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EznixOS is a live Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch. It offers three editions of the product, containing a customised Xfce desktop (with extra software), a non-customised Xfce desktop, and a non-customised KDE Plasma desktop. It can be installed to a hard disk using the standard Calamares system installer. Besides the three Debian spins, the project also develops and distributes files, scripts and documentation for building customised live Debian images.

Linux Q83 is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch. Depending on the edition, it comes either with the Cinnamon desktop environment (a fork of GNOME created by Linux Mint), or COSMIC (a modern graphical desktop interface written in the Rust programming language, developed by System76). The distribution is available for Raspberry Pi and Radxa Orion O6 single-board computers, as well as standard desktops and workstations. Linux Q83 also comes with its own lightweight and resource-efficient web browser called W3.

nakeDeb is a minimalist desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and designed for more advanced Linux users. By default it uses the Fluxbox window manager, although an alternative session with i3 is also available. The distribution provides a simple text-mode system installer and custom repositories with extra software, including various utilities and themes. It comes with the w3m web browser and a script to download and install the latest Tor Browser, and it also includes the PCManFM file manager and mpv media player. makeDeb offers support for French and English languages.

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.

Debian Edu/Skolelinux is the Debian-edu's Debian Pure Blend distribution. It is aiming to provide an out-of-the-box localised environment tailored for schools and universities. The out-of-the-box environment comes with 75 applications aimed at schools, as well as 17 network services pre-configured for a school environment. The simple, three-question installation requires minimal technical knowledge. Skolelinux is Debian, which means, among other things, that there are no license costs or worries, and that upgrade and maintenance of the software can be done over the Internet with the power of Debian's apt-get. The core goals of Skolelinux are localisation and ease of system administration.

The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system is called Debian. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a completely free piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide. Of course, the thing that people want is application software: programs to help them get what they want to do done, from editing documents to running a business to playing games to writing more software. Debian comes with over 50,000 packages (precompiled software that is bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine) - all of it free. It's a bit like a tower. At the base is the kernel. On top of that are all the basic tools. Next is all the software that you run on the computer. At the top of the tower is Debian -- carefully organizing and fitting everything so it all works together.

Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. It was forked from the "Redo Backup & Rescue" project which was abandoned in 2012. Like its predecessor, it allows a "bare-metal restore" after any hardware failure directly from the live image. Some of the features include: works directly from the live CD/USB image; works with Linux, macOS and Windows; automatically searches a local area network for drives to backup to or restore from; recovers lost or deleted data files; includes configuration tools for managing disk and drives. Rescuezilla uses a simplified LXDE user interface.

RakuOS is an immutable Linux distribution based on Fedora, with a choice of KDE Plasma, GNOME and COSMIC desktops. It combines an immutable, read-only base system with the full package flexibility of a traditional Linux distribution. While the core system updates atomically and can be instantly rolled back, the system's persistent overlay lets the user install any package, either through the dnf package manager or the distribution's own software center called RakuOS Software. Installation of Flatpak packages is also supported. RakuOS uses the performance-optimised CachyOS Linux kernel and also includes a graphical CPU scheduling utility to fine-tune the system for gaming, workloads or power efficiency use cases.

Lilidog is a lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Debian "Stable" and featuring a customised Openbox window manager. It incorporates the tint2 desktop panel, the Thunar file manager and the xfce4-terminal terminal emulator. Other window managers, including Awesome, dwm, i3, JWM and sowm, are also available for installation. Besides the standard Lilidog, the project provides two other editions of the distribution - the "Beardog" variant which starts without a display manager on login, and the "Waydog" flavour which uses the Wayland display server and offers a choice between the labwc and Sway Wayland compositors.

