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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1115 (%2025/%03/%31 %00:%Mar)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: GrapheneOS 2025 News: MidnightBSD updates mport package manager, a reborn Plank dock, key privacy tools lose funding, openSUSE tests parallel package downloads, postmarketOS to focus on reliability Questions and answers: The rise of portable package formats Released last week: Emmabuntus DE5-1.04, Zorin OS 17.3, Q4OS 5.8, CachyOS 250330 Torrent corner: Emmabuntus, KDE neon Upcoming releases: Linux Lite 7.4 Opinion poll: Favourite non-duopoly mobile operating system Site news: Donations and sponsors Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1114 (%2025/%03/%24 %00:%Mar)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Bazzite 41 News: Debian Project Leader election underway, Rocky unveils new Hardened branch, GNOME 48 released, generating custom images for the Raspberry Pi Questions and answers: Checking what processes are writing to the disk Released last week: elementary OS 8.0.1, Kali Linux 2025.1a, Finnix 250, Rescuezilla 2.6, EndeavourOS 2025.03.19 Torrent corner: elementary OS, Endeavour OS, Finnix, Kali Linux, KDE neon Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Opinion poll: What kind of storage drive is in your main computer? New distributions: CatOS Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1113 (%2025/%03/%17 %00:%Mar)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: MocaccinoOS 1.8.1 News: Murena extends its on-line installer, Garuda experiments with COSMIC, incremental improvements to Haiku, Bodhi tries out new desktop theme, Ubuntu to replace coreutils with Rust alternatives, Chimera drops RISC-V builds, Debian publishes 12.10 media Questions and answers: How to contribute to open source Released last week: FreeBSD 13.5, IPFire 2.29 Core 192, SystemRescue 12.00 Torrent corner: Debian, Debian Edu, KDE neon, SparkyLinux Opinion poll: Do you own any RISC-V powered devices? Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1112 (%2025/%03/%10 %00:%Mar)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Solus 4.7 News: UBports publishes bug fix, postmarketOS plans rebranding effort, Debian coming to Android Questions and answers: Linux distributions which work with Secure Boot Released last week: Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP6, Linux From Scratch 12.3, Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9, Garuda Linux 250308 Torrent corner: Tails, Garuda Linux Upcoming releases: Fedora 42 Beta, FreeBSD 13.5 Opinion poll: Firefox alternatives New additions: GrapheneOS Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1111 (%2025/%03/%03 %01:%Mar)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Orbitiny 0.01 News: Gentoo offers ready-to-go disk images, elementary OS invites feature suggestions, FreeBSD starts porting efforts to the PinePhone Pro, Mint warns about upcoming Firefox issue Questions and answers: Effect of Ubuntu Core Desktop? Released last week: Armbian 25.2.1, Murena 2.8, GhostBSD 25.01 Torrent corner: GhostBSD, Proxmox, TUXEDO OS Opinion poll: Do you change distributions or desktop environments more frequently? Site news: Added Declarative tag to Search page New additions: Bazzite Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1110 (%2025/%02/%24 %01:%Feb)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: iodeOS 6.0 News: Arch retiring old repositories, openSUSE makes progress on reproducible builds, Fedora is getting more serious about open hardware, Tails changes its install instructions to offer better privacy, Murena's de-Googled tablet goes on sale Questions and answers: Learning to program and improve Linux Released last week: Ubuntu 24.04.2, Qubes OS 4.2.4, NuTyX 25.02.5 Torrent corner: Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Qubes OS, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Unity, Xubuntu Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 13.5-RC1 Opinion poll: Do you know how to write software? Site news: Donations and sponsors Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1109 (%2025/%02/%17 %01:%Feb)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Rhino Linux 2025.1 and MX Linux 23.5 with Xfce 4.20 News: GhostBSD plans move its base to FreeBSD RELEASE, Redox stabilizes its ABI, UBports testing new 24.04 snapshots, Asahi Linux changing its leadership, OBS disputes Fedora shipping crippled OBS Flatpak Questions and answers: Replacing X.Org tools with Wayland tools Released last week: Netrunner 25, EndeavourOS 2025-02-08, Chimera Linux 20250214 Torrent corner: EndeavourOS, Netrunner Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 13.5-BETA3 Opinion poll: What are your thoughts on Xfce 4.20? New additions: Zenned Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1108 (%2025/%02/%10 %01:%Feb)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Serpent OS 0.24.6 and Aurora News: Peppermint tries Void base, GTK removing legacy technologies, Red Hat plans to put more AI tools in Fedora, TrueNAS merging CORE and SCALE, Alpine seeks new host Questions and answers: Sharing swap space between distributions Released last week: PorteuX 1.9, Univention Corporate Server 5.2-0 Torrent corner: Tails Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 13.5-BETA2 Opinion poll: Distributions with AI tools included New additions: iodeOS New distributions: Shebang Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1107 (%2025/%02/%03 %01:%Feb)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: siduction 2024.1.0 News: postmarketOS packages Lomiri interface, Orbitiny desktop makes its debut, and Alpine joins the Open Collective Questions and answers: Two ways to time tasks Released last week: KaOS 2025.01, OPNsense 25.1, TrueNAS 24.10.2 "SCALE", GParted Live 1.7.0-1, Parrot 6.3 Torrent corner: KDE neon, Parrot Upcoming releases: Univention Corporate Server 5.2 Opinion poll: Have you tried Orbitiny? Site news: Facebook un-ban? New distributions: Malbian Linux Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1106 (%2025/%01/%27 %01:%Jan)The DistroWatch Weekly news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Adelie 1.0 Beta 6 and Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha 5 News: Drawing graphics in a terminal with NetBSD, Nix package manager ported to FreeBSD kernel, GhostBSD hosting desktop conference Questions and answers: Are we inside a virtual machine? Released last week: BSD Router Project 1.994, Solus 4.7 Torrent corner: Solus Opinion poll: What should System76 do with Pop!_OS? Site news: Facebook ban, Donations and Sponsors New distributions: Bluefin Reader comments Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....