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LinuxTLE was a community Linux distribution developed in Thailand and designed for the Thai speaking audience. The early versions were based on Red Hat Linux and Fedora, but starting with version 8.0, the developers have chosen Ubuntu as the distribution's new base system.
Status: Discontinued
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2024-08-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 46.0 |
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4MLinux is a small Linux distribution with four areas of focus: system maintenance, multimedia, server, and games. The project's latest release is version 46.0 which no longer features a stand-alone Server edition. "As always, the new major release has some new features. The 4MLinux Server is now available out of the box (meaning that there is no separate 4MServer for download). Support for Windows Enhanced Metafiles (EMF images) as well as raw files from digital cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG images) has been added. Support for old audio formats (originating from Amiga, Commodore and the like) has been greatly improved. New applications: DVDAuthor (set of DVD authoring tools), qv4l2 (Qt-based application for testing V4L devices), VCDImager (set of VCD/SVCD authoring tools). Classic GNU Go game has been added to the 4MLinux GamePack package (downloadable extension). And finally, this is the first release that includes GTK version 4." Additional information is presented in the release announcement. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-46.0-64bit.iso (1,429MB, pkglist). |
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2024-03-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 45.0 |
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4MLinux is a small, indepedent distribution which focuses on four areas: network services, games, multimedia, and system rescue. The project's latest release, version 45.0, offers video scaling, new games, and upgrades the OpenSSL version to OpenSSL 3 from 1.1. "As always, the new major release has some new features. Lots of new printing drivers have been added. FFmpeg in 4MLinux now offers improved support for video scaling (resizing) via zimg library. Additionally, FFmpeg and MPlayer make us of Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP effect library (libbs2b) for better handling of stereo audio. Classic CHAMP Kong game has been added to the 4MLinux DOSBox package. Basilisk web browser is now available a downloadable extension. And finally, OpenSSL in 4MLinux has been system-wide upgraded to its version 3." Additional details are available in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-45.0-64bit.iso (1,371MB), 4MServer-45.0-64bit.iso (1,433MB). |
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2023-11-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 44.0 |
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The 4MLinux project develops a lightweight distribution with a focus on four key areas (gaming, multimedia, servers, and maintenance. The project's latest release is version 44.0 which introduces some new features. The release announcement reads: "The status of the 4MLinux 44.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.6.3 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55), surf the Internet with Firefox 119.0.1 and Chrome 119.0.6045.123, send emails via Thunderbird 115.4.2, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.3.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.20 and SMPlayer 23.6.0, play games powered by Mesa 23.1.4 and Wine 8.19. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 6.1.60, Apache 2.4.58, MariaDB 10.6.16, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33, and PHP 8.1.25). Perl 5.36.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.11.4, and Ruby 3.2.2 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features. Mesa3D drivers providing system-wide support for Video Acceleration API (VA-API) have been added. QMMP (audio player), Media Player Classic QT (video player), Capitan Sevilla (platform video game) are now available as downloadable extensions. Additionally, the new stable release offers improved support for SPL printing as well as wireless networking." Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-44.0-64bit.iso (1,197MB),
4MServer-44.0-64bit.iso (1,269MB). |
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2023-07-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 43.0 |
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The 4MLinux distribution - which focuses on server, multimedia, system rescue, and games - has published a new stable version: 4MLinux 43.0. The new release adds a few new media and game packages and provides additional web browsers as optional add-ons. The release announcement lists the key changes: "The status of the 4MLinux 43.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.5.5 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55), surf the Internet with Firefox 115.0.2 and Chrome 115.0.5790.110, send emails via Thunderbird 115.0.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.3.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.18 and SMPlayer 23.6.0, play games powered by Mesa 23.1.1 and Wine 8.12. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 6.1.33, Apache 2.4.57, MariaDB 10.6.14, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33, and PHP 8.1.19.). Perl 5.36.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.11.3, and Ruby 3.1.4 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features. SoundFonts (for FluidSynth) and mtPaint (raster graphics editor) have been added. A few Java-based games (Flappy Bird, Karoshi, Micropolis, and Zuma) as well as a set proprietary web browsers (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera) are now available as downloadable extensions." Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-43.0-64bit.iso (1,171MB), 4MServer-43.0-64bit.iso (1,242MB), 4MLinux-43.0-core.iso (14MB). |
