We deeply understand the importance of system stability for users. To this end, deepin 25 proudly introduces 'Solid' (deepin Immutable System), redefining the benchmark for stability in Linux operating systems. Read-Only Protection, Preventing Core Tampering: By forcibly mounting core directories like /usr/bin as read-only, the system fundamentally blocks accidental user actions or malware from modifying the system core, ensuring long-term stable operation. For developers needing deep customization, we also provide a convenient command to toggle protection on/off instantly. Second-Level Snapshots: Upgrade Without Worry: Before every system update, the system automatically creates a backup snapshot. Even if something unexpected happens during the update, the system can automatically roll back to the last known good state upon reboot, eliminating 'update-bricking' anxiety.
Security Onion 2.4.160 is now available and includes Playbooks and Guided Analysis to help you more quickly triage and respond to alerts. In this release, when you expand an alert you'll see a new tab called Guided Analysis. This leverages Playbooks to show you plays associated with the alert. These plays include questions which help guide your investigation. Each question has an associated query and the results of that query will be automatically displayed to help you answer the question. This release includes a number of hand-written playbooks that are used at the detection engine (NIDS, Sigma, YARA) and category (e.g 'ET MALWARE') level. We have also used AI to generate individual Playbooks for all ETOPEN NIDS rules (58k).
RefreshOS 2.5 is here, built on Debian 12.11 and designed to strike the perfect balance between simplicity and power. With a clean KDE Plasma desktop, a fast Calamares installer, and smart defaults for permissions and power, it's easy for both new and experienced users to get started right away. This release adds expanded non-free firmware for better hardware support and refines the desktop with a custom theme and improved visuals. Staying true to its core, RefreshOS remains free of Snap and Flatpak, using only APT for software management. Essentials like LibreOffice, GIMP and Brave Browser come pre-installed, offering a ready-to-go platform out of the box.
This release presents the new Linux kernel 6.8.0-62 and the latest upgrade of the web browser google-chrome-stable (version 137.0.7151.103-1). In addition, Starbuntu has improved its own translation program for applications and uses it now where the standard program for this task, i. e. gettext, fails. Further, Starbuntu has translated the appreciated efficient search tool searchmonkey into German.
This new version comes with several updates and bug fixes, and is based on Debian 12.11. One of the most important updates of the release is the brand-new version 9.0 of OnlyOffice, a free multi-platform office suite with compatibility with Microsoft Office documents. OnlyOffice 9.0 comes with a redesigned user interface that is more intuitive and accessible. To take advantage of this, it is necessary to activate either the "Modern Light" or the "Modern Dark" theme. The suite also includes a PDF editor that received important updates and productivity improvements. Mauna's Xfce variant now comes with the 6.12.30 Linux kernel, while all the other editions continue to use the upstream kernel, version 6.1.140. The included desktop environment versions are Cinnamon 6.0.2, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26 and Xfce 4.18.
This release introduces support for WireGuard, a modern VPN protocol designed for simplicity and performance. IPFire now includes a fully integrated interface to configure and manage WireGuard tunnels through the web user interface. WireGuard can be used for both net-to-net and host-to-net (Roadwarrior) VPN connections and is a lightweight alternative to IPsec and OpenVPN. Configuration is straightforward, and the IPFire implementation includes: full integration into the firewall GUI; support for multiple peers with individual settings; QR code display for easy mobile client configuration and configuration file export; connection importer for interoperability with other vendors and VPN providers; full support for the Intrusion Prevention System and Connection Tracking. WireGuard can be enabled alongside existing VPN services and is intended to offer another option for users who prefer its design and simplicity.
Escuelas Linux is a lightweight distribution designed for educational environments. Optimized to run even in low-resource hardware, it comes preloaded with a variety of educational tools, including GCompris, wxMaxima, WritingTool and Luanti, making it ideal for schools, students and teachers. The latest version, Escuelas Linux 8.12, is now available. This release brings the following updated software packages: GCompris 25.1 - the leading educational suite for children, compiled by us for the 32-bit edition; IBM Java 8.0 - you can count on the latest version of a solid and stable platform for running Java applications; LibreOffice 25.2.4 - one of the most popular free office suites offers many improvements and bug fixes; Moksha 0.41 - the desktop environment developed by the Bodhi Linux team keeps getting amazing....
As always we target the most recent Alpine release. In case of v25.06 it is the excellent Alpine Linux 3.22. Mobile UI versions: GNOME 48 and gnome-shell-mobile 48.mobile.0 replace GNOME 47 and 46-mobile.1 from v24.12. With the new versions we get massive performance improvements with dynamic triple buffering and more, new fonts, notification stacking, window placement and input improvements and much more. KDE Plasma Mobile 6.3.5 replaces version 6.2.4 from v24.12. This release has improvements for the task switcher, window placement, action drawer, quick settings, status bar, volume controls, manual screen rotation, a new traffic monitor in the Wi-Fi settings and major bug fixes regarding the lockscreen and dual-sim devices. The new chat page has gotten new UX as well. See the recent dev log post for details (search for 6.3). Phosh 0.47.0 replaces version 0.45.0 from 24.12. Between these releases, Phosh has gained support for setting a lockscreen wallpaper (which we have enabled in pmOS), quick settings improvements, searching in the file chooser portal and adjusting haptic strength in the settings. In postmarketOS we have changed the default on-screen-keyboard to Stevia.
BashCoreT, the first public Live ISO based on Debian 13 "Trixie" (currently in Hard Freeze), featuring Linux 6.12 with PREEMPT_RT.
I've made a new version of EXTON OpSuS with LXQt 2.2.0 as the only desktop environment. The ISO image is therefore rather small (1,850MB), which means that you can run the system from RAM really fast even if you have only 4GB RAM. This new EXTON OpSuS build is made from 'scratch', following the 'openSUSE:Expert Installation' Wiki. Linux kernel 6.14.6 is used when running EXTON OpSuS live. When running the system from hard drive you can use openSUSE's original kernel, right now it is version 6.15.2. When the boot process is ready, you will end up at LightDM's login screen. You can log in to the LXQt desktop as user with password 'live' or as root with password 'root'. Version 250621 of EXTON OpSuS can run on really old computers. As an example I could run it on my 17-year old Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi laptop.