FunOS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution which features the JWM graphical user interface. The project is intended to be more lightweight than official Ubuntu community editions while providing the same application compatibility and hardware support.
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.
d77void GNU/Linux is a Void-based Linux distribution created to demonstrate the capabilities of Void's tools, such as void-mklive and void-packages. Originally initiated as a Void respin with the Fluxbox window manager, the project has evolved to offer a wide range of window manager, Wayland compositor and desktop environment options, including Awesome, bspwm, COSMIC, dwm, Fluxbox, herbstluftwm, Hyprland, i3wm, JWM, labwc, LeftWM, LXQt, Niri, Openbox, Qtile, River, Sway, Wayfire and Xfce. The distribution can be installed to a hard disc with the text-mode d77void-installer.
Origami Linux is a Fedora-based desktop Linux distribution with immutable root filesystem and atomic updates. It uses System76's COSMIC desktop. The distribution does not offer a "live" mode; it brings up the Anaconda system installer right after the initial boot for a guided installation instead. Besides the default image that uses the standard Fedora Linux kernel, the project offers a separate image with a CachyOS kernel (a Linux kernel with various performance optimisations and CPU enhancements developed by the CachyOS distribution project). A third image, with drivers for recent NVIDIA graphics cards, is also available. Origami Linux intends to be minimal, clean, customisable and suitable for development work.
There are many applications that need to be able to write multi-block
chunks of data to disk with the assurance that the operation will either
complete successfully or fail altogether — that the write will not be
partially completed (or "torn"), in other words. For years, kernel
developers have worked on providing atomic writes as a way of satisfying
that need; see, for example, sessions from the Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory Management, and BPF (LSFMM+BPF) Summit from
2023,
2024,
and
2025 (
twice). While atomic
direct I/O is now supported by some filesystems, atomic
buffered I/O still is not. Filling
that gap seems certain to be a 2026 LSFMM+BPF topic but, thanks to an early
discussion, the shape of a solution might already be coming into focus.
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).
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen has posted
an
overview of how zero-copy networking works in the Linux kernel.
Since the memory is being copied directly from userspace to the
network device, the userspace application has to keep it around
unmodified, until it has finished sending. The sendmsg()
syscall itself is asynchronous, and will return without waiting for
this. Instead, once the memory buffers are no longer needed by the
stack, the kernel will return a notification to userspace that the
buffers can be reused.
Version 7.3 of Texinfo, the GNU documentation-formatting system, has been released.
It contains a number of new features, performance improvements, and enhancements.
The free and open-source software (FOSS) movements have always been
about giving freedom and power to individuals and organizations;
throughout that history, though, there have also been actors trying
to exploit FOSS to their own advantage. At Configuration Management
Camp (CfgMgmtCamp) 2026 in Ghent, Belgium, Richard Fontana described
the "exploitation paradox" of open source: the recurring
pattern of crises when actors exploit loopholes to restrict freedoms
or gain the upper hand over others in the community. He also talked
about the attempts to close those loopholes as well as the need to
look beyond licenses as a means of keeping freedom alive.
Motorola has
announced
that it will be working with the GrapheneOS Foundation, a producer of a
security-enhanced Android distribution. "Together, Motorola and the
GrapheneOS Foundation will work to strengthen smartphone security and
collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS
compatibility.". LWN
looked at
GrapheneOS last July.
Version
1.0 of Gram, an "opinionated fork of the Zed code editor",
has been released. Gram removes telemetry, AI features, collaboration
features, and more. It adds built-in documentation, support for
additional languages, and tab-completion features similar to the Supertab
plugin for Vim. The mission statement for
the project explains:
At first, I tried to build some other efforts I found online to
make Zed work without the AI features just so I could check it out,
but didn't manage to get them to work. At some point, the curiosity
turned into spite. I became determined to not only get the editor to
run without all of the misfeatures, but to make it a full-blown fork
of the project. Independent of corporate control, in the spirit of Vim
and the late Bram Moolenaar who could have added subscription fees and
abusive license agreements had he so wanted, but instead gave his work
as a gift to the world and asked only for donations to a good cause
close to his heart in return.
This is the result. Feel free to build it and see if it works for
you. There is no license agreement or subscription beyond the open
source license of the code (GPLv3). It is yours now, to do with as you
please.
According to a blog
post on the site, the plan for the editor is to diverge from Zed
and proceed slowly.
Version:next-20260302 (linux-next)
Released:2026-03-02
Security updates have been issued by Debian (lxd, orthanc, and thunderbird), Fedora (cef, chromium, gimp, nextcloud, pgadmin4, python-django4.2, python-django5, python3-docs, python3.12, python3.13, and python3.9), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8 and mingw-fontconfig), Slackware (gvfs, mozilla, and telnet), SUSE (avahi, cockpit-356, cockpit-podman, cockpit-podman-120, containerized-data-importer, digger-cli, docker, evolution-data-server, expat, firefox, freerdp2, gimp, glib2, glibc, go1, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, gosec, gpg2, heroic-games-launcher, ImageMagick, kernel, kernel-firmware, kubevirt, libIex-3_4-33, libjxl-devel, libpng16, libsodium, libsoup, libsoup2, libssh, libudisks2-0, libwireshark19, protobuf, python-pyasn1, python-urllib3, python311, python311-Flask, rust-keylime, thunderbird, ucode-intel, and valkey), and Ubuntu (git).
Venom Linux is an independently-developed, rolling-release distribution inspired by CRUX. It targets experienced Linux users. Venom uses SysV init as the main init system and BSD-like ports as software packages which are managed by a custom package management tool called scratchpkg (written in compliance with POSIX standards). The distribution offers a simple graphical desktop built around the Openbox window manager and a text-mode system installer.
Genuen is a spin of Devuan GNU+Linux consisting exclusively of Free Software (as defined by the Free Software Foundation) and a choice of several alternative init systems, such as OpenRC, Runit, s6 and SysV. The distribution ships with the GNU Linux-libre kernel. The project provides installation images for desktop and server deployments, as well as pre-configured live images with JWM, KDE Plasma, Openbox and Xfce desktops available for the i686 and x86_64 architectures.
LainOS is a lightweight, Arch Linux-based desktop distribution aimed at developers, tinkerers and hackers. As a choice of graphical environments, it offers the Hyprland Wayland compositor and the Openbox window manager. The distribution also features the Calamares system installer, personalised yet functional visual aesthetics, and a selection of useful software. LainOS is intended for users who share the admiration of Serial Experiments Lain, a Japanese anime television series.
The
7.0-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for
testing. According to Linus:
So I'm not super-happy with how big this is, but I'm hoping it's
just the random timing noise we see every once in a while where I
just happen to get more pull requests one week, only for the next
week to then be quieter.
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.
KDE Linux is a user-focused, general-purpose Linux distribution. It is built by KDE and it is meant to showcase the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies. The distribution's base packages come from Arch Linux, while everything else is either compiled by the kde-builder tool or included as Flatpak packages. KDE Linux does not come with any traditional package manager, but supports installing Flatpak, Snap or AppImage applications. As it has an immutable base, system updates involve replacing the operating system image with an entirely new one.
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