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MuliOS is a minimalist, Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. It comes with several custom tools, including a system installer called MuliOS Installer, as well as a MuliOS Welcome screen, a MuliOS task manager, and a command-line system update utility called "mupdate". The distribution provides its own Linux kernel and includes customised boot configuration. MuliOS is designed with a focus on choice, performance, customisation and simplicity.

AOSC OS an independently maintained Linux distribution based on the Linux kernel and various software components, using a custom package manager called oma which works with Deb packages for package management. AOSC OS is targeted at experienced Linux users and optimised for use on personal devices. It aims to provide a solid out-of-the-box experience, simplified system administration and a reliable work environment.

FunOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution which features the JWM graphical user interface. The project is intended to be more lightweight than official Ubuntu community editions while providing the same application compatibility and hardware support.

Vuu-do is a minimalist desktop Linux distribution featuring primarily the Openbox window manager. Despite its small size, the distribution ships with several popular productivity applications, such as LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, VLC and Transmission, as well as various custom utilities, including VuuNotes (a lightweight note-taking application), VuuMan (a graphical man-page browser and viewer), VuuPaper (a wallpaper manager). Vuu-do can be installed to a hard disk using the Refracta system installer. Besides the main branch, the project also builds a separate Devuan-based ISO image using the Xlibre X11 display server and the MATE desktop environment.

Founded in 2014 by Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb, HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. The HardenedBSD Project is implementing many exploit mitigation and security technologies on top of FreeBSD. The project started with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) as an initial focal point and is now implementing further exploit mitigation techniques.

The GNOME Project has provided GNOME OS for some time; until now, the project only provided a "Nightly" edition that was built from the latest commits and was aimed solely at GNOME developers. Adrian Vovk has now announced the release of GNOME OS Preview, which is intended for a non-developer audience:

GNOME OS Preview is the current GNOME OS Nightly, but without the "nightly" aspect. Instead, it's built from the latest stable GNOME release (GNOME 51.1, at the time of writing). GNOME OS Preview lives in the same branches on GitLab as the stable org.gnome.Platform Flatpak runtimes.

GNOME OS Preview is only a few weeks old, so it has only seen limited real-life testing so far. We therefore expect people will uncover some issues initially. That said, Preview is significantly more stable than Nightly, which dozens of people have been daily driving without major issues for over a year. Thus, we're feeling confident that Preview is going to be reliable enough for daily use by non-developer enthusiasts.

While Preview is meant for non-developers, it is not considered complete or stable for the broader public. There are a number of features, listed in Vovk's post, that need to be implemented before the project is ready to declare GNOME OS "ready for prime time". Adventurous users, who might not mind having to reinstall the OS once a stable version is declared, can download and start using GNOME OS Preview today.

Self-referential structures that can be used without unsafe code have posed a problem for Rust for years. There are many cases where a self-referential data structure is the elegant algorithmic choice, but implementing it in accordance with Rust's lifetime rules is all but impossible. At Kangrejos 2026, Gary Guo presented a clever solution to the problem in the context of the kernel's pin_init crate, which helps with the creation of immovable data structures, typically for interoperability with C. Guo's changes could help remove most of the unsafe code related to lifetimes in the Nova driver and, eventually, other Rust components.

Asmi Linux is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution with editions based on either Ubuntu or Debian. It uses a highly-customised Xfce desktop with some user-friendly touches. Some of its other features include the Calamares system installer, out-of-the-box support for several popular virtual machine managers, a load-to-RAM boot option, the latest Firefox browser, Cloudflare DNS for faster DNS lookup, and SSH multiplexing for faster SSH connections. The project also offers a commercial "Ultimate" edition with additional software and tools.

NebiOS is an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with a custom Wayland compositor called NebiDE (based on Wayfire). It features various user interface enhancements, an initial setup module called OOBE, the NebiOS App Runtime (napp-runtime) portable application format with bubblewrap containerization, improved gaming performance with Steam Proton integration, a kernel switcher for easy multi-kernel installation, and the Wine compatibility layer for running some Windows applications. NebiOS is intended as a general-purpose operating system for daily computing tasks, including creative work and gaming.

