2024 State of the Adélie Linux Distribution

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2024-12-25 05:00:06

AUSTIN (December 24, 2024) — The Adélie Linux distribution recently celebrated its sixth beta release and is making steady progress toward a 1.0 general release. In the 12 months since the 2023 status update, we’ve released several BETA5 updates and landed BETA6.

Press coverage has been notable. We’ve been featured by The Register and DistroWatch, and we’re happy to see retrocomputing enthusiasts and smaller outlets diving in as well.

This status update is ambitious. I cannot overstate how significant BETA6 was to unblocking some of our more interesting goals, namely to do with C++20 and overall modernization.

We had originally targeted August for our GCC update, but decided to hold off and roll a subsequent LLVM update, Rust update, ICU update, and Mozilla update into one release.

With those tasks out of the way, we are excited to share with you some of our latest progress and future plans, which include new ports, improved security, more packages, focus on GPU support, better accessibility, and new partnerships. But first, BETA6 news.