Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 20 of the year 2025
For this twentieth (20th) week of 2025 (April 11, 2025 to May 17, 2025) in the Linuxverse , we offer our timely and customary weekly summary of the latest news from various Linux-based distributions, including BSD and others . These include the Nobara Project, Grml, and IPFire distributions, which we will highlight this week.
As you know, many of these release announcements come directly from the websites of DistroWatch , OS.Watch , and FOSS Torrent . We also mention, at the end, the announcements from ArchiveOS regarding the recovery and distribution of ISO files for discontinued GNU/Linux distributions. Furthermore, many of these recent versions may already be available on the DistroSea website for review and evaluation. So, without further ado, let's get to the Linux distribution releases for Week 20 of 2025.
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 19 of the year 2025
But before we begin to discuss each of the new releases of Linux, BSD, and other distributions that have occurred in the Linux world during week 20 of 2025 , we recommend exploring the previous related post in this same series at the end of this one:
Clonezilla is a software tool that functions as a partition and disk imaging/cloning program. Therefore, it is ideal for operating system deployment, full backup, and recovery. Currently, it is available in three versions: Clonezilla Live, Clonezilla Lite Server, and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition). While Clonezilla Live is suitable for backing up and restoring a single machine, Clonezilla Lite Server or SE is for mass deployment, as it allows cloning many computers (40+) simultaneously. About Clonezilla
The Top 3 Linuxverse Distros Updated During Week 20 of 2025
Nobara Project 42
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: May 13th 2025.
- Download Links: Nobara Project 42.
- Featured news: This new update called "Nobara Project 42" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which the following can be mentioned: The use of Brave as the default web browser, and a change related to the Nobara package manager, which has been unlinked from the desktop and favorites. Additionally, the Plasma-discover and Gnome-software packages have been replaced by the flatpost package. This is a new, in-house developed, comprehensive flatpak solution that allows you to manage flatpak installation, removal, updates, and permissions, as well as repository management. This means it should offer the same permissions options as the Flatseal app, but based on Python and GTK. Finally, and among many others, it includes important updated software such as GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3.4, Linux Kernel 6.14.6, and Mesa 25.1.0, along with Nvidia 570.144.
Nobara Project is an operating system that offers a modified version of Fedora Linux with built-in user-friendly features. This project aims to address most of the initial usability issues while providing a better experience for gaming, streaming, and content creation right out of the box. More importantly, they seek to make Fedora a more user-friendly operating system that requires only point-and-click operation. This reduces the need for the average user to open the terminal for many essential actions. About Nobara Project
grml 2025.05
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: May 15th 2025.
- Download Links: grml 2025.05.
- Featured news: This new update called "Grml 2025.05" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which the following can be mentioned: The inclusion of New software packages based on Debian 13 (Trixie), improved hardware support, and fixes for known bugs from previous versions. Finally, and among many others, it is worth highlighting the fact that in this version Several internal changes were implemented within the native build tool grml-live. So, if you remaster Grml ISOs or compile your own, you will notice significant changes.
Grml is a Debian-based live system focused on the needs of system administrators. This version of Grml provides new software packages from Debian Trixie. As usual, it also includes updated hardware support and fixes known bugs from previous Grml versions. About Grml
IPFire 2.29 – Core Update 194
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: May 12th 2025.
- Download Links: IPFire 2.29 – Core Update 194.
- Featured news: This new update called "IPFire 2.29 – Core Update 194" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which the following can be mentioned: The inclusion of the Kernel Linux 6.12.23, which includes various security and stability fixes, a important update for the Pakfire page, which results in More streamlined and clear controls with improved and expanded multilingual support; and improved cfirewall that allows outgoing connections using an alias IP address to no longer be redirected to the default IP address in RED. Finally, and among many others, in addition to many updated base packages, important and essential programs are also updated, such as Zabbix 7.0.11 LTS, Bacula 15.0.2 cifs-utils 7.3 FFmpeg 7.1.1 Git 2.49.0 mpd 0.24.3 mympd 20.1.2 OVMF 2025.02-1 and Samba 4.22.0.
IPFire is a GNU/Linux distribution that supports open-source firewall software, which is currently a versatile and feature-rich solution with its easy-to-use web administration console. It offers simple setup, good management, and a high level of security. All of this is manageable through an intuitive web-based interface that provides numerous configuration options for both novice and expert system administrators. About IPFire
Other interesting Linuxverse distros updated during week 20 of 2025
And to make sure we don't leave any out, it's also worth mentioning the official announcement of other well-known GNU/Linux distribution releases during this period:
On DistroWatch, OS.Watch and FOSS Torrent
- Debian Education 12.11.0: May 17.
- Debian 12.11.0: May 17.
- Ultimate 2025.05.17: May 17.
- DragonOS Noble_R3: May 17.
- Ultimate 2025.05.17: May 17.
- FreeBSD 14.3-BETA3: May 16.
- Clonezilla 3.2.2-5: May 16.
- manjaro 25.0.2: May 16.
- Volume 3.812: May 15.
- grml 2025.05: May 15.
- Whonix 17.3.9.9: May 14.
- Nobara Project 42: May 13.
- RasPiOS 2025-05-13: May 13.
- BigLinux 2025-05-12: May 12.
- IPFire 2.29-core194: May 12.
- Starbuntu 24.04.2.11: May 11.
- Aurora 42: May 11.
- Easy OS 6.6.8: May 11.
On ArchiveOS
- LONDON: May 16.
- One OS: May 14.
- Mac OS Classic: May 11.
Summary
In short, we hope you enjoyed this twentieth installment (week 20) of our helpful and ongoing series dedicated to " What's New in Linux Distributions for Each Week of 2025," finding it useful, informative, and technically sound. This is especially true regarding the latest releases of Clonezilla Live, Raspberry Pi OS, and Plamo Linux, which we've highlighted today.
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