Distro releases in April 2025: GoboLinux 017.01, PorteuX 2.0, and Tails 6.14.1

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Distro Releases - April 2025: GoboLinux, PorteuX, and Tails

Distro Releases – April 2025: GoboLinux, PorteuX, and Tails

Today, last day of this month, as usual, we will address all present "Distro releases during April 2025". A period in which there has been a fairly similar amount, but higher, than last month, that is, in March 2025.

And in it we will detail, as usual, the 3 first releases of April which were: GoboLinux 017.01, PorteuX 2.0 and Tails 6.14.1.

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And, before starting this post about the counted "April 2025 Releases", we recommend you explore the previous related postWhen you finish reading it:

The releases mentioned here are mostly those recorded in DistroWatch. Therefore, there can always be many more, coming from websites such as OS.Watch y FOSS Torrent. Also, it is important to note that these new versions at any time could be made available for testing online (without installation) by anyone, on the website DistroSea, for the knowledge and proof of all.

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All April 2025 releases in the Linuxverse

All April 2025 releases in the Linuxverse

New versions of Distros during April 2025 releases

First 3 releases of the month: GoboLinux 017.01, PorteuX 2.0, and Tails 6.14.1

Gobo Linux 017.01
  • release date: 01/04/2025.
  • Official Web site: explore here.
  • Oficial announcement: inquiry link.
  • Download links: Gobo Linux 017.01.
  • Distro Base: Independent.
  • Featured news: This version 017.01 of the project for generating free and open distributions, called GoboLinux, now includes among many new features the following: The inclusion of new versions for some essential and basic programs of the operating system, among which it is worth mentioning the Linux Kernel v6.12.16, Automake 1.16.4, Dracut 103, E2FSProgs 1.47.1, Firefox 136.0, FUSE 3.16.2, GCC 14.2.0, GRUB and GRUB-EFI 2.12, Kmod 33, LibArchive 3.7.6, among many others. And also, it includes other important ones such as: CA-Certificates 2023011, Cpio 2.15, Fuse 2.9.9, NumlockX 1.2, Tree 2.1.1 and UnionFS-Fuse 2.1. Finally, and among many others, it is worth highlighting the fact that some fundamental programs (Kernel, Initramfs, Firmware and Squashfs) have switched to using zstd compression, in addition to the fact that support for eMMC storage devices has now been added.
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PorteuX 2.0
  • release date: 02/04/2025.
  • Official Web site: explore here.
  • Oficial announcement: inquiry link.
  • Download links: PorteuX 2.0.
  • Distro Base: Slackware.
  • Featured news: This version 2.0 of the project for generating free and open distributions, called PorteuX, now includes among many new features the following: The successful implementation of several solutions to various failures and problems, such as the one related to theThe x265 encoding bug and an issue with “procps” applications not displaying their own versions, and other minor issues with “Xfce 4.20” that had not been resolved. It also includes a compatibility improvement for some network devices and another for GCC compilation flags to include additional optimizations. In addition, GPT support is added to the Linux installer and Docker support. Finally, among many other things, it also adds CUPS support for GTK3, the Linux 6.13.1 kernel, the Nvidia 570.86.16 driver, Cinnamon 6.4.6, and GNOME 47.3..
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Tails 6.14.1
  • release date: 03/04/2025.
  • Official Web site: explore here.
  • Oficial announcement: inquiry link.
  • Download links: Tails 6.14.0.
  • Distro Base:Debian.
  • Featured news: This version 6.14.1 of the project for generating free and open distributions, called Tails, now includes, among many new features, the following: Important new features have been added, among which some stand out, such as a more flexible confinement of the Tor Browser with the objective of protecting users' files from possible security vulnerabilities in the Tor Browser. This solves the previous behavior, in which the Browser could only save downloads and read files from a limited number of folders. In addition, the implementation of this solution also solves other minor known usability and accessibility issues. Finally, among many other things, this version includes Tor Browser 14.0.9 and Tor Client 0.4.8.16.
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This month's releases known on “DistroWatch”, “OS Watch”, “FOSSTorrent” and more

