4.6, Voyager Live 24.10, Murena 2.4, PorteuX 1.7 Torrent corner: Canaima GNU/Linux,....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . PorteuX is a portable Linux distribution based on Slackware, inspired by Slax and Porteus. The project's latest release, version 1.7, introduces several fixes and updates most of the supported desktop environments. "Many optimizations, fixes and updates have been made, resulting in a very exciting and, hopefully, fast and....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Murena team have announced the launch of /e/OS 2.4 which introduces a number of improvements for cameras and updates to the mobile operating system's privacy features. "This release also brings a number of useful updates. The Account Manager is now updatable via the App Lounge, which itself....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Rodolphe Bachelart has announced the release of Voyager Live 24.10, the latest release of the project's Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution that combines GNOME and Xfce into one unified desktop user interface. It is based on Ubuntu 24.10 and ships with the Linux kernel 6.11. "I present to you....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . AlmaLinux OS is an open-source, community-driven project that is built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project has published a new beta snapshot of the 9.x series. The release announcement reports: "AlmaLinux 9.5 Beta aims to improve performance, development tooling, and security. Updated module....

28.10.2024 15:32 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Solus is an independent, rolling release distribution which uses Budgie as its default desktop environment. The project has published a new snapshot, Solus 4.6, which makes changes to the multimedia applications and includes a merged /usr directory. "All our editions feature: Firefox 131.0.3, LibreOffice 24.2.5.2, Thunderbird 128.3.1. For....