Manjaro 25.0 'Zetar' released. Since we released 'Yonada' in December 2024, we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it 'Zetar'. The GNOME edition has received several updates to Gnome 48 series. This includes a lot of fixes and polish when Gnome 48 3 originally was released in March 2025. The Plasma edition comes with the latest Plasma 6.3 series 1, Frameworks 6.12 and KDE Gear 24.12 1. It brings exciting new improvements to your desktop. With our Xfce edition, we have now Xfce 4.20. Linux kernel 6.12 is used for this release, including the latest drivers available to date. With 6.6 LTS and 6.1 LTS, we offer additional support for older hardware as needed.
Ultramarine 41 comes with a new tool for advanced users, um. Currently, its main feature is the um status command, which gives an overview of your install, package status, hardware, and more. This is useful for sharing your install details for support (or flexing your rig). Additionally, the status command supports uploading your status information to Boba, our web viewer. Just run um status --upload and the CLI will output a link that you can share. This upload is end to end encrypted and will expire in 7 days. We plan to put experimental features and advanced options in this CLI tool, stay tuned for more! Flagship Edition got new default apps! Our PDF viewer is now Evince and our music player is now Lollypop. In addition, your apps menu icon should now be the Ultramarine logo, in line with the rest of our editions.
We've promoted our KDE Plasma Desktop offering to “Edition” status. The Fedora KDE team has been hard at work making sure bugs get fixed and everything is polished just so. We're confident that this can stand along our other amazing flagship offerings. I know the naming is a bit confusing, with GNOME-powered “Workstation” using a generic label while KDE Plasma Desktop has the tech right in the name. We'll get that figured out eventually. If you don't know where to start, don't panic. Pick one and see how it goes. They're both excellent desktop environments with great upstream communities, and the same Fedora system underneath it all. We also have a new alternative desktop choice: COSMIC. This is a modern, written-all-in-Rust desktop environment from our friends over at System 76.
We are pleased to announce T2 25.4 as a major, AI-ready release, shipping latest AMD ROCm, which thanks to a sponsorship collaboration of DeepComputing and ExactCODE GmbH has been successfully ported to RISC-V and ARM64! This breakthrough significantly advances independant AI and HPC solutions on open hardware platforms. With a total of 17 pre-compiled base install ISOs for various Glibc, Musl and uClibc combinations are available for 12 CPU ISAs: Alpha, ARM(64), HPPA64, IA64, MIPS64, PowerPC(64), RISCV64, SPARC64, i586, x86-64. On most architectures the release still boots with as little as 512MB of RAM or even less, and ISO downloads are less than 2GB for base Wayland desktop with Firefox. The release contains a total of 3728 changesets, including approximately 4558 package updates, 483 fixed issues, 527 packages or features added and 138 removed. Around 25 other improvements have been committed. More details can be found on the release page.
MX Linux 23.6 is the sixth refresh of our MX 23 release, consisting of bug fixes, kernel updates and application updates since our original release of MX 23. If you are already running MX 23, there is no need to reinstall. Packages are all available through the regular update channels or by installing the changed applications. Highlights include: Debian 12.10 'Bbookworm' base. Some highlights since our 23.5 release include: Xfce 4.20 core packages (Xfce ISO images and Raspberry Pi respin); MX Package Installer has user interface improvements, particularly dealing with Flatpak setup and privilege elevation prompts; improved privilege prompt management in many MX tools; for Xfce users, improvements to mx-system-sounds login function, waiting for a sound server to start before trying to play the sound; fixes to deal with Xfce desktop changes and setting wallpapers; fixes to 'preserve home' mode in the installer UEFI Manager, a standalone tool for managing UEFI settings....
This release presents the new Linux kernel 6.8.0-57 and the latest upgrade of the webbrowser google-chrome-stable (version 135.0.7049.52-1). In addition, a bug of the Starbuntu wallpaper program variety-rox which relates to manual wallpaper change, has been remedied.
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 193 introduces major enhancements focused on security and system modernization. A key highlight is the addition of post-quantum cryptography support for IPsec tunnels, using ML-KEM for quantum-resilient key exchanges, alongside an updated default cipher suite prioritizing AES-256 and ChaCha20. The core toolchain has also been upgraded, including glibc 2.41 and Binutils 2.44, ensuring compatibility with modern hardware. Numerous system packages and firmware have been updated, addressing several Intel security advisories. The update also brings interface improvements, new default services like DNS-over-TLS, and refreshed add-ons. Users are encouraged to apply the update promptly.
Regata OS 25 'Maverick' is now available for download. Initially, the new version of the operating system was released gradually via system updates for existing users. However, an updated ISO image file is now available for those who wish to make new installations. Among the highlights is KDE Plasma 6.3, which arrives with new fixes and improvements, such as the fractional scaling feature that has been reworked to better adjust the image to the screen's pixel grid, reducing blur and producing sharper, more defined images. In addition, for those who love to customize the desktop, leaving everything their way, the new Plasma 6.3 makes it easier to clone panels when the user is in edit mode. Other changes include improvements to the System Monitor application, which now uses less CPU resources.
Improvements have been made to the Pardus Software Center. New applications have been added. Updates have been made to the information and images of some applications. Enhancements have been made to Pardus Gnome Greeter. Bluetooth quick access extension has been included. Enhancements have been made to the Pardus Xfce Login Screen and its settings. Enhancements have been made to the Pardus My Computer application. Latest versions of corporate applications have been added to repository. Contributed to debian-installer, cinnamon-spices-extensions, Bluetooth-Battery-Meter, thunar projects. External applications available in the repository (Android Studio, PyCharm, Google Chrome, AnyDesk, TeamViewer, VS Code, etc) have been updated, and new ones have been added. The default internet browser, Firefox, has been updated to version 128.9. The default office application, LibreOffice, has been updated.
The 7th update of SparkyLinux 7 – 7.7 is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of SparkyLinux 7 'Orion Belt' of the stable line. SparkyLinux 7 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 12 'Bookworm'. Changes: all packages updated from Debian and SparkyLinux stable repositories as of April 8, 2025; Linux kernel PC 6.1.129-LTS (6.14.1, 6.12.22-LTS, 6.6.86-LTS in SparkyLinux reposistories); Linux kernel ARM 6.12.20-LTS; LibreOffice 7.4.7 (25.2.2 in Debian backports repositories); KDE Plasma 5.27.5; LXQt 1.2.0; MATE 1.26; Xfce 4.18; Openbox 3.6.1; Firefox 128.9.0esr (137.0.1 in SparkyLinux repositories); Thunderbird 128.9.0esr; fixed an issue of SparkyLinux CLI installer which was breaking installation if choosing other desktop to install.