Shanios is an immutable desktop Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. It provides optimised builds of the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments. Like most immutable Linux systems, Shanios features rollbacks for instant system recovery, atomic updates through a custom deployment tool called shani-deploy, and Flatpak integration. The distribution's other main features include a blue-green deployment strategy using Btrfs subvolumes, preservation of system integrity with a read-only root partition, and enhanced security through AppArmor profiles, firewalld configurations, and full-disk encryption.
ELEGANCE is a French, general-purpose desktop Linux distribution based on Manjaro Linux. It uses the Cinnamon desktop environment. The distribution offers a rich variety of software for everyday use, including for office work (LibreOffice, Calibre), entertainment (VLC, Rhythmbox, Kodi), graphics (Gimp, Krita), gaming (Steam), audio recording (Audacity, OBS Studio), audio mixing and editing (Ardour, LMMS, Kdenlive), and design (LeoCAD FreeCAD et KiCAD). ELAGANCE is sponsored by Tux N Mix, an organisation created by a group of Linux enthusiasts in 2019.
Synex is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch, developed with the official Debian Live Build tool. It offers four separate desktop options with GNOME, LXDE, KDE Plasma and Xfce, all of which are composed of a rather frugal set of applications in its default state, without any development tools or offices suites. Some of the distribution's main features include Calamares installer with support for both BIOS and UEFI, CUPS integration for printing and network support, out-of-the box support for Flatpak applications, official NVIDIA driver installation assistant with support for both X11 and Wayland, and additional repositories containing Microsoft Edge, OnlyOffice and Zabbix.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.18.6, 6.12.66, 6.6.121, and 6.1.161 stable kernels. As usual, each
has important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to
upgrade.
openKylin is a Chinese desktop Linux distribution which runs the Kylin and UKUI desktop environments. Both Wayland and X11 sessions are available out of the box. The project is a member of the Debian family and can use APT package management tools. It also features a custom package format which is combined with a software centre. openKylin is also a proving ground for custom utilities which assist the user in managing the operating system.
While there are several rootkits that target Linux, they have so far not fully
embraced the open-source ethos typical of Linux software.
Luckily, Matheus Alves has been working to remedy
this lack by creating
an open-source rootkit called Singularity for Linux systems. Users who feel
their computers are too secure can install the Singularity kernel module in
order to allow remote code execution, disable security features, and hide files
and processes from normal administrative tools. Despite its many features,
Singularity is not currently known to be in use in the wild — instead, it
provides security researchers with a testbed to investigate new detection and
evasion techniques.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gnupg2), Debian (firefox-esr), Oracle (cups, gnupg2, libpq, net-snmp, postgresql, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, transfig, and vsftpd), Red Hat (firefox), SUSE (apache2, curl, firefox, gpg2, hawk2, libcryptopp-devel, openCryptoki, python310, python311-urllib3, rke2, squid, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (cpp-httplib, git, python-apt, and simgear).
Version:next-20260116 (linux-next)
Released:2026-01-16
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.
ATZ Linux (铜豌豆 Linux) is a Chinese Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch. The project's main goal is to package software that is commonly used in China for easy installation; some examples of such software include QQ instant messaging utility, WeChat social media application, Baidu Netdisk file sharing tool, Sogou input method, NetEase cloud music software, Youdao dictionary, WPS Office, as well as additional Chinese fonts and dictionaries. ATZ Linux remains compatible with Debian and provides an official China-based mirror for software installation.
The Project Zero blog has
a
three-part series describing a working, zero-click exploit for
Pixel 9 devices.
Over the past few years, several AI-powered features have been
added to mobile phones that allow users to better search and
understand their messages. One effect of this change is increased
0-click attack surface, as efficient analysis often requires
message media to be decoded before the message is opened by the
user. One such feature is audio transcription. Incoming SMS and RCS
audio attachments received by Google Messages are now automatically
decoded with no user interaction. As a result, audio decoders are
now in the 0-click attack surface of most Android phones.
The blog entry does not question the wisdom of directly exposing audio
decoders to external attackers, but it does provide a lot of detail showing
how it can go wrong. The first part looks at compromising the codec; part
two extends the exploit to the kernel, and part
three looks at the implications:
It is alarming that it took 139 days for a vulnerability
exploitable in a 0-click context to get patched on any Android
device, and it took Pixel 54 days longer. The vulnerability was
public for 82 days before it was patched by Pixel.
Security Onion is a specialist, security-oriented Linux distribution based on Oracle Linux. It is a free and open platform for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring and log management. It includes custom interfaces for alerting, dashboards, hunting, PCAP, detections and case management. It also includes other tools, such as osquery (a tool for exploring and monitoring operating system data with SQL queries), CyberChef (a web application for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis), Elasticsearch (a data search engine), Logstash (a data collection and processing engine), Kibana (a data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch), Suricata (an intrusion detection and prevention system) and Zeek (a software network analysis framework).
Sjoerd Simons has published
a blog post about running Debian on the OpenWrt One
router hardware:
With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian
system leveraging the OpenWrt One's NVMe storage, enabling everything
from custom services and containers to development tools and
lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware.
This project provides a rust-based flasher to install Debian on the
OpenWrt One, opening the door to standard Debian tooling, packages,
and workflows. For developers and power users, it transforms the
OpenWrt One from a network appliance into a compact, general-purpose
Linux system.
See the GitHub
repository for the code and latest build. LWN reviewed the device in
November 2024, and covered Denver
Gingerich's talk at SCALE 22x about
the making of the router in March 2025.
Garuda Linux is a rolling distribution based on the Arch Linux operating system. Unlike Arch Linux, Garuda Linux comes with a graphical installer (Calamares) for easy installation, and other advanced graphical tools for managing your system. Garuda is a performance-oriented distro with many performance enhancing tweaks. Some of the many tweaks include using zram, a performance CPU governor, along with custom memory management software. Garuda Linux has striven to provide system stability by including the Timeshift backup utility.
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