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Based on the latest Debian 13.2 “Trixie” release, Devuan 6.1 is a very small update that only improves the installation of the speech-synthesis packages and fixes a couple of bugs in the SLiM login manager. Check out the release announcement on the Devuan forum for more details.
Highlights of IceWM 4.0 include improvements to the Alt+Tab quick switch with support for handling a large number of application windows in both horizontal and vertical modes, support for navigating the quick switch with all navigation keys, and a new mode to preview applications.
The Arch Linux 2026.01.01 release is the first Arch Linux ISO snapshot powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series, which landed in Arch Linux’s stable repositories last month for existing users, for improved hardware support and newer machines.
VLC 3.0.23 is a small update coming a month after VLC 3.0.22, introducing support for exposing additional audio codec information, especially for FLAC 24-bit, improvements to the dark palette in the Qt interface, and compatibility for taglib 2.0, Qt 6, FFmpeg 8, mingw-w64 v13, and newer versions of libplacebo and pupnp.
Judging by early 2026 figures, GNU/Linux rose to about 7.5% (almost 8%) in Turkey and it's hard to consider Windows dominant like it used to be. statCounter just doesn't see many browser sessions coming from Windows anymore. When adding up mobile platforms Windows is well below 20% of the whole. █
Image source: Ring shaped gem depicting a hybrid figure, a mix of a butterfly and a male youth.