Kamuriki Linux is a Debian-based, desktop-oriented distribution designed for lightness and ease of use. It deploys the LXQt desktop environment with a classic Windows-like look and feel and it also provides the Wine compatibility layer which enables some Windows applications to run under Linux. The distribution supports English and Japanese languages.

stillOS is an immutable Linux distribution based on AlmaLinux and featuring a customised GNOME desktop. It includes atomic updates and support for Flatpak packages. It also comes with a number of custom applications, such as stillControl (a tool for configuring desktop layouts), stillCenter (a software center with a curated store), stillTerminal (a custom terminal emulator that integrates with DistroBox containers and remote SSH instances), and Quick Setup (a first-boot tool to allow selection and installation of preferred applications). The project's goal is to provide a consumer-ready desktop Linux distribution that is user-friendly, stable, consistent and predictable.

FreeBSD is a UNIX-like operating system for the i386, amd64, IA-64, arm, MIPS, powerpc, ppc64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC platforms based on U.C. Berkeley's "4.4BSD-Lite" release, with some "4.4BSD-Lite2" enhancements. It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's "Net/2" to the i386, known as "386BSD", though very little of the 386BSD code remains. FreeBSD is used by companies, Internet Service Providers, researchers, computer professionals, students and home users all over the world in their work, education and recreation. FreeBSD comes with over 20,000 packages (pre-compiled software that is bundled for easy installation), covering a wide range of areas: from server software, databases and web servers, to desktop software, games, web browsers and business software - all free and easy to install.

Roman Gushchin began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the community has seen a lot of proposals adding BPF-based interfaces for memory management. None of them have made their way into the mainline, though. He wanted to explore the ways in which BPF might be helpful and the obstacles that have kept BPF-based solutions out so far. This session was followed by a discussion led by Shakeel Butt on what the requirements for a new, BPF-based interface for memory control groups might look like.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 7.0.8, 6.18.31, 6.12.89, 6.6.139, 6.1.173, 5.15.207, and 5.10.256 stable kernels. These kernels contain a patch for CVE-2026-46333 a vulnerability reported by the Qualys Security Advisory team, though Jann Horn proposed a patch in 2020. The vulnerability has a proof-of-concept exploit published already. Some of the kernels have additional patches for other bugs; as always, users are advised to upgrade.

Recent times have seen a lot of effort put into the implementation of the kexec handover and live update orchestrator features in the Linux kernel. But that work is not yet complete. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Pratyush Yadav led a memory-management-track session on adding the ability to preserve hugetlbfs-provided memory during the live-update process.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, gsasl, nodejs, postgresql-15, postgresql-17, python3.9, and thunderbird), Fedora (expat, firefox, freerdp, GitPython, kernel, php, rust-podman-sequoia, rust-rpm-sequoia, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-git, rust-sequoia-keystore-server, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-openpgp, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, and rust-sequoia-sqv), Mageia (awstats, libreoffice, perl-HTTP-Tiny, and tomcat), Oracle (corosync, freerdp, gimp, git-lfs, glib2, jq, kernel, krb5, libsoup3, libtiff, openexr, thunderbird, uek-kernel, and yggdrasil), Red Hat (podman and skopeo), SUSE (amazon-ssm-agent, avahi, c-ares, cairo, containerd, cpp-httplib, dnsmasq, dovecot24, ffmpeg-4, firefox, helm, ImageMagick, iproute2, kernel, krb5, libtpms, ongres-scram, ongres-stringprep, plexus-testing, maven, maven-doxia, mojo-parent, sisu, openCryptoki, openssh, perl-Text-CSV_XS, php8, python-lxml, python-Twisted-doc, python311-click, python311-GitPython, rclone, regclient, and syncthing), and Ubuntu (avahi).

Version:7.0.8 (stable) Released:2026-05-15 Source:linux-7.0.8.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-7.0.8.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-7.0.8

Version:6.18.31 (longterm) Released:2026-05-15 Source:linux-6.18.31.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.18.31.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.18.31

Version:6.12.89 (longterm) Released:2026-05-15 Source:linux-6.12.89.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.89.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.89

Version:6.6.139 (longterm) Released:2026-05-15 Source:linux-6.6.139.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.139.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.139