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Systemd-Free Devuan GNU+Linux 6.1 Released with Unofficial Raspberry Pi Images

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.

IceWM 4.0 Lightweight Window Manager Released with an Improved Alt+Tab Switch

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Arch Linux Kicks Off 2026 with New ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS

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 Media Player Improves Dark Palette in the Qt GUI, Codec Information

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.

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Side – Linux distribution

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 03, 2026

Quoting: Side - Linux distribution - LinuxLinks —

Side is an independently-developed lightweight Linux distribution featuring the PiSi package manager.

It’s based on the Python scripting infrastructure from Pisi Linux project.

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