 DistroWatch Weekly |
| DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1176, 8 June 2026 |
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Welcome to this year's 23rd issue of DistroWatch Weekly!
The Gentoo distribution has a well deserved reputation for being flexible, for placing a lot of power in the hands of its users. It also has a well earned reputation for being time consuming to install. The Redcore Linux project seeks to merge the best of Gentoo with an easy to use system installer and a pre-configured desktop. This allows users to get up and running quickly and then customize their distribution to better suit their situation as needed. Our Feature Story this week looks at Redcore Linux and its updated package manager. In our News section we talk about npm repositories being compromised, new visual effects coming to the COSMIC desktop, and a new system extension utility for openSUSE's MicroOS branch. We also share a rare piece of news: two Linux distributions merging to share resources and development. The Questions and Answers column this week talks about minimum system requirements and how the context of a situation can greatly affect minimum system specifications. Do you check system requirements before installing a new distribution, or do you try installing to see what happens? Let us know in the Opinion Poll. There were several new releases this week and we provide a summary below. We wish you all a wonderful week and happy reading!
This week's DistroWatch Weekly is presented by TUXEDO Computers.
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| Feature Story (By Jesse Smith) |
Redcore Linux 2601
Redcore Linux is a desktop distribution which is based on Gentoo. Redcore provides a friendly, graphical system installer, a wrapper (called Sisyphus) for package management, and multiple pre-configured desktop environments.
Most of the changes for this release focus on the package manager, Sisyphus. The release announcement shares these highlights:
Under the Hood: The backend has been completely ported to Python, removing all legacy bash helper code. This results in significantly faster and more reliable database transactions.
Metadata: Package subslots are now visible in the database, bringing parity with Gentoo's metadata handling.
Security: Added GPG portage tree signature verification to ensure the integrity and authenticity of every tree sync.
First-run/Recovery Wizard: A new first-run/recovery wizard can reinstate system branches (such as the portage tree) if they are accidentally deleted.
Automation: Introduced the --ask/--no-ask flags to toggle manual confirmation for install, upgrade, remove, and cleanup operations (default --ask for backwards compatibility).
Parallel Searching: Sisyphus now supports multiple simultaneous binary searches with advanced filtering.
News Delivery: A built-in news system now delivers critical change alerts directly through the package manager, without the need of reading blog posts.
UI Enhancements: Implemented columnisation for package lists to improve readability during operations.
The latest version of Redcore is available in three desktop editions for x86_64 machines. The editions are Plasma, LXQt, and QTILE. I decided to test drive the LXQt edition which is a 5.8GB download.
Installing
Booting from the LXQt image caused the desktop to launch and a little tune was played to welcome the user and demonstrate the sound system was working. LXQt is presented with a panel placed across the bottom edge of the screen. This panel holds a literal "Start" menu, a task switcher, and a system tray. On the desktop we find two icons. The first icon is called "Ask for help". Clicking this icon opens the Firefox web browser and connects us with an IRC channel through a web portal. The second icon is called "Install System" and it launches the Calamares system installer, after confirming we really want to launch the executable program associated with the icon.
Redcore Linux 26.01 -- The application menu
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Calamares is a graphical system installer which does a nice job of streamlining the initial install process and making the experience relatively beginner-friendly. On the opening screen of the installer there are buttons which offer to show us the project's release notes and known issues. Clicking these buttons has no effect.
I'd like to note that the installer has a few rules for system requirements. One is that the computer on which we are installing Redcore needs to have 4GB of RAM and this rule is enforced. There is another rule which states the disk must have 48GB of space on it, but this rule is not enforced and we can proceed even without that much space on the drive (though most non-virtual environments will likely have enough space available).
Calamares walks us through selecting our preferred language, keyboard layout, and timezone. We can use Calamares to partition our disk manually, using a nice, graphical interface. Should we decide to use the offered guided partitioning choice, Redcore defaults to using the ext4 filesystem and no swap space. The installer will allow us to use XFS or Btrfs as alternative root filesystems and we have the choice of requesting the system set up swap space on the disk (via a partition or a file) for us.
The installer asked me to create a username and password for myself and then went to work copying its files to my drive. After about ten minutes the installer announced it had finished successfully and offered to restart the computer.
Early impressions
When I booted my new copy of Redcore I was presented with a locked login screen. By locked, I mean there is no login field, we need to press a key or swipe with the mouse to reveal the fields where we can supply our username and password. Even then we need to explicitly click on the password box to type our password, it is not given focus automatically the way most login screens function. It's a small thing, but it feels out of place to need to unlock the login screen and then explicitly select input fields when other distributions typically don't require either of these steps.
There are several login session options from which to choose. The default is labwc. There are also sessions called "LXQt (Wayland)", "LXQt (Desktop)", Openbox, and Xsession. The first option, labwc didn't do anything, the system merely sat at the login screen and reset my password field. The LXQt Wayland session began to load, quickly crashed, and returned me to the login screen. The Openbox and "LXQt (Desktop)" sessions worked for me. Both launch an X11 session and then load the Openbox window manager and, in the latter case, also the LXQt components such as a panel.
Once we get signed in the LXQt desktop is presented "as-is", without any welcome screen, configuration wizard, or feature tour. If we want help there is the icon on the desktop to connect with the project's IRC chat room.
The LXQt desktop uses a light theme by default and the desktop is pleasantly minimal - including enough tools to be convenient to use without cluttering the interface.
Hardware
The distribution ran well when I installed it in VirtualBox. The LXQt desktop was responsive and Redcore integrated well in the virtual machine. When I ran the distribution on my workstation computer Redcore was able to detect and work with all of my hardware. Audio, wireless networking, and keyboard shortcuts all functioned as expected. The distribution generally provided good performance. One of my few issues in terms of hardware was, when I was rebooting my workstation machine from the live environment, Redcore locked up during its shutdown process. The distribution did not respond, even to keyboard commands such as Ctrl+Alt+Del and the kernel magic reboot sequence. The workstation needed to be hard reset in order to boot. When running in the virtual machine Redcore was able to shutdown and restart from the live desktop without issues.
