The release of the Nitrux 2.8.0 distribution kit, built on the Debian package base, KDE technologies and the OpenRC initialization system, has been published. The project offers its own NX Desktop, which is an add-on to KDE Plasma. Based on the Maui library for the distribution, a set of typical user applications is developed that can be used on both desktop systems and mobile devices. To install additional applications, the AppImages self-contained package system is being promoted. The size of the full boot image is 3.3 GB. 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. Applications built using the MauiKit framework include Index file manager (Dolphin can also be used), Note text editor, Station terminal emulator, VVave music player, Clip video player, NX Software Center, and Pix image viewer.
The main innovations of Nitrux 2.8:
- The distribution kit was prepared for use on tablets and touch monitors. To organize text input without a physical keyboard, the on-screen keyboard Maliit Keyboard has been added (not activated by default).
- By default, the Linux 6.2.13 kernel with Liquorix patches is used.
- NX Desktop components have been updated to KDE Plasma 5.27.4, KDE Frameworks 5.105.0 and KDE Gear (KDE Applications) 23.04. Updated software versions including Mesa 23.2-git and Firefox 112.0.1.
- The base assembly includes an environment for running WayDroid Android applications and provides for the launch of a service with a WayDroid container using OpenRC.
- Partitioning changes have been made to the installer, based on the Calamares toolkit. For example, we no longer create separate /Applications and /var/lib/flatpak sections for AppImages and Flatpaks when automatic mode is selected. The /var/lib partition uses F2FS instead of XFS.
- Performed performance optimizations. Enabled sysctls that change how the VFS cache works and paging memory to the swap partition, as well as enabling asynchronous non-blocking I/O. The prelink technology is used, which allows you to speed up the loading of programs related to a large number of libraries. The limit on the number of open files has been increased.
- The zswap mechanism is enabled by default to shrink the swap partition.
- Added support for file sharing via NFS.
- The fscrypt utility is included.
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