Lilidog 26.02.06 is now available: https://distrowatch.com/12724

I am very proud to say that I managed to #degoogle, install and run @postmarketos.org on a Pixel 3a 👌 And it works with #Phosh interface! Sure, still quite rough around the edges and not ready as a daily driver, but still impressive having a fully fledged Linux system running on mobile! #LinuxMobile

There is a roadmap for future features in the COSMIC desktop: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20130

Reasons why you probably won't see Rust code in NetBSD: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20129

openSUSE improves atomic update handling: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20128

Helwan Linux 3.0 is now available: https://distrowatch.com/12723

There is a new snapshot of Archcraft available: https://distrowatch.com/12722

Our server update over the weekend has also led to improved cache handling so DistroWatch should load faster, particularly when under heavy traffic loads: https://www.patreon.com/posts/149795075

This is why Groundhog Day continues to be one of my favourite holidays: https://xkcd.com/3202/

Governments have largely ignored privacy, security, financial, and public good arguments for years. It has only been when these same countries started facing external pressure, in the form of threats of invasion, when they started considering FOSS which would benefit their people and their […]

Lately it has been good to see so many communities, especially in European countries, look to open source software for their computing solutions. Something that irks me though is that open source enthusiasts, IT people, developers, and privacy advocates have been pushing for governments to […]

LFS will be focusing on systemd for future versions of the project's educational texts: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20127

DistroWatch reviews Manjaro 26.0, talks about filesysetm speed, reports on postmarketOS progress, Xfce developing its own Wayland window manager, and Bazzite's founder giving an interview: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260202

There is a new version of iDeal OS: https://distrowatch.com/12720

DistroWatch upgrade in progress, we may experience brief outages over in the next few minutes.

Linux Lit has a new update with reworked custom tools: https://distrowatch.com/12719

Some desktop updates and improved package handling from AerynOS: https://distrowatch.com/12718

The founder of Bazzite gives an interview with Gaming On Linux: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20126

There is a new version of GParted Live, for all your disk partitioning needs: https://distrowatch.com/12717

A new release of OPNsense is now available: https://distrowatch.com/12716

A Linux distribution which offers a Chromebook-like experience, FydeOS 22.0: https://distrowatch.com/12715

A new minor update for Emmabuntus with improved Italian translation: https://distrowatch.com/12714

DietPi 10.0 is now available for download: https://distrowatch.com/12713

DistroWatch Weekly shares tips on setting up a home server, discusses what happened to the dream of convergence, reports on postmarketOS automating tests, malware entering the Snap store, and KDE's new login manager being systemd-only: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260126

CachyOS has a new snapshot: https://distrowatch.com/12711

We have added a new "LLM" tag to our database to make it easier to find (or avoid) distributions which include AI tools by default: https://www.patreon.com/posts/149021842

There is a new release of Skywave: https://distrowatch.com/12710

I'm really curious about the new telnet update from Debian. It looks like it was marked as a security update, but it's hard to imagine what about the telnet_client_ would be a _new_threat. The Debian changelog for telnet gives a 404 error. Anyone have a link to an explanation?

Liya 2.5 introduces AI integration and better Samba support: https://distrowatch.com/12709

Guix System 1.5.0 has been released, offering over 10,000 new packages: https://distrowatch.com/12708

postmarketOS is introducing new quality assurance tests on real hardware: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20124

Another week, another denial of service attack. Thanks for bearing with us as we sort out the wave of traffic today.

Some people still like to use FTP servers. My install-and-go, zero configuration Bftpd FTP service continues to improve and receive patches: https://www.patreon.com/posts/148707587

A new version of deepin with its custom desktop is now available: https://distrowatch.com/12707

A new avenue for malicious Snap packages: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20123

MX Linux 25.1 brings back boot-time init options: https://distrowatch.com/12706

Distribution release: ELEGANCE 26.0.1 - https://distrowatch.com/12705

DistroWatch Weekly talks about the new Chimera Linux installer, how to use our Torrent Corner, Haiku improving EFI support, Synex offering ZFS options at install time, Redcore streamlining branches, and new Arch packaging tools: https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260119

The Synex distribution has a new system installer which can set up the Debian-based operating system on ZFS: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20122

For people who do not want to see LLM slop in their web search results: https://noai.duckduckgo.com

There is a new snapshot of EndeavourOS available. https://distrowatch.com/12703

From a pragmatic standpoint I get Wikimedia making deals with AI companies: They will scrape anyways, this way you might get some money. But it still _feels_ off. Telling all volunteers "you are working for Microsoft/Perplexity/etc for free now" _feels_ wrong.

It always amuses me when spellcheck tools try to "correct" some common open source terms with other, related terms. For instance, my spellcheck will correct Xubuntu to Kubuntu and XFS to ZFS. It shows an minor, but interest bias in corners of the open source community.

There is a new snapshot of TROMjaro available: https://distrowatch.com/12702

Redcore is simplifying its three branches down to two: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20121

Linux Mint 22.3 has been released: https://distrowatch.com/12701

Haiku's December newsletter mentions streamlining the process of booting with EFI partitions: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20120

I think the appearance of free software really broke the oligarch's brains. People are just giving away stuff that should be Shareholder Value? And we *can't* buy it off them and own it? People are just running a compiler whenever they like to make whatever they want without paying anyone? The […]

Progress is being made on the Arch Linux Package Management project: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20119

DistroWatch Weekly reviews MenuetOS, talks about CDE on SparkyLinux, reviews iDeal OS, suggests a flavour of BSD for newcomers, talks about Debian's Data Protection Team seeking new members, Ubuntu 25.04 nearing its end of life, Fedora replacing SDDM, and Budgie's migration to Wayland […]