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MagOS Linux is a Russian desktop-oriented distribution based on ROSA, a distribution that was forked from Mandriva Linux in 2011. It uses the RPM package management. MagOS Linux comes with KDE Plasma desktop by default, but it also ships the lightweight LXQt desktop for older and low-specification computers. Besides the standard upstream packages from ROSA, the project also provides its own RPM package repository (with various network and NVIDIA display drivers), as well as separate modules (in XZM format) with extra hardware drivers, server tools, MATE desktop, Wine emulator, Java software and additional web browsers, including Chromium and Yandex.

CachyOS is a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It focuses on speed and security optimisations - the default Linux kernel is heavily optimised using the BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) scheduler, while the desktop packages are compiled with LTO, x86-64-v3 and x86-64-v4, Zen 4 optimization, security flags and performance improvements. The available desktop environments, window managers and Wayland compositors include bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, Hyprland, i3, KDE Plasma, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, Niri, Openbox, Qtile, Sway, UKUI, Wayfire and Xfce. CachyOS also ships with both graphical and command-line system installers.

AfagOS, a sister project of AgarimOS, is a Void-based Linux distribution featuring a vanilla KDE Plasma desktop. Like all distributions based on Void, it uses the XBPS package manager with the OctoXBPS graphical frontend and the Topgrade meta-updater. The distribution is free of systemd, using the runit init system instead.

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library has been released. Changes include support for the mseal() and openat2() system calls, experimental support for building with the Clang compiler, Unicode 17.0.0 support, a number of security fixes, and much more.

Skywave Linux is a specialist, Debian-based distribution configured for connecting to internet-accessible software defined radio (SDR) receivers. It uses bleeding-edge technology to access broadcast media, utility, military and amateur radio signals from anywhere in the world. The distribution ships with specialist software, such as SDR-Map to find radio servers, and it also includes an internet radio streamer application for popular studio streams. Skywave uses the lightweight dwm window manager.

Liya Linux is an Arch Linux-based, rolling release distribution. The project uses the Calamares system installer to set up the distribution which offers users the Cinnamon desktop environment, Pamac graphical package manager, and OnlyOffice. The system is intended to be easy to use, easy to explore, and distraction-free.

Ufficio Zero Linux OS is an Italian project developing a variety of general-purpose and educational Linux distributions based on Devuan, Linux Mint and PCLinuxOS. They are aimed at professionals, freelancers, private and public entities, and schools.

Version:next-20260123 (linux-next) Released:2026-01-23

OSGeoLive is a bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or Virtual Machine based on Lubuntu, that allows the user to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything. It is composed entirely of free software, allowing it to be freely distributed, duplicated and passed around. OSGeoLive provides pre-configured applications for a range of geospatial use cases, including storage, publishing, viewing, analysis and manipulation of data. It also contains sample datasets and documentation.

ExTiX is a desktop Linux distribution and live DVD based on Ubuntu, offering a choice of alternative desktop environments.

Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast pace even after all these years. In recent news, the EROFS filesystem is on the path to gain a useful page-cache-sharing feature, there is a new NTFS implementation on the horizon, and XFS may be about to get an infrastructure for self healing.

Version 1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have been released. Notable improvements include the ability to run the Guix daemon without root privileges, support for 64-bit RISC-V, and experimental support for the GNU Hurd kernel.

The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, virtual machine images, and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or from binaries—check out the download page. Guix users can update by running guix pull.

It's been 3 years since the previous release. That's a lot of time, reflecting both the fact that, as a rolling release, users continuously get new features and update by running guix pull; but it also shows a lack of processes, something that we had to address before another release could be made.

During that time, Guix received about 71,338 commits by 744 people, which include many new features.

LWN last looked at Guix in February 2024.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.7 and 6.12.67 stable kernels. As always, each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (bind9, chromium, osslsigncode, and python-urllib3), Fedora (freerdp, ghostscript, hcloud, rclone, rust-rkyv0.7, rust-rkyv_derive0.7, and vsftpd), Mageia (avahi and harfbuzz), SUSE (alloy, avahi, busybox, cargo-c, corepack22, corepack24, curl, docker, dpdk, exiv2-0_26, ffmpeg-4, firefox, glib2, go1.24, go1.25, gpg2, haproxy, kernel, kernel-firmware, keylime, libpng16, librsvg, libsodium, libsoup, libsoup2, libtasn1, log4j, net-snmp, open-vm-tools, openldap2_5, ovmf, pgadmin4, php7, podman, python-filelock, python-marshmallow, python-pyasn1, python-tornado, python-urllib3, python-virtualenv, python3, python311-pyasn1, python311-weasyprint, rust1.91, rust1.92, util-linux, webkit2gtk3, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (libxml2 and pyasn1).

Guix System (formerly Guix System Distribution, or GuixSD) is a Linux-based, stateless operating system that is built around the GNU Guix package manager. The operating system provides advanced package management features such as transactional upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. It uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, but packages are defined as native Guile modules, using extensions to the Scheme language.

Version:6.18.7 (stable) Released:2026-01-23 Source:linux-6.18.7.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.18.7.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.18.7

Version:6.12.67 (longterm) Released:2026-01-23 Source:linux-6.12.67.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.67.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.67

The Linux Kernel Runtime Guard (LKRG) is a out-of-tree loadable kernel module that attempts to detect and report violations of the kernel's internal invariants, such as might be caused by an in-progress security exploit or a rootkit. LKRG has been experimental since its initial release in 2018. In September 2025, the project announced the 1.0 version. With the promises of stability that version brings, users might want more information to decide whether to include it in their kernel.

OpenMediaVault is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) solution based on Debian GNU/Linux. It contains services like SSH, (S)FTP, SMB/CIFS, DAAP media server, rsync, BitTorrent and many more. Thanks to a modular design it can be enhanced via plugins. OpenMediaVault is primarily designed to be used in home environments or small home offices, but is not limited to those scenarios. It is a simple and easy-to-use out-of-the-box solution that will allow everyone to install and administrate a Network-Attached Storage without deeper knowledge.

Version:next-20260122 (linux-next) Released:2026-01-22