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Distribution Release: Quarkos 26.04

2026-05-21T17:36:23+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Quarkos, a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support branch (and a sister project of the Q4OS distribution), has been updated to version 26.04. This initial release comes with the KDE Plasma desktop 6.6: "Quarkos 26.04 'Resolute' LTS is now officially stable and available for download. This....

Distribution Release: Proxmox 9.2 "Virtual Environment"

2026-05-21T16:35:54+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products based on Debian GNU/Linux. One of the products, "Virtual Environment", has received a new update and is based on Debian 13 "Trixie". "Proxmox VE 9.2 is built on the robust Debian 13.5 'Trixie' and ships with Linux kernel 7.0 as....

Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2, 9.8

2026-05-20T13:58:01+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Red Hat, Inc. has announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2 and 9.8, updated builds in RHEL's current and legacy branches: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.2 and 9.8 are here, evolving the operating system from a foundation to a powerful engine for critical applications,....

Distribution Release: TileOS 2.0

2026-05-19T20:00:02+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Aleksey Samoilov has announced the release of TileOS 2.0, a major update of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution featuring several popular Wayland tiling compositors, including Sway and River, as well as the newly-added Qtile, niri and miracle-wm: "Final stable release of TileOS 2.0 'Sauropod'. What's new? The package....

Development Release: Mageia 10 RC1

2026-05-19T18:17:15+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Marja Van Waes has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Mageia 10, the upcoming major update of the project's general-purpose desktop Linux distribution: "You may have noticed that Mageia 10 RC1 was released a few days ago. It contains the new Mageia 10 artwork, like....

BSD Release: OpenBSD 7.9

2026-05-19T13:31:53+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The OpenBSD project, which developes a famously security-oriented operating system, has published OpenBSD 7.9. The new version features several improvements to scheduling, LibreSSL 4.3.0, and many fixes for tmux. The project has also introduced new features and fixes for the OpenSSH utilities: "ssh(1): validation of shell metacharacters in....

Distribution Release: Zenclora OS 3.0

2026-05-18T22:31:27+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Nixovena Linux & AI Labs has announced the release of Zenclora OS 3.0, the latest version of the project's desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and featuring a unified package management system called Zen Package Manager (ZPM). This release offers two desktop variants - GNOME and....

Distribution Release: NetHydra 2026.2

2026-05-18T18:43:32+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The NetHydra team has announced the release of NetHydra 2026.2. Formerly knowns as HydraPWK GNU/Linux, NetHydra is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a collection of penetration-testing tools, including tools for information gathering, scanning, stress testing, exploitation, cracking, reversing engineering and forensics. Besides the standard edition called NetHydra "Express",....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1173

2026-05-18T00:11:40+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Sylve on FreeBSD
News: Debian commits to reproducible builds, Debian publishes updated install media, Haiku introduces SMP support on ARM64 processors, Rocky Linux creates opt-in security repository, Fedora reconsiders AI tools, KDE receives generous donation
Questions and answers: The benefit of BleachBit
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Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.6.2

2026-05-17T01:01:08+00:00

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Shasheen Ediriweera has announced the release of Rescuezilla 2.6.2, the latest version of the project's Ubuntu-based specialist distribution with tools for system recovery. This version is based on Ubuntu 26.04. From the changelog: "Adds release based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute' for best support of new hardware; the....