The NFS network filesystem protocol has a long history on Unix-like operating systems (and beyond). NFS is still evolving, though, and implementations need to keep up. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, NFS developer Jeff Layton gave an overview of recent enhancements to the Linux implementation, along with some hints for what will be coming in the near future.

The results from the 2026 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) have been announced. Kees Cook, Dave Hansen, Miguel Ojeda, and Shuah Khan have all been re-elected, and Laurent Pinchart will be joining the board.

TTOS Linux is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch. It comes with several custom utilities and features, such as a user-friendly Internet security suite, an animated live wallpaper, NVIDIA GPU support, a ClamAV antivirus suite, Android remote messaging, UEFI support, and a net system installer with a choice of multiple desktop environments.

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ghostscript, grafana, hplip, libsoup3, lrzsz, rpcbind, and wireshark), Debian (chromium, cifs-utils, expat, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, jpeg-xl, mutt, and spip), Mageia (gpsd, libx11, and roundcubemail), Oracle (389-ds-base, compat-libtiff3, environment-modules, ghostscript, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, hplip, idm:DL1, kernel, kernel-uek, libsoup, libsoup3, lrzsz, rpcbind, and wireshark), Red Hat (gd), SUSE (alloy, amazon-ecs-init, bind, busybox, chromium, distribution, govulncheck-vulndb, iperf, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, kernel, libXtst, mutt, openssh, php8, python313-python-multipart, python313-python-rapidjson, python313-python3-saml, python313-pywbem, python313-redis, python313-reportlab, python313-requests, python313-rope, python313-rpyc, python313-rsa, qemu, swtpm, the Java stack, and wpa_supplicant), and Ubuntu (golang-1.23, linux-azure, and rabbitmq-server).

Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment. Its features include the Avant Window Navigator or AWN (a dock-like navigation bar), Conky (a program which displays useful information on the desktop), and over 300 photographs and animations that can be used as desktop backgrounds. The project also develops several other editions of Voyager Live - a "GE" edition with GNOME Shell, a "GS" variant for Gamers, and a separately-maintained flavour based on Debian's "stable" branch.

Ubuntu Unity is a flavour of Ubuntu featuring the Unity desktop environment (the default desktop environment developed and used by Ubuntu from 2010 to 2017). Unity debuted in the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10; it was initially designed to make more efficient use of space given the limited screen size of netbooks, including a vertical application switcher called "the launcher" and a space-saving horizontal multipurpose top menu bar. Ubuntu switched from Unity to GNOME in 2017, but the desktop was resurrected again as an unofficial "Ubuntu Unity Remix" in 2020. It became an official flavour of Ubuntu during the development cycle of Ubuntu 22.10 in 2022.

Talos is a specialist Linux-based operating system for running Kubernetes, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications. Minimal, immutable and hardened, it does not offer any shell or interactive console; instead, all system management is done via remote Application Programming Interface (API) calls, where messages sent from a client application are protected with mutual Transport Layer Security TLS (mTLS) authentication. Talos also delivers atomic updates, thus maintaining the Linux and Kubernetes versions up-to-date. Talos is developed in the USA by Sidero Labs, Inc.

LinuxTV is a Debian-based live Linux distribution that turns any personal computer into a television set. It boots into a remote-friendly application launcher which can be navigated from a distance with a smartphone. Available application launchers include Kodi, Stremio, VLC, Proton VPN, as well as Brave browser, Kitty terminal, qBittorent torrent client and a file manager. Among the available streaming services are YouTube, Disney+, AppleTV+, HBO Max, Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+, Twitch, Crunchyroll, Sony LIV, ZEES, SunNXT and YuppyTV. The project also develops LinuxTVRemote, a mobile controller for LinuxTV which can be installed to any Android smartphone and which connects to the LinuxTV desktop launcher over the WebSocket protocol.

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Xubuntu is a community-developed operating system based on Ubuntu. It comes with Xfce, which is a stable, light and configurable desktop environment.