Latest releases

port to Debian 13 'Trixie' ram-wipe - Wipe RAM on shutdown and reboot; install USBGuard by default; port to Wayland; port to LXQt; bring back Btrfs support in ISO installer; port to privleap; no longer install xpdf by default (due to port to Wayland); investigated VirtualBox; switch to using deb822 ... Read more

As mentioned previously, our collaboration with UBPorts stipulated that we would be assisting in the development of Lomiri upstream, as well as the packaging and distribution of Lomiri for Rhino Linux PINE64 devices. We are happy to announce that we have made significant and substantial progress tow... Read more

SparkyLinux 2025.12, codenamed “Tiamat,” is a new semi-rolling release based on Debian testing “Forky,” featuring updated packages as of December 14, 2025, the Linux 6.17.11 kernel (with additional kernels available in the repositories), and refreshed core components such as Firefox 140.5.0 ESR, Thu... Read more

This new version of our distribution mainly focuses on accessibility improvements, developed as part of our collaboration with our friends at A.S.I. YOVOTOGO and the 'Togolese Federation of Associations of Persons with Disabilities' (FETAPH). The goal is to soon equip specialized centers for people ... Read more

We are proud to announce our new stable release, version 2025.12, code-named 'Postwurfsendung'. Like the previous release, version 2025.08, live ISO images are available for 64-bit x86 (amd64) and 64-bit ARM (arm64) CPUs. For this release, a number of internal changes to our build-tool grml-live wer... Read more

Now that GNOME has moved to only supporting Wayland, and KDE in Kali has already used it by default for a few years (since Kali Linux 2023.1), we wanted to ensure that the transition and experience were seamless. The only thing that we felt was missing was support for VM guest tools, like clipboard ... Read more

If you're ambitious enough, or maybe just crazy enough, there eventually comes a time when you realize you've reached the limits of current potential, and must create something completely new if you're to go further. This year, System76 turned twenty. For twenty years we have shipped Linux computers... Read more

This release presents among other things the new Linux kernel 6.14.0-37 and due to the increasing number of bugs in gedit a new text editor (i. e. gnome-text-editor version 48.2-1). In addition, Starbuntu has improved its embedding in the EFI system by now offering its live medium bootable both in l... Read more

Tails 7.3.1 was released on December 11, 2025, replacing the planned 7.3 release to include a last-minute security fix in a bundled library. This update refreshes key components, including Tor Browser 15.0.3, the Tor client 0.4.8.21, and Thunderbird 140.5.0, and is available through automatic or man... Read more

As always, the new release contains numerous updates and smaller improvements. A selection: Synchronization of the 'locked' status of user accounts across Nubus, Active Directory and Samba 4 has been unified. This ensures that, for example, a lock set in Active Directory after too many failed login ... Read more