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The first release candidate of Omarchy 4.5, DHH's distribution built on Arch Linux and Hyprland, brings an aarch64 ISO with support for Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptops, absorbs Omarchy Mac, translates the system into 50 languages and adds per-monitor workspaces, a dock and one-second boots.
Read more →OpenBSD 8.0, the system's 61st release, ships on 20 October 2026 with the amd64 kernel address space raised to 512 GB, initial Intel Arc support, arm64 hibernation, RISC-V vectors, OpenSSH 10.6 and LibreSSL 4.4. Version 7.8 stops getting patches.
Read more →vivo has unveiled OriginOS 7 at its developer conference in Shenzhen: the seventh version of the system on vivo and iQOO phones, now on Android 17. Liquid Glass interface with three modes, Blue River engine with Virtual GPU 4.0 (14% faster, vivo says), Atomic Workbench on regular phones, storage compression promising up to 20 GB freed, and the Blue Heart assistant with multi-turn dialogue. Beta already running in China; the stable build reaches flagships in October and budget phones in 2027.
Read more →AWS has opened the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027: Linux kernel 7.1, SELinux in enforcing mode, DNF5, RPM 6, systemd 260, GCC 16.1, Python 3.14 and the AWS-LC library alongside OpenSSL. Not for production, but the right moment to find out what breaks when moving from AL2023. Support planned until 2032.
Read more →FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE is the sixth release of stable/14 and arrives late in a branch that is now legacy: bug fixes, driver updates and refreshed third-party software, no headline features. Supported until June 2027, it keeps what already runs on 14 going. For a fresh install, the project points at 15.1.
Read more →Oracle ships VirtualBox 7.2.12, a maintenance release of the 7.2 branch: it fixes a kernel panic on Linux hosts, improves DX11 performance on Windows guests and resolves NASM build issues.
Read more →Yocto Project 6.0 «Wrynose» is an LTS supported until at least April 2030: Linux 6.18 LTS, GCC 15.2, Rust in the kernel, and SBOM and CVE-tracking improvements aimed at the EU CRA.
Read more →Linux kernel 7.1 ships a rewritten NTFS driver with full write support, enables Intel FRED by default, drops 486 support and removes UDP Lite. A look at the current stable series.
Read more →Debian releases 13.6, the sixth revision of the stable trixie branch. It bundles 84 security advisories and fixes for apache2, curl, qemu, samba and the kernel, plus fwupd changes for Secure Boot.
Read more →Tails 7.9 is out: Tor Browser 15.0.16, updated firmware for newer hardware and a Secure Boot notification fix. Download the latest stable version.
Read more →Qubes OS 4.3.1 is now available: consolidated security updates, bug fixes and a Fedora 43 template in the most secure operating system based on compartmentalization.
Read more →Alpine Linux 3.24.0 is here: it ships GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, the COSMIC desktop, plus Limine boot loader and IPv6 support in the installer.
Read more →Rocky Linux 10.2 arrives with OpenSSH ML-KEM, Flatpak for Firefox and Thunderbird, GCC 14.3, Podman with Sequoia-PGP and support until 2035.
Read more →AlmaLinux 10.2 ships with kernel 6.12, GNOME 49, PHP 8.4, PostgreSQL 18 and i686 support. Discover everything new in this stable release.
Read more →MX Linux 25.2 «Infinity» arrives with a new text-mode TUI installer, kernel 6.12.90, a Debian 13.5 base and mesa 26.0.1 on AHS editions. What's new and download.
Read more →Proxmox VE 9.2 arrives with dynamic load balancing in the resource scheduler, kernel 7.0, ZFS 2.4 and Ceph Tentacle by default. High availability can also be disarmed to run maintenance without surprises.
Read more →OpenBSD 7.9, released May 19, 2026, improves the kernel scheduler, expands arm64 support, hardens pledge and unveil, and enables IPv6 SLAAC by default.
Read more →RHEL 10.2 arrives with kernel 6.12, the Red Hat Lightspeed AI assistant, post-quantum cryptography and improved image mode. Discover all the new features.
Read more →EndeavourOS Titan Neo arrives on May 1, 2026 with Linux kernel 6.19.14, Calamares 26.03.2.3 and improved Nvidia support for KDE Plasma.
Read more →Fedora Linux 44 arrives on April 28, 2026 with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, Linux kernel 6.19, MariaDB 11.8 and improved Wine compatibility.
Read more →Canonical releases Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 'Resolute Raccoon' with Linux kernel 7.0, GNOME 50, Python 3.14 and support until 2036. Here's everything that's new.
Read more →Zorin OS 18.1 ships with Linux kernel 6.17, LibreOffice 26.2, better Windows app detection and support until June 2029.
Read more →Kali Linux 2026.1 arrives with Linux kernel 6.18, the annual visual refresh, the nostalgic BackTrack Mode for its 20th anniversary and eight new tools.
Read more →Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" arrives with Cinnamon 6.6, improved Wayland support, new XSI icons and long-term support until 2029. Here's what's new.
Read more →Manjaro 26.0 'Anh-Linh' ships with Linux 6.18 LTS kernel, KDE Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 on Wayland, Xfce 4.20, and support for COSMIC.
Read more →elementary OS 8.1 is here: Wayland-based Secure Session by default, first ARM64 builds, Linux kernel 6.14 and over 1,100 improvements.
Read more →Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS is now stable: it debuts COSMIC, its new desktop written in Rust, with kernel 6.17, advanced tiling and native applications.
Read more →FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE is out: install the base with pkg, OpenZFS 2.4, OpenSSH 10 with post-quantum crypto and native inotify support.
Read more →NixOS 25.11 'Xantusia' arrives with GNOME 49, LLVM 21, Docker 28, PostgreSQL 17 by default and thousands of updated packages. Discover all the news.
Read more →openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here: kernel 6.12, the new Agama installer, SELinux by default, PipeWire and 24 months of support built on the SUSE Linux Enterprise base.
Read more →Debian 13 "trixie" is now stable: Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, riscv64 support and 5 years of maintenance.
Read more →Proxmox VE 9.0 jumps to Debian 13 Trixie with kernel 6.14 and ZFS 2.3.3. It finally brings snapshots on thick-provisioned shared LVM —the iSCSI and Fibre Channel array case— plus affinity rules for high availability.
Read more →Void Linux ships its 20250202 image set with Linux kernel 6.12, Xfce 4.20 and ARM64 UEFI support for Apple Silicon, ThinkPad X13s and Pinebook Pro.
Read more →NetBSD 10.1 is now available. Discover what's new: AMD Zen 5 support, RAID improvements, ZFS on Xen and key security patches.
Read more →Proxmox VE 8.0 arrives on Debian 12 Bookworm with kernel 6.2, QEMU 8.0.2 and ZFS 2.1.12. The substantial change is resource mapping for PCI and USB devices, which finally allows offline migration of VMs with passed-through hardware.
Read more →Slackware 15.0 ships with Linux kernel 5.15 LTS, KDE Plasma 5, PAM, Wayland and UTF-8 support. Discover what's new in the oldest Linux distro.
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