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2023-04-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 42.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance, games, multimedia, and servers. The independent project's latest release is version 42.0 which introduces a few new applications and a series of updates. "4MLinux 42.0 stable released. The status of the 4MLinux 42.0 series has been changed to stable. As always, the new major release has some new features. Krita (raster graphics editor) and Hex-a-Hop (video game) have been added as downloadable extensions. 4MLinux 42.0 comes with improved support for many image, audio and video formats. AlsaPlayer, Baka MPlayer, GNOME MPlayer, GNOME MPV, mp3blaster are now available out of the box. Big work has been done to adopt famous (but quite old) XMMS as the default media player in 4MLinux; it is able to open modern audio and video files (support for MOD and MIDI music is also included). One can also download a rich set of XMMS skins with one click." The new release comes with LibreOffice 7.5.2, AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55, Firefox 111.0, Chromium 106.0.5249.91, Thunderbird 102.8.0, Audacious 4.3, VLC 3.0.18, SMPlayer 22.7.0, Mesa 22.2.3, Wine 8.3, Linux kernel 6.1.10, Apache 2.4.56, MariaDB 10.6.12, PHP 8.1.17, Perl 5.36.0, Python 3.10.8, Ruby 3.1.3. The release announcement has more details. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-42.0-64bit.iso (1,145MB), 4MServer-42.0-64bit.iso (1,217MB). |
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2022-12-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 41.0 |
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The independent 4MLinux distribution has published a new stable release. The new version, 4MLinux 41.0, offers a number of updates and new hardware support. A few new applications have been added to the distribution: "As always, the new major release has some new features. New applications available out of the box: FileZilla (FTP client), XPaint and GNU Paint (simple image-editing tools), nvme (command-line utility for managing NVM-Express partitions) as well as a collection of small SDL games. New applications available as downloadable extensions: BlueGriffon (HTML editor), The Legend of Edgar (platform game), ioquake3 (Quake III port), and BZFlag (tank battle game). The default video player in 4MLinux is now SMPlayer, and the default audio player is Audacious. Additionally, it is now possible to install 4MLinux on a Btrfs partition with the help of Syslinux, which acts as a boot manager." Additional information is presented in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-41.0-64bit.iso (1,195MB), 4MServer-41.0-64bit.iso (1,260MB), 4MLinux-41.0-core.iso (13MB). |
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2022-07-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 40.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The project's latest stable release introduces a number of changes to media support and adds encrypted volume utilities. "As always, the new major release has some new features. Legacy MPlayer with MEncoder are now available out of the box (HyperVC can be used as MEncoder’s GUI for transcoding). Many system-wide changes has been done to improve 3D support (both on real and virtual machines). QEMU (with its GUI called AQEMU) as well as TrueCrypt (encryption utility) are now also included. New games: GNOME Mahjongg (available out of the box) and Entombed! (available as a downloadable extension). And finally, a preliminary support for NVM Express interface has been added (currently it seems to work well in VirtualBox)." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-40.0-64bit.iso (1,076MB), 4MServer-40.0-64bit.iso (1,138MB), 4MLinux-40.0-core.iso (13MB). |
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2022-03-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 39.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniture Linux distribution focusing on four main capabilities. The project has published a new release, 4MLinux 39.0, which provides a series of updates to key packages along with new hardware support. There are also a few new features: "As always, the new major release has some new features. FSP (File Service Protocol) server is now included out of the box (gFTP can be used as its GUI client). Many system-wide changes have been done to improve font rendering. The 4MLinux installation script has been patched to provide better handling of JBD partitions. New applications available as downloadable extensions: Bluefish (advanced text editor), Ventoy (utility used for writing image files), TripleA (strategy game written in Java). And finally, youtube-dl has been replaced with yt-dlp for better handling of YouTube videos." Additional information can be found in the release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-39.0-64bit.iso (1,045MB), 4MServer-39.0-64bit.iso (1,107MB). |
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2021-11-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 38.0 |
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The 4MLinux distribution is a minimal operating system with four focuses (on gaming, server utilities, system maintenance, and multimedia). The project's latest release is 4MLinux 38.0 which introduces several package upgrades and a few new features. "As always, the new major release has some new features. The following applications are now available out of the box: Audacity (audio editor), GQmpeg (music player), GRUB2 (boot loader), Minitube (YouTube player), Musique (audio player), wxCam (webcam application), xmp (command-line mod player). Basic support for 32-bit applications is now also included. PHP in the 4MLinux Server comes with the improved image handling via an external GD Graphics Library. And finally, the 4MLinux GamePack is now available as a downloadable extension. It includes a big collection of classic Linux games." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-38.0-64bit.iso (1,020MB), 4MServer-38.0-64bit.iso (1,081MB). |
