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Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency.

SMALL
Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it small and very resource efficient. A container requires no more than 8 MB and a minimal installation to disk requires around 130 MB of storage. Not only do you get a fully-fledged Linux environment but a large selection of packages from the repository.

Binary packages are thinned out and split, giving you even more control over what you install, which in turn keeps your environment as small and efficient as possible.

SIMPLE
Alpine Linux is a very simple distribution that will try to stay out of your way. It uses its own package manager called apk, the OpenRC init system, script driven set-ups and that's it! This provides you with a simple, crystal-clear Linux environment without all the noise. You can then add on top of that just the packages you need for your project, so whether it's building a home PVR, or an iSCSI storage controller, a wafer-thin mail server container, or a rock-solid embedded switch, nothing else will get in the way.

SECURE
Alpine Linux was designed with security in mind. All userland binaries are compiled as Position Independent Executables (PIE) with stack smashing protection. These proactive security features prevent exploitation of entire classes of zero-day and other vulnerabilities.

Visit the Alpine Linux website here:

https://alpinelinux.org/

Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution designed for power users who appreciate security, simplicity and resource efficiency. SMALL Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox. This makes it small and very resource efficient. A container requires no more than 8 MB and a minimal installation to disk requires around 130 MB of storage. Not only do you get a fully-fledged Linux environment but a large selection of packages from the reposit

What is DragonOS and why do you want it?

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. DragonOS is the straight line between you and Software Defined Radio! It leverages the portability, security, and power of Lubuntu Linux as a delivery package and operating environment for a pre-installed suite of the most powerful and accessible open source SDR software. DragonOS has verified support for a range of inexpensive and powerful SDR hardware, including RTL-SDR, HackRF One, LimeSDR, BladeRF, and many others.

Why is DragonOS better?

It doesn't matter if you are looking to sort out the latest wireless protocol or you want to learn something about "that radio stuff," the most efficient way to make progress is to map your route past obstacles. Learning about SDR and moving your wireless project forward is more than challenge enough. The most economical way to start in SDR is to co-opt the computer you already use at home or work as your new SDR development platform, but listen to the voice of experience: "that way madness lies." The ultimate cost of that decision might be much higher than you thought!

Every experienced developer knows the pain of attempting a quick install that becomes an endless series of installation, software, and hardware conflicts, conflicting dependencies, and incredible frustration. More often than not, this leads to an unstable system that is never quite the same, no matter how far back you try to roll the OS. More than one desperate wire-head with a grand vision of wireless freedom has concluded that it would be easier to buy a cheap desktop or laptop to use for development than go through the nightmare of resolving those all-to-common issues.

DragonOS is versatile and portable.

You can boot DragonOS from the live image. You can install DragonOS in a dual-boot configuration alongside Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. DragonOS runs happily in a virtual machine. You get to decide what works best for you and your computer.

Boil it down for me...

In short, DragonOS lets you join the ranks of radio lovers and wireless developers without requiring the significant sacrifice of your time, money, and sanity. (Trust us; that's big. Each of us on the development team has made substantial investments of at least two of those three!)

Visit the DragonOS website here:

https://cemaxecuter.com/

Visit the DragonOS Store here:

https://cemaxecuter.com/?post_type=product

The development team is pleased to announce the release of the new version of the operating system based on Kubuntu LTS. After months of development and testing, the new version of Linuxfx is available for download, codenamed "Winux" or "Windows Theme Over Linux". This release brings the latest technology available to the Long Term Support (LTS) release. Windows 10 and Windows 11 themes are now unified in the same image and selectable in the control panel, kernel 6 LTS is available to support newer hardware, Microsoft's OneDrive and Copilot are available natively, Wine Staging guarantees a Enhanced support for Windows applications, Active Directory compatibility, Android emulation with graphics acceleration and Google Play support, and an interface with graphics and settings screens heavily based on Microsoft Windows are also available in this new version.

