NawaOS 2.0 is the biggest release so far. Setup, updates, saves and recovery are now things the system handles for you. What's new? Setup wizard on first boot, in Arabic or English - drivers, apps, done in minutes; NawaOS Store - 60+ games, launchers and tools, one click each; Companion 2.0 - your phone as an encrypted remote, straight from the browser, no app to install; a snapshot before every update, with Recovery Mode right in the boot menu; Game saves synced to your own Google Drive or Dropbox after each session; instant replay - Super + R saves the last 30 seconds of gameplay; handhelds - console mode, TDP control and a working guide button on ROG Ally, Legion Go and Steam Deck; driver manager - the right NVIDIA driver for your card in one click; firewall on by default and automatic security updates; a redesigned dark theme across the whole system, with a new wallpaper collection.
Butterbian Xfce 0.4.0 is out. The snapshot-first foundation hasn't changed - Btrfs subvolumes laid out for you, a Timeshift snapshot before every apt operation, rollback from the GRUB menu. What changed is everything you look at. 0.3.3 looked like stock Xfce with a wallpaper, 0.4.0 looks like a distro. The wallpaper is a twilight scene drawn for this release - a lone lighthouse lamp on a dark ridge. The boot menu uses the same art, so it's one scene from power-on to desktop. Cottage and lantern variants ship alongside it, and the SVG sources are in the repo if you want to remix them. LightDM now gets the dark Butterbian treatment instead of stock gray - spotlight artwork, the Butterbian glyph as your account picture, and a login box that matches the rest of the system. Locking your screen takes you to the same place. The desktop theme is Orchis in its black variant - near-black, flat, blue accents, with matching window borders, so titlebars and applications finally agree with each other.
Armbian 26.8 is a major quarterly release featuring 787 merged pull requests and significant updates across the project. Highlights include Linux 7.1, a rewritten installer, Armbian Imager 2.0 with new Qualcomm flashing support, bootable UEFI ISOs, U-Boot 2026.07, improved wireless drivers, and broader ARM and RISC-V hardware support. The release also promotes 14 boards to standard support and introduces a modernized Debian Trixie-based CI and build infrastructure, while extensive cleanup and upstreaming work reduces long-term maintenance and improves reliability.
This release is built around two new in-house projects: aufs-ng and xfwm4-gl. aufs-ng is our new union filesystem, written from scratch to replace aufs, which PorteuX has relied on since day one. It keeps the same on-disk format and the same mount command grammar, so everything keeps working as before. It's around 5,000 lines instead of Aufs's 28,000, and it uses the kernel's modern I/O passthrough, which means much less filesystem-wide locking, considerably faster copy-up thanks to in-kernel splice instead of page-by-page buffering, and it tracks inodes only, so a warm system uses about a third of the memory. It's the default from now on. xfwm4-gl is our fork of xfwm4 that finally brings OpenGL compositing to Xfce in X11, with XRender kept as an automatic fallback. Compared to XRender it draws about a third less power and delivers roughly 10% more frames per second to applications.
CuerdOS 2.1.1 “Skycatcher” brings several small updates, including replacing OnlyOffice with LibreOffice, updating Cuerdtools to Qt6, and refreshing the ISO images. It also fixes an issue with the config-updates-skycatcher package in the GNOME ISO. The LabWC edition has been discontinued.
This release presents the new version 151.0.7922.137-1 of the web browser Google-Chrome-Stable. In addition, among other things, Starbuntu has improved its 'Open With' routine as well as its message program for new update opportunities and its app for connecting to remote sources.
Two years after the release of Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid', Vanilla OS 3 'Reunion' is now available. Our mission remains the same - to make Vanilla OS simple, stable and secure. With Reunion, we're bringing users together across architectures, and offering everyone an experience that works out of the box. Vanilla OS 3 now officially supports ARM64 devices with UEFI firmware, opening the door to a wide range of hardware, from single-board computers to ARM-based laptops and workstations. To make this possible, all images are now multi-architecture, and every package includes ARM64 builds. The experience on ARM64 is identical to what you'd expect on AMD64, with no compromises in functionality. Security and transparency remain at the core of Vanilla OS 3. Most images (except NVIDIA images due to kernel modules) are now fully reproducible, meaning the build process always produces bit-for-bit identical images from the same sources.
Put the dock on any edge of the screen: top, bottom, left or right; the bar steps aside when you give the dock the edge it was using; themes now carry which edge the dock sits on, along with everything else they remember; the flexible-space widget is retired — the bar packs its own sections now, and a layout you already saved moves across on its own; bar pop-ups open centered under the widget they belong to, wherever you have put it; a pop-up near the edge of the screen stays on screen instead of running off it; the media widget keeps its size and its pop-up in the right place outside the center; the timer keeps a steady width while it counts down, instead of nudging its neighbors; dividers stay inside the bar's rounded background; close the window rule editor from its own corner, and switch between rules without closing it....
We are delighted to announce the release of FydeOS 23 'Chromatic Cadence'. This release upgrades the underlying Chromium OS platform from r144 to r150 and introduces a new Android subsystem framework, refreshed system apps, and enhanced remote desktop capabilities for enterprise devices. FydeOS 23 focuses on strengthening the foundations of the operating system. These changes provide a more robust base for future improvements to app compatibility, system maintenance, and enterprise device management. FydeOS 23 upgrades the Android subsystem across all editions to Android 13 and introduces fyDroid, a new implementation for supporting Android apps on FydeOS. We plan to make fyDroid fully open source. Going forward, we will continue to develop this framework, progressively update its Android version, and improve app compatibility, performance and security.
When creating new disk layouts, the installer will pick the biggest sector size a disk supports, and for people wanting to encrypt their disks with LUKS, the installer now uses LUKS2 with argon2 encryption and the same sector size as the disk. Previously, this would default to 512 on disks that supported the more optimal size of 4096. A new default kernel:laptop: Traditionally, Garuda Linux has shipped with linux-zen for many years, mostly due to being more stable than alternatives that were around during the time we chose it as our kernel of choice. This is going to change starting with this release - linux-garuda is the excellent Linux CachyOS many of us already used, ensured to always build against the NVIDIA drivers via DKMS before updating.