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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . The FreeBSD project has published an update to FreeBSD's 14.x series. The new version, 14.5, provides several fixes and introduces some changes to the userland utilities. "The rc.firewall script now supports reading IP addresses or subnets from on-disk files for the firewall_allowservices and firewall_trusted list variables. Elemen…

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Genuen 6.0.0 News: Multikernel Linux, bots swarm the kernel repository, Debian being deployed at CERN, Debian 11 reaches its end of life Questions and answers: Avoiding LLM-written code Released last week: Linux From Scratch 13.1, Grml 2026.09, Talos Linux 1.14.0, Zenwalk GNU Linux 260905, N…

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . The NetBSD project has announced the fifth and final update to the NetBSD 9.x series. The NetBSD 9 series will no longer receive security updates. "Announcing NetBSD 9.5. Note: this will be the final release from the netbsd-9 stable branch and also marks the end-of-support for this branch.....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . Zenwalk GNU Linux is a Slackware-based desktop distribution. The project's latest snapshot integrates Flatpak support and includes version 7.1.7 of the Linux kernel. "One of the improvements in this milestone is the integration of native Flatpak support directly into the Zenwalk desktop. Flatpak is installed and configured out....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . Talos Linux, an independently-developed Linux distribution designed specifically for running Kubernetes (an engine for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications), has been updated to version 1.14.0. The news release enables support for DNS over TLS and HTTPS, and adds Btrfs as a new filesystem opti…

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . Grml is a Debian-based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. The project's latest version is Grml 2026.09 which is based on Debian's Testing branch, known at the time of writing as Forky. "The 2026.09 release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing/forky. As usual it....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . The Linux From Scratch (LFS) project has announced the release of Linux From Scratch 13.1, a document which will assist people in building their own distribution from source code. This version of LFS includes Linux kernel 7.1.8, glibc 2.44 and GCC 16.2.0. "The Linux From Scratch community announces....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: The littlest web server News: New version of COSMIC, Debian decides LLM issue, Asahi Linux makes progress, Linux turns 35 Questions and answers: What distributions do not work in virtual machines? Released last week: Vanilla OS 3, Armbian 26.8, NawaOS 2.0, Butterbian 0.4.0, Ubuntu 26.04.1,..…

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . The ReactOS project develops an open source operating system which is designed to be compatible with software and drivers created for Microsoft Windows. The project's latest release combines its two editions into one and introduces a new graphical system installer. "We are pleased to announce the release of....

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS . Abora OS is general-purpose Linux distribution based on NixOS. The project's latest release, version 2026.08.28 (also tagged as version 4.0.0 and carrying the codename "Everest"), is available in five desktop editions and introduces non-destructive installs onto an existing partition. "Everest ships as five editions: Cosmic, Hyprla…