Redcore Linux 2601 -- Trying LXQt with a dark theme
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I was surprised to discover early in my trial that Redcore was using a massive 1.75GB of memory, about double what I had been expecting when running LXQt on a Gentoo-based distribution. I will talk about this memory usage, with further details, later in the review, but for now I will just acknowledge Redcore was unusually resource hungry.
The distribution also consumed a lot of disk space, just shy of 20GB, plus I allocated some space for a swap file. This means Redcore requires about three times more disk space than most mainstream Linux distributions.
Included software
What applications do we get for 20GB of disk space? Along with the LXQt 2.3.0 desktop we find the Firefox web browser and LibreOffice in the Start menu. There are no media players installed by default, but we are given three game launchers: Steam, Lutris, and the Heroic Games Launcher. The PCManFM-Qt file manager is installed for us along with a text editor, archive manager, and image viewer.
The Timeshift utility is installed for us and this tool can take snapshots of Btrfs storage volumes or perform backups using rsync. I was a little surprised to see Timeshift installed since it is most useful when partnered with Btrfs, but Redcore defaults to using the ext4 filesystem.
The LXQt settings panel is available along with stand-alone configuration modules for customizing the desktop and the underlying Openbox window manager. These tools, while perhaps more primitive than the equivalents offered with heavier desktop environments, performed well.
The distribution ships with some duplicate items. For instance, there are two process monitors in the application menu (htop and qps). There are also three virtual terminals: QTerminal, UXTerm, and xterm.
While there are not a lot of desktop applications taking up disk space, when we dig deeper we find larger items. In the background we can find Java is installed, along with two compilers (Clang and the GNU Compiler Collection). I noticed Redcore ships with manual pages and the GNU command line utilities. Redcore runs OpenRC for the distribution's init and service manager functions and, at time of writing, the distribution ships with version 6.19 of the Linux kernel.
The Redcore distribution ships with the Warpinator file sharing application. Warpinator fails to launch. When trying to run Warpinator from the command line the application fails with a Python traceback and an "import" error.
Redcore Linux 2601 -- Attempting to launch Warpinator
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The distribution does not ship with sudo or other tools to run command as the administrator, such as doas. We can use su to switch to the root user and then run commands while logged in as root.
Software management
To help users manage software packages Redcore ships with a few tools. Under the hood, Redcore uses Gentoo's package system with the Sisyphus command line tool layered on top to provide friendly, easy to remember syntax. Then, on top of Sisyphus, we find a graphical application called Sisyphus GUI that provides a point-and-click experience.
I want to mostly focus on Sisyphus GUI. This low level package manager has an unusual layout and some extra fields which make using it confusing. As an example, unlike most other low-level package managers, Sisyphus GUI does not list packages in alphabetical order. Packages are sorted by category, then alphabetical order in that category. The categories are not user-friendly (or user-facing) names such as Internet, Office, and Media. Instead they're short, cryptic names such as acct-group. This might be helpful for package maintainers, but it doesn't do anything to assist end users. I also found that Sisyphus GUI would not sort packages using different orders or keys if the column headers were clicked. Instead, if we want to find a package with a specific name we need to use a search field to find it. This is a bit awkward and mostly does away with the benefit of a graphical software manager, which is that it should make it easy to browse for packages.
Redcore Linux 2601 -- Browsing available packages in Sisyphus GUI
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Sisyphus GUI lists several columns of information for each package. Along with the category and package name there are columns displaying the version number of the package on our system and the version number of the latest package in the Redcore repositories. There is a package description field which is short and sometimes useful, but other times effectively just repeats the package name. There is a column called "slot" and I'm not sure what information this is meant to provide, the column seems to be the same for all packages.
At the bottom of the Sisyphus GUI window there are buttons or installing selected packages, removing selected packages, performing a system upgrade, and removing orphaned packages. Clicking the option to performing a system upgrade makes the buttons disappear and a full progress bar appear. Then nothing seems to happen. Eventually the Sisyphus GUI window crashed. When I relaunched the package manager it seemed to indicate it was still working in the background, but no progress was shown. The application was effectively locked while I waited without a progress report. Eventually control returned to me, but without any indication of whether updates had been applied. I checked and confirmed updates were not fetched successfully.
I was able to use Sisyphus GUI to fetch and install a few programs, but the process was always unusually long, taking several minutes to install even small, command line programs. I switched to the command line version of Sisyphus. As promised in the release announcement, Sisyphus now has nicer formatting, using clear columns to provide information. The syntax is easy to learn and mostly mirrors the command line syntax of DNF and APT.
The downside to using Sisyphus is it is incredibly slow. Simply checking for package updates, without applying them, takes a minute or two - a task which usually takes a few seconds on Debian-based distributions. Whenever I tried to fetch all available updates (there were about 230 when I started using Redcore) the process would hang before fetching packages. I would see an indication that 230 packages would be fetched and then nothing would happen, even if I left Sisyphus to work for half an hour.
Since Sisyphus and its features were the highlight of this version of Redcore, I found the pace of the package management and its struggle to fetch updates disappointing.
Redcore provides users with Flatpak support out of the box. The Flatpak command line tool automatically connects with the Flathub repository and can fetch bundles without any problems. There is no graphical front-end for Flatpak included by default, though we could install one, such as Discover, if we want a friendly software centre.
Memory consumption
Earlier I mentioned Redcore, when running the lightweight LXQt desktop, consumes over 1.7GB of memory. Why so much memory? It turns out Redcore places the /run directory inside a temporary filesystem which is stored in RAM. This is actually a fairly common practice, distributions usually do this to improve performance and make clean-up easier. However, while on most distributions the /run directory takes up a few dozen megabytes to a hundred megabytes, on Redcore the /run directory eats about 1.3GB once the user signs into their account. Most of the operating system is about half a gigabyte in RAM (about 500MB), but then the /run filesystem adds 1.3GB on top of that. For the sake of comparison, MX Linux places /run in a temporary filesystem and uses 4MB to 40MB of RAM, compared to Redcore's 1,300MB.
Redcore Linux 2601 -- Browsing system settings
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I tested memory consumption on and off throughout the week. It seems Redcore's /run directory only expands to about 1.3GB when the system first boots. The size of the files inside /run stays large for a few minutes to an hour. After that, the system's temporary filesystem shrinks and it drops system RAM usage to about 600MB (total) on average. Using 600MB for the system and desktop is much more in line with most other distributions running LXQt. The extra files in /run were related to udev which handles dynamic device management. I have never encountered this before as other Linux systems generally use less than 100MB, not over 1,000MB, for /run and I suspect there is a problem with the implementation of udev which Redcore provides.
