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Butterbian is a Debian-based Linux distribution with out-of-the-box support for the Btrfs filesystem and pre-configured Timeshift, an application that takes incremental snapshots of the installed filesystem at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored, directly from the GRUB menu, to undo all changes to the system. Butterbian boots into a themed Xfce desktop and uses the Calamares system installer. Besides Butterbian, the project also develops Butterknife, a command-line only live image with a text-mode system installer that provides more choices in terms of filesystems and window managers.

CentOS as a group is a community of open source contributors and users which started in 2003 and has been sponsored by Red Hat since 2014. CentOS Linux versions up to CentOS Linux 8 are 100% compatible rebuilds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in full compliance with Red Hat's redistribution requirements. In 2020 it was announced CentOS Linux is being discontinued and replaced with CentOS Stream, a developer-focused distribution which acts as a middle-stream between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards. It is usually based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu and it supports a wide variety of popular ARM-based devices, including Banana Pi, Cubieboard, Olimex, Orange Pi, Odroid, Pine64 and others. Armbian includes a menu-driven configuration tool along with stock Debian utilities, the Bash shell, and a choice of Cinnamon or Xfce desktop.

CalamaroOS is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution for the desktop, using either KDE Plasma or Xfce desktop environment. It features the Calamares system installer, out-of-the-box support for Flatpak packages, support for BTRFS, XFS and F2FS filesystems, and the systemd software suite for system and service management. The project's goal is to bring the power of Gentoo Linux to an average user by eliminating the complex and time-consuming process associated with the classic Gentoo install method.

Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based family of three distinguished distributions. Calculate Directory Server (CDS) is a solution that supports Windows and Linux clients via LDAP + SAMBA, providing proxy, mail and Jabbers servers with streamlined user management. Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD) is a workstation and client distribution (with a choice of Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE or Xfce desktops) that includes a wizard to configure a connection to Calculate Directory Server. Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) is a live CD with a build framework for creating a custom distribution.

The Alpine Linux account on fosstodon.org reports that all systems hosted at Linode, including its GitLab instance, "are suspended at the moment due to some billing issue". They are working to get it resolved, but in the meantime all of their services appear to be down.

Update: Alpine Linux's servers are back online.

For a number of years, users submitting bugs reports against GNOME packages in Fedora have received an auto-reply saying that the reports were not actively monitored; users were encouraged to file bugs with GNOME upstream instead. However, that practice seems to be in conflict with the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) policy that package maintainers "deal with reported bugs in a timely manner". On April 28, FESCo discussed the disconnect between practice and policy; so far, it has only opted to tweak the wording of the automatic response.

Version 5.0.0 of the NetHack dungeon-exploration game, a distant relative of Rogue and Hack, has been released. NetHack's code is now compliant with the C99 standard, and the release includes more than 3,100 bug fixes and changes, detailed in doc/fixes5-0-0.txt (may contain game spoilers). Saved games from previous versions will not work with NetHack 5.0.0.

Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland tiling window manager. It ships with what a modern software developer would need to be productive immediately, including Neovim, Spotify, Chromium, Typora, Alacritty, LibreOffice and Zoom. The distribution boots into a text-mode system installer that downloads the latest packages from the Arch Linux repositories during installation to build a complete Hyprland desktop.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, libcap, libtiff, sudo, and thunderbird), Debian (dovecot, imagemagick, incus, kernel, libexif, linux-6.1, openjdk-25, pyasn1, python-aiohttp, and thunderbird), Fedora (chromium, firefox, GitPython, glibc, insight, krb5, nano, nss, openssh, openvpn, perl-CryptX, python3.14, rust-openssl, rust-openssl-sys, rust-sequoia-git, and xen), Oracle (dtrace, fence-agents, grafana-pcp, libcap, libtiff, sudo, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Red Hat (buildah, fence-agents, firefox, java-11-openjdk with Extended Lifecycle Support, LibRaw, nodejs24, nodejs:24, openssh, python-pyasn1, resource-agents, thunderbird, tigervnc, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (mozilla), and SUSE (avahi, curl, freeipmi, freerdp, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, gvim, helm, himmelblau, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kernel, krb5-appl-clients, libsodium, libssh, libtiff-devel-32bit, ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs, openCryptoki, openexr, ovmf, PackageKit, python-jwcrypto, python-Mako, python-PyNaCl, python311, python311-pypdf, sed, trivy, and vim).

OmniOS is an open-source operating system for servers, with support for many popular Solaris and OpenSolaris technologies, such as the ZFS file system, bhyve hypervisor, Dtrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), kernel-based virtual machine, and Linux zone. It is based on Illumos, a free software implementation of the Solaris kernel.

The second 7.1 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "It's not small, and while it's a bit early to say for sure, I do suspect we're seeing the same continued pattern of more patches than usual - probably due to AI tooling - that we saw in 7.0."

Berserk Arch is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution designed primarily for power users, security researchers and developers. It uses a customised Openbox window manager. The distribution offers a modular environment with pre-configured desktop profiles, secure package infrastructure and curated toolsets.

Version:7.1-rc2 (mainline) Released:2026-05-03 Source:linux-7.1-rc2.tar.gz Patch:full (incremental)

ENux is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch. It integrated Bedrock Linux, a project developing scripts that mix-and-match components from various Linux distributions and integrate them into one largely cohesive system. ENux's main claim to fame is support for a large range of popular package management tools that exist in the Linux ecosystem, including apk (Alpine Linux), dpkg/apt (Debian), emerge/portage (Gentoo), nix (NixOS), pacman (Arch Linux), rpm/dnf (Fedora), xbps (Void) and zypper (openSUSE) via the unified pmm tool (from Bedrock Linux). The distribution uses the Xfce desktop and substitutes Debian's long-term supported Linux kernel with a more up-to-date version.

AUSTRUMI (Austrum Latvijas Linukss) is a bootable live Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux. It requires limited system resources and can run on any Intel-compatible system with a CD-ROM installed. The entire operating system and all of the applications run from RAM, making AUSTRUMI a fast system and allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts.

Ezarcher is a set of Arch-based live Linux distribution with a number of popular desktops, including Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE and Xfce. All desktop environments are provided in their default upstream state, without any customisations. The distribution can be installed to a hard disk using either the text-mode "archinstall" method or the graphical Calamares system installer. Unlike Arch Linux which generally deploys the latest stable kernel, Ezarcher runs exclusively on the long-term supported variant of the Linux kernel. Besides the distribution, the project also offers build templates to guide users to customise and re-build their own live medium with one of the desktop environments on offer.

GXDE OS is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution that combines Debian with Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), developed by the deepin project. It is based on Debian's "Testing" branch. It ships with up-to-date Linux kernel, base system and applications, and it includes a "Spark Store", a software application marketplace with support for Android applications. The distribution is available for the aarch64 and x86_64 processor architectures.

Fluff Linux is an Arch-based distribution featuring a standard KDE Plasma desktop. It is developed by FluffNet, with a focus on delivering a stable, high-performance and hassle-free computing experience.

Dharma Linux is a Devuan-based distribution featuring the lightweight MATE desktop. It is entirely localised into Spanish. Some of the distribution's features includes the Refracta system installer, Zen web browser, and several custom applications, such as Dharma Welcome, Dharma Updater and Dharma AppCenter.