The release of the Nitrux 1.4.0 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 3.1 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:
- Desktop components have been updated to KDE Plasma 5.21.4, KDE Frameworksn 5.81.0 and KDE Gear (KDE Applications) 21.04. Improved integration with KDE Plasma for Nitrux-specific skins and color schemes. Screen saver design unified with the desktop.
- Updated applications including Kdenlive 21.04.0, LibreOffice 7.1.2.2, Firefox 88.0.
- Included is a new Communicator application for address book management, written using the Maui framework.
- Removed fgetty and Dash from the base distribution, which were not used. The KDE Partition Manager has been removed from the default set of applications.
- Packages with the Linux kernel 5.4.115, 5.10.33, 5.12, Linux Libre 5.12 and Linux Libre 5.10.33, as well as kernels 5.11 and 5.12 with patches from the Liquorix and Xanmod projects are offered for installation.
Source: opennet.ru