Conclusions
On the whole, most of my experience with Redcore Linux this past week was plagued with a series of little problems or areas where the experience fell short. Most of the core features worked, to a degree, but stumbled into problems along the way. For instance, the system installer worked, but then Redcore wasn't able to restart my workstation from the live image. There are six desktop session options listed on the login page, but just two of them worked for me. Most of the included applications functioned, but Warpinator appeared to be shipped without some dependencies. Hardware support was pretty solid and the distribution ran smoothly on my workstation and in the virtual machine, but then it gobbled RAM at an alarming rate for a few minutes to an hour.
These issues were generally minor and I was able to work around them. My main issues grew out of the updated package manager. Sisyphus is remarkably slow, even in the realm of Gentoo package managers which tend to perform slower than the software managers on other distributions. The graphical front end, while it could be used to install new applications, has several shortcomings. It doesn't sort applications in a way that makes sense, it has fields which don't appear to serve a purpose, it doesn't display progress information, and it doesn't really do anything to make managing packages easier than working from the command line.
Redcore Linux 2601 -- Running the distribution's three terminal applications
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I have run Redcore in trials in the past. Usually about once a year or two I will take the distribution for a spin. The process typically starts out well, with Redcore making it quite easy to get a Gentoo-based operating system on-line and set up with a desktop environment. However, after that point, the cracks start to show in the paint. There are always little bugs, programs that don't work, a slow software manager, desktop sessions that don't work, or other little problems which mean I spend almost as much time working around little issues as I do using the distribution. Usually I would say none of these problems is a show-stopper in itself, but the small things add up and so I always feel like Redcore is a year away from my being able to recommend it.
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Hardware used in this review
My physical test equipment for this review was a Lenovo desktop with the following specifications:
- Processor: Hex-core Intel i5-10400 CPU @ 2.90GHz
- Storage: Western Digital 1TB hard drive
- Memory: 8GB of RAM
- Networking: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 wired network card, Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe wireless adapter
- Display: Intel CometLake-S GT2
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Visitor supplied rating
Redcore Linux has a visitor supplied average rating of: 8.1/10 from 37 review(s).
Have you used Redcore Linux? You can leave your own review of the project on our ratings page.
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| Miscellaneous News (by Jesse Smith) |
Red Hat account linked to compromised npm repositories, COSMIC desktop to get Frosted Glass effect, openSUSE demonstrates a system extension manager, Origami merges with RakuOS
Developers who use the npm repositories should check which repositories they are using and possibly change their security tokens (keys and passwords) after it was discovered over 30 packages have been compromised. Aikido Dev reports: "On June 1, 2026, we detected multiple official packages from the @redhat-cloud-services scope on npm were compromised with a credential-stealing worm. Over 30 packages seem to be affected. The malware appears similar to the Mini Shai-Hulud malware that was recently open-sourced by TeamPCP. Since the tooling was made publicly available, other threat actors now have access to the same techniques and can replicate or adapt them. The packages were published via GitHub Actions OIDC, indicating the CI/CD pipeline was compromised rather than an npm token. If you have installed any affected package versions since June 1, 2026, treat all CI secrets, cloud credentials, SSH keys, and npm tokens as compromised and rotate them immediately."
According to the notice, it looks as though the compromised packages came from a Red Hat employee's account: "We found a Red Hat employee's GitHub account was compromised and used to push malicious orphan commits directly to several repositories, bypassing code review entirely."
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Carl Richell has posted an update concerning the development of the COSMIC desktop environment. Future versions of the desktop will offer a "frosted glass" look, similar to the effects used in Window Vista and recent versions of macOS. Richell wrote: "COSMIC Frosted Glass is getting closer. The effect is subtle by default but can get very glassy if that's your thing. Or turn the effect off all together. Toggles and sliders in Settings fine tune the look to the style you want." A post on X includes screenshots of the visual effect.
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The MicroOS branch of openSUSE is getting a new tool to help manage extensions. A blog post from Stefan Schubert explains the new utility: "If you are running openSUSE MicroOS, you already know the drill: the root filesystem is read-only, and transactional updates are the law of the land. But what happens when you need to add software or system extensions without rebooting or messing with your base OS layers? E.g. You need strace or gdb to debug a running application, but a reboot to install this tools would change the situation. Enter System Extensions (sysext images) and the utility designed to make them manageable: sysextmgrcli." The blog post goes on the demonstrate listing, installing, and managing extensions using the new tool.
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Origami Linux and RakuOS, two Fedora-based immutable Linux distributions, have made a decision to merge the two projects under the name of the latter. John Holt, the founder of Origami, explains the move: "After connecting with the creator of RakuOS, it became clear our projects share the exact same goals, direction, and technology stacks. RakuOS is paving the way for the future of immutable Linux, and we are joining forces to build it together. The Origami creator is stepping into a project co-lead role at RakuOS. RakuOS is a completely unique atomic distribution, the only one that allows you to run dnf with package overlays using its own custom software center. RakuOS' COSMIC edition will become exactly what Origami is today. Furthermore, the signature Origami styling will be officially ported to all three RakuOS desktop environments (KDE, GNOME and COSMIC). When you update your system, you will be greeted by the migration wizard to guide you through rebasing to RakuOS. Once complete, your system will look and feel exactly like Origami and will continue to use the performance-tuned CachyOS Kernel." As a result of the merge, the status of Origami Linux has been set to "discontinued" on DistroWatch.
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These and other news stories can be found on our Headlines page.
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| Questions and Answers (by Jesse Smith) |
The problem with minimal system requirements
Seeking-the-lowest-level asks: I think it would be helpful if you listed minimal requirements for distributions and let people search for projects by minimum hardware requirements.
DistroWatch answers: Admittedly this is not really a question, it's more of a request, but I receive variations on this message on a regular basis. This seems like as good a time as any to explain why we do not list minimum system requires or make it possible to search for such specifications.
