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The Flora Linux-libre project is pleased to announce the release of GNOME version for Debian 13 (trixie).
It is available to download now.

Best regards,
usergreen

2025-12-14
updated: 2025-12-15
Known issue:

The following issue is temporarily confirmed so far. Apt download from fsfla.org is not available now. It seems this is due to a server side problem. Therefore, run again after a few days later when fixed.

user@flora:~/Desktop$ sudo su
root@flora:/home/user/Desktop# apt update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease [43.4 kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org trixie-security/main Sources [112 kB]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org trixie-security/main amd64 Packages [82.1 kB]
Get:4 http://security.debian.org trixie-security/main Translation-en [51.9 kB]
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease [140 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease [47.3 kB]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main Sources [10.5 MB]
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages [9,670 kB]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main Translation-en [6,484 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates/main Sources [2,788 B]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates/main amd64 Packages [5,412 B]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates/main Translation-en [4,096 B]
0% [8 Packages store 0 B] [Waiting for headers]terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
what(): basic_string::substr: __pos (which is 64) > this->size() (which is 63)
Aborted... read more

Flora Linux-libre project has announced that the Trixie-MATE version has been updated. It includes Debian 13.2 and Linux-libre kernel 6.12.60-gnu. Download is available now.

Best regards,
usergreen

Flora Linux-libre project has released an updated version of Xfce Desktop Live solely based on Debian 12 (bookworm).
Download is available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/flora-linux-libre/files/bookworm-xfce/

Best regards,
usergreen

A first release solely based on Debian Live 13 (trixie), using Linux-libre kernel.
This is different from the previous release based on MX-25.
Its ISO image adopts Xfce Desktop environment and consists of Free components only.

Flora Linux-libre Project has release Xfce Desktop version based on MX Linux 25. Many useful MX Tools are included, so you can enjoy such convenient graphical tools.

Best regards,
user-green

Cinnamon Desktop version has been added for Flora Linux-libre. Download is now available.

Thank you,
green

I am pleased to announce the released of a latest Linux-libre kernel version along with the updated current LTS's. Downloads are now available.

Best regards,
usergreen

I am pleased to announce that updated versions for GNOME, MATE and Xfce Desktops are now available for download. They have applied the latest Official Debian 12.11 update and Linux-libre-kernel.

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Green, aka user-green

Pleased to announce that a brand-new re-spin for MATE Desktop version is now available for download. It has been entirely modified from my personal Debian-Live.

Best regards

Hello,
I am pleased to announce GNOME Desktop version is now available for download.

Best regards,
Green

A respin for Xfce Desktop has been just updated.
To avoid buggy Xfce 4.20 version, it sticks to Xfce 4.18.
The official Debian 12.9 update and latest linux-libre kernel have been applied.

Best regards

The updated version of Flora Linux-libre is now available for download.
It has applied the latest Debian 12.9 update and Linux-libre kernel.

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I am pleased to announce that the Xfce Desktop version is now available for download.
Thank you.

An updated version 1.8 is now available for download, which applied Official Debian 12.8 updates and several others.

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I released an updated version: floralinux-libre-1.73-x64-20241026_0430.iso,
which will fix errors relating with power management issues when you encounter issues after 'apt upgrade'. But it is not certain that the issues will occur in your all Live systems.

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A minor fixed version: 1.71 has been released.
Added input methods for Korean and Vietnamese languages,
Installed language packs for Firefox to support Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese

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An updated version is now available for download.
It applied all latest updates for Debian 12.7 release and GNU Linux-libre kernel.

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Hello, this is the updated version 1.6
Applied all latest updates from Debian and MX projects along with Linux-libre kernel.

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I am pleased to announce a new Linux distribution adopting Linux-libre kernel, instead of native Debian kernel.
It is based on MX 23 and Debian 12, and consists of Free components only.

Download is available from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/flora-linux-libre/

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