Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 28 of the year 2026
To this twenty-eighth (28) week of the year 2026 (05/07/26 to 11/07/26) 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, that of the Distributions “Deepin, CalamaroOS and ExTiX”, which we will highlight today during 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 OSAs mentioned at the end, there are announcements regarding the recovery and distribution of ISO files of discontinued GNU/Linux distributions and other well-known operating systems. Furthermore, many of these recent versions may already be available on the website ofDistroSea» for your review and evaluation. So, without further ado, we will now address the releases of the «Linuxverse distros for Week 28 of 2026».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 27 of the year 2026
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 28 of the year 2026», we recommend you explore the previous related post from this same series of publications, at the end of it:
Drauger OS It is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS and of American origin, which offers a operating system With a specialized focus on running desktop games, its goal is to provide a platform for gamers to achieve high performance without sacrificing security. From keyboard and mouse to a full flight simulator, it makes it easy for anyone to start playing their favorite games quickly. Furthermore, it is secure, stable, and receives timely, regular updates. About Drauger OS
The Top 3 Linuxverse Distros Updated During Week 28 of 2026
Download Deepin 25.2.0
- Official Web site
- Official repository: GitHub.
- Official launch announcement: July 8, 2026.
- Download Links: Download Deepin 25.2.0.
- Featured newsThis new stable version of the Deepin Project, called "Deepin 25.2.0", includes interesting and useful new features (additions, fixes and improvements), among which some of the most notable are:Treeland desktop environment update With the goal of providing greater and better stability and usability thanks to more than 20 fixes for common stability and interaction issues. Furthermore, it now also supports core DDE features, including input devices, display settings, customization, power management, and other essential desktop features, making daily use of Treeland more complete. Another important feature is theUpdate to file management and search functions, which now allows Users can independently control indexing and flexibly balance search speed and resource usage. Finally, among many others, the following stand out:Improvements to the DDE desktop experience and the implementation of some toKernel and security updates, so now Kernel versions from kernel branches 6.6 and 6.18 are available, improving system stability, security, and compatibility with new hardware, while also optimizing overall performance.
Deepin is Ua GNU/Linux Distro based on Debian GNU/Linux and sourced Chinese, which offers a operating system focused on providing beautiful, easy-to-use, secure, and stable services to users worldwide, and has always been the distribution of Linux The highest-rated Linux distribution developed by a Chinese team. Furthermore, it's currently built on the Debian base to offer an elegant, intuitive, and reliable operating system. And it doesn't just include the best of the with It is not only free and open source, but also offers interesting and useful proprietary developments such as the DDE desktop environment or Deepin Desktop Environment, based on the Qt 5 toolkit; and others such as Deepin Software Centre, DMusic and DPlayer, which are designed for the average user. About Deepin
CalamaroOS 20260705
- Official Web site
- Official repository: SourceForge.
- Official launch announcement: July 5, 2026.
- Download Links: CalamaroOS 20260705.
- Featured newsThis new stable version of the CalamaroOS Project, called "CalamaroOS 20260705", includes interesting and useful new features (additions, fixes and improvements), among which some stand out for its systemd version, such as the update of its database using Gentoo as of July 5, 2026, disk encryption during installation, OS Prober installed by default, and a permanent "/boot" directory with 1 GB of space. Also included are the GURU repository, Flatpak, Discover, and CJK fonts installed and ready to use. Finally, for editing with OpenRC, it retains everything the same as the Systemd version, but with added support for the following file systems: EXT4, BTRFS, XFS, and F2FS.
CalamaroOS is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Gentoo and of Italian origin, which offers a operating system With Systemd, plus the Calamares graphical installer to make it accessible to everyone. It also offers official binary packages for compilation from source code when needed, integrated Flatpak, and several desktop environments to choose from. For this reason, it's considered Gentoo without barriers. And since it offers editions with KDE Plasma, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, and MATE, it's currently experimenting with KDE Plasma using OpenRC as a replacement for Systemd. About CalamaroOS
ExTiX Deepin 260710
- Official Web site
- Official repository: SourceForge.
- Official launch announcement: July 10, 2026.
- Download Links: ExTiX Deepin 260710.
- Featured newsThis new stable version of the ExTiX Project, called "ExTiX Deepin 260710", includes interesting and useful new features (additions, fixes and improvements), among which some of the most notable are: the updating of its database to Deepin 25.2.0 STABLE. However, it offers a customary customized version of the Linux kernel, which is now the 7.1.2-amd64-extonFinally, it's worth highlighting some basic and essential packages that are now much more up-to-date: bash 5.2.21-2.1, cups 2.4.16, dde-desktop 6.5.151, deepin-desktop-base 2026.06.30, Firefox 131.0.3-1, Python 3.12.1, samba 2:4.22.8, systemd 255.2-4, and uos-ai 3.0.0.610-1.
ExTiX is an operating system project based on various GNU/Linux distributions, primarily using a minimal and very lightweight desktop environment called LXQt, written in the Qt programming language, which has gained popularity in recent years. It is developed and packaged by Arne Exton. Finally, this project also offers editions based on other distributions, ideal for Raspberry Pi devices, among which RaspArch (Arch) is worth highlighting. Linux), RaspEX (Kodi) and FedEX (Fedora). About ExTiX
Other interesting Linuxverse distros updated during week 28 of 2026
And so as not to leave any out, it is also worth mentioning the official announcement of other well-known GNU/Linux Distros releases and from old and obsolete versions of various operating systems, during this period of time:
On DistroWatch, OS.Watch and FOSS Torrent
- nakeDeb 1.6-202607: July 11.
- Debian Education 13.6.0: July 11.
- Debian 13.6.0: July 11.
- Lilidog 26.07.11: July 11.
- LinuxCNC 2.9.10: July 11.
- Manjaro 26.1.0-rc1: 11 of July.
- HardenedBSD 15-build-18: July 10.
- TitancruiseOS 5.3: July 10.
- umbrellaOS 1.7.4: July 10.
- ExTiX Deepin 260710: July 10.
- MIRACLE9.8: July 10.
- Shadowfetch 1.8.1: July 9.
- Flatcar 4593.2.4: July 9.
- ML4W 2.14.1: July 9.
- ZimaOS 1.6.2: July 9.
- Easy OS 7.4.3: July 9.
- Talos 1.13.6: July 9.
- TrueNAS 26.0.0-beta2: July 9.
- Unraid 7.3.2: July 9.
- CentOS 10-20260707.1: July 8.
- ReactOS 0.4.16-RC2: July 8.
- Equestria 2026.07.08: July 8.
- Kader⁴² 2026.07.08: July 8.
- NetBSD 11.0_RC6: July 8.
- Steam OS 3.8.14: July 8.
- Senpai 20260707: July 7.
- Slimbook OS 26-r0: July 7.
- deepin 25.2.0: July 7.
- KibaOS 161: July 6.
- Q83 13.13: July 6.
- Ezarcher 2607-1: July 5.
- CalamaroOS 20260705: July 5.
On ArchiveOS
Summary
In short, we hope that this twenty-eighth publication (week 28) from our useful and current series dedicated to the «News from the Linuxverse Distros for each week of the year 2026 » you liked it and found it useful, both informatively and technically. Especially regarding the latest release of the Distributions “Deepin, CalamaroOS and ExTiX”, which we have highlighted today.
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