As always, the new major release has some new features. Krita (raster graphics editor) and Hex-a-Hop (video game) have been added as downloadable extensions. 4MLinux 42.0 comes with improved support for many image, audio and video formats. AlsaPlayer, Baka MPlayer, GNOME MPlayer, GNOME MPV, mp3blaster are now available out of the box. Big work has been done to adopt famous (but quite old) XMMS as a default media player in 4MLinux, which is able to open modern audio and video files (support for MOD and MIDI music is also included). One can also download a rich set of XMMS skins with one click.
Spiky and me are happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 23.04.2 and cards 2.6.3 . New toolchain gcc 12.2.0, glibc 2.37 and binutils 2.40 . SysV in 3.06 and systemd in 253.0 . The xorg-server graphics server version 21.1.8, the Mesa 3D library in 23.0.2, Gtk4 4.10.1 and Qt 6.5.0. The nvidia driver is update to version 530.41.03 . The legacy driver 470.xx series in version 470.182.03 . The legacy driver 390.xx series in version 390.157 . The python interpreter is updated to version 3.11.3. The XFCE desktop environment is updated to version 4.18.3. The MATE desktop environment is a 1.26.1 version . The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 44.0 The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 5.27.4, Framework 5.104.0 and applications in 22.12.3. Available browsers are: Firefox 111.0.1, Chromium 111.0.5563.146, Epiphany 44.0, etc Many desktop applications have been updated as well like Telegram-desktop 4.7.1, Thunderbird 102.9.1, Scribus 1.5.8, Libreoffice 7.5.2.2, Gimp 2.10.34, etc. Core NuTyX ships with Long Term Support (LTS) kernels: 4.14.312, 4.19.280, 5.4.240, 5.10.177, 5.15.106, 6.1.23 and the latest stable version 6.2.10 .
This release contains several improvements to the 5.0.1 release. Web applications can be installed from App Center. Several minor issues with updates in App Center have been resolved.
There are some buglets. I call them "buglets" because they are small, not show-stoppers: Appi, the AppImage Installer, when do an update, reports finding more than one .AppImage file online, when in fact there is only one. I see also DBgate update is not finding all .AppImage choices. "pkg" icon now launches a window to choose one of the three package managers. In a container, it is supposed to only offer PKGget. /home/chromium icon is small in ROX.
The STC IT ROSA company has released an updated release of the ROSA Fresh 12.4 distribution kit , built on the rosa2021.1 platform. Assemblies for x86_64 architecture are prepared for free download in versions with KDE Plasma 5, LXQt, GNOME, Xfce and without GUI. Users who already have the ROSA Fresh 12 distribution kit installed will receive the update automatically.
I’ve released a new version of ExTiX Deepin today (230403). This ExTiX Build is based on Deepin 23 Alpha 2 (latest version) released by Deepin Technology 230208. Please read the Release Notes… As you can see the developers urge people to try Deepin Alpha 2 in a non-production environment! I must say, though, that I haven’t discovered any “bugs”. And the installed programs won’t “crash” or anything like that. On the contrary ExTiX Deepin 23.4 with the Deepin DE 23 works pretty well I would say. I have nevertheless kept ExTiX 22.12 with Deepin 20.8 on the server. Deepin 20.8 is the stable version released 221208. ExTiX 23.4 uses kernel 6.3.0-rc4-amd64-exton. ExTiX 23.4 works in the same way as all other ExTiX versions. I.e. you can install it to hard drive while running the system live. Use Refracta Installer for that. You can also create your own live installable Deepin 23 system with Refracta Snapshot. (Using ExTiX 23.4 as a “base system”). So easy that a ten year old child can do it!
Changelog# Updated the ISO with latest packages Enabled single click activation on rofi menu and applets Fixed polybar sound/volume modules not updating issue Replaced picom-ibhagwan-git with official picom, But... There are config files added for few forks of picom. You can install picom-jonaburg-git from AUR, config file is already added in Archcraft. You can install picom-ibhagwan-git from AUR, config file is already added in Archcraft. Whichever picom fork you use, make sure you use the config file added for that, Just rename it to picom.conf For ex: If using picom-jonaburg-git, copy picom-jonaburg.conf to picom.conf You can see which compositor is currently in use in openbox (Preferences > Compositor) Fixed Minor bugs, etc
With this new release, the main changes are : X : menu : "change the brightness of the screen" : add percentage Add apparmor Add swtpm : to simulate a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) on qemu Add ovmf : to boot a VM with UEFI on qemu Add-to-GNS3.sh : add the constant "OPTION_QEMU_UEFI" to use the boot UEFI Xterm : "CTRL+_" is now the key to decrease the size of the font Cisco : in the "startup_config" provided by LiveRaizo ("/opt/raizo/user/Config/GNS3/configs/"), the "escape character" is set to "CTRL+C" VM Debian : add "sshpass" : Non-interactive ssh password authentication VM DDebian : remove the commands to manipulate disks (e2fsprogs", "dosfstools", binaries "mkfs" and "mkswap")
Linux Lite 6.4 Final is now available for download and installation. Building upon the release of 6.2, we have added a number if new changes. Changes: Our in-house applications are starting to be repackaged using ZSTD compression for significantly faster decompression speeds and higher compression rates. Example: Lite Themes - old compressed package: 91.2MB; Lite Themes - new compressed package: 76.8MB. This will benefit machines from a wider range of ages. Great for slower computers when installing updates, lightning fast updates for modern machines. Added systemd report to Lite System Report: This addition will help a wide range of people in regards to diagnosing a variety of booting and general system inquiries. Our amazing support team on the forums will also find this very helpful.
There are known issues with the Firefox, Chromium-bin, Midori and Epiphany web browser packages and mports that need to be corrected. (detected late, sorry). Issues were created on github in mports repo to track these. (mesa issue, see below) i386 and amd64 packages are available, but there was an issue with our mesa version. It has been updated in mports but new packages haven't been built yet. When upgrading from a previous release, be sure to get on at least MidnightBSD 2.2.5 before jumping to 3.0. There are issues with usr.bin/lex on some systems. When doing a major upgrade from 2.x to 3.x, sometimes it's necessary to disable Perl builds in usr.bin/Makefile. If you get an error with buildworld in src/rescue/rescue, try removing camcontrol and df from the makefile temporarily.