First, I would like to share some practical advice. If your computer was manufactured in the past ten years, it should have more than enough capacity to run any Linux distribution. A friend of mine has a laptop which still has its Windows 7 sticker, marking it as being about 15 years old, and it runs Linux Mint, one of the more beginner-friendly, full-featured distributions. It takes a minute to boot, but then it's perfectly capable of performing most basic tasks - web browsing, document editing, listening to music, and watching videos. Younger computers will, generally speaking, be able to run almost any Linux distributions.
Hardware requirements for Linux have largely plateaued in the past two decades, meaning computers can usually run mainstream distributions if they are a decade old or less. If your computer is over a decade old then we provide a list of distributions suitable for older equipment on our search page, which you can see by selecting the Old Computers category. The projects in the Old Computers list will run on anything with more power than a potato with a keyboard plugged into it.
In a practical sense, listing minimal system requirements won't help much, because chances are if your computer was made recently enough that it is still running with its original parts, it will be able to run a mainstream Linux distribution. Otherwise it will be able to run a lightweight distribution which targets older hardware.
Another reason for not providing minimum system requirements for distributions is such information would be, at best, useless without context and, at worst, misleading. Minimum system requirements don't really mean anything without context. By context, in this case, I mean we need to be able to answer two questions when determining hardware requirements:
- What do we want to accomplish?
- What software are we using to accomplish it?
The "What do we want to accomplish?" part focuses on what sort of role the computer be performing. Is it a desktop system, a media centre, or networked backup storage? Will it be used to browse the web and stream videos, will it be running a web server, will it be used for gaming, will it need to edit documents and check e-mails? The system requirements of these tasks can range wildly.
As an example of the different the task can make: my 11 year old Raspberry Pi 2 is perfectly capable of running Debian to act as a home NAS backup system, but it would be useless at running Debian to edit videos. The same distribution will have different hardware requirements, depending on what we want to accomplish. The Ubuntu Server edition running a web server will require a quarter of the resources Ubuntu's Desktop edition requires to run a fresh install with a web browser.
Next, let's look at the second question: What software are we using to accomplish our tasks? Performing the same task can have greatly different resource requirements, depending on which tools we use to accomplish it. If you're wondering what the minimal system resources are to run MX Linux and sign into the Xfce desktop, the answer is probably around 800MB of RAM and any 64-bit CPU. However, if you want to run the Plasma desktop on the same distribution, you're probably going to need a processor from the past ten years and twice as much RAM. It's the same distribution performing the same task (running a desktop session), but with a big gap in the system requirements.
In a similar fashion, if you want to run a private web server, you'll need different hardware than if you were planning to run a popular game server. Likewise, a system that is "just going to check e-mail" will have different needs depending on whether we're checking e-mail using the Falkon browser through a web portal or using Thunderbird locally.
This is why it bothers me when projects publish official minimum system requirements. Those numbers may be accurate for someone, performing some task, but it doesn't provide an accurate picture for anyone else. At best, the official system requirements listed on a distribution's web pages are probably a guess at what the developers think most people need to accomplish most tasks.
Canonical caused some raised eyebrows earlier this year when the company published the system requirements for Ubuntu Desktop and insisted on 6GB of RAM and 25GB of disk space as being the minimum requirements for the distribution. The reason this caught attention was most Ubuntu users are probably aware the operating system will install with under 20GB of disk space and, even when running a web browser, an office suite, and a music player, the distribution will consume less than 4GB of RAM. The official, published stats are not minimal requirements, they're about double the actual requirements, but the company is providing themselves with some wiggle room.
This leads us to another problem with third-party websites publishing system requirements for distributions. Do we, as the third-party information source, simply parrot the system requirements published by distributions (when they bother to publish any), knowing the information isn't accurate? Or do we test the distributions with the default settings, knowing our information will contradict the developers? In either case, we would be publishing the information knowing it is data that only matches users with the same setup as what we are using. Some people would correctly point out they can configure the distribution to use fewer resources, others will complain the specifications we provide are not enough to accomplish what they want to do with their computers.
In the end, publishing system requirements usually just muddies the waters. The information doesn't provide any useful advice for people without context. Which brings me back to the original point: if your computer is less than a decade old, you can probably run any Linux distribution on it. When it's more than a decade old, we have a handy list of distributions tailored to low-spec machines.
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Additional answers can be found in our Questions and Answers archive.
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Network Security Toolkit 44-15105
Ron Henderson has announced the release of Network Security Toolkit (NST) 44-15105, a major new version of the project's Fedora-based Linux distribution featuring a collection of best-of-breed, open-source network security applications: "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release - NST 44 SVN:15105. Based on Fedora 44 and powered by Linux Kernel 7.0.10, this version brings the NST distribution completely on par with Fedora 44. This release delivers major enhancements to the NST WUI. Below is a summary of the key feature improvements included in this release. All NST Shell Console output windows have been enhanced for the discovery of IPv4/IPv6 addresses, host names, MAC addresses and bluetooth adresses. Once identified, these network entities can be populated to their corresponding Tools widget. For example, the image below demonstrates how IPv6 addresses are discovered from the results of running the IP network utility within the NST Shell Console. The located IPv6 addresses are then populated to the IPv6 Address Tools widget as shown. To activate this feature, click on a network entity icon located in the lower-right side of the NST Shell Console Editor." Read the rest to the release announcement for a complete list of changes and new features.
Linux Lite 8.0
Jerry Bezencon has announced the release of Linux Lite 8.0, an Ubuntu-based distribution which makes getting set up and started easy for beginners. "Linux Lite 8.0 final is now available for download. Series 8 represents 14 years of community-driven purpose culminating in Linux Lite's largest development cycle ever: a brand-new installer, new performance driven kernels, end-to-end GTK4 theming, plentiful customisation, a game center that gives you all the tools you need to get up and running in minutes, a slew of new in-house applications and unprecedented translation coverage at every level of the system. Series 8 will continue to build on this foundation with improved usability, expanded applications, more choice, more control and ongoing performance refinements to our custom kernels. Platform changes: new Linux Lite high-performance custom kernels; all Linux Lite applications have been translated into 22 languages; all GUI applications ported to GTK4 (from GTK3/WebKit2); APT sources migrated to DEB822 .sources format (replaces .list files); installer - Calamares replaces Ubiquity; Firefox returns; Python 3.14.4 (up from 3.12); Btop replace Htop...." One of the features highlighted in the release announcement is the option of two kernel builds, one general purpose kernel and the other includes optimizations for gaming.
