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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Nemo Mobile and the PinePhoneNews: Linux Mint adds new performance boosts and security measures, Debian and Ubuntu custom builds provided through Cubic, FreeBSD core utilities ported to LinuxQuestions and answers: Matching the performance of one Linux distribution from anotherReleased last week: IPFire....

Garuda Linux is a rolling distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system. the project's latest release, Garuda Linux 230305, features an improves interface for the setup assistant and replaces Latte-Dock with standard Plasma panels. "The dr460nized edition has in the past relied heavily on Latte-Dock's features. For....

Armbian 23.02 is the latest release from a project providing a lightweight Linux distribution optimised for custom ARM, RISC-V or Intel hardware, with fully-featured Xfce, GNOME or Cinnamon-based desktop. This version upgrades the Linux kernel to the long-term supported version 6.1: "Armbian 23.02 'Quoll' is now available. It....

NuTyX is a lightweight distribution based on Linux From Scratch which features a custom package manager called cards. The project has published a new version, NuTyX 23.02.1, which updates several of its supported desktop environments and key applications: "Spiky and me are happy to announce the new version....

Linux From Scratch (LFS) version 11.3 has been released. Linux From Scratch is a free book containing step-by-step instructions to build a custom Linux system from scratch. A separate book called "Beyond Linux From Scratch" enables installing and configuring further software on top of a base LFS system.....

Filip Komar has announced the availability of the first beta build of the upcoming Mageia 9, a distribution that was resurrected from Mandriva back in 2011. This release brings many updated packages, although the including Plasma desktop is only a beta of the 5.27 version: "We are proud....

Emmabuntüs is a light, Debian-based distribution intended for less experienced users. The project's latest release includes content filtering controls for screening on-line content. The release announcement explains: "the Emmabuntüs Collective is happy to announce the release of the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 4 1.03 update (32-bit and 64-bit), based....

IPFire is a small Linux distribution for firewalls and other networking devices. The distribution has published a new release which upgrades the kernel to version 6.1 and includes support for accessing 4G and 5G networks. "The Qualcomm MSM Interface is a proprietary interface increasingly used by 4G and....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: elementary OS 7.0News: Purism unveils new lapdock for the Librem 5, an overview of Haiku package manager, openSUSE and SUSE test beta releases, Ubuntu community flavours scrap Flatpak in favour of SnapQuestions and answers: The benefit of boot environmentsReleased last week: Athena....

Barry Kauler has announced the release of EasyOS 5.0, code-named "Kirkstone", a major update of the project's lightweight, experimental Linux distribution: "EasyOS 'Kirkstone' series version 5.0. Almost all of the packages in EasyOS 'Kirkstone' series are compiled from source, using a fork of OpenEmbedded (OE) 'Kirkstone' release. Almost....

Vinzenz Vietzke has announced the release of a new version of TUXEDO OS, an Ubuntu-based distribution tailor-made for TUXEDO Computer's line of laptop and desktops. The new version upgrades the Linux kernel to version 6.1 and the KDE Plasma desktop to version 5.27.1: "TUXEDO OS 2 finished and....

Ghiunhan Mamut has announced the release of Redcore Linux 2301, an updated build of the project's "hardened" distribution based on the "testing" branch of Gentoo Linux: "I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Redcore Linux Hardened 2301 (code name 'Sirius') stable ISO image. This cycle was....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: OpenBSD 7.2News: Fedora 35 reaches end of life, Asahi Linux enables hardware acceleration on Apple's ARM machines, Manjaro disables proprietary codecs in MesaQuestions and answers: Install Linux without a user accountReleased last week: FreeBSD 12.4, Kali Linux 2022.4, deepin 20.8Torrent corner: Kali....

The developers of Puppy Linux, a lightweight distribution which can be assembled to be compatible with a variety of parent distributions, have published a Slackware-based version of Puppy Linux. It is compatible with the Slackware Linux 15.0 and Salix software repositories. The release announcement shares key details: "S15Pup....

The deepin project has published a new update to the distribution's 20.x series. The new version, 20.8 introduces a number of key package updates and includes a new application called Deepin Home. "In deepin 20.8, a new application, Deepin Home, is added; it breaks the 'information barrier' between....