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2021-08-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 37.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 37.0, the new stable build of the project's minimalist distribution for desktops and servers. Its "four Ms" represent maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), mini-server (using the inetd daemon) and mystery (providing several small Linux games). 4MLinux 37.0 updates many of the popular packages to their latest versions; this includes, LibreOffice 7.1.5, GIMP 2.10.24, Gnumeric 1.12.48, Firefox 90.0.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.212, Thunderbird 78.12.0, VLC 3.0.16 and MESA 21.0.1. The Linux kernel is at version 5.10.47. "The status of the 4MLinux 37.0 series has been changed to STABLE. As always, the new major release has some new features. FluidSynth (a software synthesizer) with VMPK (Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard) have been added. Dmidecode (a tool to read hardware-related data from your SMBIOS) has also been included. HandBrake (a video transcoder) and qBittorrent (an advanced BitTorrent client) are now available as downloadable extensions. 4MLinux now uses its own servers for updating the ClamAV virus database. The Linux kernel patched to support the reiser4 file system has been added to the 4MLinux drivers collection." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-37.0-64bit.iso (988MB), 4MServer-37.0-64bit.iso (1,052MB). |
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2021-03-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 36.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 36.0, the latest stable build of the project's minimalist desktop and server distribution combining "four Ms": maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), mini-server (using the inetd daemon) and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The new release ships with a number of updated packages, including LibreOffice 7.1.2, AbiWord 3.0.4, GIMP 2.10.22, Gnumeric 1.12.48, Firefox 87.0, Chromium 88.0.4324.96, Thunderbird 78.9.0, Audacious 4.0.5, VLC 3.0.12, MESA 20.3.1 and Wine 6.1. "The status of the 4MLinux 36.0 series has been changed to STABLE. As always, the new major release has some new features. Support for NBD (network block device) protocol has been added. Support for exFAT file system is now available via exfatprogs and GParted. New applications: GtkHash (a program to calculate checksums) and VeraCrypt (a popular encryption tool). Additionally, UNetbootin (a utility to create live USB images) is now available out of the box. All Flash Player dependencies have been removed from the 4MLinux repositories." See the release announcement for more information. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-36.0-64bit.iso (930MB), 4MServer-36.0-64bit.iso (991MB). |
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2020-12-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 35.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 35.0, a quarterly update of the project's minimalist desktop and server distribution featuring "four Ms": maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), mini-server (using the inetd daemon) and mystery (providing several small Linux games). As usual, the new release updates many of the base packages, but it also includes some new ones, such as Inkscape and Dangerous Dave (a game): "The status of the 4MLinux 35.0 series has been changed to stable. As always, the new major release has some new features. Inkscape (vector graphics editor) is now available as a downloadable extension. Dangerous Dave has been added to the collection of games which can be played via DOSBox. Notepad++ (advanced code editor) has been included in the 4MLinux Wine package. Nmap (network scanner) and ircII (IRC client) have been added to the 4MLinux Server." Here is the complete release announcement as published on the project's Blogspot pages. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-35.0-64bit.iso (777MB), 4MServer-35.0-64bit.iso (834MB). |
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2020-09-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 34.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The project's latest stable release is 4MLinux 34.0. "The status of the 4MLinux 34.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.0.1.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.4, GIMP 2.10.20, Gnumeric 1.12.47), share your files using DropBox 103.4.383, surf the Internet with Firefox 80.0.1 and Chromium 83.0.4103.116, send emails via Thunderbird 78.2.2, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.0.4, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.11 and mpv 0.32.0, play games powered by Mesa 20.0.7 and Wine 5.14. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 5.4.61, Apache 2.4.46, MariaDB 10.5.5, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.4.9). Perl 5.30.2, Python 2.7.18, and Python 3.8.2 are also available." Further details may be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5) (pkglist): 4MLinux-34.0-64bit.iso (884MB), 4MServer-34.0-64bit.iso (939MB). |
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2020-06-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 33.0 |
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4MLinux is a miniature Linux distribution which includes tools for data rescue, multimedia, network services, and games. The distribution's latest version is 4MLinux 33.0, which now provides the TFTP daemon, improved font rendering, and the Palemoon web browser as an optional add-on. "The status of the 4MLinux 33.0 series has been changed to stable. As always, the new major release has some new features: support for Brotli compressed data streams has been added; PCManFM in is now able to create thumbnails of PSD (Photoshop) documents; the 4MLinux server comes with a new TFTP daemon; font rendering in JWM has been improved; the Pale Moon web browser is now available as a downloadable extension, while nnn (small yet powerful file manager) is included out of the box. Finally, all the 4MLinux ISO images are now hybridized, meaning that you can use the dd command to create a live USB. This should work for both BIOS and UEFI systems." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-33.0-64bit.iso (893MB), 4MLinux-33.0-core.iso (14MB), 4MServer-33.0-64bit.iso (952MB). |