MocaccinoOS 26.06
The MocaccinoOS development team has announced the release of MocaccinoOS 26.06, the latest version of the project's set of Gentoo-based Linux distributions featuring a number of popular desktop environments and a custom package manager called "Luet". This release provides a new live image with the COSMIC desktop and updates the default Linux kernel to version 6.18.33: "We are excited to announce the release of MocaccinoOS 26.06. We hope you enjoy this release and the improvements it brings. Changes since 26.05: releases are now published on MocaccinoOS' SourceForge page; Linux kernel upgraded to 6.18.33 (LTS); Mesa version 26.1.1; KDE Plasma 6.6.5. Issues and improvements: COSMIC ISO image added; Google's CJK font family added to all ISO images; Vajo package manager has seen many new features and improvements; Calamares installer now features an additional software installation module. You can extend your system with additional software using Flatpak, Docker or the community repository. We welcome your feedback, whether it's bug reports or ideas for improvement." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information.
MocaccinoOS 26.06 -- Running the COSMIC desktop
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Clonezilla Live 3.3.2-31
Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software. The project's latest announcement brings Clonezilla Live up to date with Debian's "Unstable" repository: "Stable Clonezilla Live 3.3.2-31 released. This release of Clonezilla live includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes since 3.3.1-35: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2026-05-17; Linux kernel has been updated to 7.0.7; Partclone has been updated to 0.3.47; the ezio package has been updated to 2.0.23; implemented the gocryptfs mechanism for image encryption due to eCryptFS deprecation; added -goc/-sgoc/ and -pg/-pfg options in ocs-sr and the TUI menu; added a new program, ocs-cvtimg-enc, to convert encrypted images (ecryptfs to gocryptfs), decrypt or encrypt images; improved MDRAID support - added ocs-mdraid-start, ocs-mdraid-stop, ocs-purge-mdraid-layout, ocs-save-mdraid-layout,and ocs-restore-mdraid-layout programs; lite server now supports MDRAID deployment; standardized naming conventions for MDRAID management; improved MDRAID stop/clean operations to prevent 'busy' errors during restoration; added support for LVM thin provisioning." The release announcement offers additional details.
T2 Linux SDE 26.6
T2 Linux SDE is an independently-developed open-source system development environment (or distribution build kit). It enables the creation of custom distributions with bleeding-edge technology. The project's latest release, version 26.6, polishes the KDE Plasma build and expands RISC-V support. "This T2/Linux release continues to polish our flagship KDE Plasma Desktop integration, now with out-of-the-box Flatpak and Discover app store and support for more RISC architectures. For the first time, a consistently, fully reproducible, cross-compiled modern Wayland-based KDE Plasma experience is also delivered not only on x86-64 and ARM64 glibc, but also on Musl LLVM/Clang based builds and more RISC machines, such as DEC Alpha, Sgi MIPS64! Support for latest ARM64 and RISCV64 SoCs with Mesa Panfrost and PowerVR graphic support was significantly improved, too. The result is a reproducible, modern Linux system spanning mainstream and RISC architectures alike. Combining a cutting-edge KDE Wayland desktop with T2's long-standing cross-platform support." Additional information is provided in the release announcement.
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Development, unannounced and minor bug-fix releases
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Do you check minimum system requirements?
In this week's Questions and Answers column we talked about minimal system requirements and how they are dependent on context. It's important to know what you want an operating system to do before trying to map out what hardware resources the operating system will need.
This week we would like to hear answers from our readers: do you check minimum system requirements before you install a new distribution? Or is your computer capable enough that you feel confident it will be able to run any Linux distribution you download?
You can see the results of our previous poll on operating systems for the PineTab2 in our previous edition. All previous poll results can be found in our poll archives.
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1 • Minimum System Requirements (by Slappy McGee on 2026-06-08 00:21:53 GMT from United States)
No.. I used to. But as noted in the Q&A not needed much at all with Linux/BSD. Even the "heaviest" distros are pretty much hardware friendly with machines made in the past 15 years or so.
2 • System Requirements (by Steve on 2026-06-08 00:56:21 GMT from United States)
Recently, I tried to bring an old laptop back to live. It only had 4GB RAM, which was a bit of a challenge. Gnome, KDE and Budgie won't run on it, so I decided on MXLinux. Works like a charm.
3 • System Requirements (by SM on 2026-06-08 01:38:14 GMT from United States)
My desktop came with windows vista and my 3 laptops came with (1) vista and (2) with windows 7. So yes, they are old and I have had to replace hard drives and wifi controllers. I run Puppy Linux on all computers and have plenty of resources to easily run the OS on everything with no problems. One of my laptops that came with windows 7 (was given to me)and took almost 10 minutes to boot up with windows. With Puppy Linux maybe 1 minute. I won't even consider any other OS with all my older computers. The programs I use all run fast and efficiently. Another big plus in my opinion about Puppy Linux is that the OS is read only. Any settings that are saved go into a .sfs or squash file that meshes with the basic OS on boot so there is no detection or delay when automatically loading the squash file. If I decide I want to install other apps I will remaster the OS so new apps will be part of the read only file system. I keep the save file or save directory backed-up just in case but have never had to use it. So, no I don't check system requirements because Puppy Linux is so very light and I won't even try anything else.
4 • Minimum Requirements (by Wedge009 on 2026-06-08 02:39:01 GMT from Australia)
It helps when looking at very limited hardware. Even at the time of manufacture, 2 GiB RAM was probably insufficient for the bloatware that is Windows (Windows 8 for this particular machine), but with a lighter desktop, Linux easily makes it a viable and useful system.
5 • @2 (by rb on 2026-06-08 06:18:25 GMT from United States)
"It only had 4GB RAM, which was a bit of a challenge. Gnome, KDE and Budgie won't run on it"
I had a Lenovo Ideapad 1i 14".
1. They had an Intel Celeron N4020 Processor (1.10 GHz, up to 2.80 GHz Burst, 2 Cores, 2 Threads, 4 MB Cache).
2. They came preinstalled with Windows 11 Home in S Mode.
3. 4 GB of DDR4 2400MHz RAM.
