Ubuntu-based Quarkos 26.04 now available with KDE Plasma 6.6 and more

Quarkos 26.04 is here as a stable build, which is based on Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" LTS. Thanks to this base, it will get no less than five years of support, but if this period gets extended to a decade, as rumored, this Quarkos release might remain in business until May 2036. The KDE Plasma 6.6 deskop is offered as a default choice, and the Trinity Desktop Environment edition should arrive soon as well. In this case, Quarkos 26.04 will come with Trinity 14.1.6.

In addition to the above, it should also be mentioned that this distro comes with Q4OS tools and a rich set of preinstalled applications. As it happens with such general-purpose distros, Quarkos comes with office and productivity tools, web browsers and communication tools, and multimedia apps for handling audio - video content and images, as well as system tools and customization apps that aim to make the user's life easier.

These are some of the package highlights in Quarkos 26.04:

• glibc 2.43
• firefox 151.0+build2-0ubuntu0.26.04.1~mt1
• grub 2.14
• bash 5.3
• alsa-lib 1.2.15.3
• xorg-server 21.1.22
• rsync 3.4.1+ds1-7
• apt 3.2.0
• sudo 1.9.17p2-1ubuntu3
• xwayland 24.1.10-1
• wget 1.25.0-2ubuntu4

Those interested can grab this snappy Linux distro from Sourceforge. The size of the KDE Plasma ISO is 2.5 GB. Sadly, at the time of publishing, the latest Trinity edition available is for the 24.04 update. In this case, the size of the ISO is just 1.6 GB.