Latest news 2021-09-05

NuTyX 21.09.0 available with cards 2.4.136

The NuTyX team is happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 21.09.0 and cards 2.4.136.

The xorg-server graphics server version 1.20.13, the Mesa 3D library in 21.2.1, gtk3 3.24.30 and qt 5.15.2.

The python interpreters are en 3.9.6 et 2.7.18.

The XFCE desktop environment is updated to version 4.16.

The MATE desktop environment is a 1.26 version .

The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 40.4.

The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 5.22.5, Framework 5.85.0 and applications in 21.08.1.

Available browsers are: firefox 91.0.2, chromium 92.0.4515.159, epiphany 40.3, etc

Many desktop applications have been updated as well like thunderbird 78.13.0, Scribus 1.5.7, libreoffice 7.1.5.2, gimp 2.10.24, etc.

Core NuTyX ships with Long Term Support (LTS) kernels: 4.9.282, 4.14.246, 4.19.206, 5.4.144 and 5.10.62 and the latest stable version 5.14.1 .

The kernel change logs are available here:

kernel 4.9.282 changelog

kernel 4.14.246 changelog

kernel 4.19.206 changelog

kernel 5.4.144 changelog

kernel 5.10.62 changelog

kernel 5.14.1 changelog

ISOs are available in LXDE, XFCE4, GNOME, MATE, KDE5, BASE and MINI (those last two propose command line interface only without graphical interface).

They are available on the download page.

What's up ?

The upgrade-nutyx command

The upgrade-nutyx command offer the possibility to upgrade automatically your NuTyX. A scheduled task planned every 30 minutes as default check for any updates. Availables packages for update are installed at next shutdown of the PC. To install upgrade-nutyx package, a;

sudo cards install upgrade-nutyx
will do it. Just run it ones with your own account. Explainations will be found in the post-install of the package.

The package manager cards

The cards search command shows now all the sub-packages as well if success packages found.

The collections

In order to simplify the configuration of NuTyX, the desktops collection is now integrated into the gui-extra collection.

Means NuTyX does use 5 official collections now.

Others

A discussion forum is back in service in a more NuTyX theme like.

Upgrade process

Even if NuTyX 21.09.0 is a minor release.

sudo cards upgrade

Once the upgrade process done, the "desktops" collection in the /etc/cards.conf file will be deleted automatically

Many NuTyX wallpapers are now included by default.

Thanks

Thanks to Spiky for his patience and his generosity in upgrading all thoses many packages.

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