Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 10 of the year 2025
To this tenth (10) week of the year 2025 (02/03/25 to 08/03/25) in the LinuxverseWe offer you our timely and customary weekly summary of the news contained in the various News about the release of distributions based on Linux, BSD and others. Such as the Smoothwall Express, Linux From Scratch and Clonezilla Live Distributions, which we will highlight this week.
And as you know, many of these release news we bring directly from the websites of «DistroWatch, OS.Watch y FOSS Torrent». While, from the website of «Archive OS» We mentioned at the end the announcements about the recovery and dissemination of ISO files of discontinued GNU/Linux Distros. In addition, many of these recent versions may already be available on the website of «DistroSea» for your review and evaluation. So, without further ado, we will now address the releases of the «Linuxverse distros for Week 10 of 2025».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 9 of the year 2025
But, before starting to comment on each of the new developments related to these new releases of Distros *Linux, *BSD and others, which have happened in the «Linuxverse during this week 10 of the year 2025», we recommend you explore the previous related post from this same series of publications, at the end of it:
Armbian is a highly optimized bare metal operating system specialized for single board computers (SBC). It incorporates extremely lightweight hardware features with user-space experience based on the highly recognized and supported Debian distribution and an extensive compilation framework, making it suitable for industrial or domestic use. In addition, it offers various pre-installed applications for the user to get started in a comfortable way. Among the applications we can find are the office suite “LibreOffice”, the web browser Firefox, the text editor Pluma, among others. About Armbian
The Top 3 Linuxverse Distros Updated During Week 10 of 2025
Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP6
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: March 3th 2025.
- Download Links: Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP6.
- Featured news: This new update called «Smoothwall Express 3.1 SP6», includes interesting new features (additions, corrections and improvements), focused on strengthening its operation. Therefore, the biggest changes have been focused on updating new versions of already included programs, such as: curl (8.8.0), dhcpcd (9.5.2), dnsmasq (2.90), iptables (1.8.7), libmnl (1.0.4), libnftnl (1.2.6), linux (4.4.302), linux-firmware (20241210), miniupnpd (2.3), nspr (4.34.1), openssh (9.3p1), ppp (2.4.9), snort (2.9.20), squidclamav (7.3), usb-modeswitch (2.6.1) and TZDATA (2024a), among many others. Finally, now it is time to update the new versions of the programs already included, such as: curl (XNUMX), dhcpcd (XNUMX), dnsmasq (XNUMX), iptables (XNUMX), libmnl (XNUMX), libnftnl (XNUMX), linux (XNUMX), linux-firmware (XNUMX), miniupnpd (XNUMX), nspr (XNUMX), openssh (XNUMXpXNUMX), ppp (XNUMX), snort (XNUMX), squidclamav (XNUMX), usb-modeswitch (XNUMX) and TZDATA (XNUMXa), among many others.NFTABLES support is included in the kernel. While the system still uses iptables, this is intended to ease migration in the future. And new features have been added some steps to begin removing PPTP from the system, as Microsoft has declared such software as unsafe for many years.
Smoothwall Express is a GNU/Linux distribution that offers a technological operating system solution that includes a top-notch Internet router/firewall, which is designed to run on consumer hardware. In addition, it provides an easy-to-use administration interface for those who use it. Finally, it is 100% free and open source software, so it is distributed under the GNU Public License. About Smoothwall Express
Linux From Scratch 12.3
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: March 5th 2025.
- Download Links: Linux From Scratch 12.3.
- Featured news: This new update called "Linux From Scratch 12.3" includes interesting new features (additions, corrections and improvements), divided mainly into 2 parts. The first, for the LFS release, which includes updates to binutils-2.44 and glibc-2.41. EIn total, 48 packages have been updated since the last release for the LFS version, and extensive updates have been made to the text throughout the book to improve readability. Highlighting the fact that, Kernel Linux has been updated to version 6.13.4. And overall, for LFS there were over 100 commits since the previous stable version of the book. While, heThe packages that included security updates were: expat, jinja2, Python, openssl and vim. And for the second one, BLF, the inclusion of new packages stands out, such as: sysmon3/sysmond, zxing-cpp, kdsoap-ws-discovery-client and plasma-activities-stats for kio-extras, docbook-xsl-ns, libgstgtk4 in support of Snapshot, cargo-c required for librsvg, LuaJIT to replace Lua 5.2 and glslc from shaderc required for gtk4. And finally, the qt5 package was removed.
Linux From Scratch in a simple way, it can be understood as an Linuxverse project that provides step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code. However, more comprehensively, it is actually a way of installing a GNU/Linux System by developing all the components manually. Which, naturally, is a longer process than installing a pre-compiled Linux Distribution. However, the advantages of this method (Linux From Scratch) are a more compact, flexible and secure system, which will provide a great understanding of how a GNU/Linux Operating System works in its entirety. About Linux From Scratch
Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: March 7th 2025.
- Download Links: Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9.
- Featured news: This new update called "Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-9" includes interesting new features (additions, corrections and improvements), among which some stand out such as: The update from the underlying GNU/Linux operating system base, so it is now implemented andThe software in the Debian Sid repository, as of March 3, 2025. However, the i386 Linux kernel packages have now been removed from Debian's own Sid repository, which is why the i686/i686-pae version of Clonezilla live will no longer be available in the future. Starting with this release, only the amd64 (x86-64) version will be available. Finally, among many other new features, many essential components and programs have been updated, such as: The Linux Kernel (6.12.17-1), Partclone (0.3.33), Ezio (2.0.15) and Memtest86+ (v7.20).
Clonezilla is a software tool that works as a disk and partition imaging/cloning program. Thus, it is ideal for performing operating system deployment, full backup, and recovery. As of today, it is available through three flavors of Clonezilla: Clonezilla Live, Clonezilla Lite Server, and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition). And while Clonezilla Live is suitable for single machine backup and restore, Clonezilla Lite Server or SE is for mass deployment as it allows cloning many computers (+40) simultaneously. And since, Clonezilla saves and restores only the used blocks on the hard disk, this makes it increase cloning efficiency compared to other similar programs. Clonezilla
Other interesting Linuxverse distros updated during week 10 of 2025
And so as not to leave any out, it is also worth mentioning the official announcement of other well-known GNU/Linux Distros releases during this period of time:
On DistroWatch, OS.Watch and FOSS Torrent
- Garuda 250308: March 8.
- FreeBSD 13.5: March 7.
- Volume 3.795: March 7.
- DynFi 4.04: March 7.
- Clonezilla 3.2.1-9: March 7.
- Accessible-Coconut 24.04-beta: March 7.
- Tails 6.13: March 6.
- CentOS 10-20250303: March 6.
- ExTix 25.3: March 5.
- Kumander 2.0: March 5.
- Linux From Scratch 12.3: March 5.
- Starbuntu 24.04.2.3: March 3.
- Smoothwall 3.1-SP6: March 3.
- FunOS 24.04.2: March 3.
On ArchiveOS
- Plan B: March 7.
- Palm os: March 5.
- Phantom OS: March 3.
Summary
In short, we hope that this Tenth post (week 10) of this series dedicated to «News from the Linuxverse Distros for each week of the year 2025 » We hope you liked it and found it useful, both informatively and technically. Especially regarding the latest releases of the Smoothwall Express, Linux From Scratch and Clonezilla Live distributions, which we have highlighted today.
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