In the past week the developer in charge of the Linux distribution Q4OS unveiled through an official statement on his blog the availability of the new version of your Linux distribution, coming is to its new version Q4OS 2.6.
In this new release of the distribution included some improvements to the system and especially the set of updates of the applications that make up this Linux distribution.
How to Live Aligned with the highlights of this new release We can find the desktop environments that make up this distro with its newest versions, among which we find Trinity Desktop in its version 14.0.5 and the KDE Plasma 5.8.6 desktop environment.
This is a distribution designed to offer classic (Trinity) style user interface and simple accessories, and to serve stable APIs for complex third-party applications, such as Google Chrome, VirtualBox, and developer tools.
La new version 2.6 is based on latest stable versions of the project Debian 9.5 Stretch.
Q4OS-specific fixes and patches are also reviewed and provided. All updates are immediately available to existing Q4OS users in the regular Q4OS repositories.
Q4OS offers its own exclusive utilities and functions, specifically the 'Desktop profiler' application to profile your computer in different professional work tools.
What's new about Q2OS 2.6 Scorpion
The new 2.6 release, announced, brings a new look to the desktop after using a darker title bar. Looks a bit like Arc GTK + look and makes Q4OS OS more beautiful than standard look
The 'Setup' utility was improved For a hassle-free installation of third-party applications, a 'Welcome Screen' with several built-in shortcuts to make system configuration easier.
For novice users, alternative environment installation options LXQT, XFCE, Cinnamon and LXDE and many more.
The operating system is now a fast and powerful operating system based on Debian 9.5 and offers a very productive working environment, security, reliability, long-term stability.
The conservative addition of the new Linux verified features as well as desktop environments other than the two mentioned above are: LXQT, XFCE, Cinnamon and LXDE.
The system is distinguished by its speed and very low hardware requirements. It works perfectly with new machines and with old computers.
The system it is also very useful for virtual cloud environments due to very low hardware requirements.
The new LTS version of Q4OS Scorpion will have support for 5 years, this being based on Debian 9 Stretch and in addition to the support of the Trinity 14.0.5 and KDE Plasma 5.8 LTS desktop environments.
This new release It is available for 64bit / x64 and 32bit / i686pae computers, as well as i386 systems without PAE extension.
ARM 64bit / arm64 and 32bit versions are also provided / armhf which we talked about here on the blog a few weeks ago in which version 2.5 added support to be able to be installed on a Raspberry Pi.
If you want to know more about these details you can consult the publication in the following link.
On the welcome screen, you will find the option to install "Multimedia Codecs" and drivers. Without difficulty, just click the button and a guide will appear. With a few clicks on "Next", you will see the "Install" option to install your codecs and drivers.
It is worth mentioning that the operating system also has a Windows Installer which allows you to install Q4OS through Microsoft environment.
Download Q4OS 2.6
Finally, if you want to get this new version of this Linux distribution, they should go to the official website of the project where they can obtain the download link of the distribution in its different versions, either for desktop computers or for computers with ARM processors.
Any of these images can be recorded with the help of Etcher, either on a USB or a microSD to use it on Raspberry pi.
You can get the images at the following link.
I have it installed and it works very well for me, I changed the desktop to Mate that I like best, the problem I have is that when I am in Mate I get the message of unauthorized operation when I try to mount disk drives or SD cards, but if you allow me when I use your default TDE desktop, I would like to know if there is a way to solve this problem.
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