Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 19 of the year 2025
To this nineteenth (19) week of the year 2025 (04/04/25 to 10/05/25) 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 Clonezilla Live, Raspberry Pi OS, and Plamo Linux 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 19 of 2025».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 18 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 19 of the year 2025», we recommend you explore the previous related post from this same series of publications, at the end of it:
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
The Top 3 Linuxverse Distros Updated During Week 19 of 2025
Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: May 6th 2025.
- Download Links: Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28.
- Featured news: This new update called "Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which the following can be mentioned: The update of the operating system base based on RUbuntu Plucky Puffin (25.04) repository as of May 4, 2025. Therefore, it now also includes and offers, by default, the Linux Kernel 6.14.0-15.15 and the program “Partclone 0.3.36”. In addition, the inclusion of the “libfsapfs-utils, usb-modeswitch and fscrypt” packages to its operating structure. Finally, and among many others, it now includes the new “ocs-find-live-key” program and the latest version of the “ocs-put-log-usb” package so that log files can be copied even when the Clonezilla Live USB drive is used in “To RAM” mode.
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. About Clonezilla
Raspberry Pi OS 2025-05-06
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: May 7th 2025.
- Download Links: Raspberry Pi OS 2025-05-06
- Featured news: This new update called "Raspberry Pi OS 2025-05-06" includes interesting new features (additions, fixes, and improvements), including the following: A new lock screen based on the "Swaylock" lock screen application that includes a custom interface that offers more information about what is happening and how to unlock it. Therefore, it can be activated by pressing the key combination "Ctrl+Alt+L" or by selecting the "Power off" button in the main menu and selecting the "Lock screen" option. This will display the lock screen with a password entry box. Finally, and among many others, this new version offers a new Printers application capable of connecting and controlling printers, based on system-config-printer. Which is located in the Preferences section of the main menu and seeks to make it a somewhat more intuitive, efficient, and easy-to-use application. In addition, it comes with the Wayland Labwc window manager version 0.8.1 and Linux kernel 6.12.
Raspberry Pi OS is an operating system Raspberry Pi OS is a free, Debian-based operating system optimized for Raspberry Pi hardware. It supports over 35 Debian packages and is highly recommended for most Raspberry Pi use cases. And since it is derived from Debian, it offers a staggered release under the Debian release cycle, and consequently, releases happen roughly every 000 years. Thus, currently, the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian Bookworm, while the previous version was based on Debian Bullseye. About Raspberry Pi OS
Plamo Linux 8.2
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: May 8th 2025.
- Download Links: Plamo Linux 8.2.
- Featured news: This new update called "Plamo Linux 8.2" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which the following can be mentioned: The inclusion of usual software and new versions, such as Linux Kernel 6.12.21, GCC 14.2.0, LLVM 19.1.0, Mesa3d 25.0.4, FireFox: 137.0.2, Ffmpeg 7.1.1, Texlive 20240313 and LibreOffice 24.8.6. And the incorporation of new versions of the following desktop environments: XFCE 4.20, LXQt 2.1 and Mate 1.28. Finally, and as an interesting fact, now this version, As a result of the increased capacity, it offers a DVD ISO image composed as a three-disc set. Additionally, this version now includes some networking tools not required for installation and firmware that doesn't appear to be directly related to it, optimizing the installer.
Plamo Linux is a Japanese Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and LFS. The installer and many graphical and text-based tools have been updated to include Japanese language support. Initially, it was developed with the goal of "enabling even beginners to easily build a Japanese environment." Currently, however, development continues with the idea of leaving the beginner-oriented aspects to commercial distributions, and efforts are made to keep the environment as simple and straightforward as possible without excessive black boxes or automation, while at the same time valuing the native Linux character. About Plamo Linux
Other interesting Linuxverse distros updated during week 19 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
- AnduinOS 1.3.1: May 10.
- FreeBSD 14.3-BETA2: May 10.
- CentOS 10-20250506: May 9.
- pee 2.4.1: May 9.
- FreeBSD 14.3-BETA2: May 9.
- SDesk 2025.05.06: May 8.
- Bluestar 6.14.5: May 8.
- KDE neon 20250508: May 8.
- Exe 20250508: May 8.
- Plate 8.2: May 8.
- ALT 11.0 “Kworkstation”: May 7.
- SDesk 2025.05.06: May 7.
- RasPiOS 2025-05-06: May 7.
- Kumander 2.1: May 7.
- Clonezilla 3.2.1-28: May 6.
- AnduinOS 1.2.4: May 6.
- AUSTRUMI 5.0.6: May 6.
- BigLinux 2025-05-04: May 6.
- Voyager 12.10: May 6.
- Starbuntu 24.04.2.9: May 5.
On ArchiveOS
Summary
In short, we hope that this nineteenth publication (week 19) 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 Clonezilla Live, Raspberry Pi OS, and Plamo Linux distributions, which we've highlighted today.
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