[nutyx-annonce] NuTyX 21.10.12 available with cards 2.4.142

[Thierry Nuttens <thierryn1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

NuTyX 21.10.12 available with cards 2.4.142

The NuTyX team is happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 21.10.12 and cards 2.4.142.

The xorg-server graphics server version 21.1.2, the Mesa 3D library in 21.3.2, Gtk4 4.4.0 and Qt 5.15.2.

The python interpreters are en 3.10.1 et 2.7.18.

The XFCE desktop environment is updated to version 4.16.0.

The MATE desktop environment is a 1.26.0 version .

The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 41.2

The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 5.23.4, Framework 5.89.0 and applications in 21.12.0.

Available browsers are: Firefox 95.0.2, Chromium 96.0.4664.45, Epiphany 41.3, etc

Many desktop applications have been updated as well like Telegram-desktop 3.3, Thunderbird 91.4.1, Scribus 1.5.7, Libreoffice 7.2.4.1, Gimp 2.10.30, etc.

Core NuTyX ships with Long Term Support (LTS) kernels: 4.9.294, 4.14.259, 4.19.222, 5.4.168 and 5.10.88 and the latest stable version 5.15.11 .

The kernel change logs are available here:

kernel 4.9.294 changelog

kernel 4.14.259 changelog

kernel 4.19.222 changelog

kernel 5.4.168 changelog

kernel 5.10.88 changelog

kernel 5.15.11 changelog

14 ISOs are now available in LXDE, LXQT, XFCE4, ENLIGHTENMENT, MATE, GNOME (only in 64bits), KDE5 (only in 64 bits) and BASE (last one propose command line interface only without graphical interface).

They are available in 32 and 64 bits on the download page.

What's up ?

GRUB Installation

GRUB is now setup by default on EFI machine.

Automatic installation

Version 21.10.12 introduces a first version of the installer in automatic mode. If all the conditions are met, the partitioning, formatting and installation of GRUB will be done automatically. The conditions being a single and blank hard disk therefore having no partition table.

New mode of installation in LIVE: full customable installation

If you choose the 'LIVE' mode when launching the IOS, you can now use the command 'KERNEL=<your_favorit_kernel> install-nutyx' to install NuTyX in a full manual mode. Partitionning, formatting, mounting the partitions are up to you. Please check the documentation.

Dependency of a package are proctected

The 'cards remove' command will not let you remove a package used by another. Means it's a dependency.

Bug fixes

Following issues are now fixed:

• Installing NuTyX in EFI mode on virtualbox.
• grub-mkconfig makes reboot failed after kernel upgrade.
• Choosing an empty password at post-installation makes an installation unsuable.
• Choosing a bad user name at post-installalion can makes an installation unsuable.

Upgrade process

Even if NuTyX 21.10.12 is a minor release.

sudo cards upgrade

Thanks

    Thanks to Spiky for his patience and his generosity in upgrading all
    thoses many packages.