The new version of 4MLinux 32.0 is now available and these are its news

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Some days ago the release of the new version of 4MLinux 32.0 was announced, which comes with some pretty interesting changes, among which The inclusion of the Linux Kernel 5.4 LTS, LibreOffice 6.4 is highlighted, Mesa 19.3.0 controllers 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 and it can even run on 128MB of RAM. The desktop edition only applies to 32-bit architecture, while the server edition is 64 bit.

4MLinux too can be used as a rescue CD together with a complete working system or as a mini server.

This little 32-bit Linux distribution focuses on four characteristics (already mentioned) and from which its name also comes:

  1. maintenance (such as restoring a CD)
  2. multimedia (for playing DVD video discs and other files)
  3. miniserver (using the inetd daemon)
  4. Mystery (providing various little Linux games).

The desk 4MLinux comes with JWM (Joe's Windows Manager) which is a lightweight stacking window manager for the X Window System.

While to manage the desktop backgrounds, a light and powerful feh is used. It uses PCMan File Manager, which is also a standard file manager for LXDE.

The default desktop screen has a dock at the top with the most common applications pinned.

4MLinux 32.0 Main New Features

This new version of 4MLinux 32.0 is presented with the Added support for decoding AV1 video via dav1d from FFmpeg.

In addition to the file manager PCManFM provides the ability to create thumbnails for videos and documents in PS and PDF formats.

Have added various apps new in 4MLinux 32.0, including source code editor SciTE, the GNU Nano text editor and the mg text editor (formerly MicroGnuEmacs). Also, it seems that users can now download the editor Vim with the gVim graphical user interface as an extension.

To this we must add that 4MLinux 32.0 adds better support for Intel graphics cards when pre-installed with Mesa 19.3.0 graphics stack with VDPAU emulation.

As for the heart of the system we can find that the Linux 5.4 LTS kernel has been included which ensures greater hardware compatibility with the distribution, in addition to receiving all the news of this version of Linux.

Finally from the system packaging it is mentioned that versions of: Wine 5.2, LibreOffice 6.4.2.1, AbiWord 3.0.4, GIMP 2.10.18, Gnumeric 1.12.46, DropBox 91.4.548, Firefox 73.0.1, Chromium 79.0.3945.130, Thunderbird 68.5.0, Audacious 3.10.1, VLC 3.0.8, mpv 0.30.0, Apache httpd 2.4.41, MariaDB 10.4.12, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.3.14, Perl 5.30.1, Python 3.7.5.

Finally, if you want to know more about this launch, you can consult the original note at the following link.

Download and get 4MLinux 32.0

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 ISO image size is 830MB for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

At the end of your download you can use the Etcher multiplatform tool to save the image to a pendrive and thus boot your system from a USB.

Or use unetbootin which is another multi-platform tool. In the case of creation in Linux, you can also use the dd command.

The link is as follows.

Since 4MLinux is a minimalistic distribution, it can run in a minimum of 128MB of RAM to 1024MB, depending on the installation media.


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  1.   poronga said
    ago 4 years

    Because of the distro, I do not know why they waste time making distros that are useless, I do not see what their novelty is, it offers nothing that others do not. I don't see much life in it. The only distro that managed to be new and useful is MX Linux. After the most used are still the traditional ones, ubuntu, it is its different flavors, Mint, debian, arch (delicacy its best reference) gentoo, and the bsd and some other that escapes me. Then there is nothing, all very limited distros, retrograde that only show the intention of people, to want to show themselves.

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