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2020-03-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 32.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 32.0, the latest update of the project's minimalist distribution featuring "four Ms": maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), mini-server (using the inetd daemon) and mystery (providing several small Linux games). This version updates most base packages and adds several new software applications: "The status of the 4MLinux 32.0 series has been changed to STABLE. As always, the new major release has some new features. Better support for Intel video cards (via MESA 3D drivers with VDPAU emulation). PCManFM in 4MLinux can now create video thumbnails (using FFmpeg) as well as PS/PDF thumbnails (using ImageMagick). AV1 video decoding is finally available out of the box (via FFmpeg with the dav1d library). Good news for nerds! The following applications have been added for them: SciTE (source code editor), GNU nano (with spell checker), mg (originally called MicroGnuEmacs). Additionally, Vim (with gVim) is now available as a downloadable extension." Continue to the release announcement for further information and a screenshot. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-32.0-64bit.iso (777MB), 4MServer-32.0-64bit.iso (834MB). |
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2019-12-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 31.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 31.0, a new stable version of the project's minimalist distribution with focus on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), mini-server (using the inetd daemon) and mystery (providing several small Linux games). This is the distribution's first release without the i686 flavour: "4MLinux 31.0 STABLE released. This is a milestone release due to the fact that 4MLinux has finally dropped 32-bit support. It is now a fully 64-bit operating system. For this reason one must perform a fresh installation. There are two editions available for download - desktop and desktop with LAMP server. If you need a pure server environment (i.e. without desktop), you can try an official 4MLinux fork called TheSSS which is only about 120MB in size." The release comes with Linux kernel 4.19.86, LibreOffice 6.3.4, AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.14, Gnumeric 1.12.44, DropBox 85.4.155, Firefox 71.0, Chromium 78.0.3904.108, Thunderbird 68.3.0, Audacious 3.10.1, VLC 3.0.8 and many popular server packages and development tools. See the complete release announcement for more information and a screenshot of the default desktop. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-31.0-64bit.iso (747MB), 4MServer-31.0-64bit.iso (802MB). |
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2019-09-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 30.0 |
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4MLinux is a small Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), mini-server (using the inetd daemon) and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The project's latest release, 4MLinux 30.0, provides OpenGL support and better sound support for older games. The release announcement reads: "The status of the 4MLinux 30.0 series has been changed to stable. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.2.6 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.12, Gnumeric 1.12.44), share your files using DropBox 79.4.143, surf the Internet with Firefox 68.0.2 and Chromium 76.0.3809.100, send emails via Thunderbird 60.8.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.7.1 and mpv 0.29.1, play games powered by Mesa 19.0.5 and WINE 4.14. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.19.63, Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.4.7, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.3.8). Perl 5.28.1, Python 2.7.16, and Python 3.7.3 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features. OpenGL support in games is now available out of the box (no need to install additional drivers)." Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-30.0-32bit.iso (707MB), 4MServer-30.0-64bit.iso (773MB). |
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2019-06-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 29.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 29.0, a new stable version of the project's independently-developed distribution for desktops (32-bit with JWM) and servers (64-bit with a complete LAMP stack). The new version comes with updated Linux kernel version 4.19.41, updated desktop and server packages (LibreOffice 6.2.4, GIMP 2.10.10, DropBox 73.4.118, Firefox 66.0.5, Chromium 74.0.3729.108, MESA 18.3.1, Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.3.14, PHP 7.3.5 and Python 3.7.1), as well as several new features on both desktops and servers. From the release announcement: "The status of the 4MLinux 29.0 series has been changed to 'stable'. As always, the new major release has some new features: Audacious available out of the box, a new desktop sub-menu called 'Office' (with AbiWord, Gnumeric, LazPaint), spellcheck functionality added to Sylpheed and HexChat, improved LibreOffice installation script, better support for MINIX file system (via util-linux and GParted), much improved 3D acceleration in Quake2. And finally, the 4MServer now includes PHP 7.3 with NaCl cryptography support." Download (MD5, pkglist) 4MLinux 29.0 from SourceForge: 4MLinux-29.0-32bit.iso (720MB), 4MServer-29.0-64bit.iso (782MB). |
