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No big changes other than the large number of kde/plasma/qt/system updates. I looked into a failure I'm seeing with the network time daemon (ntpd) when starting the live and installed systems, and realized that my own system did the same thing. Apparently, though, it's set to always restart, which i... Read more

Switch to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default. Spins featuring LXQt (2.0.0 Qt 6) and GNOME (46.3). Also provided is a ROME Plasma 6 Wayland ISO, however we believe Wayland still not to be mature enough to replace X11 by default for most users. Please note the Wayland ISO in VirtualBox almost always ... Read more

KaOS has released its July 2024 ISO, featuring the latest Plasma 6.1.3, KDE Gear 24.05.2, and Frameworks 6.4.0, all built on Qt 6.7.2. Notable updates include enhanced remote desktop capabilities, a revamped Edit Mode with smooth animations, and session restoration on Wayland. The release adds suppo... Read more

The ‘Update System’ App has been completely remade into a Python GUI application. No more monolithic bash script. The ‘Update System’ App has been better integrated with Nobara Package manager (yumex-ng) and now provides a service which runs as a system tray app for receiving update notifications. T... Read more

Clonezilla live version 3.1.3-16 brings significant enhancements and bug fixes. The underlying GNU/Linux OS has been upgraded based on the Debian Sid repository as of July 15, 2024, and now includes the Linux kernel 6.9.9-1 and Partclone 0.3.32. Notable changes include the addition of the "-f" optio... Read more

Improvements: Update to Debian 12.6. Angular libraries and components update. Translation improvements. Refactoring API to avoid source code duplication. Switch services to systemd. Advanced best QA practices applied. Seamless upgrade from CEv7 to EEv8. Improve memory usage downloading large backups... Read more

In addition to the new Linux kernel 6.5.0-44, it introduces the man pages of all Starbuntu-specific applicaations in English language.... Read more

Changes since 140R-20240126: The base system has been changed to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p2. A hard link creation bug concerning unionfs has been fixed. A calculation bug which led to an overfull UFS root partition has been fixed. The fusefs module has been changed to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) t... Read more

Tails 6.5, released on July 15, 2024, includes several enhancements and fixes. Installation with Tails Cloner is now 30 seconds faster, and the Tor Browser has been updated to version 13.5.1 with improved letterboxing. The Debian base is updated to version 12.6. Issues addressed include the first-us... Read more

The only underlying change from the last version - besides all up-to-date packaging - is that I've separated the bluestar installer functionality off into bslx-specifically named modules. This way, I can maintain them without changing the calamares code base.... Read more