The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Nov/3). Linux kernel was updated to 6.0.6-2. Language files de_DE, el_GR.UTF-8, es_ES, fr_FR, ja_JP, pl_PL, sk_SK, and tr_TR were updated. Thanks to Michael Vinzenz, Stamatis Mavrogiorgis, Juan Ramón Martínez, Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Akira Yoshiyama, Ondrej Dzivý Balucha, Kris and Volkan Gezer. Show options "-k0" and "-k1" in the restoring action for beginner mode in the ocs-onthefly. Include package ufw in live system. Disable glances service in live system. Add option "-sfs" in the dialog menu. The corresponding language files were updated, too.
The Welcome screen and Peppermint Hub have been redesigned. Peppermint Scope(Build log) has been added to allow visibility into the updates made to Peppermint. ICE has been removed. TKK Creator has been added to allow for tkinter theming. Suggested Packages has a new bootstrap theme. UEFI Boot problems have been corrected. Plymouth boot screen has been updated. A new theme has been applied to grub using the options from Adison Cavani. nala has been added. hBlock has been upgraded. Adjustments were made to xDaily to be more informative (Community requested). Kumo Icon Updated.
Most packages have been rebuilt here or upstream. Since 18 years Zenwalk follow the same guideline : being the only true 100% Slackware compatible striped-down optimized system. The main change in Zenwalk design lately, is the return of Mozilla Firefox as main browser. Due to the lack of improvements, especially performances issues and instability in Chromium. I also believe that privacy can be more easily achieved with Mozilla Firefox. The Zenwalk "SlackBuild" packaging utility has also been updated so that it now allows to build Slackware packages from any source tarball without any configuration, as well as from any .DEB Debian binary as long as it's using the same toolchain and shared libs as Zenwalk, as well as from any Github URL. You'll also notice some improvements in Netpkg : the multi-repository, dependency aware, package management system.
There are a few changes to note with this release, starting with the bootloader. On bootup, the first thing you'll notice is that the 2 entries for gma3600 are now gone. This may ultimately be a temporary change, but some time during the linux-5.x.x cycle, uvesafb/v86d/915resolution stopped working. There is a single bug report out there for this that was opened in July of this year to which nobody has been assigned and no answers have been given. The report links the breakdown to the hardening of the kernel which was going on during the 5.x.x cycle. I had been hoping that something would change, or get fixed, and the gma3600 entries would become functional again, but I've seen no movement on this issue. Rebuilt versions of the two packages (uvesafb-dkms, which includes v86d, and 915resolution-static) are still available in the bslx repository, but the boot options have been backed out of the distro and the installer. I will continue to monitor this situation in case there's any response to the bug report.
The Welcome screen and Peppermint Hub have been redesigned. Peppermint Scope(Build log) has been added to allow visibility into the updates made to Peppermint. ICE has been removed. TKK Creator has been added to allow for tkinter theming. Suggested Packages has a new bootstrap theme. UEFI Boot problems have been corrected. Plymouth boot screen has been updated. A new theme has been applied to grub using the options from Adison Cavani. nala has been added. hBlock has been upgraded. Adjustments were made to xDaily to be more informative (Community requested). Kumo Icon Updated.
This release includes GParted 1.4.0, updated packages, and other improvements. Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2022/Nov/03). Linux image updated to 6.0.6-2. More packages added including vim, pv, htop, bmon, nmon, zutils, pigz, xz-utils, zstd, zip, unzip, colordiff, xxd, vbindiff, cifs-utils, smbclient, nmap, xrdp, rdesktop, usbutils, vlan, parallel. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI, and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVidia, and Intel graphics.
The NuTyX team is happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 22.10.0 and cards 2.6.1. New toolchain gcc 12.2.0, glibc 2.36 and binutils 2.39. The xorg-server graphics server version 21.1.4, the Mesa 3D library in 22.1.7, Gtk4 4.8.2 and Qt 6.4.1 The python interpreters are at 3.10.8 and 2.7.18. The XFCE desktop environment is updated to version 4.16.1. The MATE desktop environment is a 1.26.0 version . The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 42.4 The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 5.26.2, Framework 5.99.0 and applications in 22.08.2. Available browsers are: Firefox 106.0.3, Chromium 107.0.5304.87, Epiphany 42.4, etc Many desktop applications have been updated as well like Telegram-desktop 4.1.1, Thunderbird 102.4.1, Scribus 1.5.8, Libreoffice 7.4.2.3, Gimp 2.10.32, etc. Core NuTyX ships with Long Term Support (LTS) kernels: 4.14.296, 4.19.262, 5.4.220, 5.10.152 and 5.15.76 and the latest stable version 6.0.6 .
It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Linuxfx version 11.2 22.04.4. This release is now based on Ubuntu 22.04.4 Jammy Jellyfish. Support for .exe and .msi applications has been improved with Wine 7.20, 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. There are several new features and improvements, so we recommend downloading this version immediately!
We've updated the following components of the distribution. For other information, see Notes. KDE Plasma to version 5.26.2, KDE Frameworks to version 5.99.0, and KDE Gear to version 22.08.2. Firefox to version 106.0.2. We've decided to add the NVIDIA Proprietary driver to the default installation, currently version 520.56.06, along with NVIDIA Prime, but not our X11 configuration. We've decided to change our policy about including this particular piece of proprietary software to make this distribution more accessible to users and to avoid creating a separate ISO file. The minimal ISO does not include the NVIDIA Proprietary driver, as we want to keep the size of the ISO image small. We're aware that NVIDIA had released an open-source driver, too; however, it only supports a handful of Professional graphics cards and almost none of their Consumer graphics cards. If NVIDIA decides to support more graphics cards with this driver, we will include it instead.
It was a significant update, and despite the extensive testing, issues were reported and we've worked hard to get them solved and roll them up promptly. We planned to release this update on Sunday, but we experienced some infrastructure issues that prevented this.