GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 29, 2025

• SUSE/OpenSUSE

  • Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Tumbleweed – Review of the weeks 2025/47 & 48

    Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

    The last two weeks have been quite steady for Tumbleweed: solid 10 snapshots could be built, tested, and released (0513…0526)

    The most relevant changes from those two weeks are: [...]

• Fedora Family / IBM

  • Brandon Rozek ☛ Fedora CoreOS: First Impressions

    I have a VPS whose contract ends in December. Instead of renewing, I decided to switch providers of that VPS to OVHCloud. The latter’s commitment to sustainability through renewables and component reuse is super cool. Now, I could’ve kept the migration simple and keep the configuration the same. I don’t write about it much here, but I have Ansible playbooks for all my servers. However, immutable Linux distributions have been receiving a lot of attention over the past few years and tragically I knew little about them.

    What is an immutable Linux distribution? It is a Linux distribution with a read-only core. This prevents accidental modifications which overtime lead to an unstable system.

  • Red Hat ☛ Run Ruby applications in FIPS mode on Red Bait Enterprise Linux

    Cryptographic standards can be complex, especially if you need to ensure your applications meet Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) requirements. This article shows you how to run applications written in Ruby in FIPS mode on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). 

• Debian Family

  • Simon Josefsson ☛ Simon Josefsson: Container Images For Debian With Guix

    The debian-with-guix-container project build and publish container images of Debian GNU/Linux stable with GNU Guix installed.

    The images are like normal Debian stable containers but have the guix tool and a reasonable fresh guix pull.

    Supported architectures include amd64 and arm64. The multi-arch container is called: [...]

• Canonical/Ubuntu Family

  • Linuxiac ☛ How to Upgrade to Zorin OS 18 from 17: A Step-by-Step Guide

    Zorin OS 18 arrived, hitting 1M downloads in just one month. It’s packed with new features and improvements, so many users are already itching to make the jump to the latest stable release of this user-friendly, visually appealing Linux distro. If that’s you, you’re in the right place.

  • OpenNebula Systems partners with Canonical for Ubuntu Pro

    OpenNebula has announced a partnership with Canonical. The partnership will enable Open Nebula customers to leverage Ubuntu Pro as a built-in, security-maintained Linux operating system for hypervisor nodes.

    OpenNebula is an open-source virtual infrastructure engine. It enables the dynamic deployment and re-placement of virtualised services within and across sites. It extends the benefits of virtualisation platforms from a single physical resource to a pool of resources, decoupling servers not only from the physical infrastructure but also from the physical location.