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The PrimTux distribution is a French-language, Debian-based project designed for school teachers and other professionals working in an educational environment. The project has released a new development snapshot, Primtux 2-2016-09-23-beta-2, which is now available for testing. The beta is based on Debian's Stable branch and features mostly changes....

Alex Gajewski has announced the availability of a new release of the Arch Linux-based Apricity OS. The new version, Apricity OS 09.2016, includes a few new features. This release includes builds for 64-bit and 32-bit computers. The new 32-bit builds use Firefox as the default web browser and....

Robolinux is a Debian-based desktop distribution which features many security and entertainment packages. The Robolinux project has released an update to the distribution's 8.x series: Robolinux 8.6. The new version is available in four editions (Cinnamon, LXDE, MATE and Xfce) and can be run on 32-bit and 64bit....

The openSUSE project has announced the availability of a new beta snapshot for the project's upcoming openSUSE 42.2 "Leap" release. The new beta provides a preview of the Plasma 5.8 desktop environment along with an update to GTK, bringing the toolkit to version 3.20.9. "The release of openSUSE....

The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) project has released a new version of the Debian-based privacy oriented distribution. Tails allows the user to direct network traffic through the Tor anonymizing network and provides a number of privacy utilities. The latest release, Tails 2.6, includes such security features as....

Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 14.2, a new version of the project's Slackware-based distribution featuring the lightweight IceWM window manager as the default desktop user interface: "Absolute Linux 14.2 released, based on Slackware 14.2. It comes in a 32-bit and a 64-bit variants. Same....

The Zorin OS project has announced the availability of a new beta snapshot. The new version, Zorin OS 12 Beta, is based on Ubuntu 16.04 and features version 4.4 of the Linux kernel. The beta offers users a preview of the project's many changes to the look and....

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Vince Pooley has announced the availability of the initial beta release of Chapeau 24, the upcoming new version of the project's Fedora-based distribution that includes some useful third-party software applications (e.g. PlayOnLinux, Steam, Flash) that are, by default, not available in Fedora due to licensing restrictions: "Today a....

Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD, an unscheduled build of the upcoming (and delayed) 11.0-RELEASE: "The second RC build of the 11.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since RC2 includes: a boot issue affecting booting from large....