Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 29 of the year 2026
To this twenty-ninth (29) week of the year 2026 (12/07/26 to 18/07/26) 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 “OSINT VM, Omarchy and Clonezilla”, 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 29 of 2026».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 28 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 29 of the year 2026», we recommend you explore the previous related post from this same series of publications, at the end of it:
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
The Top 3 Linuxverse Distros Updated During Week 29 of 2026
OSINT VM 2026.5
- Official Web site
- Official repository: GitHub.
- Official launch announcement: July 15, 2026.
- Download Links: OSINT VM 2026.5.
- Featured newsThis new stable version of the OSINT VM Project, called "OSINT VM 2026.5", includes interesting and useful new features (additions, fixes and improvements), among which the migration of the entire underlying operating system of Kali Linux on Debian 13 with the goal of To achieve optimal reduction of the overall image size and gain greater control over the final result by eliminating tools that are not useful for the project's mission, i.e., using only tools of Open source intelligence (OSINT) is used collaboratively to find missing persons. Other important new features are geared towards... Improved user experience and documentation include a new interactive system updater with notification alerts so you always know when updates are available, and updated guides for Trace Labs instructors and participants are now included directly in the virtual machine. Among many other improvements, some highlights include the availability of the Brave browser as a supported option, with some useful extensions, and the Obsidian tool now being installed by default with custom desktop templates.
OSINT VM is UA GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux with OSINT tools from Kali Linux and source American, which offers a operating system ideal for to help find missing persons and reunite them with their families. For themIt is provided as a set of pre-configured images for VMware and VirtualBox virtual machines (OVA format). Additionally, lThe OSINT tools can also be downloaded separately using a helper script, and these include tools for Email Search, Multiple Search, Username Search, and Social Networks. It also includes tools for searching by phone numbers, image and video analysis, documentation and capture, geolocation and mapping, among other useful tools. About OSINT VM
Omarchy 3.8.0
- Official Web site
- Official repository: GitHub.
- Official launch announcement: July 14, 2026.
- Download Links: Omarchy 3.8.0.
- Featured newsThis new stable version of the Omarchy Project, called "Omarchy 3.8.0", includes interesting and useful new features (additions, fixes and improvements), among which some of the most notable are: the ability to add easier tmux panel controls with splits using keyboard shortcuts
Alt+Enter/Alt+Shift+EnterIn addition to the inclusion of CSI-u encoding in Alacritty, Foot, Ghostty, and Kitty so that tmux can distinguish key combinations, existing custom configurations are migrated without duplicating key combinations in the panel or Foot sections using keyboard shortcuts.Alt+EscapeShift+ReturnIt also includes various solutions to different errors, such as one related to the lack of Mesa Vulkan drivers on previously installed systemsvulkan.shthrough a hardware-aware fill migrationand another related to a The issue of power profile udev rules failing to activate on laptops with only USB-C ports has been resolved by removing the fixed transient drive name. Finally, among many other improvements, it now offers the aliascyto run Codex with full local access and the aliasmupto update mise without the guard release-age.
Omarchy is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Arch. Linux and of European origin (Denmark), which offers a operating system Lightweight and modern, thanks to the use of Hyprland tiling window manager, and the default inclusion of Everything a modern software developer needs to be productive right away. For example, it includes software like Neovim, Spotify, Chromium, Typora, Ghostty, and LibreOffice. Even Zoom is included! But it's not just a bundle of pre-installed packages. It is a complete system designed with both aesthetics and productivity in mind. Therefore, it ultimately prioritizes being a beautiful system that fosters productivity.. About Omarchy
Clonezilla 3.3.3-15
- Official Web site
- Official repository: SourceForge.
- Official launch announcement: July 14, 2026.
- Download Links: Clonezilla 3.3.3-15.
- Featured newsThis new stable version of the Clonezilla Project, called "Clonezilla 3.3.3-15," includes several interesting and useful new features (additions, fixes, and improvements). Among these are updates to the underlying GNU/Linux operating system, now based on the Debian Sid repository as of July 5, 2016. Additionally, it now includes the Linux kernel 7.0.14-1 and uses the network-manager-tui package on the live system. It also now enables the "supp_boot_param_ocs_live_extra" variable for use with network boot clients and includes two new programs: cnvt-ocsiso-qcow2 and ocs-check-initrd-module. Finally, among a few other things, the update of the Memtest86+ software to version 8.10 stands out, along with some bug fixes related to the incorrect result when using "ntfsclone" to save a partition while pressing "Ctrl+C", and a bug related to the protected device name "ask_user" in "ocs-onthefly".
Clonezilla Live is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian/Ubuntu, and of Taiwanese origin, that offers a operating system free and open source that integrates a set of tools that function as a complete manager for creating images/cloning partitions and disks. Therefore, it is ideal for performing operating system deployment, full backups, and recovery. Currently, it is available through three Clonezilla versions: Clonezilla Live, Clonezilla Lite Server, and Clonezilla SE (Server Edition). Additionally, It 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. Lastly, saves and restores only the blocks used on the hard drive, this makes it increase cloning efficiency compared to other similar programs. About Clonezilla
Other interesting Linuxverse distros updated during week 29 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
- MODES 13.6: July 18.
- Synex 26.07.17: July 17.
- PARDUS 25.2: July 17.
- Tiny Core 17.1: July 17.
- TUXEDO 20260716: July 17.
- ShredOS 2025.11_31: July 17.
- Kumander 3.0-rc1: July 16.
- Oracle 10.2: July 15.
- <: July 15.
- OSINT VM 2026.5: July 15.
- Butrelinux 20260714: July 14.
- Clonezilla 3.3.3-15: July 14.
- Neko-Void 20260714: July 14.
- Omarchy 3.8.3: July 14.
- Oregon 10-2607: July 13.
- Flora 20260713: July 13.
- LazyLinux 20260712: July 12.
On ArchiveOS
- Kreski Linux: July 17.
- OmniOS: July 15.
- Ubuntu Touch: July 13.
Summary
In short, we hope that this twenty-ninth publication (week 29) 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 “OSINT VM, Omarchy and Clonezilla”, which we have highlighted today.
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