I never had any issues running a full fledged KDE desktop on that machine. I could also run Firefox with a few tabs open, play media or video, and use Thunderbird email. I also placed video calls and streamed music over bluetooth. I no longer have that laptop but it ran KDE 5 just fine.
I am currently using KDE 6 on Gentoo on a desktop. I have two instances of Firefox open (each with multiple tabs) and Thunderbird open. I am sitting at only 4gb of memory used.
There might be some limitations when running KDE on 4Gb of RAM. Limiting the number of tabs open in a browser and turning off Desktop Effects will help conserve ram. As long as there is a swap partition (or in my case a swap file), KDE will can run rather smoothly on 4GB of RAM.
6 • minimum requirements (by eM on 2026-06-08 06:29:46 GMT from Poland)
This feature could be useful but it's too hard to get real numbers and without it it's useless. What I would be interested to know? Absolute minimum requirements for CPU (like "CPU with SSE4.2 is required to run PorteuX" instead of a number of cores or with GHz), disk space and RAM needed to boot live version and install it on a disk. Somehow these numbers are kept secret.
7 • butt worms (by butt worms rule on 2026-06-08 06:48:04 GMT from United States)
i like butt worms
8 • subject (by name on 2026-06-08 06:48:46 GMT from Sweden)
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9 • minimum requirements - again (by eM on 2026-06-08 06:53:34 GMT from Poland)
@6 To clarify my point. Instead of going for minimal requirements to use, I want minimal requirements to boot which can be much clearer.
10 • Miscellaneous News : COSMIC Frosted Glass effect (by Always-curious-about-FOSS on 2026-06-08 07:54:39 GMT from Germany)
Instead of focusing on trivial visual gimmicks, the developers at Cosmic Desktop should please focus on the important things!
or example, a graphical option to adjust the font size. That should be a given for a desktop environment.
As long as I can't change the font size in Cosmic Desktop, this desktop is unusable for me!
And yet my first impression wasn't that bad.
11 • Do you check minimum system requirements prior to installing a new distro? (by Jake on 2026-06-08 09:37:31 GMT from United States)
No, I have all modern equipment.
12 • Minimum System Requirements (by Kurt_Aust on 2026-06-08 09:49:03 GMT from Australia)
Until recently I was running Linux Mint on a (admittedly high end - 2GB RAM) laptop from 2005 without issue.
The only reason I went back to Win XP on it for retro gaming was that the video card couldn't handle web (especially YouTube) videos with their current codecs.
13 • a phone call? (by commander riker on 2026-06-08 11:11:54 GMT from Luxembourg)
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14 • PIKA! (by Pikachu on 2026-06-08 11:12:55 GMT from Luxembourg)
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15 • Minimum Requirements (by Edgar on 2026-06-08 12:18:17 GMT from Brazil)
I've been using Debian with LXQt for about 2 years, but I used to run openSUSE with LXDE/LXQt on older hardware. My specs: HP Pavilion dm4-2055BR (2011/12), Intel Core i5-2410M, 8GB RAM, and a 120GB SSD.
16 • Minimum Requirements (by OldManSeph on 2026-06-08 15:06:14 GMT from United States)
Minimum Requirements are only necessary to look at with Windows and MacOS. A 20 year old laptop can run any distro with a Desktop like MATE, Cinnamon, XFCE...without issue. As long as you don't need to do anything like video editing or gaming, there won't be an issue.
17 • Requirements (by Dark on 2026-06-08 15:43:39 GMT from Portugal)
Minimum requirements should always be the instructions needed. 1.6GHz means very little, given the performance disparity of a, say, Intel Atom 450 and a modern 1.6GHz CPU, probably around a order of magnitude.
The article nailed it in the head. Minimum requirements should reflect that, not what software will run later.
A good example of requirements that mean absolutely nothing are videogames.
18 • Weak & old computers (by eb on 2026-06-08 17:57:17 GMT from France)
According to my experience, the secret with old hardware is :
A minimalist desktop environment (XFCE, LXQt, LXDE),
or better only a window manager (Fluxbox, Openbox, JWM ...).
No video editing nor modern games.
Ecological Linux !:-).
19 • Min Requirements (by np on 2026-06-08 18:30:58 GMT from France)
no... and yes
No, because I've been pleasantly surprised with everything lately. Only check when looking at VMs and then for me, of course when looking at hardware to buy/build a a server for specific software. Most of which barely deserves mentioning because they should run on "potatoes" but I've been taken aback by a few that specify 2 cores and 2GB of RAM for basic use... like wow, OK, now I have to start adding up requirements for what I want it to run because that's gonna take up a chunk.
Otherwise, any "modern" laptop run anything fine, from my old Win10 to my older Win7 laptop, never really had to consider requirements, especially considering that a full fledged desktop installation with LibreOffice takes up less room than a similar proprietary setup.
20 • Inquiry (by Anna Williams on 2026-06-08 21:43:36 GMT from Germany)
Hello, I would like to get more information.
21 • PIKACHU INVASION!!! (by LUNATIC on 2026-06-09 03:24:08 GMT from Austria)
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22 • Microsoft? Pleaaaaaaaase. Just die already M$ (by SPINNING STAR KICK! on 2026-06-09 03:27:53 GMT from Austria)
Just say NO to Microsoft!
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23 • but I'm 31337! (by The basement dweller on 2026-06-09 03:30:00 GMT from Norway)
How DARE you suggest I get a recent system with decent memory!
Why, I pride myself in running Linux in 1GB memory on a dead rabbit.
Come on, man, I'm ELITE!
Upgrade? Who needs it?
24 • Fuguita (by TecNix on 2026-06-09 03:35:06 GMT from The Netherlands)
You really need to do an article about the OpenBSD LiveCD/USB: Fuguita.
There aren't really many of those made nowadays.
25 • soft kitty (by Meow! on 2026-06-09 04:23:25 GMT from Sweden)
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Soft kitty,
Warm kitty,
Little ball of fur.
Happy kitty,
Sleepy kitty,
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26 • Pikachu and other wacky images (by fuel - hemorrhage on 2026-06-09 08:54:39 GMT from United States)
You guys are awesome.
27 • I SEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUU (by EYE OVER YOU EYE OVER YOU on 2026-06-09 10:44:14 GMT from Germany)
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Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
Their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze.
