I introduce you to Voyager 22.10 in its final version. A two in one version with, for the first time, the GNOME and Xfce desktops unified in a single distribution. Voyager, Everything has been redesigned for this new duo edition. The GNOME 43 desktop coupled with the Xfce 4.16 desktop and a part of version Xfce 4.17, still in development. With the promise finally realized, to have two unified systems - GNOME and Xfce - light, fast, modern, fluid, secure and efficient in a hybrid environment for PC and Tablet. The two desktops are quite distinct and their respective applications are for the most part seamless, for one or the other environment. This release is based on Linux kernel 5.19 and Ubuntu distribution 'Kinetic Kudu' with its novelties.
Update Tor Browser to 11.5.5 and the Linux kernel to 5.10.149. This should improve the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on. Now when a manual upgrade is required, Tails now always points to the release notes of the latest version, instead of pointing sometimes to a deprecated version.
This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 5.18.19. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.54, MariaDB 10.8.5, and PHP 7.4.30 (see this post for more details). You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
ArcoLinux v22.11
The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu Studio 22.10, code-named 'Kinetic Kudu'. This marks Ubuntu Studio's 32nd release. This release is a regular release and as such, it is supported for 9 months (until July 2023)." One of additions to this release is a new "feature uninstaller": "A new addition to the Ubuntu Studio Installer package is the Ubuntu Studio Feature Uninstaller which performs the reverse of the Ubuntu Studio Installer: removes groups of packages from the Ubuntu Studio installation as long as they aren't required by another group of packages. For example, if you have ubuntustudio-photography installed and ubuntustudio-graphics installed but wish to uninstall ubuntustudio-photography, you will still have gimp installed since it's part of the ubuntustudio-graphics metapackage. This method of uninstallation is safe and effective at making your digital studio yours.
Thanks to all the hard work from our contributors, Lubuntu 22.10 has been released. With the code name 'Kinetic Kudu', Lubuntu 22.10 is the 23rd release of Lubuntu and the ninth release of Lubuntu with LXQt as the default desktop environment. Known issues and notable changes: a bug in LXQt results in duplicate menu entries for the Calamares installer; Lubuntu uses the Calamares system installer in place of the Ubiquity installer that most other flavors use; while we are ensuring 22.04 LTS' Calamares follows the upstream LTS cycle, we decided to get ahead of the curve by shipping Calamares 3.3 Alpha 2 in 22.10; an ongoing concern within the Ubuntu and Lubuntu communities has been the increased startup times for the Firefox web browser due to using the Snap package format instead of the traditional Debian-based package format used for the rest of the system....
The Ubuntu Unity 22.10 has now been released; it is the first stable release of Ubuntu Unity as an official flavor. It introduces a new toggle from the panel to switch between the dark and light theme, and between accent colors. It also replaces all the libadwaita apps with MATE alternatives. The ISOs much smaller, at 2.8GB. The RAM usage has also gone down significantly (around 650MB when idle). You can now install Ubuntu Unity on an existing Ubuntu installation by removing gnome-shell and other GNOME apps, and then installing the ubuntu-unity-desktop package (all the Ubuntu Unity packages are now in universe in the official Ubuntu archive, and no longer in a PPA). We're actively working on adding new features to Unity7, such as support for different refresh rates in unity-settings-daemon, and even replacing such old components and apps and the indicators with the ayatana-* packages. We are working on adding extension support to the Unity shell.
We are pleased to announce the 22.10 release. This is a standard release supported for nine months, packed full of all sorts of new capabilities. The new release has many new core updates as well as a bleeding-edge version of Budgie itself: the Linux kernel 5.19; GNOME 43 stack with Mutter 11; PipeWire for everything audio related - this replaces PulseAudio; the Budgie desktop is 10.6.4, plus a whole suite of extra capabilities pending the 10.7 release due in the next few months; an overhaul of our default applications. New features and enhancements: new upstream budgie-menu (traditional layout) with places, control center and settings access buttons; sharing capabilities in BCC have been revamped; fractional scaling support has been enhanced; lots of Wacom support updates made in BCC; color profile support in BCC reworked; BCC displays show the monitor refresh rate....
In the Peropesis 1.8 release, the GNU gcc and g++ compilers with the infrastructure they need were installed. New software installed: 1. GNU Binutils 2.39. Binutils are a set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data, and assembly source code. 2. GNU GCC 12.2.0. GNU Compiler Collection is a compilers suite that supports many languages, such as ada,c,c++,d,fortran,go,lto,objc,obj-c++. 3. GNU GMP 6.2.1. GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. 4. ISL 0.24. isl is a thread-safe C library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded by affine constraints. 5. GNU MPC 1.2.1. GNU MPC is a C library for the arithmetic of complex numbers with arbitrarily high precision and correct rounding of the result. 5. GNU MPFR 4.1.0. The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding. 6. Also libelf-0.187.so and libdebuginfod-0.187.so libraries from elfutils 0.187 software package and libfl.so.2.0.0 library from flex 2.6.4 software package were added.
Split initialization of SystemRescue into parts done before and in parallel to networking (#304) Add a new style for configuring autorun scripts (“autorun.exec”) (#287) Change the default for ar_nowait to true: don’t wait at the end of autorun by default anymore Deprecate storing autorun scripts in the root of the boot disk (#252) Bind-mount /run/archios/bootmnt in case of copytoram to create a stable path for use in autorun Add yay AUR helper (#139) Allow https-URLs for the archiso_http_srv option by disabling certificate checks Don’t waste ram when using the archiso_http_srv option (#56) mountall: run udevadm settle to mount newly opened cryptodisks, improve messages Add rclone option to the “sysconfig” scope of YAML config file, it writes a rclone.conf file Add sysctl option to the “sysconfig” scope of YAML config file Added packages: whois (mkpasswd)