A new version of the PorteuX 2.9 distribution, based on Slackware and inspired by the Slax and Porteus projects, has been released. PorteuX features pre-configured environments based on Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce desktop environments, hardware acceleration for multimedia file processing on Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs, booting in Live mode in 3 seconds, a read-only system image with pre-installed applications from the PorteuX App Store, update rollback support, the copy2ram boot mode, and the ability to boot over the network. The project has created ISO images sized 625 MB (Cinnamon) and 801 MB (COSMIC).
Key changes:
- Work has been done to check the code and fix bugs in the installer, initrd, rc scripts, and porteux scripts.
- The Xfce packages have been updated to allow file drag-and-drop between windows without switching focus.
- Build options have been optimized for improved performance.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 7.3.1. The performance of zstd implementation and page cache read operations has been improved.
Support for the io_uring mechanism, required for some window managers like jay, is enabled by default. - The wget utility has been replaced with wget2.
- In the COSMIC desktop build, the image viewer cosmic-viewer has replaced gpicview.
- Thumbnail generation for PDF files has been enabled in the dolphin file manager.
- Firmware for Qualcomm Bluetooth chips and Cirrus sound cards has been added.
- Missing dependencies have been added to support the Vulkan API in the mpv multimedia player.
- A 32-bit gcc15-compat package has been added.
- The KDE-based environment has had breeze-grub, gcc-gfortran, kapidox, kio-gdrive, kpeople, kpeoplevcard, kwayland-integration, kwin-x11, openblas, and opencv removed.
- Versions of GNOME 51.1, KDE Plasma 6.8.2, COSMIC 1.11.0, and NVIDIA drivers 615.78.08 have been updated.
Source: opennet.ru
