DistroWatch.com: CachyOS Last Update: 2026-08-09 18:02 UTC OS Type: Linux Based on: Arch Origin: Germany Architecture: x86_64, x86-64-v3 Desktop: bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, Hyprland, i3, KDE Plasma, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, niri, Openbox, Qtile, Sway, UKUI, Wayfire, Xfce Category: Desktop, Live Medium Status: Active Popularity: 1 (3,059 hits per day) CachyOS is a Linux distribution…
Flock 2026 was my first Fedora conference, and it won’t be my last. I came home with new ideas, new friendships, and even a new project to work on for next year. Appreciation I want to start by appreciating the Flock organizers and volunteers. Putting together an event like this takes a lot of quiet,…
Illinois has become the latest U.S. state to pull operating systems into the age verification pool. Governor JB Pritzker has signed HB5511, the Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act, putting forward a new age verification framework for every device sold or used in the state. The bill imposes age check on “covered manufacturers,” a category…
Kagi has released a new beta of Orion for Linux, a WebKitGTK-based port of its popular browser for macOS and IOS. Orion for Linux v0.4.1 builds on the v0.3.0 public beta, released in May, adding more features found on its macOS and iOS versions and improving existing ones. The new beta adds working private windows,…
Valve just updated Proton Experimental again bringing more fixes for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux to get as many working as possible. The what: Proton Experimental is like their testing ground for future stable numbered version Proton updates. You can install any version of Proton by just searching for “Proton” in your Steam…
17 Arjun’s Systems Brief: I have spent years tuning memory-constrained systems in production. When a Linux desktop starts slowing down after hours of use, the first instinct is to blame the hardware. It is almost never the hardware. A process is leaking memory, and I will show you exactly how to find RAM leaks, prove…
Sooner or later every command line session runs into a matching problem that plain text search cannot solve: find lines that start with a number, pull every email address out of a log, or replace dates in one format with another. Regular expressions (regex) are the pattern language that solves these problems, and the same…
You’ve probably memorized networking definitions like “What is DNS?” or “What is a subnet?” for interviews. But real interviews often go a step further and ask troubleshooting questions to see how you’d solve problems on a live system. That’s exactly what these questions are designed to help you prepare for. Most people walk into a…
DistroWatch.com: CatOS Last Update: 2026-08-05 19:01 UTC catos-2026.07.19-kde (more screenshots in our gallery)Â Â CatOS is a Chinese Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring a customised KDE Plasma desktop. Its main characteristics include out-of-the-box support for simplified Chinese input method, Calamares system installer, custom software repositories, and support for virtualization. It also provides a…
Virtualization is basically load-bearing infrastructure for any serious data center in 2026. Enterprises lean on it to run more workloads on less hardware, isolate services cleanly, and keep uptime high without buying a rack of extra servers. Proxmox has built a name for itself in this space over the years with its range of products….
