MiniOS Flux 5.1, a USB-based distribution, has been released. MiniOS Flux is a minimalist edition with the Fluxbox window manager, inspired by the Slax distribution. The distribution uses a modular architecture, allowing for customized configurations to tailor the system to specific needs.
The release is available as compact images based on different versions of Debian, supporting the amd64 and i386 architectures:
- Debian 10 Buster (amd64 491 MB, i386 492 MB).
- Debian 11 Bullseye (amd64 508 MB, i386 510 MB).
- Debian 12 Bookworm (amd64 589 MB, i386 581 MB).
The most important changes in version 5.1.0:
- The SYSLINUX BIOS boot menu has been restored with multilingual support and built-in help documentation in all supported languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Russian). Compatibility issues with older hardware have been resolved.
- Improved work with persistent storage:
- Added support for size units for the "perchsize" parameter: MB, GB, TB (for example, "perchsize=4GB" or "perchsize=1T");
- The maximum DynFileFS size is set to 1 TB to prevent over-allocation of disk space;
- Improved messages when working with persistent storage mode, merged file system, and version/revision mismatches.
- Restored normal boot in the Ventoy environment with the addition of necessary symbolic links for compatibility.
- Optimized conditional loading of fonts in GRUB depending on lockdown status.
- User utilities have been updated:
- MiniOS Installer — added support for multilingual SYSLINUX configurations, improved bootloader detection and installation logic, added translations into French and Portuguese (Portugal);
- MiniOS Tools — improved automatic detection of bootloader type in "sb2iso", added support for bash autocompletion for "dir2sb", "rmsbdir", "savechanges" and "sb2dir";
- MiniOS Kernel Manager - expanded multilingual support;
- Flux Tools — Added support for translations via gettext, integrated Session Manager and Kernel Manager.
- Improved compatibility of built-in utilities with older versions of bash (requirement lowered to version 4.4).
Source: opennet.ru
