The release of the Nitrux 1.3.9 distribution kit, built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the OpenRC initialization system, has been published. The distribution develops its own NX Desktop, which is an add-on to the KDE Plasma user environment. To install additional applications, the AppImages self-contained package system and its own NX Software Center are promoted. The boot images are 4.6 GB and 1.4 GB in size. The developments of the project are distributed under free licenses.
The NX Desktop offers a different styling, its own implementation of the system tray, notification center and various plasmoids, such as a network connection configurator and a multimedia applet for volume control and media playback control. Among the applications developed by the project, there is also an interface for configuring the NX Firewall, which allows you to manage network access at the level of individual applications. Among the applications included in the basic package: Index file manager (Dolphin can also be used), Kate text editor, Ark archiver, Konsole terminal emulator, Chromium browser, VVave music player, VLC video player, LibreOffice office suite and Pix image viewer.
In the new release:
- The distribution has moved from the Ubuntu package base (with some packages ported from Devuan) to Debian GNU/Linux.
- Packages with the Linux kernel 5.4.108, 5.10.26, 5.11.10, Linux Libre 5.10.26 and Linux Libre 5.11.10, as well as the 5.11 kernel with patches from the Liquorix and Xanmod projects are offered for installation.
- Desktop components have been updated to KDE Plasma 5.21.2, KDE Frameworksn 5.79.0 and KDE Gear (KDE Applications) 20.12.3. Updated applications including Kdenlive 20.12.3, LibreOffice 7.1.1, Firefox 87.0.
- Based on the Lightly theme, a new application style, KStyle, has been introduced to replace the previous Kvantum theme and offer multiple window decoration options. By default, the window control buttons are moved to the upper left corner.
- The interface for previewing themes has been redesigned.
- Added new modules KCM (KConfig Module): Online Accounts and Software Updates.
- Up to version 1.2.1, a set of applications based on the Maui framework, designed for developing cross-platform graphic applications, has been updated. Added new Shelf and Clip apps.
- Added KIO Fuse add-on that allows any application to access files on external hosts (SSH, SAMBA/Windows, FTP, TAR/GZip/BZip2, WebDav). KIO Fuse uses the FUSE mechanism to reflect external files in the local file system, which allows you to work with remote storages not only from programs based on KDE frameworks, but also from applications based on other frameworks, such as LibreOffice, Firefox and GTK-based applications.
- Removed mpv and qpdfviewer from distribution.
- On the same package base as the main release, a truncated assembly (minimal ISO) was formed, 1.4 GB in size.
Source: opennet.ru