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BackBox Linux is a Ubuntu-based distribution designed for penetration testing and security evaluations. The Backbox distribution is designed to be fast and easy to use with a wide collection of security utilities. It provides a minimal yet complete desktop environment The BackBox project has announced the release of....

The deepin team has announced the availability of a new release of the project's Debian-based distribution. The new version, deepin 15.4.1, provides mostly minor updates over the previously released 15.4 branch. "deepin is a Linux distribution devoted to providing beautiful, easy to use, security and reliable system for....

The Elive team have announced the release of a new beta snapshot of the project's Debian-based distribution. Elive 2.9.5 (Beta) introduces a number of bug fixes and visual improvements as well as a new short-cut for vim users. The release announcement lists the new changes: "The Elive Team....

Barry Kauler has announced the release of a new version of Quirky, a close relative to Puppy Linux that is built using a tool called Woof. The new release, Quirky 8.2, runs on 64-bit x86 computers and offers mostly incremental improvements over previous 8.x releases: "Quirky Linux 8.2....

The Netrunner team has announced a new snapshot of the project's rolling release edition, which is based on Manjaro Linux. The rolling release, which was last updated about 18 months ago, includes package updates across the board. The new snapshot, Netrunner 2017.07, features the KDE Plasma 5.10.3 desktop....

Jos Schellevis has announced the release of a new development snapshot of the OPNsense operating system, a firewall platform based on FreeBSD. The new release candidate for OPNsense 17.7 includes security and stability improvements as well as several updated translations: "We are writing to you today to announce....

The SparkyLinux team has announced the release of SparkyLinux 5.0. The new release is based on Debian's Testing branch and is available in three editions: LXQt, MATE and Xfce. "Sparky "Home" edition provides fully featured operating system with lightweight desktops: LXQt, MATE and Xfce. As usually, Sparky MinimalGUI....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: Fedora 26News: New Fedora features, installing DragonFly BSD with Orca, Yunit packages backported to Ubuntu 16.04Questions and answers: Source based Linux distributionsReleased last week: Fedora 26, Parrot Security 3.7, SolydXK 9, Mageia 6Torrent corner: ExTiX, Fedora, KaOS, Mageia, Parrot Security, Redcore, SolydXK,....

The SolydXK project has announced the availability SolydXK 9, which is based on packages from the recently released Debian 9. Apart from the new base, SolydXK has removed the Backports repository by default (though it can be re-enabled), added a tool to assist in encrypting partitions and introduced....

Following several delays during the development cycle, the Mageia project has announced the release of Mageia 6. The new version includes the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment, the DNF package manager is now available alongside urpmi and Mageia 6 includes live test media for the Xfce desktop environment:....