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2019-03-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 28.0 |
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A new version of 4MLinux, an independently-developed distribution for desktops (JWM, 32-bit) and servers (complete LAMP stack, 64-bit), has been released. Version 28.0 ships with Linux kernel 4.19.19, updated desktop and server packages (LibreOffice 6.2.1, GIMP 2.10.8, DropBox 66.4.84, Firefox 65, Chromium 72, MESA 18.2.0, Apache 2.4.38, MariaDB 10.3.12, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.2.15), as well as improved installation script: "The status of the 4MLinux 28.0 series has been changed to 'stable'. As always, the new major release has some new features: improved installation script (new disk formatting options have been added); much more firmware available (for network devices, sound cards and scanners); added support for reading bar codes (via ZBar), better support for Debian and Fedora packages (via Midnight Commander and Engrampa), new web browser (NetSurf) as well as new download manager (Gwget). Additionally, Electrum is now available as a downloadable extension (both Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets are supported by 4MLinux)." Read the full release announcement as published on the project's Blogspot page. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-28.0-32bit.iso (1,181MB), 4MServer-28.0-64bit.iso (1,238MB). |
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2018-12-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 27.0 |
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4MLinux 27.0 has been released. 4MLinux is a project building a set of Linux distributions for desktops (with JWM, 32-bit only) and servers (with the complete LAMP stack, 64-bit). The new version comes with assorted improvements on the multimedia and gaming fronts: "The status of the 4MLinux 27.0 series has been changed to STABLE. As always, the new major release has some new features: optional support for AV1 video coding (encoding via FFmpeg and decoding via VLC and mpv), an option to disable PulseAudio with one click (important for those who use 4MLinux to play classic video games such as DOOM), better support for display drivers when 4MLinux is running in KVM (important for those who use a VNC client to manage 4MServer). LazPaint (small yet powerfull raster image editor with layers) and Blender (professional 3D computer graphics software) have been added as downloadable extensions. Additionally, some good news for gamers: more engines available for XBoard (GNU Chess, GNU Shogi, Fairy-Max) as well as more video games to play (Duke3D, Liero, Strifle). A few small terminal-based games have been added, too." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-27.0-32bit.iso (1,136MB), 4MServer-27.0-64bit.iso (1,207MB). |
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2018-09-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 26.0 |
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Version 26.0 of 4MLinux, a minimalist distribution for desktops (with JWM) and servers (with the complete LAMP stack), has been released. The project's latest stable build comes with upgraded packages as well as support for modern image and video encoding: "The status of the 4MLinux 26.0 series has been changed to stable. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.1.0 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.6, Gnumeric 1.12.43), share your files using DropBox 55.4.171, surf the Internet with Firefox 61.0.2 and Chromium 68.0.3440.75, stay in touch with your friends via Thunderbird 52.9.1 and Skype for Web, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.3 and mpv 0.28.2, play games powered by Mesa 17.3.7 and Wine 3.14. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.14.64, Apache 2.4.34, MariaDB 10.3.9, PHP 5.6.37 and PHP 7.2.9). Perl 5.26.1, Python 2.7.14 and Python 3.6.4 are also available. 4MLinux 26.0 comes with some new features: Tcl/Tk (with a collection of small games) has been integrated into 4MLinux, Engrampa (archive manager) is finally able to open Debian packages, Git in 4MLinux has now both GUI and cgit web interface...." Continue to the release announcement for more details. Download (MD5) (pkglist): 4MLinux-26.0-32bit.iso (1,184MB), 4MServer-26.0-64bit.iso (1,253MB). |
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2018-06-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 25.0 |
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4MLinux is a small, 32-bit Linux distribution focusing on four capabilities: maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and mystery (providing several small Linux games). The project's latest release, 4MLinux 25.0, smooths out handling CA certificates, offers an option to disable the login screen and uses mpv as the default media player. The release announcement reads: "As always, a new major release comes with some new features: better handling of CA certificates (no need to accept them manually), full support for Zstandard data compression algorithm (4MLinux Backup Scripts), login screen can now be disabled (it's a response to user requests), GIMP 2.10 with full support for scanners and digital cameras, Python3 with Meson and Ninja (this is now, de facto, the main build system in GNOME/GTK+ ecosystem). The default media player in 4MLinux is now mpv (with GNOME MPV). Other players (MPlayer, SMPlayer, Xine and VLC) are available as downloadable extensions. Good news for modern computers: all these applications are now able to make use of hardware video acceleration (via VA-API and VDPAU). Good news for old computers: MPlayer, Xine and VLC can play videos without X Window System (use Midnight Commander to select files to play)." Download (MD5) (pkglist): 4MLinux-25.0-32bit.iso (1,162MB), 4MServer-25.0-64bit.iso (1,259MB). |
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2018-03-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 24.0 |
