Powered by Linux kernel 6.17 and based on Debian Testing/Forky repositories as of December 11th, 2025, the Grml 2025.12 (codename Postwurfsendung) release updates the grml-live build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems with a new TOR class, support for the grml-desktop package, and Debian Bookworm as the minimum host OS.
KDE Frameworks 6.21 updates file transfer notifications to fall back to file-based progress display when size-based progress display isn’t available, adds support for Nim code files to the Breeze icon theme, and adds a new icon to the Fifteen Puzzle widget, along with a symbolic icon when placed on a panel.
Coming almost three months after Kali Linux 2025.3, the Kali Linux 2025.4 release updates the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop offerings to the latest GNOME 49 and KDE Plasma 6.5 releases, in addition to Xfce 4.20, which remains the default desktop environment.
French developer David Tavares initially created Pear OS back in 2011, based on Ubuntu and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop environment. The initial release, Pear OS 3, was based on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system and shipped with Linux kernel 3.0.
Based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series, Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS ships with the brand-new COSMIC desktop environment written in the Rust programming language, designed and developed by System76 for all GNU/Linux distributions.
NVIDIA 580.119.02 is here to fix a bug that caused display corruption on LG Ultragear monitors when using certain modes, a bug that caused corruption in the X-Plane video game on workstation NVIDIA GPUs, and a regression from NVIDIA 580.65.06 that caused mode timings like 1920×1080@75 to no longer be available.
KDE Gear 25.12 improves the Dolphin file manager so that trashed temporary folders no longer end up in your home trash bin, along with support for hiding files and folders from the Dolphin context menu, and updates the Itinerary travel assistant with more extractors for railway companies, events, and more.
Coming a month after Tails 7.2, the Tails 7.3.1 release updates the default web browser to the latest Tor Browser 15.0.3, a major update based on Mozilla Firefox 140 ESR that introduces exciting features like support for vertical tabs and tab groups, as well as a new unified search button in the address bar.
You would think that Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2 is a small update that fixes some bugs and other issues discovered in the initial Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 release, but, in fact, it’s a huge release adding lots of new features like direct I/O bypass to reduce memory pressure during writes.
