4MLinux is a standalone Linux distribution that provides an ultra-lightweight JWM desktop
The launch of the new version of 4MLinux 44, a version that continues on top of the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel, but includes several new features, such as Mesa3D drivers to provide support for the Video Acceleration API (VA-API), improved support for SPL printing, wireless networking, and more.
4MLinux a minimalist custom distribution which is not a branch of other projects and uses a graphical environment based on JWM. 4MLinux can be used not only as a live environment to play multimedia files and solve user problems, but also as a system to recover from failures and a platform to launch servers LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP).
This is one of those Linux distributions that requires less system resources also can be used as a rescue CD along with a full working system or as a mini server and can even run on 128 MB of RAM.
4MLinux 44.0 Main New Features
In this new version that is presented of 4MLinux 44 Support for Mesa3D controllers stands out to toast Video Acceleration AP supportI (VA-API) system-wide, as well as improved support for SPL printing, as well as improved support for wireless networks.
In addition to this, in 4MLinux 44 new software elements have been added (which are already available as downloadable extensions) including the audio player QMMP, the Media Player Classic QT video player and Capitan Sevilla.
As well the update of the system package stands out and in this release of 4MLinux 44, the new versions of: on the part of the office suites, LibreOffice 7.6.3, AbiWord 3.0.5, the GIMP 2.10.34 image editor, Gnumeric 1.12.55, the browsers are included. Firefox web 119.0.1, Chrome 119.0.6045.123, Thunderbird email client 115.4, for the multimedia content part there is Audacious 2, VLC 4.3.1, SMPlayer 3.0.20, Mesa drivers 23.6.0 and Wine 23.1.4.
On the other hand, 4MServer, 4MLinux server edition has also been updated with the Apache web server 2.4.58 and the MariaDB 10.6.16 database management, as well as the PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33 and PHP 8.1.25 programming languages. Perl 5.36.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.11.4, and Ruby 3.2.2 packages
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- One of the unusual updates in this version is the default wallpaper
- alsa 1.2.7.2
- clamav 1.2.1
- ffmpeg 4.4.4
- gparted 1.5.0
- 5.15.8 qt
- openssh 9.5p1
- openssl 1.1
Finally, it is worth mentioning that with this release, the previous version of 4MLinux 43 becomes marked as "old stable" and that the 4MLinux 42.0 version has reached the end of its useful life, and with this users are encouraged to update to the version 4MLinux 44 as soon as possible.
If you are interested in knowing more about it, you can consult the details In the following link.
Download and get 4MLinux 44.0
If you are not a user of the distribution and want to use it on your computer or test it in a virtual machine.
You can get the system image, soRegrettably, you must go to the official website of the project where you can find the links in its download section. The size of the ISO image is (1.3 GB), a selection of programs for server systems (1.3 GB) and a truncated environment (14 MB).
At the end of your download you can use the Etcher multiplatform tool to save the image to a flash drive and thus boot your system from a USB or also use unetbootin which is another multiplatform tool. In the case of creation in Linux, you can also resort to using the dd command.
Since 4MLinux is a minimalistic distribution, it can run in a minimum of 128MB of RAM to 1024MB, depending on the installation media.
On the other hand, if you are already a user of the system and you just want to jump to the new version without having to reinstall from scratch. You can run the following command in a terminal to update your system to the latest version:
zk update