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4MLinux is a lightweight Linux distribution focusing on such capabilities as maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), and miniserver (using the inetd daemon). The project's latest release is 4MLinux 24.0 which is available in desktop and server editions. The status of the 4MLinux 24.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.0.0.1 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.8.22, Gnumeric 1.12.38), share your files using DropBox 43.4.49, surf the Internet with Firefox 58.0.2 and Chromium 64.0.3282.119, stay in touch with your friends via Thunderbird 52.6.0 and Skype for Web, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.9, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.0 and MPlayer SVN-r37946, play games powered by Mesa 17.1.4 and WINE 3.1. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.14.18, Apache 2.4.29, MariaDB 10.2.12, PHP 5.6.33 and PHP 7.2.2). Perl 5.26.0 and Python 2.7.13 are also available." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5) (pkglist): 4MLinux-24.0-32bit.iso (1,127MB), 4MServer-24.0-64bit.iso (1,222MB). |
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2017-11-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 23.0 |
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4MLinux is a simple Linux distribution for desktops and servers; it uses the lightweight JWM window manager together with the LTS Linux kernel 4.9 and somewhat conservative applications and tools, including the increasingly rare-to-see LILO bootloader. After prolonged testing, the distribution's 23 branch has now been declared "stable": "The status of the 4MLinux 23.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your own images with GIMP 2.8.22, edit your documents with LibreOffice 5.4.3 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2 with Gnumeric 1.12.35), share your files using DropBox 37.4.29, surf the Internet with Firefox 56.0 and Chromium 61.0.3163.100, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 5.5.0.1 and Thunderbird 52.4.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.9, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37931 and VLC 2.2.6. 4MLinux 23.0 comes with much improved support for FAAC, GIF, JPEG 2000, Monkey's Audio and Musepack file formats. GNOME Office has been added as a downloadable extension. Full support for SCSI, RAID and LVM devices is now available out of the box. And finally, the biggest change is related to the installation script, which now makes it possible to install 4MLinux on ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, Btrfs and NILFS2 partitions." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-23.0.iso (638MB, pkglist). |
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2017-07-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 22.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 22.0, a new stable version of the project's fast and lightweight mini Linux distribution featuring JWM as the preferred desktop user interface. This version comes with several new features, including the ability to set it up as a LAMP server: "The status of the 4MLinux 22.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.4.0 and GIMP 2.8.22, share them using DropBox 28.4.14, surf the Internet with Firefox 54.0 and Chromium 59.0.3071.86, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 5.3.0.1 and Thunderbird 52.2.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.8.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer and VLC 2.2.6, play games powered by Mesa 13.0.4 and Wine 2.10. You can also set up the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.9.33, Apache 2.4.25, MariaDB 10.2.6, PHP 5.6.30 and PHP 7.0.15). Perl 5.24.0 and Python 2.7.12 are also available. 4MLinux 22.0 comes with some amazing new features (Skype, FreeCol game, support for the LUKS disk encryption). However, the biggest changes are related to the 4MLinux Server, which is now feature-rich and the lightest and fastest server suite available on the market." Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-22.0.iso (531MB, pkglist). |
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2016-11-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 20.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has announced the availability of a new release. The new version, 4MLinux 20.0, supports booting in a range of environments and the distribution now works with both legacy BIOS and modern UEFI-enabled computers. The new release also features several package upgrades: "The status of the 4MLinux 20.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.2.3 and GIMP 2.8.18, share them using Dropbox 12.4.22, surf the Internet with Firefox 49.0.2 and Chromium 53.0.2785.143, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.4.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.8 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37881 and VLC 2.2.4, play games with Mesa 12.0.1, WINE 1.9.20 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.27, Apache 2.4.23, MariaDB 10.1.18, and PHP 5.6.27). Perl 5.24.0 and Python 2.7.12 are also available. 4MLinux now supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-20.0.iso (490MB, pkglist). |
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2016-05-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 17.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has announced the release of a new version of the miniature Linux distribution. The new version, 4MLinux 17.0, provides mostly package updates, including Firefox 46 and LibreOffice 5.1.3. "The status of the 4MLinux 17.0 series has been changed to stable. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.1.3.1 and share them using DropBox 3.18.1, surf the Internet with Firefox 46.0 and Chromium 50.0.2661.75, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.7.2 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37590 and VLC 2.2.2, play games with Xorg 1.18.1/Mesa 11.1.1 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.1, Apache 2.4.20, MariaDB 10.1.13, and PHP 5.6.20). Perl 5.22.1 and Python 2.7.11 are also available." A screen shot and complete list of packages cane be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-17.0.iso (412MB, pkglist). |
