What's new in this release? New Equestria apps (all available in 10 languages, all follow your character theme): GPU Manager - shows your graphics cards and recommends and installs the right driver; Clock - alarms, timer and stopwatch, keeps working from the system tray; Calendar - moon phases, reminders with repeats, month/week/year views; Notes - notes with images and to-do checkboxes; Calculator; Screen Recorder; Color Picker; Audio/Video Converter - 17 audio formats, trimming, fades, speed, volume, tags, WebM/MKV; Closer - closes frozen windows; Clock and Calendar now open their existing window instead of starting a second copy. Panel and appearance: new panel clock - calendar with week numbers, Equestria Calendar events, other time zones; day and night themes - KDE switches between light and dark automatically; character themes now apply to every Equestria app, with new palettes for each character; one cursor theme for the whole system, native Plasma lock and logout screens.
Linux Lite 8.2 final is now available for download. This is considered a minor release featuring Linux kernel 7.3. Over the 8.0 series the Linux Lite kernel advanced through mainline 7.x to 7.3, built from the kernel.org mainline tarball (GPG-verified) plus a curated CachyOS patch subset. Two flavours - 'linuxlite' (desktop, mitigations on) and 'linuxlite-gaming' (mitigations off with ORC and BORE scheduler on 7.3). NVIDIA proprietary support on the mainline kernel via the 'linuxlite-nvidia-kernel-patch package'. Rebrand the installer for the 8.2 release. Fix encrypted installs failing at the very end with 'Could not close encrypted partition on the target system'. With 0110 the install now runs to completion - grub-install succeeds and the crypttab/initramfs are written, but the umount job calls 'cryptsetup close' on the encrypted swap mapper without first running 'swapoff', so the still-active swap device is busy and Calamares reports the whole install as failed even though the on-disk system is complete and bootable.
CarotOS 1.3 'Eggshell'. Five new applications - Carotene (ClamAV-based antivirus), CarotPot (honeypot for the local network), Filenor (file and media converter), CarotOS Former (animated guide to the security tools) and CarotOS GSD (a 161-term bilingual glossary); System Health now runs 23 checks (up from 20) and adds optional detailed scans with debsums and rkhunter; USB Check gained an on-demand ClamAV scan that only reports and never touches files; the welcome wizard has 21 pages; the CarotOS Store catalogue grew from 51 to 153 applications in ten categories.
Overview (Mod+Tab) no longer shows workspace numbers or names - only the desktop stripes; Laniakea ships on the update channel and the next ISO image - a generative flow-field wallpaper app (live draw, shape masks, apply to the desktop), open it from the app menu, or see it on the Projects and Showroom pages, installed systems pick it up with sudo sweetpotatos-update; GRUB no longer lists every firmware boot entry as (EFI BootNext), that showed up after a menu regenerate under grub 2.16, it is turned off now, reboot once after sudo sweetpotatos-update; logging out no longer flashes compositor and tray text on the login screen, log out and back in after sudo sweetpotatos-update so the next session starts with the quiet wrapper; Smart Brightness shows the same brightness bar as the keys when it raises or restores the backlight; logging out or powering off no longer flashes a list of red swirlbar/tray errors on the login screen....
We are excited to announce the release of Gnoppix 26.11. This release brings significant updates across network management, privacy services, local AI execution capabilities, and infrastructure security, alongside routine updates across the entire system. Network and privacy tooling updates: new gnoppixCTL - updated to support independent bridge points from specific countries; disposable email service (disposable.gnoppix.me) - a new addition to the Gnoppix Mail ecosystem, get instant, temporary email addresses with no registration required to protect your privacy and shield your inbox; Gnoppix post-quantum messenger - our migration to PQ-only encryption is nearly complete, this release introduces version 0.4.6 Tor messaging support with peer-to-peer communication over Tor SOCKS5 proxies; development status - estimated 4 to 6 months of CLI development remain before work officially begins on the GUI interface. We have upgraded our Real-time Blackhole List (RBL) to a universal format.