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Manjaro 26.0.3
Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability. Manjaro Linux offers Xfce as the core desktop options, as well as KDE, GNOME and a minimalist Net edition for more advanced users. Community-supported desktop flavours are also available.
Voyager 26.04-alpha6
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.
BunsenLabs Carbon
BunsenLabs Linux is a distribution offering a light-weight and easily customizable Openbox desktop. The BunsenLabs distribution is based on Debian's Stable branch and is a community continuation of the CrunchBang Linux distribution.
Drauger 7.8-beta2
Drauger OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux desktop gaming distribution that ships with many modifications and optimizations over stock Ubuntu; these are intended to improve gaming performance and the gaming experience. From simple changes such as swapping GNOME out for KDE Plasma and using a dark Qt theme by default, to more complex changes such as using a kernel compiled in-house and replacing PulseAudio with Pipewire. Drauger OS is built from the ground up with a focus on performance.
FreeBSD 14.4-RC1
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.
6.19.5: stable
Version:6.19.5 (stable)
Released:2026-02-27
Source:linux-6.19.5.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-6.19.5.tar.sign
Patch:full (incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.19.5
6.18.15: longterm
Version:6.18.15 (longterm)
Released:2026-02-27
Source:linux-6.18.15.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-6.18.15.tar.sign
Patch:full (incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.18.15
[$] The troubles with Boolean inversion in Python
The Python bitwise-inversion (or complement) operator, "~", behaves
pretty much as expected when it is applied to integers—it toggles every
bit, from one
to zero and vice versa. It might be expected that applying the
operator to a non-integer, a bool
for example, would raise a TypeError, but, because the
bool type is really an int
in disguise, the complement operator is allowed, at least for now. For
nearly 15 years (and perhaps longer), there have been discussions about the
oddity of that behavior and whether it should be changed. Eventually,
that resulted in the "feature" being deprecated, producing a warning, with removal slated for
Python 3.16 (due October 2027). That has led to some reconsideration and the
deprecation may itself be deprecated.
TROMjaro 2026.02.27
TROMjaro is a Manjaro-based Linux distribution with a customised Xfce desktop. Compared to its parent, TROMjaro offers several user-friendly utilities, such as Layout Switcher with six different layouts or Theme Switcher with several accent colours. It also provides various enhancements, including the integration of the Chaotic-AUR repository with pre-built binary packages, a selection of custom wallpapers and icon packs, and extra configuration options in Settings Manager. The distribution comes with support for AppImage files and a heavily-tweaked Firefox browser with custom add-ons.
next-20260227: linux-next
Version:next-20260227 (linux-next)
Released:2026-02-27
Two new stable kernels, possible regression
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.4 and 6.18.14 stable kernels. Shortly after
6.19.4 was released Kris Karas reported "getting a repeatable Oops right
when networking is initialized, likely when nft is loading its
ruleset"; the problem did not appear to be present in 6.18.14. Users
of nftables may wish to hold off on upgrades to 6.19.4 for now. We
will provide updates as they are available.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, buildah, firefox, freerdp, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana-pcp, kernel, libpng15, munge, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, podman, protobuf, python-pyasn1, runc, and skopeo), Debian (chromium, nss, and python-django), Fedora (firefox, freerdp, gh, libmaxminddb, nss, python3.15, and udisks2), Oracle (buildah, firefox, freerdp, kernel, libpng, podman, python-pyasn1, skopeo, and valkey), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8), SUSE (autogen, chromium, cockpit, cockpit-machines-348, cockpit-packages, cockpit-repos, cockpit-subscriptions, crun, docker, docker-compose, docker-stable, erlang, freerdp, frr, glib2, gpg2, kernel, kernel-firmware, libsodium, libsoup, libsoup2, openvswitch, python, python-pyasn1, python-urllib3, python-urllib3_1, python3, qemu, redis7, regclient, and ucode-intel), and Ubuntu (linux-aws, linux-aws-6.8, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-xilinx, python-authlib, and ruby-rack).
IPFire 2.29-core200
IPFire is a Linux distribution that focuses on easy setup, good handling and high level of security. It is operated via an intuitive web-based interface which offers many configuration options for beginning and experienced system administrators. IPFire is maintained by developers who are concerned about security and who update the product regularly to keep it secure. IPFire ships with a custom package manager called Pakfire and the system can be expanded with various add-ons.
Bluestar 6.18.13
Bluestar Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Arch Linux. The Bluestar distribution features up to date packages, a full range of desktop and multimedia software in the default installation and a live desktop DVD.
6.19.4: stable
Version:6.19.4 (stable)
Released:2026-02-26
Source:linux-6.19.4.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-6.19.4.tar.sign
Patch:full (incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.19.4
6.18.14: longterm
Version:6.18.14 (longterm)
Released:2026-02-26
Source:linux-6.18.14.tar.xz
PGP Signature:linux-6.18.14.tar.sign
Patch:full (incremental)
ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.18.14
Omarchy 3.4.0
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.
[$] IIIF: images and visual presentations for the web
The International Image Interoperability
Framework, or IIIF ("triple-eye eff"), is a small set of standards that
form a basis for serving, displaying, and reusing image data on the web. It
consists of a number of API definitions that compose with each other to
achieve a standard for providing, for example, presentations of
high-resolution images at multiple zoom levels, as well as bundling multiple images
together. Presentations may include metadata about details like authorship,
dates, references to other representations of the same work, copyright
information, bibliographic identifiers, etc. Presentations can be further
grouped into collections, and metadata can be added in the form of
transcriptions, annotations, or captions. IIIF is most popular with
cultural-heritage organizations, such as libraries, universities, and
archives.
next-20260226: linux-next
Version:next-20260226 (linux-next)
Released:2026-02-26
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp), Debian (firefox-esr and libstb), Fedora (389-ds-base, chromium, firefox, munge, opentofu, python3-docs, python3.14, and vim), Oracle (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, gimp, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, podman, runc, and skopeo), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, mariadb:10.11, podman, and skopeo), SUSE (cacti, docker-stable, expat, firefox-esr, freerdp, freerdp2, libjxl, libsoup-2_4-1, python-tornado, python-urllib3_1, python3, python311-Django4, python312, python313, python39, and redis), and Ubuntu (ceph, mongodb, protobuf, and rlottie).