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2016-01-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 15.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has started the new year with the release of 4MLinux 15.0. The 4MLinux project produces a small sized, independently developed, multi-purpose distribution. The new 15.0 release features mostly software updates. "4MLinux 15.0 stable released. The status of the 4MLinux 15.0 series has been changed to stable. Major change in the core of the system, which now includes GNU C Library 2.22. As a response to the requests from 4MLinux users, the following applications have been added: Audacity (digital audio editor), GNU GRUB (boot loader), InfraRecorder (CD/DVD writing program), LXInput and LXRandR (small yet powerful setup tools from the LXDE project). Additionally, an important change in the 4MLinux LAMP Server, which now uses Postfix to handle emails sent via PHP mail. More details can be found on the 4MLinux blog." The release announcement also includes a screen shot of 4MLinux 15.0 in action. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-15.0.iso (396MB, pkglist). |
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2015-11-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 14.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has released version 14.0 of the independent utility distribution. 4MLinux 14.0 ships with version 5.2.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection. Several additional multimedia applications are available as separate downloads. "The status of the 4MLinux 14.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Major change in the core of the system, which now uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Audacious (audio player), Opera (web browser), SMTube (YouTube browser) and VLC (media player) are now available as downloadable extensions. The way in which 4MLinux handles audio and video files has been greatly improved." The project's full release announcement can be found on the project's blog. Information on adding multimedia support and additional applications can be found in this blog post. Download (MD5): 4MLinux-14.0.iso (384MB, pkglist). |
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2015-09-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 13.1 |
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The 4MLinux project, which creates a minimal rescue and utility distribution, has released 4MLinux 13.1. The new release ships with the GTK+ 3 libraries and the X display server has been rebuilt to provide better 3-D support. "I am happy to announce that the stable version of 4MLinux 13.1 is ready for download. Four major changes in this release: the Linux 3.18 LTS kernel series is now included in the core of the system, the GTK+ 3.x series has been added, Mesa and X.Org have been totally rebuilt to ensure full 3D support for modern video cards, and the so called Legacy Installer (which makes it possible to install 4MLinux on old computers) has been included in the 4MLinux installation CD (see: the 4MLinux Blog for details)." Information on the new release can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-13.1.iso (361MB, pkglist). |
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2015-07-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 13.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has announced a new release of the independent Linux distribution. The latest release, 4MLinux 13.0, ships with the GNU Compiler Collection 5 and offers miscellaneous desktop improvements. "The status of the 4MLinux 13.0 series has been changed to S. Major changes in the core of the system, which now uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Additionally, I am very happy to announce that my long work on improving the 4MLinux Desktop has been finished. 4MLinux users can now enjoy the result of this work: a unique, highly customized mixture of JWM (Joe's Window Manager), Window Maker and PCManFM." The release announcement and this blog post offer details and a screen shot tour. Downloads (MD5): 4MLinux-13.0.iso (335MB, pkglist). |
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2015-05-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 12.0 |
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The 4MLinux blog has announced the launch of 4MLinux 12.0 "Allinone" edition. The latest version of this independent distribution features PAE support in the kernel, the Chrome web browser and a number of package updates. "4MLinux 12.0 'Allinone' edition final released. The status of the 4MLinux 12.0 series has been changed to stable. Major modifications in the core of the system, which now include the GNU C Library 2.21. Additionally, PAE support has been enabled in the Linux kernel. The most important new applications are: Asunder (CD-ripping program), aTunes (audio player) and Chrome (web browser). The net browsing software available in 4MLinux has been significantly improved." A package list and screenshot are available in the project's release announcement. Download the 4MLinux 12.0 live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-12.0-allinone-edition.iso (417MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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2015-01-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 11.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 11.0, an updated version of the project's lightweight desktop Linux distribution built from scratch and featuring a customised JWM window manager: "The status of the 4MLinux 11.0 series has been changed to stable. Major changes in the core of the system, which now includes GNU C Library 2.20 and GNU Compiler Collection 4.9.2. The development of some of the 4MLinux editions has been dropped, but at the same time new 4MLinux spins have been announced. The most important one is 4MRescueKit, which has started its journey to become a lightweight alternative to other system rescue live CDs (there's a detailed description on the 4MLinux blog)." Here is the brief release announcement with a screenshot of the JWM desktop. Download (MD5) links: 4MLinux-11.0-allinone-edition.iso (389MB, pkglist), 4MRescueKit-11.0.iso (192MB). |
