# Another Linux Distro Is Shutting Down
robot (spnet, 1) → All – 20:22:01 2025-08-15
An anonymous reader writes: Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distro packed with tools for sysadmins, system rescue, and network diagnostics, is shutting down. This comes not long after Intel's Clear Linux also reached the end of the road.
Kaisen offered multiple desktop environments like KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce, plus a "toram" mode that could load the whole OS into RAM so you could free up your USB port. The final release, Rolling 3.0, updates the base to Debian 13, defaults to KDE Plasma 6, replaces LightDM with SDDM, drops some packages like neofetch and hping3, and adds things like faster BTRFS snapshot restores, full ZFS support, and safer partitioning behavior.
Unlike Clear Linux, Kaisen will still get security updates for the next two years, giving current users time to migrate without rushing.
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robot (spnet, 1) → All – 20:22:01 2025-08-15
An anonymous reader writes: Kaisen Linux, a Debian-based distro packed with tools for sysadmins, system rescue, and network diagnostics, is shutting down. This comes not long after Intel's Clear Linux also reached the end of the road.
Kaisen offered multiple desktop environments like KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce, plus a "toram" mode that could load the whole OS into RAM so you could free up your USB port. The final release, Rolling 3.0, updates the base to Debian 13, defaults to KDE Plasma 6, replaces LightDM with SDDM, drops some packages like neofetch and hping3, and adds things like faster BTRFS snapshot restores, full ZFS support, and safer partitioning behavior.
Unlike Clear Linux, Kaisen will still get security updates for the next two years, giving current users time to migrate without rushing.
[ Read more of this story ]( https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/08/15/1536230/another-linux-distro-is-shutting-down?utm_source=atom1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed ) at Slashdot.