We are proud to announce our new stable release, version 2025.08, code-named 'Oneinonein'. Grml 2025.08 is based on the newly-released Debian 13 'Trixie' and addresses known bugs from previous releases. Like in the previous release, 2025.05, live ISO images are available for 64-bit x86 (amd64) and 64-bit ARM CPUs (arm64). While the live ISO release was focused on Debian 13, in our build-tool, grml-live, more housekeeping and tidying up happened. If you remaster the Grml ISO image or build your own, please take a look at the grml-live changelog. We want to highlight the merging of previously separate packages - grml-autoconfig, grml-etc, grml-scripts and grml-udev-config into the grml-live configuration space.
Compared with prior releases of EasyOS, the Excalibur-series is a 'whole new ball game'. All prior EasyOSs were built with woofQ; Easy Excalibur is built with woofQ2, that is a redesign of woofQ based on Debian's APT underpinning all package management. Easy has PKGget, a package manager GUI, that is able to install all kinds of packages, such as .deb, .txz, .rpm and .pet; that chameleon-like ability is retained, but now PKGget is a wrapper on top of APT. So now PKGget and APT talk to each other, and even if utilities such as 'apt' and 'apt-get' are used in a terminal, it will automatically sync in PKGget. Easy Excalibur is built with Devuan Excalibur packages, equivalent to Debian 13 Trixie, but without systemd. Instead, EasyOS uses the simple busybox init, enhanced with pup_event service management. EasyOS has inbuilt containers support, known as 'Easy Containers' and this is taken to the next level. In particular, there is now a pre-created container named "devx" that has everything for a compiler/development environment.
LibreELEC 12.2 with Kodi 21.2 'Omega' is released. The main purpose of the LibreELEC 12.2 release is hardware support - bumping kernels and display components to better handle current and recent Intel hardware and keeping Raspberry Pi boards aligned with RPiOS. The release contains Kodi 21.2 'Omega' with a small number of additional improvements that Kodi backported to Omega since the Kodi 21.2 release (no 21.3 release is planned). The NVIDIA Legacy 340.xx driver remained usable for six years after NVIDIA discontinued support, but it no longer compiles with the latest X.Org release so has been dropped from the Generic-Legacy image for LibreELEC 12.2 and the future 13.0 release. This impacts older NVIDIA cards, which are unfortunately the majority of active NVIDIA installations.
A new version of SparkyLinux 8.0, code-named 'Seven Sisters', has been released. SparkyLinux 8.0 is based on and is fully compatible with Debian 13.0 'Trixie'. Main changes: all packages updated from the stable Debian and SparkyLinux repositories as of August 13, 2025; Linux kernel 6.12.41 (6.16.0, 6.12.41, 6.6.99 in SparkyLinux repositories), LibreOffice 25.2.3, KDE Plasma 6.3.6, LXQt 2.1.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.20, Openbox 3.6.1, Firefox 128.13.0esr (141.0.3 in SparkyLinux repository), Thunderbird 128.13.0es; added a new package, sparky-package-tool (spt), which helps with package management in a text console; added GIMP to all ISO images; CLI system installer (sparky-installer) now has an option to encrypt the home partition, and auto-partitioning (it selects the entire disk, all on one partition); Openbox - PCManFM has been replaced by Thunar....
This release presents the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 139.0.7258.127-1). In addition, Starbuntu has successfully managed to create a workaround for the new ugly dpms error. Moreover, a little bug in its upgrade managment has been fixed.
I would like to begin this blog post by announcing the end of the Kaisen Linux project with this latest release. I wish to embark on other professional and personal projects that will take up a considerable amount of my time, and for this reason, I can no longer continue developing Kaisen Linux. This release will therefore be the last. However, security updates will still be provided for two years, giving you time to switch to another Linux system and familiarize yourself with your new environment." The announcement goes on to share highlights of the new version: "KDE is now the default interface for Kaisen Linux, and is in version 6! SDDM is now the default display manager instead of lightdm. Lightdm was used instead of SDDM due to some missing customization settings, which were introduced with KDE version 6. XFCE is now available in version 4.20 The apt upgrade and apt-get upgrade commands automatically redirect to apt full-upgrade and apt-get full-upgrade. This is intended to simplify the update process if the kaisen-update command is not used and to limit the risk of breaking the system through updates. The snapshot from which the system was booted can now be restored automatically with a single command: sudo kaisen-timeshift-fast-restore. This command is intended to simplify the use of bootable Btrfs snapshots as much as possible....
This new release of Debian comes with a lot more software than its predecessor 'Bookworm'; the distribution includes over 14,116 new packages, for a total of over 69,830 packages. Most of the software in the distribution has been updated - over 44,326 software packages (this is 63% of all packages in 'Bookworm'). Also, a significant number of packages (over 8,844, 12% of the packages in 'Bookworm') have for various reasons been removed from the distribution. You will not see any updates for these packages and they will be marked as 'obsolete' in package management front-ends. Debian again ships with several desktop applications and environments. Among others it now includes GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0 and Xfce 4.20. Productivity applications have also been upgraded, including the office suites - LibreOffice is upgraded to version 25, GNUcash is upgraded to 5.10.
This release presents the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 139.0.7258.66-1). In addition, Starbuntu has thoroughly reorganized and modernized its repair software TinyCore. Moreover, some little bugs in its listing managment and its installation program have been fixed.
Gnoppix 25.8 is built on the foundation of Debian 13 'Trixie' and incorporates new features and improvements from the latest Gnoppix beta release. This new version brings significant updates in security, privacy and performance. Core system enhancements: Gnoppix 25.8 inherits the stability and updated packages from Debian 13, this includes over 11,294 new packages and updated versions for key software; new security hardening features against ROP and COP/JOP attacks are included; this release adds HTTP boot support for compatible UEFI and U-Boot firmware; the system now includes next-generation AI integration and has replaced the Bottles application with Lutris to address security concerns; Gnoppix now prioritizes privacy by default; Firefox-ESR as the main web browser; search-us.gnoppix.org is now the default anonymous search engine....
Some of the exciting new features we've packed into Proxmox VE 9.0: Snapshots as volume chains provide vendor-agnostic support for snapshots on any storage system that supports block storage. This includes iSCSI and Fibre Channel-attached SANs. High-Availability (HA) rules for resource-to-node and resource-to-resource affinity. Fabrics for the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) stack. Modernized mobile web interface written in the rust programming language using the Yew web framework. Comprehensive upgrade guide from 8 to 9. ZFS 2.3.3 with support for adding new devices to RAIDZ pools without downtime.