News : Debian Grml 2025.08 - codename Oneinonein.

Grml 2025.08 live distro for system administrators is now available for download based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

I used debian distros and are very good.

Grml is a Debian-based live Linux distribution tailored for system administrators. It’s designed to run directly from a USB stick or CD/DVD without installation, making it ideal for rescue tasks, system recovery, and quick deployments.

Grml uses the Debian package system APT to manage software. Another tool is grml-live Build System that allows users to create custom Grml images.

Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators. The 2025.08 release provides fresh software packages from Debian trixie. As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml releases.

... see the official website.

News : GNOME 49.beta and more ...

GNOME is used as the default experience across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora Workstation, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Vanilla OS, Endless OS, and more.

The last version is named as : GNOME 48, “Bengaluru”, see the official webpage.

This is not a news or something special, the news comes with:

GNOME 49.beta is now available. It also marks the start of the UI, feature and API freezes (collectively known as The Freeze). If you’d like to target the GNOME 49 platform, this is the best time to start testing your apps or shell extensions.

, see the official discourse - gnome.

... and they try to help users with: Continue using your old computer after the end of Windows 10 support this October. Visit endof10.org

News : KDE Gear is back ...

KDE Gear is back with a cool wave of apps for your summertime desktop!

Whether you need to brush up on your languages to visit exotic lands, plan your trips, keep up to date while on the move, meet up with friends and colleagues, create content from your holiday clips, or just chill as your quaint steam engine trundles up a picturesque peak, KDE Gear 🌞 25.08 has got you covered.

The news comes on 14 august 2025 from the official website.

KDE Gear - originally known as the KDE Applications Bundle, was first released on December 17, 2014

KDE Gear version 25.08 release include and provides powerful, user-friendly apps for everyday tasks:

• Itinerary: Travel planner that helps with tickets, delays, maps, and even health certificates.
• Dolphin: File manager with improved search and integration with Filelight for disk usage visualization.
• KOrganizer: Calendar and task manager with better navigation and tooltips.
• Kleopatra: Encryption and certificate manager with multi-window support.
• Neochat: Matrix-based chat app with polls and thread controls.
• Artikulate: Language pronunciation trainer, now compatible with Plasma 6.
• Angelfish: Web browser with customizable shortcuts and adblock toggle.

I don't use KDE very often and haven't in the past either. I prefer simpler and faster desktop environment solutions for my older hardware.

News : mesa 25.2.0-rc1 - new release.

Hello everyone,

I'm happy to announce the start of a new release cycle with the first release candidate, 25.2.0-rc1.

As always, if you find any issues please report them here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/new

Any issue that should block the release of 25.2.0 final, thus adding more 25.2.0-rc* release candidates, must be added to this milestone: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/milestones/51

The next release candidate is expected in one week, on July 23rd.

Cheers, Eric

This mail is from the official mail list of mesa-dev.

News : Linux 6.17 kernel tests.

Early Linux 6.17 kernel tests ... see more on the phoronix website ...

News : ... mesa 25.2.0 major update.

The mesa 25.2.0 comes with one major update for open-source Linux graphics drivers. It includes new features for OpenGL, Vulkan, and OpenCL ...

See more on this email from Eric Engestrom

Hello everyone, I'm happy to announce a new feature release, 25.2.0! ...

News : Smallest Operating System in the World!

... from the Datastream - official youtube channel.

News : Fedora 42 (Adams) !

Fedora 42 is a version of Fedora released to the public on 15 April 2025[1], under the codename "Adams". This version is notably the first version since Fedora 23 to use a codename. This version updates GNOME to version 48.

See the wikipedia article.

Yesterday I installed the Fedora Linux distro with version 42 also known as Adams, on the old Cosmic environment.

The packages were installed correctly and updated to version 42. The Cosmic environment, although it has a pretty good design, is just as poor as some of the implemented applications. I tried with about three screenshot applications to take a screenshot and I couldn't succeed. I noticed some packages for basic and cosmic implementation, but they didn't solve anything. Moreover, it seems that cosmic is related to rust and it's throwing me some strange messages!!!

I had to take a picture of the screen for this installation ... after all, it is a test version from the Fedora team based on RedHat linux!

News : System76 Transmission Log: Linux Hardware, COSMIC News and Enhancing AI with View.IO

Unleash your potential on Pop!_OS: an operating system for STEM and creative professionals.

... is ubuntu based and you can find more about this and Linux distros in the official website - distrowatch.

Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a custom GNOME desktop. Pop!_OS is designed to have a minimal amount of clutter on the desktop without distractions in order to allow the user to focus on work. The distribution is developed by Linux computer retailer System76.

... from 9 days ago, ... is a new video with this distro based on the System76 - the official youtube channel:

News : Debian - new refresh (12.11) updates !

NOTE : ... this is not only news on linux distro area , but I wrote only I read about or used ...

Debian distro Linux comes with a new refresh (12.11), featuring 81 bug fixes and 45 security updates. Here's more on that.

After Debian archive was updated to 12.11, the Debian CD team did the hard work of preparing and testing our installation medias to ensure everything worked properly. Their work is now complete and the images are available at

News : Wine development release 10.8 .

The Wine development release 10.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• User handles in shared memory for better performance.
• Improvements to TIFF image support.
• More work on the new PDB backend.
• Various bug fixes.

See this news on the official website ...

News : Discover the Top 10 Linux Distros Which One’s Right for You

... from the linuxhint - the official youtube channel.

News : KDE Plasma 6.2, Gnome 47 RC and the KDE Frameworks 6.6.

Linux distros comes with new released graphic user interface, you an find some videos on the LinuxNetwork youtube channel.

News : Nix in 100 Seconds from Fireship.

Nix is a purely functional package manager and config tool. It also takes form as a fully-fledged Linux distro called NixOS.

... from the Fireship - youtube channel.

News : Gnome 46

News : The DSL 2024.

The New DSL 2024 has been reborn as a compact Linux distribution tailored for low-spec x86 computers. It packs a lot of applications into a small package. All the applications are chosen for their functionality, small size, and low dependencies. DSL 2024 also has many text-based applications that make it handy to use in a term window or TTY.

See this webpage.

News : Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia – BETA Release with a good design.

My preference would be Fedora Linux, but this Linux Mint distro would be a possible design choice.

Linux Mint 21.3 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027 and now comes with Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia – BETA Release.

I used in the past and works great because has based on Debian distro and now use Ubuntu.

Minimal system requirements:

2GB RAM (4GB recommended for a comfortable usage). 20GB of disk space (100GB recommended). 1024×768 resolution (on lower resolutions, press ALT to drag windows with the mouse if they don’t fit in the screen).

You can read more on the official blog.

News : Environment designs in Linux !

I do not consider the design of linux environments to be very evolved from a design point of view. It is worth noting the effort of the developers to customize the old source code. Here are some old and new remarkable examples:

Cool Desktop Animations for Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36, other Linux with GNOME

Deepin environment

MamoLinux

eDEX-UI ...

Budgie desktop ...

Boxy SVG - tool for editing SVG files.

This online tool for drawing and working with SVG file format comes with this intro:

Boxy SVG project goal is to create the best tool for editing SVG files. For beginners as well as for professional web designers and web developers. On any device and operating system. 

 ... 

 Boxy SVG is built around the idea that user interfaces should get out of the way. There is no crowded workspace with overlapping dialogs or dozens of opened palettes and toolbars. Your illustration takes the center stage. Whether it's the editing of shapes or adjustment of gradient fills, most of the action is taking place directly on the canvas. Fine control over the changes is available in panels that you can expand and then collapse with a single click or keypress. Many features are accessible with keyboard shortcuts that you can customize to your liking. This is especially useful if you are coming with a lot of muscle memory from years of using other vector graphics editors.

The tool comes with a trial for 15 days or you can subscribe with these two options: 9.99 USD/ year or 9.99 USD/month register with your account.

On the official webpage, the Linux version is Free.

I install it easily on my Fedora 33 distro Linux with the snap tool:

[mythcat@desk ~]$ snap search boxy
Name      Version  Publisher    Notes  Summary
boxy-svg  3.46.0   jarek-foksa  -      Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) editor
boxy-svg 3.46.0 from Jarosław Foksa (jarek-foksa) installed
...

I tested all features of this tool and, is very good for an SVG tool.

You can see many tutorials with this online tool from the official youtube channel.

In the next video you can see one video tutorial with the SVG library of this online tool:

Linux Games: The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt.

This weekend I played a bit with a steam game installed on the Fedora distribution. I have a pretty weak hardware of only 10 Gb Ram and an NVIDIA Corporation GT218 video card [GeForce 210] (rev a2).

The game is called The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt and you can find it here, see intro:

Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King.

I played for almost 7 hours and I didn't find any irregularities in the fluidity of the game. It is a very interesting game for both single player and multi player.

I found a video on the internet that shows that some users have found a way to navigate the world, see: