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EndeavourOS Mercury Neo Launches with KDE Plasma 6.3, NVIDIA 570, and Mesa 25

EndeavourOS Mercury landed on February 10th, 2025, powered by Linux kernel 6.13 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2.5 desktop environment on both the live environment and the offline installation option. EndeavourOS Mercury Neo is here to bump the kernel to Linux 6.13.7 and the live session to KDE Plasma 6.3.3.

Rescuezilla 2.6 Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery Adds Ubuntu 24.10 Build

Highlights of Rescuezilla 2.6 include a brand-new base derived from the Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” operating system series to provide users with the best possible hardware support, as well as an updated UEFI Secure Boot shim package to support Windows 11 machines.

Finnix Linux Distro for Sysadmins Celebrates 25th Anniversary with New Release

Finnix 250 is here to celebrate the distro’s 25th anniversary, which is a huge milestone for such a small project. The first Finnix release was made public on March 22nd, 2000. Despite the small footprint, the Finnix distro ships with hundreds of Linux utilities for system recovery, maintenance, testing, and other system administration tasks.

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