  1. 4MLinux 48.0: 28 for April.
  2. obarun 2025.04.28: 28 for April.
  3. RebornOS 2025.04.26: 27 for April.
  4. OpenBSD 7.7: 27 for April.
  5. Bluestar 6.14.3: 26 for April.
  6. Voyager 25.04.1: 26 for April.
  7. Pop! OS 24.04-alpha7: 24 for April.
  8. clear 43300: 24 for April.
  9. Archcraft 2025.04.24: 24 for April.
  10. DragonOS Noble-R2: 23 for April.
  11. Starbuntu 24.04.2.8: 22 for April.
  12. Open Mandriva 6.0: 22 for April.
  13. CachyOS 250422: 22 for April.
  14. CentOS 10-20250422: 22 for April.
  15. Commodore 3.0: 22 for April.
  16. CRUX 3.8: 21 for April.
  17. linuxfx 11.25.04.2: 21 for April.
  18. Chimaera 20250420: 20 for April.
  19. openmamba 20250420: 20 for April.
  20. FunOS 25.04: 20 for April.
  21. Endeavours Mercury Neo: 19 for April.
  22. Voyager 25.04: 18 for April.
  23. Ubuntu Budgie 25.04: 17 for April.
  24. dubuntu 25.04: 17 for April.
  25. Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.04: 17 for April.
  26. Ubuntu Kylin 25.04: 17 for April.
  27. Unity 25.04: 17 for April.
  28. Lubuntu 25.04: 17 for April.
  29. Xubuntu 25.04: 17 for April.
  30. Kubuntu 25.04: 17 for April.
  31. Ubuntu MATE 25.04: 17 for April.
  32. Ubuntu Studio 25.04: 17 for April.
  33. Ubuntu 25.04: 17 for April.
  34. Bazzite 20250417: 17 for April.
  35. ELive 3.8.48: 17 for April.
  36. Plop 25.2: 16 for April.
  37. Download Deepin 23.1: 16 for April.
  38. TrueNAS 25.04.0: 15 for April.
  39. CentOS Stream 10 20250415: 15 for April.
  40. Tails 6.14.2: 15 for April.
  41. TUXEDO OS 20250415: 15 for April.
  42. Fedora 42: 15 for April.
  43. Ultramarine 41: 15 for April.
  44. manjaro 25.0.0: 14 for April.
  45. T2 BDS 25.4: 14 for April.
  46. AUSTRUMI 5.0.4: 14 for April.
  47. OpenBSD 7.7: 13 for April.
  48. ArcLinux 25.05.01: 13 for April.
  49. MX Linux 23.6: 13 for April.
  50. Live Root 16.25.04.12: 13 for April.
  51. MidnightBSD 3.2.3: 11 for April.
  52. SparkyLinux 7.7: 10 for April.
  53. Feren OS 2025.03: 10 for April.
  54. Bluestar 6.14.1: 10 for April.
  55. Calculate 20250409: 10 for April.
  56. Proxmox 3.4 “Backup Server”: 10 for April.
  57. LinuxFX 11.25.04.1: 10 for April.
  58. Regatta OS 25.0.3: 10 for April.
  59. Feren 2025.03: 9 for April.
  60. PARDUS 23.4: 9 for April.
  61. Arch Bang 0409: 9 for April.
  62. IPFire 2.29-core193: 9 for April.
  63. Proxmox 8.4 “Virtual Environment”: 9 for April.
  64. SparkyLinux 7.7: 9 for April.
  65. AlmaLinux 9.6-beta1: 8 for April.
  66. NethSecurity 8.5: 8 for April.
  67. Ultimate 2025.04.08: 8 for April.
  68. CRUX 3.8-rc5: 7 for April.
  69. Voyager 25.04-beta2: 6 for April.
  70. Starbuntu 24.04.2.5: 5 for April.
  71. NetServer 8.4: 4 for April.
  72. Tails 6.14.1: 3 for April.
  73. PorteuX 2.0: 2 for April.
  74. Gobo Linux 017.01: 1 for April.

And to go deeper more information about each of these releases and others, the following is available link.

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In short, if you liked this post about all “April 2025 releases” If you're interested in any of the releases from other GNU/Linux distros or Respin Linux users in the Linuxverse, or if you're a fan of the "DistroWatch" or "OS Watch" or "FOSSTorrent" websites, please let us know what you think. And if you know of any other releases from any other GNU/Linux distro or Respin Linux user in the Linuxverse, it would also be a pleasure to share them with you in the comments, for everyone's benefit and knowledge. Just as we did today, by highlighting some important details of the releases of GoboLinux 017.01, PorteuX 2.0 and Tails 6.14.1.

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