Simon Coter has announced the release of Oracle Linux 7 Update 9, a new build of the company's enterprise-class Linux distribution's legacy branch, compiled from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9: "Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 7 Update....

SparkyLinux provides a Debian-based, lightweight distribution. The project has published refreshed and updated installation media for its "oldstable" 4.x branch. The latest release is SparkyLinux 4.13. The release announcement offers the following list of changes: "There is an update of Sparky oldstable 4.13 code name 'Tyche' out there.....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: deepin 20News: Maintaining Cinnamon on Debian, NetBSD's Wayland progress, Fedora to compress firmware, SolydXK's leadership is changing, UBports installer to support third-party operating systems on Volla phones, Linux Mint to package Chromium browserQuestions and answers: Selecting an init implementationReleased last week: Enso....

Glen Barber has announced that the first release candidate for FreeBSD 12.2 is now ready for testing. This will be followed by two more release candidates before the expected final release on 27 October: "The first RC build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Note regarding....

Canonical has published a new development snapshot of Ubuntu. This snapshot, Ubuntu 20.10 beta, is accompanied by beta of the distribution's official community editions. "20.10, codenamed §Groovy Gorilla§, continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. ....

The Fedora team have announced the availability of Fedora 33 Beta. The new development snapshot includes new features, such as using Btrfs as the default filesystem along with GNOME 3.38 as the Workstation edition's desktop. Some editions, apart from just Workstation, now enable the EarlyOOM process killer to....

Enso OS is a Linux distribution based on Xubuntu. Enso features the Xfce desktop with Gala, imported from elementary OS, as the default window manager. The latest release features a new note-taking application called Pinny along with a dark theme. Several improvements have been made to the software....