Linux offers huge choice, but many new distributions struggle to justify themselves beyond themes, package choices and branding.

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor at 9 to 5 Linux reported on Thursday that the Cosmic 1.9 desktop has been released, with improvements including upgrades on the Cosmic Viewer, Cosmic OSK, an…

Debian-based distro from Brazil adds much to its nation’s rep in Linuxsphere By Larry Cafiero When it comes to creating and maintaining Linux distros, Brazil doesn’t jump out as the first place you…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Michael Larabel at Phoronix reported on Wednesday that Gnome 51 was released, complete with improved frame scheduling among it many improvements. “Gnome 51 debuted today w…

Arch-based distro minus systemd making waves in the Linuxsphere By Larry Cafiero As of late, it seems that more and more distros are based on Arch Linux – by the way – than any other distro, which …

Compiled by Larry Cafiero The KDE Plasma beat goes on . . . Marcus Nestor at 9 to 5 Linux reports on Thursday that the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment is ready for public beta testing, and a sec…

Polish distro based on Debian continues to impress and is still a joy to use By Larry Cafiero When we last left SparkyLinux – back in July of last year reviewing version 7.7 for FOSS Force – the di…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Linux Stans presented an interesting article on Thursday rating the six best Linux distro for kids today, which came up with some fascinating results. Long gone are the da…

American distro based on Arch and featuring KDE Plasma stands out as a pleasant surprise By Larry Cafiero Today’s Distro of the Week comes from our proverbial mailbag, sort of. From time to time, w…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor of 9 to 5 Linux, among a plethora of other publications, wished Linux a happy 35th birthday on Tuesday. “Today is August 25th, which marks 35 years since Lin…

A year of improvements, but this German distro remains true to its Arch-based roots By Larry Cafiero Back in April, we took Garuda Broadwing Mokka on a test drive on FOSS Force. If memory serves, t…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Bobby Barisov of Linuxiac reported on Saturday that the developers at KDE have made improvements to KDE Plasma 6.8, including making auto-hide panels 10 times faster and s…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor on 9 to 5 Linux reported on Tuesday that System76 released a new Cosmic desktop environment with new improvements. “Coming three weeks after Cosmic 1.5, the …

Polish distro based on Debian is a winner, and should be ranked higher in Distrowatch By Larry Cafiero Following up our review of MX Linux last week, we didn’t want to go for another famous Linux d…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor in 9 to 5 Linux on Sunday wrote about Debian Linux turning 33 years old on Sunday. “That’s right, it’s been 33 years since the late Ian Murdock announced the…

Today is Debian Day, and the Debian Project and Debian GNU/Linux operating system celebrate 33 years since it was founded by Ian Murdock.

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor of 9 to 5 Linux reported on Thursday that KDE announced a suite of software which includes three years of support for KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related KDE soft…

Greco-American distro upholds high standards while breaking new ground By Larry Cafiero When we last left MX Linux – and this was back in October when I was writing Distro of the Week for FOSS Forc…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Bobby Borisov reported in Linuxiac on Saturday that KDE Plasma plans to improve remote desktop performance, among other improvements. The October release of the new deskto…

Compiled by Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor of 9 to 5 Linux reported Wednesday that the Gnome Project “released Gnome 50.4 today as the fourth maintenance update to the latest Gnome 50 desktop environm…

British distro based on Debian offers a blank canvas for users to explore By Larry Cafiero Which distro, right from the start, gives you the option to set up your distro the way you actually want i…

By Larry Cafiero Bill Toulas of BleepingComputer.com reported on Friday that Arch is disabling its Arch User Repository – otherwise known as AUR – to stem the flow of malware and malicious takeover…

Marcus Nestor at 9 to 5 Linux reported on Wednesday that computer maker System76 released version 1.5 of the Cosmic desktop environment. Based on Rust, the desktop environment’s improvements are ge…

Turkish distro based on Debian maintains its latest version’s sky-high standards By Larry Cafiero When I first took this week’s Distro of the Week out for a spin – and that was when I was at …

By Larry Cafiero Not exactly Linux-specific, but close enough . . . Bobby Barisov of Linuxiac reported on Friday that LibreOffice had released an updated verstion of the 26.2 series – this one 26.2…

Devuan-based distro brings speed, performance to wide range of hardware By Larry Cafiero And the hits just keep on coming . . . Not only was last week a week of firsts for Distro of the Week, we fo…

By Larry Cafiero Bobby Borisov on Linuxiac reported on Friday that KDE Plasma 6.8 will improve the visual consistency of applications by adding server-side shadows to windows that do not draw them …

By Larry Cafiero Senthilkumar Palani (aka SK) wrote in OS Technix on Thursday a guideline regarding how to safely use the Arch User Repository (AUR), which was compromised to the tune of over 1,500…

Despite dated menus, pop-ups, Greek distro based on Slackware excels on many fronts By Larry Cafiero We have a couple of notable firsts here at Distro of the Week: First and foremost, we are trying…

By Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor at 9 to 5 Linux on Saturday reported that the Debian Project announced the availability of Debian 13.6, as the sixth update of the Debian 13 Trixie operating system s…

By Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor at 9 to 5 Linux reported on Wednesday that full Wayland support is on the way for the Linux Mint Cinnamon edition version 6.8. According to the article, “Linux Mint p…

By Larry Cafiero Marcus Nestor on 9 to 5 Linux reported on Friday that Gnome has released the alpha version of Gnome 51 for public testing “to give the community a first taste of the new feat…

Armenian offering based on Void checks all boxes, and the distro’s anything but ‘lazy’ By Larry Cafiero Sometimes you have a list of distros to choose from and you put them in a n…