Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 31 of the year 2025
To this thirtieth first (31) week of the year 2025 (27/07/25 to 02/08/25) 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, that of the HeliumOS, PorteuX and MocaccinoOS distributions, 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 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 31 of 2025».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 30 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 31 of the year 2025», we recommend you explore the previous related post from this same series of publications, at the end of it:
Br OS is a GNU/Linux Distro based on Ubuntu and of Brazilian origin, which offers an operating system general purpose, easy to operate and much lighter than the traditional Microsoft Windows, in addition to a good set of programs for the most varied activities, but above all for a set of applications designed for the creation of web content. And in addition to that, bIt seeks to be an intuitive and easy-to-use operating system through its friendly visual interface similar to Windows 10/11, which is created from a slightly modified version of KDE Plasma. About Br OS
The Top 3 Linuxverse Distros Updated During Week 31 of 2025
HeliumOS 10
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: July 28, 2025.
- Download Links: HeliumOS 10.
- Featured news: This new update called "HeliumOS 10" includes interesting new features (additions, fixes and improvements), among which we can mention some such as: The use of the signed AlmaLinux Linux 6.12 kernel for secure boot, the use of Zsh as the default operating system shell with a polished and minimal configuration, the use of BTRFS as the default file system with an option for LUKS full disk encryption in the installer. Finally, and among many others, it stands out the installation of Docker by default, and the migration of the HeliumOS build sources from a collection of Bash scripts to Ansible YAML.
HeliumOS is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Fedora, Enterprise Linux, CentOS Stream, and Alma Linux. Originating globally (with no defined country of origin), it offers an atomic desktop operating system designed to empower users without intruding too much. As a result, it demonstrates great stability, security, and compatibility for any purpose or objective. Finally, it includes a simple and intuitive Linux desktop based on KDE Plasma, with an easy-to-use interface and fluid user experience, and a modern app store with a wide selection of Flatpak packages. About HeliumOS
PorteuX 2.2
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: August 2th, 2025.
- Download Links: PorteuX 2.2.
- Featured news: This new update called "PorteuX 2.2" includes interesting new features (additions, solutions and improvements), among which the following can be mentioned: The addition of a patch to Xorg to make vertical synchronization (vsync) available in the mode configuration driver (the one used for all video cards). Therefore, vertical synchronization is disabled by default, since most desktop environments have it enabled by default through their compositors (except LXDE and LXQt in X11 mode). While other important ones were the implementation of Improved images and icons, the use of vImproved default values for the Labwc component and improved the XFCE Wayland experience by adding/fixing keyboard shortcuts. Finally, and among many others, the use of the Linux Kernel 6.16, Nvidia Driver 575.64.05, GNOME 48.3, KDE 6.4.2 and many other packages updated.
PorteuX is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware, inspired by Slax and Porteus, and available to the public for free. Its main goal is to be super fast, small, portable, modular and immutable (if the user so desires). It comes preconfigured for basic use, including lightweight applications for each of the 7 available desktop environments. It does not include a browser, but it does include an application store so you can download the most popular browsers, as well as Steam, VirtualBox, Nvidia drivers, office suite, multilib, messengers, emulators, among others. About PorteuX
MocaccinoOS 1.8.4
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: August 2th, 2025.
- Download Links: MocaccinoOS 1.8.4.
- Featured news: This new update, called "MocaccinoOS 1.8.4", includes some interesting new features (additions, fixes, and improvements), including the following: the addition of Linux Kernel 6.12.41 (LTS), Mesa 25.1.6, Nvidia Driver 570.169, and KDE Plasma 6.3.6. Finally, and among many others, it highlights the correction of a language issue in the Calamares installer, which now correctly applies the selected system language; the incorporation of some performance improvements such as the fact that all binaries have now been rebuilt with more aggressive compilation flags, resulting in better performance and smaller binaries; and the addition of improved support for the Flatpak sandbox environment, compatibility improvements for older mechanical hard drives (HDD), and an update to the Intel ARC GPU detection code to correctly identify Battlemage series cards.
MocaccinoOS is Meta-dIndependent and minimalist distribution of Italian origin that uIt uses Luet as a package manager (a static manager that uses containers to compile software), and its main features are its focus on minimalism, its compact size and excellent ease of use, the use of its own Linux kernel (native and original), and its unique approach to package management.. About MocaccinoOS
Other interesting Linuxverse distros updated during week 31 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
- MocaccinoOS 1.8.4: August 2.
- PorteuX 2.2: August 2.
- Plop 25.2.1: August 2.
- DragonOS Noble_R7: August 2.
- openmamba 20250802: August 2.
- Office Zero Duplica 1.4: August 2.
- Expiration 6.0-250801: August 1.
- BigLinux 2025-08-01: August 1.
- Nyarch 25.04.2: August 1.
- Dr.Parted 25.08: August 1.
- TrueNAS 25.04.2: July 31.
- Shebang 25.8: July 31.
- Xubuntu 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Ubuntu Unity 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Ubuntu Studio 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Ubuntu MATE 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Ubuntu Kylin 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Ubuntu Budgie 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Kubuntu 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Lubuntu 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Edubuntu 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- Ubuntu 25.10-snapshot3: July 31.
- 4MLinux 49.0: July 31.
- XIVA Studio 2025-07-31: July 31.
- Lite 7.6-rc1: July 31.
- manjaro 25.0.6: July 31.
- TTOS 1.2.0: July 31.
- Gnuinos 2025.07.29: July 31.
- Spirit 16.1: July 31.
- Volume 3.832: July 29.
- Garuda 250729: July 29.
- DietPi 9.15: July 29.
- HeliumOS 10: July 28.
- Calculate 20250727: July 27.
- iDeal 2025.07.27: July 27.
On ArchiveOS
- Minerva4Q68: August 1.
- Shawn OS: July 30.
- Mybuntu: July 28.
Summary
In short, we hope that this thirty-first publication (week 31) from our useful and current series dedicated to the «News from the Linuxverse Distros for each week of the year 2025 » you liked it and found it useful, both informatively and technically. Especially regarding the latest release of the Distributions “HeliumOS, PorteuX and MocaccinoOS”, which we have highlighted today.
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