Gnoppix 23.9 has been released, featuring a transition to XFCE as the default desktop environment. It offers two versions: Gnoppix Core for beginners with essential tools, a minimalist design, and 5-year LTS support, and Gnoppix PRO for members, providing extra features, tools, templates, and business support. This release aims to enhance the Gnoppix experience for both personal and professional users in the open-source computing world.
OSMC's July update has been released, bringing bug fixes and enhancements across various platforms. Highlights include fixes for CEC issues on Vero 4K devices, improved graphics performance on Raspberry Pi, and updates to the OSMC Skin. Users can easily update by heading to My OSMC -> Updater, or automatic updates will notify them shortly. OSMC encourages support through social media and donations and offers high-quality products in its Store to enhance the OSMC experience.
Many packages have been updated, including: KDE Frameworks 5.109, Plasma Desktop 5.27.7, KDE Applications 23.04.3 (KDE Gear 23.08.0 expected on 24/08/2023 update will be available as soon as it's released). Kernel 6.4.11 (built with Clang). Mesa 23.2. LLVM/Clang 16.0.6, glibc 2.38, systemd 253.8. Chromium browser 116.0, with JPEG XL support patched back in. LibreOffice suite 7.6.0.3, Krita 5.1.5, DigiKam 8.1. The latest LibreOffice builds introduce LibreOffice Qt 6 integration, making LibreOffice fit in with the Plasma 6 desktop preview as well. Flatpak support. Note: We have no plans to abandon or reduce native packages. Flatpak, appimage and the likes are a useful addition in particular for packages we can't package for licensing reasons. neovim 0.9.1. More software upgraded to the most recent version available in repositories. GNOME desktop 44.3. LXQt desktop 1.3.0.
antiX 23 'Arditi del Popolo' is a new release based on Debian 'Bookworm'. As usual, we offer completely systemd-free and elogind-free flavours for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Available ISO images files with SysVInit or Runit. The 32-bit edition uses a non-pae kernel. Note: after installation of the antiX-23_x64-full editions, the default kernel will be 'Modern' 6.1 even if 'Legacy' 5.10 was booted during the live boot. Changes: based on Debian 12 'Bookworm', but without systemd/libsystemd0 and elogind/libelogind0; eudev instead of udev; customised 5.10.188 Linux kernel; customised 6.1.42 Linux kernel (x64 full only): LibreOffice 7.5.5; Firefox 102.14.0esr (antiX-full); SeaMonkey 2.53.17 (antiX-base); Claws Mail 4.1.1; CUPS for printing; PipeWire/WirePlumber on full editions; ALSA on base and core editions...
Pardus 23 “Crescent and Star” is a special edition inspired by the crescent and star, one of Turkey's national symbols. This version aims to provide its users with the latest technology, as well as ease of use with new applications, with the long-term support program and the stable Linux 6.1 kernel version. Pardus 23 "Moon and Star" comes with Pardus Gnome Welcomer , Xfce Fine Settings , Pardus Updater and many more innovations and conveniences are waiting for you.
Linuxfx 11.4 series is now available. This new version fixes some bugs in the PowerToys tool and also brings a complete major update to the operating system and its applications.
Rhino Linux 2023.2 is the second disk image release we have published. After ~3 weeks of development I am happy to say that it is ready to be shipped. Users already running Rhino Linux should already have the changes if they have upgraded their systems.
This Emmabuntüs DE 5 release includes the following changes or features: Based on Debian 12.1 Bookworm; kernel 6.1.27; Xfce 4.18.1; LXQt 1.20.0; LibreOffice 7.4.5; Firefox ESR 102.14.0; Falkon 22.12.1-2; Thunderbird 102.14.0; Added a script to run OS-prober; improved startup time in live mode and installation of Calamares under WMware; removed PlayOnLinux and WINE to save space following the activation of a new ISO compression mode; disabled info message on non-free-firmware repository; replaced zram-tools by systemd-zram-generator; updated Scratch 3.29.1 to 64-bit version; updated of the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 installation tutorial in French version. Emmabuntüs comes with a large number of software to allow beginners to have all the tools they may need without having to look for them and install them, see the list of all the software available on Emmabuntüs DE 5. We fully assume this choice, which also allows us to provide a complete ready-to-use solution within the framework of our activities of computers re-use and training for computer classes under GNU/Linux, as for example in Togo within the framework of our collaboration with the associations YovoTogo and JUMP Lab'Orione.
MidnightBSD 3.1, released on 8/27/2023, brings enhancements and fixes to this operating system. Updates to third-party libraries, bug fixes from the previous release, and the addition of Ravenports Universal Package System headline the release. Users can choose between mports and Ravenports during installation, benefiting from more updated and unique packages in Ravenports. The mport package manager introduces improvements like better download progress display and enhanced cleaning functionality. Various hardware-related fixes and updates have been made, and there are known issues such as excessive Mport output during non-interactive package downloads. Users are advised to update all Perl libraries due to the updated Perl version.
Smaller disk footprint: The size of the minimal install (when disabling the recommended packages) has been reduced. - It's the smallest since Mageia 4. The RPM DB has switched to SQLite: The RPM database no longer uses the old and unmaintained Berkeley DB. It now uses the modern SQLite. Conversion is performed during upgrade from Mageia 8. Major developments: Installation - NFS support is done using system tools rather than our 15 years old forked NFS code, thus gaining support for NFSv4 and co... When using an HTTP server, it's now possible to specify a port different than the default "80". The stage1 images are compressed with Zstd instead of gzip. Lots of bug fixes and improvements in the partitioner. Add 'downloader=curl' in order to switch from wget to curl for downloading packages. Rescue - The rescue system has been enhanced. Live ISO: The NetworkManager system service is now enabled by default on the Plasma Live ISO (this was already done for the GNOME and Xfce Live ISOs in previous releases). This allows network connections to be managed via the Plasma system settings tool as well as by the traditional Mageia network management tools.