Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 18 of the year 2025
To this seventeenth (18) week of the year 2025 (27/04/25 to 03/05/25) 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 4MLinux, AlmaLinux OS, and AnduinOS 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 18 of 2025».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 17 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 18 of the year 2025», we recommend you explore the previous related post from this same series of publications, at the end of it:
CRUX is aa Linux-based operating system that is It is lightweight and designed for the x86-64 architecture, and is also aimed at experienced users of this operating system. Its main goal is simplicity, which is reflected in the fact that it implements a simple tar.gz-based packaging system, BSD-style startup scripts, and a relatively small collection of optimized packages. While, sThe secondary objective is to use new Linux features, as well as recent tools and libraries. TIt also stands out for having a port system that facilitates the installation and updating of applications. About CRUX
The Top 3 Linuxverse Distros Updated During Week 18 of 2025
4MLinux 48.0
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: April 28th 2025.
- Download Links: 4MLinux 48.0.
- Featured news: This new update called «4MLinux 48.0», includes interesting new features (additions, fixes and improvements), among which we can mention the following: The inclusion of new versions for common programs already incorporated, such as LibreOffice 25.2, GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.38, Gnumeric 1.12.59), Firefox 137.0, Chrome 135.0, Thunderbird 128.9, Audacious 4.4.2, VLC 3.0.21, SMPlayer 24.5.0, the Mesa 24.3.3 graphical suite and Wine 10.4. Also noteworthy are other more advanced and specialized programs, such as a very light HTTP/FTP server (based on BusyBox 1.36.1). Perl 5.40.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.13.1, and Ruby 3.4.1. Finally, and among many others, the inclusion of new capabilities (programs and features), such as Kino (a nonlinear IEEE 1394 DV video editor), VVenC (an H.266/VVC encoder added to the 4MLinux codec pack), FreeTube (a desktop application that functions as a YouTube client), and Bristol (an emulator for synthesizers, electric pianos, and organs). In addition, the Linux LTS 6.12 kernel.
4MLinux is a custom, minimalistic distribution that is not a branch of other projects and uses a JWM-based graphical environment. Moreover, it can be used not only as a live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user problems, but also as an operating system for recovering from failures and as a platform for launching LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) servers. Finally,Another feature that makes it stand out is its simplicity, which makes it have low RAM and CPU consumption. About 4MLinux
Alma Linux OS 9.6 Beta
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: April 29th 2025.
- Download Links: Alma Linux OS 9.6 Beta.
- Featured news: This new update called "AlmaLinux OS 9.6 Beta" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which we can mention the following: The inclusion and default use of the Linux Kernel 5.14.0-570.5.1.el9_6, and others related to the compilation area (LLVM-Toolset 19.1.7, Go-Toolset 1.23.6 and Rust-Toolset 1.84.1), software development (Maven 3.9, MySQL 8.4, Nginx 1.26 and PHP 8.3), performance and debugging (elfutils 0.192, Valgrind 3.24.0, SystemTap 5.2 and rsyslog 8.2412.0), monitoring (PCP 6.3.2), operating system security (SELinux-policy 38.1.53 and SSSD 2.9.6), network connection management (NetworkManager 1.51.90 and iproute 6.11.0), container management and virtualization (podman 5.4.0, buildah 1.39.0, libvirt 10.10.0 and QEMU-KVM 9.1.0), among others such as Git 2.47.1 and Git-LFS 3.6.1. Finally, and among many others, the inclusion of new virtualization packages (snpguest and snphost).
AlmaLinux OS is an enterprise-focused, open source, forever free, community-governed and driven Linux distribution focused on long-term stability and a robust production-grade platform. AlmaLinux OS is also binary compatible with the RHEL® Distribution. Additionally, for its management and development there is the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, which was established as a non-profit organization to manage the ownership and governance of the project. About AlmaLinux OS
AnduinOS 1.3.0
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: April 30th 2025.
- Download Links: AnduinOS 1.3.0.
- Featured news: This new update called "AnduinOS 1.3.0" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which the following can be mentioned: The inclusion of an App Store (based on Flatpak), and correspondingly, the addition of the gnome-software and flatpak packages to allow the installation of software from that Software Store. In addition, the bThe operating system base has been improved with its migration from Oracular (Ubuntu 24.10) to Plucky (Ubuntu 25.04). Finally, and among many others, it now includes a new keyboard shortcut (Super + V) to activate or deactivate the clipboard history, includes a solution to the problem of Firefox localization, and offers GNOME 48 with HDR support.
AnduinOS is a free and open source Ubuntu-based operating system that aims to ease users' transition from Windows to Ubuntu, maintaining usage habits and workflows with a familiar experience, one that's as close to Windows as possible. To achieve this, it uses the customized GNOME desktop environment to offer beautiful Windows-style interfaces for quick learning and a pleasant user experience. According to its developers, it's ideal for average computer users, both at home and in the office, as it's easy to install and can meet anyone's daily needs without additional configuration or complicated operations. About AnduinOS
Other interesting Linuxverse distros updated during week 18 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
- DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1: May 1.
- ALT Linux 11.0: May 1.
- AnduinOS 1.3.0: 30 for April.
- Mabox Linux 25.04: 30 for April.
- openSUSE 16.0 Beta: 30 for April.
- Alma Linux OS 9.6 Beta: 29 for April.
- 4MLinux 48.0: 28 for April.
- OpenBSD 7.7: 27 for April.
On ArchiveOS
- IBM i: 28 for April.
- BitCurator: 30 for April.
- nix: May 2.
Summary
In short, we hope that this eighteenth publication (week 18) from our useful and current series dedicated to the «News from the Linuxverse Distros for each week of the year 2025 » You enjoyed it and found it useful, both informatively and technically. Especially regarding the latest releases of the OpenBSD, 4MLinux, and AlmaLinux OS distributions, which we've highlighted today.
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