What funny little birds - they had no wings.
Oh, what shall we do with the funny little things?
Oh, what shall we do with the funny little things?
Roast them alive or stew 'em in a pot!
Fry them, boil them, eat them hot?
Bake 'em! Toast 'em! Fry 'em! Roast 'em
Till beards blaze and eyes glaze;
Till hair swells and skins crack,
Fat melts and bones black
In cinders lie beneath the sky!
So the Dwarves shall die! (Ha ha ha...)
Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
Their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze.
What funny little birds - they had no wings.
Oh, what shall we do with the funny little things?
Oh, what shall we do with the funny little things?
28 • Playground (by Rabbi Muhammad Saint Buddha on 2026-06-09 12:23:38 GMT from United States)
Is Jesse on vacation or something?
29 • minimum system requirements (by tomas on 2026-06-09 14:03:15 GMT from Czechia)
Many of "my" PCs are older, I still even have an old secondhand notebook with 32-bit processor.
On this notebook I run Q4OS Trinity and Devuan Mate without problems.
Well, 2028 will show what comes next, Debian will not support 32-bit any more.
So knowing the minimum system requirements is important.
On DW I still see that OpenSUSE supports i686 processors.
I wonder if that is true - Leap 15 is EOL and Leap 16 requires x86-64_v2.
From time to time I get the idea to try some "new" distro and then I hit some hurdles.
The devs should visibly show the system requirements (and password if required by the media) on the download page.
By system requirements I mean processor, graphics ... (RAM is interesting only if it exceeds say 1GB, disk capacity if it exceeds say 20 GB to run just the freshly installed system).
I know the given numbers are rather small nowadays.
In the rush for new things the devs are forgetting the Linux saying "give new life to old hardware".
30 • @29 - 32-bit Debian Trixie (by Uncle Slacky on 2026-06-09 17:34:11 GMT from France)
antiX is still producing a 32-bit spin based on Trixie:
https://antixlinux.com/download/
31 • 32-bit DEbian Trixie (by tomas on 2026-06-09 19:45:57 GMT from Czechia)
@30 "antiX is still producing a 32-bit spin based on Trixie"
Well, I am not sure about this, I have installed it on that 32-bit notebook, but still not got to like it.
Anyway Q4OS 5.x is based on Bookworm and when updating I got a message that it will be supported till 2028 only because Debian will no longer support 32-bit.
On DW's page for Debian, Bookworm has i686, Trixie not.
Another point for my opinion on system requirements.
I did not find relevant info on AntiX web pages.
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34 • antiX-26 32 bit (by anticapitalista on 2026-06-10 08:06:30 GMT from Greece)
Announcement clearly states there is a 32bit version
There are 2 flavours – full (c2GB) and core (c660MB) for 64bit and 32bit arch
https://antixlinux.com/antix-26-released/
35 • Jesse? (by snap dragon on 2026-06-10 10:50:28 GMT from United States)
A clean up of the comment section is in order. Also, I used to worry about minimum requirements when I ran large desktop environments many years ago, but they are now irrelevant to me since I don't even bother running a graphical setup these days. It also demonstrates Jesse's point perfectly because my minimum requirements are completely different to the minimum requirements of a gamer or a youtuber.
36 • SPAM BOTS HERE (by Rabbi Muhammad Saint Buddha on 2026-06-10 12:09:36 GMT from United States)
@35 etc... I hope Jesse's okay. Not here for some reason, hopefully it's a relaxing and rewarding off-time vacay dealio.
37 • Bots (by Necio on 2026-06-10 14:23:03 GMT from United States)
Sometimes credentials are changed and you can't sign in. We'll find out, I'm sure.
38 • Bots, credentials blocked, etc.. (by Rabbi Muhammad Saint Buddha on 2026-06-10 15:01:43 GMT from United States)
@37 The reason I doubted that is that we're seeing new distro announcements on the front page. I may have been mistaken in assuming Jesse was fielding those and then manually entering them.
39 • antiX 32-bit (by grindstone on 2026-06-10 16:44:59 GMT from United States)
The 32-bit app support is disappearing/has disappeared from many things. v26 (trixie) has been bumpy, but v23 antiX (bookworm) remains very solid and supported for some time yet. Slightly slimmer and v23-based, DSL remains (though not UEFI unless you make one by hand). Either of those will boot and put up a WM in < 100MB of ram and around 8GB (6+ for DSL) of disk usage installed.
For the oldest machines, it's the choices by X / Mesa / Wayland that set new standards for what would be unacceptable regressions in many other projects.
For life at the trailing edge of hardware, minimum requirements are the difference between going to the trouble or not.
40 • I love you, ALF (by ALFDAD Live & Pissed on 2026-06-10 18:38:12 GMT from Austria)
I just want to be the best lover I can be to you, ALF.
WILLY! You think I'm a f/\ggot? You think I'm a f/\ggot WILLY?
Oh, ALF, I thought you liked f/\ggots.
You know I love you, ALF.
I'll go down on you, ALF.
41 • United States)
I like to play sammy lightfoot (old sierra game) while masturbating.
42 • on 2026-06-10 18:54:27 GMT from Germany)
i like to jack it.
43 • How to? New Distros exceed 4.2GigaBytes, won't fit on a DVD disc! How do I load? (by S Nail on 2026-06-10 20:41:08 GMT from United States)
I have years of experience downloading distros via your Premier website and burning the .iso files onto discs for loading into computers. Very nice!
Now, however, as you know distro's have grown beyond the 4.2 Gig capacity of a DVD disc. What sequence of steps (application software) would I take to move the file from the download into whatever form it needs to be for me to get it via a flashdrive into the loading onto the destination computer?
44 • Minimum system requirements (by Jason Hsu on 2026-06-10 21:03:09 GMT from United States)
In recent years, I've found that it doesn't really matter if you're using a lightweight distro or a heavyweight distro. The DE, LibreOffice, and other software aren't demanding of processor power or memory. Instead, web pages are EXTREMELY demanding of computer resources. It doesn't matter how lightweight or heavyweight your graphical web browser is, because it's the web sites that hog the computer resources, NOT the software on your local machine. While you could use a text-based browser, today's web isn't designed for one.
