In Xfce current there is a potential critical issue when using an NVIDIA card with Mesa drivers 25.1.x and the Xfce compositor (xfwm4) with vsync set to glx (or auto, which usually means glx). Because of this, PorteuX now forces xfwm4's vsync to use xpresent by default. Since kernel 6.12, VirtualBox may not work because the kernel initializes virtualization on KVM module loading by default. To avoid this, PorteuX added kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0 to the APPEND line in boot/syslinux/porteux.cfg. You can revert this by editing the file, and to fix VirtualBox, you need to unload the KVM kernel modules manually with the following command: sudo modprobe -r kvm_amd kvm_intel kvm. The Kernel .config file has been significantly changed, removing support for obsolete hardware and enabling Squashfs multi-threading, which increased memory usage by 100 MB but improved performance. The kernel module is now much larger due to a recent NVIDIA firmware update.
The status of the 4MLinux 49.0 series has been changed to STABLE. As always, the new major release has some new features. 4MLinux can now be installed on Bcachefs partitions, but only in UEFI mode. This release ships with much improved support for mobile devices, via Bluetooth and PTP/MTP protocols. Stella (Atari 2600 VCS emulator) and Brutal Chess have been added to the 4MLinux GamePack collection. Aqualung (music player), Googles (music manager), QWinFF (media converter), Fastfetch (system monitor) are now included out of the box. GIMP4, gnuplot (plots generator), ReZound (audio editor) are available as downloadable extensions. And finally, ready-to-install Intel VAPPI drivers can be found on the 4MLinux live image.
This release presents the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 138.0.7204.183-1). In addition, Starbuntu has thoroughly reorganized and modernized its java runtime environment software. Moreover, a little bug in the program that manages its mail, contacts, calendar, memos and tasks has been fixed.
This release presents the new Linux kernel 6.8.0-71 and the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 138.0.7204.168-1). In addition, Starbuntu has further improved its installation software, its packages upgrade and its Internet search program.
HeliumOS 10 has released with some notable changes from earlier alpha releases: Version 6.12 of the Linux kernel from AlmaLinux, signed for secure boot. zsh as default shell, with a polished and minimal configuration. BTRFS as default filesystem, with an option for LUKS full-disk encryption in the installer. Docker is installed by default, see our documentation for more details. HeliumOS build sources were migrated from a collection of Bash scripts to Ansible yaml. These are built using Podman into Bootable Container images... Two critical bugs were found and fixed during the HeliumOS 10 alpha + beta: fixed a bug through the use of HeliumOS 'Edge' edition, some devices using NVIDIA GPUs previously experienced stuttering; automatically recovers from kernel panics resulting from a bug where systemd-remount-fs.service does not function properly on bootc systems.
This release is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. The 64-bit ISO image supports UEFI/EFI systems. The ISO images can be used as installation media. This release includes Mozilla Firefox 140.0.4, Mozilla Thunderbird 140.0, Libre Office 25.2.1, Gimp 3.0.4, SMplayer 25.6.0, mpv 0.40.0, MPlayer 20250330, Exaile 4.1.3, Brasero 3.12.3, ISOmaster 1.3.17, Pidgin 2.14.142, Transmission 2.94. It includes Flatpak. GUI tools developed in house also includs: instonusb to create a live Slackel USB stick with persistent encryption file; multibootusb to create a live USB including 32-bit and 64-bit live editions of Slackel; SLI (Slackel Live Installer) to install Slackel to internal or external USB SSD or USB stick; install-upgrade-kernel-ext-usb-gtk GUI tool to install or upgrade Linux kernel for real installations on external USB stick or ssd disk....
QEMU reported a old style disk geometry that was max 8GB, so the installer would create a too-small volume. The installer now reads true disk size. Panics when using ipv6 under certain circumstances are fixed. Crash caused when a program creates a large number of child processes is fixed. This was seen with Neovim and Chrome.
Stability is one of the things to expect, Debian 'Stable' is undoubtedly the most stable Linux distribution that exists. Focusing on Debian 'Stable' ensures that each version of Br OS is a long-term supported release with years of support, that is, if the user does not feel safe to upgrade to the next stable version, still have time to upgrade. Br OS 12.11 will have general Debian team support until December 2026 and LTS support until June 2028. Br OS now has its own nomenclature, each version will have its own code name, version 12.11 came with the code name 'Lara'. Despite the long-term support, Br OS 12.11 is a version that aims only to mark the migration to the Debian base, this means that very soon we will be releasing Br OS 13.0 Dira, which is already in the development phase. Br OS 12.11 comes with KDE Plasma 5.27.5, KDE Frameworks 5.103, Qt 5.15.8, Linux kernel 6.1, and Wayland graphics server, with X.Org as an alternative graphics server.
The system is now optimized for x86_64-v2 and v3, allowing better compiler optimizations, reduced latency, and smarter memory use. If your processor supports v3, I strongly recommend using the corresponding ISO - the speed boost is noticeable across daily tasks. Shoutout to the ALHP project for making microarch-specific builds more accessible. Switched to the Xanmod kernel. Shravya ships with the linux-xanmod kernel by default. This kernel is optimized for responsiveness and performance, making Liya snappier for daily use, gaming, creative workloads, and development. This kernel alone has significantly improved performance in benchmarks and real-world usage. Memory management has been rethought: If your system has more than 8GiB of RAM, zram will be auto-enabled at install time. For systems with 8 GB or less, zswap will be used for better compatibility. These changes improve performance and reduce swap-related disk usage without requiring user intervention.
25.7, nicknamed 'Visionary Viper', features reusable and thoroughly revamped frontend code, an SFTP backup plugin, experimental privilege separation for the GUI, JSON container support for aliases, a new and improved firewall automation GUI, performance enhancements especially for numerous aliases being used at once, Dnsmasq DHCP support, Kea DHCPv6 support, Greek as a new language, FreeBSD 14.3." The release announcement mentions some migration items too: "Deprecated Google Drive backups due to upstream policy changes and moved to plugins for existing users. API URLs registered in the default ACLs have been switched from 'camleCase' to 'snake_case'. API grid return values now offer '%field' for a value description when available. 'field' will now always be the literal value from the configuration. The API previously returned a display value for some field types, but not all. Reverted tunables 'hw.ibrs_disable' and 'vm.pmap.pti' to FreeBSD defaults. If you want these set differently, then add them with an explicit value.