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30.11.2024 19:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Armbian team has announced the release of Armbian 24.11.1, the updated build of the project's Debian and Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed primarily for ARM development boards. The new release updates the Linux kernel to version 6.6.60 and brings other significant improvements: "We are thrilled to announce Armbian....

27.11.2024 03:20 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The elementary OS project has announced the release of version 8.0 of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution. The new release focuses on adjusting application permissions and expanding the default Flatpak repositories: "Application settings has an all-new design that expands your control over permissions. We now support adjusting the run-time....

26.11.2024 00:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Emmabuntüs project is a desktop Linux distribution with editions based on Debian's Stable branch with both the Xfce and LXQt desktop environments available. The project has fixed some issues with the ISO which could cause problems when used with specific image writers. The new Emmabuntüs DE5-1.03 release....

26.11.2024 00:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . YunoHost is a Debian-based distribution which strives to make it easy to quickly set up a server and host web applications. The project has relesed a new version based on Debian 12 "Bookworm". "YunoHost now depends on Debian 12. The user portal and SSO system....

25.11.2024 07:11 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Linux Lite 7.2 News: Murena offers Fairphone perk, Arch Linux installer gets new text interface, an Ubuntu security tool patched against exploits Questions and answers: Backing up specific folders in the user's home directory Released last week: AlmaLinux OS 9.5, Rocky Linux 9.5, Oracle Linux....

21.11.2024 15:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The Promox Virtual Environment distibution is is a Debian-based, open source virtualisation platform for running virtual appliances and virtual machines. The project's latest release, Promox 8.3 Virtual Environment, improves its software-defined networking while also updating its kernel and ZFS packages. "This version is based on Debian 12.8....

20.11.2024 06:21 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Gursewak Sokhi has announced the release of Oracle Linux 9 Update 5, the latest stable release of Oracle's Linux distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux . This new version updates the OpenJDK Java platform to version 17 and the .NET development platform to....

20.11.2024 00:50 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Rocky Linux is a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux which strives to be "bug-for-bug" compatible with upstream. The project's latest release is Rocky Linux 9.5 which features updates to administrative tools such as Podman, Cockpit, and development tools. "Notable new features and changes: Podman - Rocky Linux....

18.11.2024 20:40 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The AlmaLinux OS project has published a new stable release, AlmaLinux OS 9.5. The new version focuses on security improvements and performance enhancements. The release announcement states: "AlmaLinux 9.5 aims to improve performance, development tooling, and security. Updated module streams offer better support for web applications. New versions....

18.11.2024 04:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Chimera Linux vs ChimeraOS News: Fedora elevates KDE spin to an edition, Fedora trials new system installer, KDE developing its own distribution, Qubes-style isolation coming to FreeBSD Questions and answers: Choosing AlmaLinux OS vs Debian Released last week: CachyOS 241110, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5,....

18.11.2024 04:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . The GhostBSD project has announced the arrival of GhostBSD 24.10.1, the latest update to this desktop-oriented branch of the FreeBSD family. The new release focuses on driver updates and improvements. It also fixes some issues with booting on Legacy BIOS systems and introduces support for watching Netflix in....

13.11.2024 19:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Red Hat, Inc. has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5, an updated build of the company's enterprise Linux distribution available for the x86, ARM, IBM Power, IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE architectures: "Red Hat, Inc. today announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise....

13.11.2024 19:00 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . RELIANOID is a Debian-based Linux distribution for load balancing. The project's latest release, version 7.5, is based on Debian 12.8 "Bookworm" and introduces support for Secure Boot. "A key highlight of RELIANOID 7.5.0 is the addition of Secure Boot support, which offers an enhanced layer of security, ensuring....

11.11.2024 16:51 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations. The project's latest snapshot is CachyOS 241110 which introduces several kernel and firmware updates which should improve gaming performance. "We have backported from the 6.13 Kernel the THP Shrinker, which allows splitting....

11.11.2024 06:10 The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Bazzite 40, Playtron OS Alpha 1, Tucana Linux 3.1 News: Redox being ported to RISC-V and running the COSMIC software centre, TrueNAS talks about new ZFS features, FreeBSD booting on the PinePhone Pro, Debian refreshes install media, LXQt supports multiple Wayland window managers Questions....