A computer that is too old and slow for today's web sites should be used as an offline-only machine.
45 • Inquiry (by Anna Jones on 2026-06-10 21:11:09 GMT from Germany)
Hello, I would like to get more information.
46 • How to? (by Keith S on 2026-06-10 21:16:13 GMT from United States)
@42 Ventoy on a USB has worked great for me. Even a little 8GB USB works, though 32GB and 64GB are fairly inexpensive and will hold quite a few .iso files. Follow the directions on the Ventoy site, then it's a simple copy / paste for isos from your download directory to the USB.
47 • Browser memory hogs (by Keith S on 2026-06-10 21:24:02 GMT from United States)
Firefox is the worst memory hog of the browsers in my experience. I use Chromium-based browsers exclusively now because of it. In my experience, Brave is my favorite, ungoogled-chromium is very good, and the others based on Chromium (Opera, Vivaldi, Epic, et al.) are also better than Firefox or its derivatives (Waterfox, LibreWolf, Pale Moon, et al.)
48 • @43, How to? (by Necio on 2026-06-11 00:34:47 GMT from United States)
"What sequence of steps . . ." Go to Google (or DuckDuckGo) and ask the same question. Try using their AI mode. You'll get better step-by-step instructions than you can get here.
49 • @47, Browser memory hogs (by Necio on 2026-06-11 01:18:01 GMT from United States)
"Firefox is the worst memory hog of the browsers in my experience." I have 4 browsers open with the same 3 tabs on each. Chromium: 2.18 GB, Firefox: 2.73, Chrome: 2.5, Librewolf: 2.3. Chromium is running with no extensions. Librewolf has just 2. Firefox and Chrome are loaded with the extensions that I normally use, and Firefox has the most. There may be a small difference between Firefox (Gecko) and Chrome/Chromium (Blink) but for daily use it's not really notable. Firefox has its faults, but it's the one with the least control by Google (De-googled Chromium included, even with its limitations). There are 3 major browser engines: Blink (Chromium), Webkit (Apple), and Gecko (Firefox), unless you want to use Goanna (Pale Moon). I stay with Firefox, although I use the others on occasion.
50 • Web (by snap dragon on 2026-06-11 02:31:55 GMT from United States)
@44 I agree 100%. The modern web is extremely bloated with web pages that are so heavy that they can easily bring the entire machine to a crawl. Text browsers are for people like me that only use the internet to check news, weather, traffic reports, sports scores, blogs, and message boards. They would never work for modern uses such as social media, e-commerce, filing taxes, watching videos, and accessing graphics-heavy websites such as Tumblr or Deviantart. Firefox is definitely the worst offender when it comes to eating memory. I once had Firefox freeze the entire system when I used Open Indiana a few years back. I would definitely go with Chromium or a Chromium-based browser for modern web use. You could disable some features in the options menu to help deal with the heavier websites, too. Fun fact: I'm actually reading and responding to this comment section in Lynx web browser, lol!
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| • Issue 1135 (2025-08-18): Debian 13, Proton, WINE, Wayland, and Wayback, Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, KDE gets advanced Liquid Glass, Haiku improves authentication tools |
| • Issue 1134 (2025-08-11): Rhino Linux 2025.3, thoughts on malware in the AUR, Fedora brings hammered websites back on-line, NetBSD reveals features for version 11, Ubuntu swaps some command line tools for 25.10, AlmaLinux improves NVIDIA support |
| • Issue 1133 (2025-08-04): Expirion Linux 6.0, running Plasma on Linux Mint, finding distros which support X11, Debian addresses 22 year old bug, FreeBSD discusses potential issues with pkgbase, CDE ported to OpenBSD, Btrfs corruption bug hitting Fedora users, more malware found in Arch User Repository |
| • Issue 1132 (2025-07-28): deepin 25, wars in the open source community, proposal to have Fedora enable Flathub repository, FreeBSD plans desktop install option, Wayback gets its first release |
| • Issue 1131 (2025-07-21): HeliumOS 10.0, settling on one distro, Mint plans new releases, Arch discovers malware in AUR, Plasma Bigscreen returns, Clear Linux discontinued |
| • Issue 1130 (2025-07-14): openSUSE MicroOS and RefreshOS, sharing aliases between computers, Bazzite makes Bazaar its default Flatpak store, Alpine plans Wayback release, Wayland and X11 benchmarked, Red Hat offers additional developer licenses, openSUSE seeks feedback from ARM users, Ubuntu 24.10 reaches the end of its life |
| • Issue 1129 (2025-07-07): GLF OS Omnislash, the worst Linux distro, Alpine introduces Wayback, Fedora drops plans to stop i686 support, AlmaLinux builds EPEL repository for older CPUs, Ubuntu dropping existing RISC-V device support, Rhino partners with UBports, PCLinuxOS recovering from website outage |
| • Issue 1128 (2025-06-30): AxOS 25.06, AlmaLinux OS 10.0, transferring Flaptak bundles to off-line computers, Ubuntu to boost Intel graphics performance, Fedora considers dropping i686 packages, SDesk switches from SELinux to AppArmor |
| • Issue 1127 (2025-06-23): LastOSLinux 2025-05-25, most unique Linux distro, Haiku stabilises, KDE publishes Plasma 6.4, Arch splits Plasma packages, Slackware infrastructure migrating |
| • Issue 1126 (2025-06-16): SDesk 2025.05.06, renewed interest in Ubuntu Touch, a BASIC device running NetBSD, Ubuntu dropping X11 GNOME session, GNOME increases dependency on systemd, Google holding back Pixel source code, Nitrux changing its desktop, EFF turns 35 |
| • Issue 1125 (2025-06-09): RHEL 10, distributions likely to survive a decade, Murena partners with more hardware makers, GNOME tests its own distro on real hardware, Redox ports GTK and X11, Mint provides fingerprint authentication |
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Olive was minimalistic Linux live CD based on Debian GNU/Linux. It offers a number of rarely-seen features, such as a unique boot process using a combination of BusyBox and GHLI, a modular script interpreter, a custom package management tool called UniPKG, a read-write live CD infrastructure with Unionfs and Squashfs, and the Enlightenment window manager. The purpose of the project was to demonstrate ease-of-use of Linux and to showcase interesting new technologies.
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