The FunOS team is proud to announce the release of FunOS 26.10, built on top of Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray'. This release introduces significant upgrades to core utilities, multimedia handling, and hardware support, while providing a refreshed look and feel. What's New in FunOS 26.10? Based on Ubuntu 26.10 - FunOS 26.10 is built on the robust foundation of Ubuntu 26.10, ensuring access to the latest software packages and improved system performance and modern hardware compatibility; Linux Kernel 7.3 - this release ships with the Linux Kernel 7.3, providing enhanced support for the newest hardware, performance optimizations, updated driver management; 100% Rust core utilities - continuing the focus on security and reliability, FunOS 26.10 completes the transition to using Rust-based core utilities; transition to dbus-broker - FunOS 26.10 moves from dbus-daemon to dbus-broker; transition to PipeWire - we have fully transitioned to PipeWire as the default multimedia server.
Ubuntu Budgie 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' is a Standard Release with nine months of support by your distro maintainers and Canonical, from Oct 2026 to July 2027. The key focus for this cycle was the budgie-desktop 10.10.3 uplift. We are pleased how well this has been received - more information on the Buddies Of Budgie blog. Whilst the release date fell beyond Ubuntu's mid August freeze date we still have had lots of fun with the 26.10 release. Highlights - Budgie on Wayfire, creating a brand new radio search and play Raven widget, weather applet updates galore, supporting nighttime and daytime wallpapers via our Wallstreet app together with 'wallpaper of the day' from Bing and Wikimedia. Applets and mini-apps: lots of updated translations from our brilliant translators; our wallpaper manager and switcher app now include two additional options; Budgie Weather now includes the ability to display wind speed in various units....
Asmi Linux 26.10, based on Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray', is now available. Asmi Linux is a remix of Debian/Ubuntu LTS with a modern Xfce desktop that is both functional and easy to use. It is minimal and lightweight, and suitable for users who prefer a traditional desktop with the X11 display server. Highlights: based on Ubuntu 26.10; Xfce 4.20 desktop; Linux kernel 7.3; supported for nine months, will receive updates from Ubuntu repositories till July 2027. What's new? Xfce - use the extended layout by default; fresh editor - disable unnecessary AI features and annoyances; Ristretto - set as default for opening AVIF and newer image formats; Rhun is the new default text editor, replacing Geany, Rhun is written in assembly, very fast, and only 700 KB in size. This Linux distribution is available as a free download.
Ubuntu Studio’s audio package selections now include Sonic Pi, SuperCollider, and the SuperCollider 3 plugin suite, giving you a complete live-coding and algorithmic-composition toolkit alongside Ardour, Carla, and the rest of the audio stack. Also new is JNoise, a simple white/pink noise generator included purely for its utility, handy for testing audio setups and room or speaker checks. Logo featuring the Greek letter pi on a pink background with decorative curved lines. The inclusion of Sonic Pi was inspired by DJ_Dave, a musician who builds and performs entire tracks as live code. While she currently uses Strudel, a browser-based live-coding environment, similar results can be obtained with Sonic Pi: write a few lines, hear them loop instantly, and keep reshaping the music as it plays. Sonic Pi runs natively on your desktop and is built on top of SuperCollider’s synthesis engine, so you can start with simple loops and samples and grow into deeper sound design.
Ubuntu 26.10 brings significant progress for security, and strengthens the platform with the full adoption of Rust-based coreutils, post-quantum-ready package signing, and expanded TPM-backed full-disk encryption support. Enterprise authentication gains deeper integration with Microsoft Entra ID, including password and multi-factor authentication. Linux kernel 7.3 extends support for the latest hardware, alongside new RISC-V desktop images and optimized amd64v3 installation images. On the desktop, GNOME 51 brings improvements to responsiveness, accessibility, and usability, complemented by more consistent software management and greater resilience under memory pressure. Ubuntu 26.10 also introduces Myna, an opt-in, locally processed speech-to-text solution that marks the first step towards a more natural, context-aware desktop experience.
ZEPHIX 9 - our most polished release yet. ZEPHIX 9 brings a refreshed desktop shell, an updated kernel, faster startup, and improved hardware support across AMD and Intel platforms. What's new in 9? Linux kernel 6.12.107 - broader hardware support, improved performance and power management, updated AMD/Intel drivers, and built-in real-time capabilities; package loaded - a rich selection of 4,372 pre-installed software applications, tools, libraries and utilities ready to use from the moment ZEPHIX boots; faster boot - start-up trimmed to around 24 seconds on virtualised environments, faster boot on real hardware; installation possible - ZEPHIX can be installed to disk when needed, while remaining primarily designed as a fast, portable live system.
It had been a long time since I last tested Openbox. I initially created this version for testing purposes. However, once it turned into such a great system, I thought it would be a good idea to adapt it for general use and share it. Having another window manager as an alternative to JWM offers users a second choice. Getting Openbox to its current state certainly required a lot of effort. After all, Openbox doesn't come with built-in components to function as a standalone system on its own; it is built using various tools and custom configurations. Yet, with the right setup, it can become a fantastic system. That is precisely the beauty of window managers - they allow users to customize the experience to their own liking. This version was born out of that very appreciation. What was done for the Openbox 1.0 release? After experimenting with various panels, I decided that Tint2 was the best fit for Openbox.
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 204 is now available for download. It is a housekeeping release that brings a healthy dose of updates across the entire operating system and fixes a regression in our recent migration to Knot Resolver. Behind the scenes, we have been busy with some exciting things, and you will see the first of them in upcoming releases. In the last release, we migrated from Unbound to Knot Resolver for networks protected by IPFire. We have received very positive feedback that DNS resolution is noticeably faster and that some long-standing issues have been resolved. However, the migration introduced a regression: clients connected via IPsec, WireGuard or OpenVPN were unable to resolve names, because Knot Resolver replied from the wrong source IP address. This release fixes the issue. Doing so required substantial changes to the I/O layer of Knot Resolver, which we have contributed upstream.
The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 11.0, the next major release of Koozali SME Server. This release is based on Rocky Linux 8.10. Rocky Linux 8.10 has an EOL on 31 May 2029. Koozali SME Server 11 marks a significant upgrade, transitioning from CentOS to Rocky Linux 8 for long-term stability and security. This release focuses on modernization, improved hardware support, and enhanced administrative tools and maintains the long-used templating system that has made SME Server a simple and robust server to manage. Key features and updates: base OS upgrade - transitioned to Rocky Linux 8.10, replacing CentOS and ensuring continued stability and support; package management enhancements - integration with the Koji build system and Git version control, enabling streamlined RPM package building and repository management; mail server improvements - introduction of Postfix for mail submission, while maintaining Qpsmtpd for final delivery to ensure backward compatibility.
A rebuilt Welcome app, smoother gaming with a new Gaming settings page, a hug-style dock and per-monitor wallpapers, with updates and shutdowns that keep your work and your changes safe. The Welcome app has been rebuilt - pick your language, window layout, hot corner and wallpaper, then style the bar, dock and window decorations while a live preview of your desktop updates as you go. Welcome's apps page now fits on one screen, sorted into Play, Create and Work, with anything you already have installed marked. Games run even better out of the box - GameMode (a performance booster) and MangoHud (an on-screen performance display) come installed, and the desktop stays responsive while a game loads from a hard drive. New Gaming page in settings - one switch keeps games smooth while something heavy runs in the background, and two more can help some games stutter less or load faster.