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ChromeOS Flex, developed by Google, is a free and lightweight Linux distribution based on Gentoo-derived ChromeOS. Unlike ChromeOS which is designed specifically for Chromebook computers, ChromeOS Flex can be installed on most x86_64 devices with a AMD or Intel processors, offering a Chromebook-like experience. The product's functionality can be further extended by installing a Debian-based Linux subsystem with a complete Linux development environment. ChromeOS Flex is available as a BIN image that can be transferred to a bootable USB Flash drive; it can be used in a "live" mode or it can be permanently installed to a computer's hard disk.

Version 2025.10 of the U-Boot boot loader has been released with new features, including Python tooling improvements, cleanups for implicit header inclusions, better support for numerous Arm platforms, support for new RISC-V platforms, better documentation, and more. Maintainer Tom Rini also reports on some project news: As I mentioned with the v2025.07 release, I was looking for a few people to step up and help with the overall organization and management of the project. To that end, Peter Robinson and Neil Armstrong have stepped up and have been helping me. This has been part of the process for the project to join up under the Software Freedom Conservancy's (SFC) umbrella and have a legal entity that can help the project work with other legal entities on things like donations.

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.

At the time of writing, there have been 9,099 commits in the 6.18 merge window, 8,475 non-merges and 624 merges. The changes so far include core-kernel, graphics, and networking work, among others. There are no big surprises, but several items that were discussed at this year's LFSMM+BPF Summit have now been merged.

Gnoppix AI Linux is a Debian-based distribution which can be run from a DVD, USB thumb drive or from a local drive. It is pre-loaded with essential Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks, libraries and development tools as it aims to provide a privacy-focused, secure, powerful, intelligent and user-friendly experience. It uses several popular desktop environments, including GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce. The project is an attempt to revive a Knoppix-based live distribution with the GNOME desktop that was first launched back in 2005.

Gnoppix AI Linux is a Debian-based distribution which can be run from a DVD, USB thumb drive or from a local drive. It is pre-loaded with essential Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks, libraries and development tools as it aims to provide a privacy-focused, secure, powerful, intelligent and user-friendly experience. It uses several popular desktop environments, including GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce. The project is an attempt to revive a Knoppix-based live distribution with the GNOME desktop that was first launched back in 2005.

Kicksecure is a security-hardened Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch, with Xfce as the default desktop user interface. It is a hardened operating system designed to be resistant to viruses, malware and attacks, and extensively reconfigured in accordance with an advanced multi-layer defense model, thereby providing in-depth security. Kicksecure provides protection from many types of malware in its default configuration with no customization required.

Support for BPF in the kernel has been tied to the LLVM toolchain since the advent of extended BPF. There has been a growing effort to add BPF support to the GNU toolchain as well, though. At the 2025 GNU Tools Cauldron, the developers involved got together with representatives of the kernel community to talk about the state of that work and what needs to happen next.

The 6.17.1, 6.16.11, 6.12.51, and 6.6.110 stable kernels have been released. This time around, they contain a relatively small number of important fixes in various parts of the kernel.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (dovecot, git, log4cxx, and openssl), Fedora (containernetworking-plugins, firebird, firefox, jupyterlab, mupdf, and thunderbird), Oracle (ipa), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, gnutls, kernel, kernel-rt, multiple packages, mysql, mysql:8.0, nginx, podman, and thunderbird), Slackware (fetchmail), SUSE (afterburn, chromium, firefox, haproxy, libvmtools-devel, logback, python311-Django, python311-Django4, and redis), and Ubuntu (linux-gcp, linux-gcp-6.14, linux-oem-6.14, linux-nvidia-tegra-igx, linux-oracle, mysql-8.0, poppler, and squid).

Version:next-20251006 (linux-next) Released:2025-10-06

openmamba GNU/Linux is a distribution for personal computers that can be used on notebooks, desktops, servers and Raspberry Pi computers. It works as an installable live DVD/USB images, offering one of two desktop environments: KDE Plasma or LXQt. The distribution uses RPM packages managed through the DNF package manager. Software can also be fetched and installed from Flatpak repositories.

XIVA Studio is a multimedia-oriented Linux distribution derived from Manjaro Linux and BigLinux. It's main goal is to cater to the needs of professional creators in the area of video, audio, graphics and animation production. XIVA Studio provides optimised Linux kernels built for a number of popular processor and graphics cards configurations. It uses KDE Plasma as the default desktop environment.

OpenSSH 10.1 has been released. Along with "a minor security fix" and some other bug fixes, this release disallows control characters in user names passed via the command line, adds better logging around certificate refusals, and a new RefuseConnection server configuration option.

IPFire 2.29 Update 197 firewall distribution is now available for download with a complete OpenVPN overhaul and performance tweaks. Here’s what’s new!

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Version:6.17.1 (stable) Released:2025-10-06 Source:linux-6.17.1.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.17.1.tar.sign Patch:full ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.17.1

Version:6.16.11 (stable) Released:2025-10-06 Source:linux-6.16.11.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.16.11.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.16.11

Zorin OS 18 promises a refreshed default theme with a floating panel that has a rounded style to match the system’s look and feel and a new workspace indicator, a powerful new window tiling manager to boost productivity, and a new built-in Web Apps tool to make it even easier to install your favorite apps.

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Version:6.12.51 (longterm) Released:2025-10-06 Source:linux-6.12.51.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.51.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.51

Version:6.6.110 (longterm) Released:2025-10-06 Source:linux-6.6.110.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.110.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.110