Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package(lwn.net)
60 points by signa11 | 51 comments
LWN article reporting that Gentoo maintainers are dropping the Chromium source package due to its complex build system, bundled dependencies, and frequent releases.
#linux-distributions on Hacker News
11 stories tagged linux-distributions, newest first.
50MB operating system can resurrect your old PC(makeuseof.com)
26 points by makerdiety | 7 comments
MakeUseOf article about Damn Small Linux 2024, a roughly 50MB lightweight Linux distribution for reviving old PCs.
Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake(blog.melashri.net)
64 points by elashri | 30 comments
Blog post arguing that CERN and Fermilab abandoning Scientific Linux was a mistake, prompted by CERN's move to run Debian 13 on accelerator systems.
Gentoo on Codeberg(gentoo.org)
399 points by todsacerdoti | 141 comments
Gentoo Linux news post announcing repository mirrors on Codeberg as an alternative to GitHub, with instructions for submitting pull requests via the AGit approach.
Hard Rust requirements from May onward(lists.debian.org)
364 points by rkta | 632 comments
Debian mailing list post by Julian Andres Klode announcing APT will add hard Rust dependencies no earlier than May 2026, asking ports without Rust toolchains to add one or sunset.
KDE launches its own distribution(lwn.net)
643 points by Bogdanp | 449 comments
LWN article on KDE Linux, an alpha immutable distribution from the KDE Project built on Arch packages, released at Akademy 2025.
Debian 13 “Trixie”(debian.org)
831 points by ducktective | 337 comments
Official Debian announcement of the release of Debian 13 "trixie" on August 9, 2025, with 5 years of support and updated desktop environments.
Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility(lwn.net)
420 points by voxadam | 200 comments
LWN article by Joe Brockmeier on a Fedora 43 change proposal aiming to make 99% of Fedora package builds reproducible.
Convert Linux to Windows(philipbohun.com)
326 points by pbohun | 386 comments
Blog post arguing for a Linux distribution that runs Windows binaries by default via Wine, citing Linux userland binary compatibility problems with libc.
Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)(wiki.debian.org)
323 points by ecliptik | 107 comments
Ian Murdock's original 1993 Usenet announcement of the Debian Linux Release, hosted as a text attachment on the Debian wiki.
Debian 12 “Bookworm”(debian.org)
433 points by Chatting | 146 comments
Official Debian announcement of the release of Debian 12 "bookworm", the new stable version, including a new non-free-firmware archive area.