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Ubuntu 24.10 features the latest Linux 6.11 kernel for improved performance and hardware support, marking a shift to a more aggressive kernel version selection policy going forward. Building on our previous LTS efforts around performance engineering, Ubuntu 24.10 now includes kdump-tools on relevant... Read more

Lubuntu 24.10 is the first release of Lubuntu to ship with a primarily Qt 6-based environment. Previous LXQt releases used Qt 5. Due to this upgrade, modern Qt 6-based apps such as the latest versions of VirtualBox, qBitTorrent, and more will now be themed similar to the rest of the desktop. Qt 5 ap... Read more

The Xubuntu team is happy to announce the immediate release of Xubuntu 24.10. Xubuntu 24.10, code-named Oracular Oriole, is a regular release and will be supported for 9 months, until July 2025. Xubuntu 24.10 features the latest updates from Xfce 4.19, GNOME 47 and MATE 1.26. For Xfce enthusiasts, y... Read more

I'm proud to announce our latest release, Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.10 'Oracular Oriole'. It comes with Cinnamon 6.0.4 and with the same software as in Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04 LTS. The version of Cinnamon used is the same as in 24.04 'Noble Numbat', with a few background pieces of Cinnamon 6.2.0: Cinnamon 6.... Read more

When the file system of the Persistent Storage has errors, Tails now offers you to repair the file system when unlocking from the Welcome Screen. Because not all file system errors can be safely recovered this way, we wrote comprehensive documentation on how to recover data from the Persistent Stora... Read more

Many in-house scripts and applications have been tweaked and further improved. Some new apps include: antiX TV - antiX streaming tv receiver; antiX Radio - antiX streaming radio receiver GUI for MPV; Finder - Simple yad script to search for everything (Files, Installed apps, web); antiX SAMBA manage... Read more

Added scandirat(3) from FreeBSD. Added elf_aux_info(3), designed to let userland peek at AT_HWCAP and AT_HWCAP2, using an interface from FreeBSD. Added missing function wcsnlen(3) to find length of a wide string (i.e. wcslen(3) with a max len argument). Imported libva 2.22.0, an implementation for V... Read more

The new release 24.04.1.3 of Starbuntu presents the new update of the libreoffice suite 4:24.2.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.1. In addition, Starbuntu now allows to set the GTK themes of GTK2, GTK3 and GTK4 programs separately or uniform. Moreover, the editor of the app launchers has thoroughly been revised and ... Read more

bslx-6.11.1-1-2024.10.01-x86_64 has been released and is available for download. We were told that the new kernel would provide some performance improvements for Intel and AMD products as well as networking. So far I have noticed that overall performance has been noticeably better. Networking is def... Read more

Since we released 'Wynsdey' in May 2024, we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Xahea. The GNOME edition has received several updates to GNOME 46 series. This includes a lot of fixes and polish when GNOME 46 originally was released in March 2024. The Plasma edition c... Read more