Only a month after its previous 2025.1 version, the Rhino Linux team has just unveiled its latest release, 2025.2, packed mainly with patches and enhancements.
In this update, users will notice that the Unicorn Desktop now behaves much more reliably. Configuration files no longer get overwritten when you update the desktop package, and the global menu’s tendency to push the end of the panel off the screen has finally been resolved.
Moreover, the wallpaper properly scales to different screen sizes, and the audio issues that previously caused some devices to lack out-of-the-box sound have been addressed, ensuring a more consistent multimedia experience across various setups.
Beyond the desktop refinements, Rhino 2025.2 introduces updated kernel versions tailored for different hardware platforms. By default, the generic ISO images are bundled with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, Pine64 ones ship with v6.9, and Raspberry Pi images come with v6.11.
At the same time, Pacstall 6.1.1 arrives in this release, bringing along minor bug fixes and smoother package management. Another significant introduction is the new rhino-hotfix utility, included in all default images, which aims to streamline critical troubleshooting when time is of the essence.
Those who use Rhino on Raspberry Pi and Pine64 boards will be pleased to learn that boot-related issues have been tackled, and images have been deployed once again auto-resized to fill the entire image volume on the first boot.
lastly, current Rhino Linux users looking to upgrade to version 2025.2 can do so effortlessly by opening the terminal and typing rpk update -y.
For more information, see the announcement. Installation ISO images for the x86_64 and ARM64 architectures are available from the project website’s downloads section.
