It's been an exciting weekend for Linux distribution released with new versions of [1]Endeavour OS , [2]CachyOS , [3]Solus and now a new NixOS release.

The NixOS Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager is out with a slew of updated and new software. With the NixOS 25.11 release the Nixpkgs has seen 7,002 new packages added while updating 25,252 existing packages. There were though 6,338 outdated packages that were dropped. The NixOS Linux distribution has also added 107 new modules and 1,778 configuration options.

Some of the new updates in NixOS 25.11 compared to NixOS 25.05 include moving to the GNOME 49 desktop with X11 session support removed, LLVM Clang 21 as an alternative to the existing GCC 14 option, and various other key software updates.

Downloads and more details on today's NixOS 25.11 release via [4]NixOS.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Endeavour-OS-2025-11

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-November-2025

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solus-4.8-Released

[4] https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/