Top New Distros 2025 – 03: Linux, Oreon and Loongnix OS News
Today, March 5, 2025, as has become customary month after month, we offer you a new publication in our current series of publications called “Top New GNU/Linux Distros”, which corresponds to the third publication (part 03) of this current year. And in it, we will address 3 new and interesting or little-known alternatives to free and open distributions (operating systems) within the vast Linuxverse. But, unlike previous opportunities, 2 of those we will mention today do not yet appear in the DistroWatch waitlist and only one appears and we will address it again, since the project has changed a lot since more than a year ago. And these are the following: Linux, Oreon and Loongnix OS Blows.
Let us remember that *Linux, *BSD Distros and other independent ones, addressed in this series of publications, They await their fair recognition within the DistroWatch website, to then be disseminated as modern, complete, stable and successful projects within it. So, if you are interested in learning about new free and open source alternatives for operating systems, we invite you to continue reading this publication.
Top New Distros 2025 – 02: Bluefin, Malbian and Shebang
But, before starting reading this publication about said new «Top of new GNU/Linux Distros to be recognized in 2025: Part 03 » With the Soplos Linux Distros, Oreon and Loongnix OS, we recommend the previous related post with this series for later reading:
Bluefin is a desktop operating system that offers the best of both worlds – the reliability and ease of use of the Chromebook mobile operating system, with the power of desktop use through its implementation of the GNOME Desktop. It is also designed to get automatic image-based updates and comes with a simple graphical app store, so you get what you want without sacrificing system stability. Finally, it offers an optional “developer mode” that transforms the operating system and computer into a powerful workstation, ideal for software developers. It is related to the Aurora, Bazzite and uCore projects. About Bluefin
New Distros in and out of DistroWatch for 2025: Part 03
Top New Distros 2025 – Part 03: Linux, Oreon and Loongnix OS Blows
Linux Blows
- Official Web site
- Official forum
- Latest version available: Linux 1.0 Tyron (Pre Alpha) Blows. Available, for now, in a restricted form.
- Base: Debian Testing.
- País de origen: Spain.
- Supported architectures: x86_64.
- Desktops (DE/WM):XFCE.
- General description: According to its developers, this new distribution based on the development version of Debian GNU/Linux seeks to offer an optimized, lightweight and easy-to-customize environment. And precisely to achieve this, it comes equipped with the flexible, modern and stable XFCE 4.20 Desktop and a modern Linux Kernel 6.12-12, 1871. In addition, it is configured to work perfectly on X11, which guarantees compatibility with most applications. However, despite its modern components, it seeks to stand out for its low resource consumption. Because of this, by default, the system uses around 700 MB of RAM when starting up, freshly installed. Finally, it includes several tools to customize the XFCE desktop. One of the most notable is Soplos Theme Manager, which allows you to switch between different panel configurations. In addition, the system comes with Docklike, an application that facilitates the management of icons pinned to the panel.
Linux Blows has acIn the long term, the goal is to implement a software center specifically for XFCE. This will allow users to easily install applications using different package managers such as APT and Flatpak. It will also seek to have its own repositories to facilitate the installation of additional software.
oreon
- Official Web site
- Official Discord
- Latest version available: Oreon 10 Core, released on February 28, 2025.
- Base: AlmaLinux.
- País de origen: USA.
- Supported architectures: x86_64 and arm64.
- Desktops (DE/WM): GNOME and KDE Plasma.
- General description: According to its developers, Oreon Linux is an open source RHEL-compatible desktop operating system that aims to provide a wider selection of packages while maintaining a long-term support model. In addition, is the successor project to a previous project called Oreon Lime. And based on that, it has been designed with simplicity and familiarity in mind, bridging the gap between the ease of use that people expect from Windows and the power and flexibility of Linux. As a result, it offers an intuitive visual interface that will be immediately recognizable to many Windows users and offers seamless compatibility with popular applications as well as solid performance.
oreon Linux has a primary goal to make RHEL/AlmaLinux more suitable for use on desktops and laptops. Therefore, it focuses on providing the best user experience right out of the gate. And to do so, it also seeks to build and offer as many additional packages as possible to make the largest repository of software compared to other RHEL-based distributions.
Loongnix OS
- Official Web site
- Official repository: Unknown.
- Latest version available: Unknown information.
- Base: Independent.
- País de origen: China.
- Supported architectures: LoongArch.
- Desktops (DE/WM): Unknown.
- General description: According to its developers, Loongnix OS is a Linux-based operating system (OS) developed independently, created by the Chinese Open Source Community with the support of the company Loongson Technology Corporation Limited (Loongson), which uses it in a standardized way and as the official operating system for its personal computers, servers and cloud computing services..
Loongnix OS It consists of three editions: Loongnix, Loongnix-Server and Loongnix-Embeedded, which target personal computers, servers and cloud computing respectively. .
Other new distros, on and off the DistroWatch Waitlist
As of today, when we write this publication (05/03/2025), it is important to highlight that, The only additional distribution that we have been able to know, inside and outside the known Linuxverse (mainly the DistroWatch OS.Watch and FossTorrents websites) is Runtu Linux. Which is one that we have mentioned specifically on previous occasions, but never addressed in a single publication.
However, it is a GNU/Linux distribution of Russian origin that is based on Ubuntu/Debian, and therefore offers very complete support for the Russian language, as well as a variety of extra applications, tools and multimedia codecs for ideal use on desktop computers, both at home and in the office. And its development is stable and well active, with the latest version available being the following: Runtu LITE 22.04x64 of the month of January 2023.
Summary
In summary, we hope that the Free and Open Distribution projects addressed today and whose names are Linux, Oreon and Loongnix OS Blows, have formed a new, interesting and useful «Top new GNU/Linux distros to be recognized and known» during this period of March 2025. And may this publication continue to contribute to the dissemination and popularization of the various projects that seek to make their way and achieve a worthy position in the Linuxverse. It will be in the next publications of this series that we will learn about many other new or little-known projects.
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