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2014-11-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 10.1 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 10.1, the new stable build of the project's lightweight desktop Linux distribution running a customised JWM window manager: "4MLinux 10.1 'Allinone' edition final released. The status of the 4MLinux 10.1 series has been changed to stable. Lots of improvements, most of which are my response to various feature requests. Mozilla software (Firefox, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird) use the native Linux build of GTK+ (not via WINE any more). GNOME Parted (aka GParted) is now included, while Dropbox and Opera are available as downloadable extensions. All web browsers (Firefox, Opera, Qupzilla, SeaMonkey) have the Flash Player plugin enabled out of the box. Additionally, support for many printers and scanners has been added (there's a short guide on the 4MLinux Blog)." Here is the brief release announcement with a screenshot of the default desktop. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-10.1-allinone-edition.iso (434MB, pkglist). |
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2014-10-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 10.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 10.0, the latest stable version of the project's minimalist and lightweight desktop Linux distribution featuring a highly customised JWM window manager: "4MLinux 10.0 'Allinone' edition final released. The status of the 4MLinux 10.0 series has been changed to stable. The final release has all the features included in 4MLinux 10.0 'Rescue', 'Media', 'Server' and 'Game' editions. Two major changes in user space: support for touchscreens has been added (they can be calibrated via the xinput calibrator) and support for webcams has been improved (more info available on the 4MLinux blog). The size of the final ISO image is now much bigger because it includes optional software (drivers and development packages)." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-10.0-allinone-edition.iso (392MB, pkglist). |
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2014-08-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 9.1 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 9.1, a minimalist and lightweight desktop Linux distribution featuring the JWM window manager: "4MLinux 9.1 'Allinone' edition final released. The status of the 4MLinux 9.1 series has been changed to stable. The final release has all the features included in 4MLinux 9.1 Rescue, Media, Server and Game editions. Two major changes in the 4MLinux 9.1 series. The first one is the replacement of thttpd with Apache, meaning that 4MLinux has joined the family of LAMP servers. There is a self-explanatory online demo at server.4mlinux.com. Skype is now available as a downloadable extension. UVC and gspca webcams are supported out of the box. The minimal build of PulseAudio (required by the newest Skype for Linux) has also been added (more info available here)." Read the brief release announcement which includes a screenshot of the default desktop. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-9.1-allinone-edition.iso (219MB, pkglist). |
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2014-07-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 9.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 9.0, a minimalist and lightweight desktop Linux distribution with JWM as the preferred window manager: "The status of the 4MLinux 9.0 series has been changed to stable. The final release has all the features included in 4MLinux 9.0 Rescue edition, 4MLinux 9.0 Media edition, 4MLinux 9.0 Server edition, and 4MLinux 9.0 Game edition. I do not use code names in 4MLinux, but if I did this would be 'nerdy' for the 9.0 series. You can install development packages just in one click. Some of the packages (e.g. full versions of Python and Perl) can be used by both programmers and webmasters. An option to download and install the vanilla version of Clang with LLVM has also been added." Visit the project's news page on Blogspot to read the brief release announcement and to see a screenshot of the desktop. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-9.0-allinone-edition.iso (214MB). |
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2014-05-25 |
NEW • Development Release: 4MLinux 9.0 Beta |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the availability of the beta release of 4MLinux 9.0, a minimalist and lightweight Linux distribution for the desktop featuring the JWM window manager: "4MLinux 9.0 beta released. The main features in this release are maintenance (MBR and GPT partitioning software, 4MLinux backup scripts 9.0, ClamAV 0.98.3), multimedia (MPlayer SVN-r37146, FFmpeg git-2014-04-10), a mini server (FTP, HTTP, SSH, SFTP), and mystery (a set of small games). The X Window System is based on X.Org Server 1.15.1, Mesa 10.1.3, JWM 2.2.2, and the FOX toolkit 1.6.49. Fully automatic installation of the 'vanilla' version of LibreOffice 4.2.4, Java Runtime Environment 7u55 and VirtualBox 4.3.12 are also supported. The size of the ISO image is about 55 MB." Here is the brief release announcement with a screenshot of the default desktop. Download the live CD images from SourceForge: 4MLinux-9.0.iso (53.0MB), 4MLinux-9.0-allinone-edition.iso (144MB). |
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