Xubuntu 22.04 was released on Thursday, April 21, 2022, and will be supported for three years until April 2025.
Easy 3.4.6 has focused on refining the user interface; in particular, there is a return of an old theme, "EasyBlue". Some bugs fixed, otherwise mostly the same as 3.4.5, except Firefox bumped to 99.0.1 and new 'awf' package.
With Apollo release, the EndeavourOS team has made efforts to improve the community editions, resolve some existing issues, and add a new window manager.
Stamus Networks, a global provider of high-performance network-based threat detection and response systems, today announced the general availability of SELKS 7 – a major upgrade to the turnkey system based on the Suricata intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS) and network security monitoring (NSM) system with a built-in network threat hunting console and graphical ruleset/threat intelligence feed manager. SELKS is now available either as a portable Docker Compose package or as turnkey installation images (ISO files). Each option includes five key open-source components that comprise its name – Suricata, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Scirius Community Edition (Suricata Management and Suricata Hunting from Stamus Networks).
The NuTyX team is happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 22.04.1 and cards 2.5.0. New toolchain GCC 11.2.0, glibc 2.35 and binutils 2.38. The xorg-server graphics server version 21.1.3, the Mesa 3D library in 22.0.1, GTK 4 4.6.2 and Qt 6.2.4. The Python interpreters are en 3.10.4 et 2.7.18. The Xfce desktop environment is updated to version 4.16.0. The MATE desktop environment is a 1.26.0 version. The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 41.5. The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 5.24.4, Framework 5.92.0 and applications in 21.12.3. Available browsers are: Firefox 99.0, Chromium 100.0.4896.60, Epiphany 41.3, etc.
Up until now, all installs of Raspberry Pi OS have had a default user called “pi”. This isn’t that much of a weakness – just knowing a valid user name doesn’t really help much if someone wants to hack into your system; they would also need to know your password, and you’d need to have enabled some form of remote access in the first place. But nonetheless, it could potentially make a brute-force attack slightly easier, and in response to this, some countries are now introducing legislation to forbid any Internet-connected device from having default login credentials. So with this latest release, the default “pi” user is being removed, and instead you will create a user the first time you boot a newly-flashed Raspberry Pi OS image. This is in line with the way most operating systems work nowadays, and, while it may cause a few issues where software (and documentation) assumes the existence of the “pi” user, it feels like a sensible change to make at this point.
As always, the new major release has some new features. FSP (File Service Protocol) server is now included out of the box (gFTP can be used as its GUI client). Many system-wide changes have been done to improve font rendering. The 4MLinux installation script has been patched to provide better handling of JBD partitions. New applications available as downloadable extensions: Bluefish (advanced text editor), Ventoy (utility used for writing image files), TripleA (strategy game written in Java). And finally, youtube-dl has been replaced with yt-dlp for better handling of YouTube videos.
The new version of the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution comes with many new features and updates, such as PAM, ConsoleKit2 and PipeWire. Slackware continues to support the x86 architecture.
Joseph Dickson has announced the availability of a brand-new Peppermint OS release, the first one in over two years. It is now based on Debian 11 and uses the Xfce desktop.
e are proud to announce the release of Neptune 7 'Faye' named after the member of the Bebop crew in the Cowboy Bebop anime. This version comes with a new Debian base (11 'Bullseye') that offers newer and better hardware support as well as newer software and applications. KDE Plasma 5.20.5 ships with a new Neptune-specific theme that embraces the Breeze widget style for maximum compatibility and it also introduces a new subtle but modern flat look and feel to Neptune. We also updated the icon theme to our own variation of the Tela icon theme to fit with the new look of the system. The default panel has been modernized to allow pinning more apps and tasks to it as well as offering a new bigger and easier look to the eyes. Besides that, Linux kernel 5.10 offers modern hardware support as well as bug fixes.