Recommended system requirements:

• 2 GHz dual-core processor or better
• 2 GB system memory (4 GB is highly recommended)
• 25 GB of free hard drive space (SSD is highly recommended)
• Internet access is helpful
• Either a DVD drive or a USB port for the installer media
• Virtual machine: It is extremely important to install guest add-ons for the system to run efficiently.

Visit the LinuxFX website here:

https://www.linuxfx.org/

Please Note this is not a production release and may cause issues/incompatibility with software & hardware/data loss/financial loss

Lingmo OS

Symbolizing nimble and smooth ink, we have created a efficiency and beautiful UI design for the system.

Better Interactions

Lingmo OS has redesigned the entire system, optimized visual effects, and improved user experiences

Security and Stability

The underlying choice for Lingmo OS is the so-called "rock solid" Debian GNU/Linux, so Lingmo OS not only has aesthetic appeal but also stable characteristics

Smooth UI

Lingmo OS has relatively lower hardware requirements and a smooth experience on lower hardware

Lingmo OS has a global menu at the top with all functions you need, which can save your screen space

Visit the Lingmo OS website here:

https://lingmo.org/

4MLinux is a small, independent, general-purpose Linux distribution with a strong focus on the following four "M" of computing:

• Maintenance (system rescue Live CD),
• Multimedia (full support for a huge number of image, audio and video formats),
• Miniserver (DNS, FTP, HTTP, MySQL, NFS, Proxy, SMTP, SSH, and Telnet),
• Mystery (meaning a collection of classic Linux games).

BakAndImgCD is an official 4MLinux fork, which has been designed to perform the following two tasks: data backup and disk imaging. The 4MLinux Backup Scripts make use of FSArchiver, GNU ddrescue, Partclone, rsync, and other utilities. The output files (archives and images) can be optionally compressed and sent to a remote sever (using Ethernet, WiFi, PPP or PPPoE). This release is based on the 4MLinux Backup Scripts 48.0.

Visit the 4MLinux Website here:

https://4mlinux.com

Support the 4MLinux Developers here:

https://4mlinux.com/index.php?page=donate

Create a bootable USB Drive using UNetbootin :

https://unetbootin.org/

Rescuezilla is an open-source easy-to-use disk imaging app that's fully compatible with Clonezilla — the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions.

Yes, Rescuezilla is the Clonezilla GUI (graphical user interface) that you might have been looking for. But Rescuezilla is more than a Clonezilla GUI!

Disk imaging makes a backup of your computer's hard drive which is managed as files stored on an external hard drive. If your hard drive fails, you can restore your disk image and within a few minutes all your documents and settings will be restored to the exact same state they were in when the last snapshot was taken.

Rescuezilla lets you perform backup, restore and recovery actions, even if you aren't able to boot into your regular operating system. It does not matter if you use Windows, Mac or Linux. It doesn't matter if you can't even login. Download and write the ISO to a USB stick, and reboot your machine. Your computer will load a complete mini operating system with a point-and-click user interface into your computer's memory without writing any information to your hard drive.

Rescuezilla was forked from Redo Backup and Recovery (now called Redo Rescue) because it had been abandoned for 7 years. Rescuezilla is more than a trivial fork: it has been carefully rebuilt from the ground up to be fully compatible with the industry-standard Clonezilla.

More Features, Less Complex

Rescuezilla has the most features coupled with the simplest, most user-friendly interface:

• Easy graphical user interface boots from USB in seconds
• No installation needed; runs from a USB stick or a CD-ROM
• Saves and restores Windows, Mac and Linux machines
• Fully interoperable with Clonezilla, the industry-standard trusted by tens of millions
• Supports images made by VirtualBox, VMWare, Qemu and all known open-source imaging frontends including Clonezilla!
• Easily mount any supported image and copy out your files (beta)
• Access your files even if you can't log in
• Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files
• Internet access with a full-featured browser

Visit the Rescuezilla website here:

https://rescuezilla.com/

Support the Rescuezilla Developers here:

https://www.patreon.com/join/rescuezilla

Emmabuntüs DE 5 is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian 12 XFCE/LXQt. It strives to be beginner-friendly and reasonably light on resources so that it can be used on older computers. It also includes many modern features, such as large number of pre-configured programs for everyday use, dockbar for launching applications, easy installation of non-free software and media codecs, and quick setup through automated scripts. The distribution supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish and Spanish languages.

For more information, visit https://emmabuntus.org

The Emmabuntüs Collective is pleased to announce the release on 24 March 2025 of an update to its distribution: Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 1.04 (32 and 64 bits) based on Debian 12.10 Bookworm and the XFCE/LXQt desktop environments.

Version Emmabuntüs DE 5 1.04 includes the following new features and enhancements:
- Based on the Debian 12.10 Bookworm operating system
- Added ibus-braille accessibility function for 6 dots writing via the keyboard like the Perkins method
- Updates: Firefox 128.8.0esr, Thunderbird 128.7.0esr, deb-get 0.4.4-1, Ventoy 1.1.05, CTparental  5.1.23-1m, Warpinator 1.8.8, Boot-Repair 4ppa2081, RadioTray-NG 0.2.9, Debian beginners handbook 12.10
- Accessibility feature updates: Ocrizer 1.4, Elograf 0.6.0

You will find the announcement

This version includes the following software, see this link

For more information, visit DistroWatch

Emmabuntüs DE 5 is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian 12 XFCE/LXQt. It strives to be beginner-friendly and reasonably light on resources so that it can be used on older computers. It also includes many modern features, such as large number of pre-configured programs for everyday use, dockbar for launching applications, easy installation of non-free software and media codecs, and quick setup through automated scripts. The distribution supports English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish and Spanish languages.

For more information, visit https://emmabuntus.org

The Emmabuntüs Collective is pleased to announce the release on 24 March 2025 of an update to its distribution: Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 1.04 (32 and 64 bits) based on Debian 12.10 Bookworm and the XFCE/LXQt desktop environments.

Version Emmabuntüs DE 5 1.04 includes the following new features and enhancements:

- Based on the Debian 12.10 Bookworm operating system
- Added ibus-braille accessibility function for 6 dots writing via the keyboard like the Perkins method
- Updates: Firefox 128.8.0esr, Thunderbird 128.7.0esr, deb-get 0.4.4-1, Ventoy 1.1.05, CTparental  5.1.23-1m, Warpinator 1.8.8, Boot-Repair 4ppa2081, RadioTray-NG 0.2.9, Debian beginners handbook 12.10
- Accessibility feature updates: Ocrizer 1.4, Elograf 0.6.0

You will find the announcement

This version includes the following software, see this link

For more information, visit DistroWatch

Some updates to enjoy in Fedora Linux 42 Beta

This release will include the latest upstream release of python-setuptools. Setuptools is a package development process library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects. It enhances the former Python standard library distutils (distribution utilities).

There is also a DNF5 improvement that includes new logic that will remove expired and obsolete repository keys from the system. This means users can enjoy the automatic management of repository keys during software installation or upgrades.

We are also including the newest version of Ruby with this beta release. Ruby 3.4 is the latest stable version of Ruby. Many new features and improvements are included for the increasingly diverse and expanding demands for Ruby. With this major update from Ruby 3.3 in Fedora Linux 41 to Ruby 3.4 in Fedora Linux 42, Fedora Linux becomes the superior Ruby development platform.

In Fedora Workstation, we have also introduced the SDL3 transition and Wayland-by-default for SDL apps, and included the new GNOME well-being feature.

There are a lot more changes coming in Fedora Linux 42. The above is just a snippet!

Visit the Fedora Linux Website here:

https://fedoraproject.org/

Get Fedora Merch here:

https://www.hellotux.com/fedora

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