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DebEX KDE Plasma based on Debian Trixie (upcoming Debian 13) with Refracta Snapshot and Calamares Installer :: Build 250707
NEWS 250707 about DebEX KDE Plasma – a Refracta Build
I have made a new extra version of DebEX KDE Plasma Live System – efi. It’s a pure Debian Sid/Trixie (upcoming Debian 13) System. There are no Ubuntu or Kubuntu elements involved in DebEX. DebEX KDE Plasma Sid uses the KDE Plasma Desktop 6.3.5 – latest version, released 250506 – as Desktop environment. Kernel 6.15.3-amd64-exton is used. All included packages have been updated to the latest version as of 250707.
VirtualBox Guest Additions and VMware Tools are pre-installed, which mean that you can run DebEX KDE in full screen – see the screenshots below.
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Debian 13 Trixie OS officially adds 64-bit RISC-V support
Debian 13 will launch with official 64-bit RISC-V support on August 9, 2025.
Code-named Trixie, the OS joins other Linux distributions, including Fedora, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, openSUSE, and Ubuntu, in officially supporting the open standard RISC-V architecture. Trixie only supports 64-bit, little-endian RISC-V CPUs.
RISC-V was developed in 2010 by the University of California, Berkeley and has been steered by RISC-V International since 2015 as a free, open architecture standard, unlike others from ARM, AMD, and Intel that require licensing. Debian was first released in 1993 as one of the original, free distributions of Linux and has been the basis for many dozens of other distributions.
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Debian 13 (Trixie) Installer RC 3 Now Available
Debian 13 is just around the corner, yes, only four days left until its release. Meanwhile, the Debian Installer team has officially announced what looks to be the third—and final—release candidate for Debian 13 “Trixie.”
As you’d expect, there aren’t any new features or surprises this time around. Right now, Trixie is in a full freeze, which means nothing new can be added to the final release—unless a major security issue pops up that absolutely needs fixing.
So, you can think of this RC 3 as a pretty good preview of what the final stable version will look like in just a few days. That said, there are a couple of changes worth mentioning.