Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 35 of the year 2024
To this Week 35 of the year and fifth of the month of August (26/08 to 01/09) of the year 2024 in the Linuxverse, we offer you our timely and customary weekly summary on the news of releases of Distributions based on Linux and BSD. Such as the LibreELEC, 4MLinux and Relianoid Distributions, which we will highlight this week.
And as you already know, We bring many of these launch news directly from the websites of «DistroWatch, OS.Watch y FOSS Torrent». While, from the website of «Archive OS» We mention at the end, the news about the recovery and dissemination of ISO files from discontinued GNU/Linux Distros. So, without further ado, below we will address the releases of the «GNU/Linux Distros of the Linuxverse for Week 35 of the year 2024».
Distros of the Linuxverse: News of Week 34 of the year 2024
But, before starting to comment on each of these new GNU/Linux Distros releases that have happened in the «Linuxverse during Week 35 of the year 2024 », we recommend you explore a previous related post with this same series of publications, at the end of it:
Linuxverse distros that have been updated during Week 35 of the year 2024
LibreELEC logo
FreeELEC 12.0.1
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: August 26th, 2024.
- Download Links: FreeELEC 12.0.1.
- Featured news: This new update called «LibreELEC 12.0.1. 21.1» includes some interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the most notable are: The use of Kodi 6.6.46, Linux Kernel 64 and a few other miscellaneous minor updates and fixes. Among which it is worth noting that if Widevine is used to access DRM-protected streaming services like Prime Video, Netflix etc., the Widevine CDN folder in /storage/.kodi/cdm on the switched devices must be removed before first use, as the existing arm libraries do not work on aarch64 systems. Then, on first use after removal, the aarchXNUMX Widevine libraries will be downloaded and installed.
LibreELEC is a fork of OpenELEC, which under the hood uses the Linux kernel and Kodi. The basic principle of the distribution is that "everything should work out of the box" making the user not need to worry about maintaining the system. The distribution uses a system to download and install updates automatically. In addition, it allows the expansion of the distribution's functionality through a system of add-ons that are installed from a separate repository. About LibreElec
4MLinux 46.0
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: August 27th, 2024.
- Download Links: 4MLinux 46.0.
- Featured news: This new update called «4MLinux 46.0» includes interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: The inclusion of LibreOffice 24.8.0.3 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.38, Gnumeric 1.12.57), plus Firefox 124.0 and Chrome 128.0.6613.84, plus Thunderbird 115.12.2, Audacious 4.4, VLC 3.0.21 and SMPlayer 24.5.0, plus Mesa 24.0.4 and Wine 9.12. And now, it also offers a lightweight HTTP/FTP server BusyBox 1.36.1 plus Perl 5.38.2, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.11.8 and Ruby 3.3.0. Furthermore, this is the first release to include GTK version 4. Finally, it includes the addition of support for EMF images and CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG images, improvements for compatibility with older audio formats. Also, new applications already installed, such as: DVDAuthor, QV4l2, VCDImager, and the classic GNU Go game added to the 4MLinux GamePack (downloadable extension).
4MLinux is a custom, minimalistic distribution that is not a branch of other projects and uses a JWM-based graphical environment. Moreover, it can be used not only as a live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user problems, but also as an operating system for recovering from failures and as a platform for launching LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) servers. Finally,Another feature that makes it stand out is its simplicity, which makes it have low RAM and CPU consumption. About 4MLinux
Relianoid 7.4.0
- Official Web site
- Official launch announcement: August 27th, 2024.
- Download Links: Relianoid 7.4.0.
- Featured news: : This new update called "Relianoid 7.4.0. 7" includes interesting and useful improvements, changes and fixes, among which the following stand out: At the system level it now offers UEFI compatibility, and several improvements among which some stand out such as changes in the web interface GUI, the seamless upgrade from CEv8 to EEvXNUMX, the implementation of advanced quality control best practices, improved memory usage when downloading large files, among other improvements. Finally, it includes useful and interesting fixes such as: The fdpoll bad file descriptor warning among other general warnings within the operating system.
Relianoid is a GNU/Linux Distribution based on Debian and built as a software solution for load balancing management over test, development and QA environments. And it is available in the following editions: Community (Free) and Enterprise (Commercial). About Relianoid
Other interesting Distros from the Linuxverse updated in week 35 of 2024
And so as not to leave any out, it is also worth mentioning the official announcement of other well-known GNU/Linux Distros releases during this period of time:
On DistroWatch, OS.Watch and FOSS Torrent
- NethSecurity 8.2: August 28.
- PorteuX 1.6: August 29.
- Ubuntu 24.04.1: August 29.
- RebornOS 2024.08.03: August 29.
- ArcLinux 24.09: August 29.
- System Rescue 11.02: August 29.
- Rhino Linux 2024.2: August 30.
- Debian 11.11, Debian 12.7 y Debian Education 12.7: August 31.
- Linux From Scratch 12.2: September, 01th.
Archive OS
- Educated Linux: August 26.
- ManuetOS: August 28.
- RDOS: August 30.
Summary
In short, we hope that this Thirty-fifth post (week 35) of this series dedicated to «News from the Linuxverse Distros for each week of the year 2024 » I hope you liked it and found it useful, both informative and technically. Especially regarding the latest releases of the LibreELEC, 4MLinux and Relianoid distributions, which we have highlighted today.
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