Recently Leszek Lesner announced the launch of the new Neptune 5.6 update, the latest stable version of this Linux distribution.
For those readers who still do not know the system I can tell you that Neptune OS is a GNU / Linux distribution based on Debian 9.0 ('Stretch') that features the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
About Neptune OS
Neptune focuses on providing an elegant experience on the system, having multimedia applications as a primary focus.
Besides that they offer the user a "lightweight" version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
This means that they do not offer the latest available version of the environment, but rather that the developers carry out their tests and release it to the system with certain modifications.
The main goals of the distribution are to provide an attractive general purpose desktop with preconfigured media playback and to offer an easy-to-use USB installer with a persistence option.
The distribution It has some of its own tools with which to complement the system and the user experience in it. Of which we can highlight are Recffmpeg, Encode and ZevenOS-Hardwaremanager.
What's new in Neptune 5.6
This update is a refresh of the Neptune 5 ISO file, so installing or reinstalling Neptune doesn't need to download tons of updates.
In this new update release we can find that hardware support has improved through Linux kernel 4.18.6 with bug fixes and especially new features added to it.
DDX drivers were updated for AMD / ATI and Intel for Table 18.1.9. X-Server has received an update to version 1.19.6, which fixes many bugs and improves speed.
Other important changes in this version are the system update to version 239 and the KDE applications to version 18.08.2.
Regarding network management, Network-manager received an update With which we can find the network administrator in version 1.14 to improve the stability and speed of the WiFi network.
And on the side of the desktop environment we can highlight that Plasma Desktop has been updated to version 5.12.7.
These updates benefited Krunner to enable the configuration of web shortcuts and its options for plug-in spell checking.
SFTP connections through KIO are now more stable and reliable, even after reconnecting to a device.
Regarding web browsing Chromium was updated and we can find it in its version 70 which offers speed improvements and security bug fixes.
The email client had to be updated to its Thunderbird 60.2 version to improve security and above all apply some patches to various security errors found.
The distribution office suite LibreOffice is now available in version 6.1.3 with which we can take advantage of all its features and options that this update of Branch 6.x offers us
WiFi Firmware received an update to improve speed, stability, and support for new WiFi chipsets.
The location and Plymouth were set in the Calamares system installer.
Download Neptune OS 5.6
Finally, for all those who want to be able to obtain this new image of the system and install this Linux distribution on their computers or simply want to test the system under a virtual machine.
You just have to go to the official website of the distribution and in its download section you can get the image of the system.
Also, it is important to mention that the system is only available for 64-bit architecture.
The minimum requirements to be able to install this distribution on your computers are:
- 1 Ghz Intel / AMD 64-bit processor or higher.
- Ram memory: 1.6 GB or more.
- Disk space: 8 GB or more.
If you already have a version of the 5.x branch of Neptune you can perform the system update directly from a terminal with the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
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