The GeckoLinux project is pleased to announce major updates to all editions of the Static branch, built from openSUSE Leap 15.4. This series of spins has significantly better support for new hardware thanks to the much newer kernel in openSUSE Leap 15.4. Most packages and desktop environments also have have significant new versions compared to the previous release built from openSUSE Leap 15.3. For this GeckoLinux release, permissions have been relaxed for easier printer administration without the root password. Apart from the major openSUSE updates, there are other no other major tweaks to the GeckoLinux configuration, which was already significantly improved in the previous release.
The GeckoLinux project is pleased to announce major updates to all editions of the Rolling branch, built from a recent snapshot of openSUSE Tumbleweed. For this GeckoLinux release, permissions have been relaxed for easier printer administration without the root password. Apart from the major openSUSE Tumbleweed updates included in this release, there are other no other major tweaks to the GeckoLinux configuration, which was already significantly improved in the previous release. GeckoLinux Rolling users with existing installations can simply update their systems with sudo zypper dup to receive the latest updates directly from openSUSE Tumbleweed and Packman mirror servers.
Limine bootloader now version 3.16, which has fixes for some old computers, so prefer fresh write to the usb-stick, rather than update. Features of this release: Firefox 104.0, SeaMonkey 2.53.13, Limine 3.16 A complete recompile in OE, now "-r4", removed all efi-related packages. Samba is now builtin. Geany-plugins now builtin. Nim language compiler is in the devx sfs.
Harden several aspects of our Linux kernel. Disable HTTPS-only mode in the Unsafe Browser to make it easier to sign in to Wi-Fi networks. Update Tor Browser to 11.5.2. Update tor to 0.4.7.10. Update the Linux kernel to 5.10.136. This should improve the support for newer hardware: graphics, Wi-Fi, and so on. It will also fix an important vulnerability
There have been a fair few changes to the offering when it comes to Desktop Environments and Window Managers. This time we have opted to include just Window Managers. These being dk, Openbox, i3-gaps, bspwm and fluxbox. Of course all the previous offerings are available via the Arch repositories or the AUR where applicable. As this has become a regular for us, we yet again include two different kernels via separate ISO's. The biggest change for us is the inclusion of a live session of dk.
The 2022 August ISO refresh is ready for download. Built from Manjaro stable branch as of 2022-08-20. Available with the latest LTS Linux kernel 5.15 or the slightly older one, 5.4 LTS. This release is exciting because it marks the debut of a brand new tool, Colorizer, in development for half a year, now in beta. What is Colorizer? A set of scripts that allow you to easily and conveniently adjust the colors of many elements of the desktop, in the form of a set of dynamically generated menus. Current functionalities: Openbox theme coloring; coloring of the menu, panels and the entire set of Mabox tools; Conky coloring (as well as managing the Conky set and easy position change); creating themes for PyRadio; interactive HTML help; and finally, everything above can be generated automatically after each wallpaper change according to its color palette.
We are proud to announce the release of Neptune 7.5 'Ada', the first service release of the Neptune 7 series. This version comes with the updates provided by Debian 11.4 'Bullseye' that offer the latest and greatest in terms of security. We updated the Linux kernel to version 5.18 to provide better support for modern hardware and fixed some bugs with existing hardware support. We put effort in optimizing the performance of Neptune by providing tweaks to kernel that improve the write speed on USB thumb drives. Neptune 7.5 also provides a new solution for a complete system backup called Timeshift. It allows you to save a whole snapshot of your system and restore it even if your system is totally broken. You can even restore from a live system as long as you have the backup saved somewhere accessible. Some slight tweaks make it easier to work on the terminal.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Linuxfx version 11.2 22.04. This release is now based on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish. Support for .exe and .msi applications has been improved with Wine 7.15, kernel 5.15 is also present in this release, improving support for more modern hardware. We updated KDE and the entire application base, which is now downloaded directly from the Neon repositories. WxDesktop, all its tools and themes have also been updated. Support for android games and apps has been improved.
In the last version, we ended up not testing the Kernel for compatibility with Nvidia drivers, which resulted in an unsuccessful installation for users. With this change, we brought Kernel 5.18 (current Debian default) with full compatibility with Nvidia drivers. Along with this small update, some Debian packages were also updated, among them Libc6 (2.33-8 -> 2.34-3).
This is a release where quite a few changes that have long been wanted finally can be implemented. The longest wanted of those is the final removal of Python2 from KaOS. The default install has been Python2 free for quite some time, but some major packages had still required it to build, now the last one of those, QtWebEngine, has been patched to build against Python3, so now KaOS is completely Python2 free. Second is the move to Pipewire (away from PulseAudio) as the default sound/low-level multimedia framework. A switch had been planned for a while, but there were some issues on a Wayland session, so it had to wait. Those are now all resolved, and you will see Pipewire as the default on this ISO. For those who still prefer PulseAudio, the installer Calamares now has a module added (KaOS only), that gives users the option to select which sound server they prefer (with Pipewire set as default). Third is the removal of QtWebKit. Upstream Qt abandoned it some ten years ago, but a fork picked up maintenance. Unfortunately, that maintenance stopped a few years ago, so it is time to move away from QtWebKit. All that still depended on it are now ready to move to QtWebEngine. A couple could not do that move, thus they were removed from the repositories.