The distribution is powered by Linux kernel 3.14.34

Mar 28, 2015 19:35 GMT  ·  By

Zbigniew Konojacki had the pleasure of announcing today, March 28, on his Twitter account that the development cycle towards the 4MLinux 12.0 computer operating system has started with the Beta release for the 4MLinux Allinone Edition, 4MLinux Core, and 4MLinux distributions.

Highlights of 4MLinux 12.0 Beta include Linux kernel 3.14.34 LTS, X.Org Server 1.17.1, GNU C Library 2.21, BusyBox 1.23.1, 4MLinux Backup Scripts 12.0, support for data recovery and wiping, ClamAV 0.98.6 anti-virus, GPT and MBR partitioning software, MPlayer SVN-r37369 video player, FFMpeg Git-2015-02-05 multimedia framework, Mesa 10.5.1, and JWM 2.2.2.

Additionally, the distribution comes with FOX toolkit 1.6.50, GTK+ toolkit 2.24.26, FLTK toolkit 1.3.3, a mini server that supports the HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SSH, and Telnet protocols, a set of fun games, as well as support for installing the "vanilla" versions of popular applications, including Mozilla Firefox 36.0.1, Oracle Java JRE 8 Update 40, and LibreOffice 4.4.2.

The Allinone Edition of 4MLinux 12.0 brings even more features

On the other hand, the 4MLinux 12.0 Allinone Edition Beta distro offers the 4MLinux Printing Suite, which includes CUPS 2.0.2, Ghostscript 9.15, SANE 1.0.24, and Xpdf 3.0.4, 4MLinux QtPack, which includes Qt 4.8.6 and 5.4.0, SMplayer r6737, and QupZilla Git-2014-02-18, as well as support for installing Wine 1.7.38 with 7-Zip 9.38 and WinScp 5.7.0.

Last but not least, the 4MLinux 12.0 Allinone Edition Beta includes the MPV 0.8.0, youtube-dl 2015.02.21, and SMTube SVN r6737 software, which greatly improve support for watching and downloading YouTube videos. All the packages included in 4MLinux 12.0 Beta have been compiled with GCC 4.9.2 for the 32-bit/SMP (x86) architecture.

Download 4MLinux 12.0 Beta, 4MLinux Allinone Edition 12.0 Beta, and 4MLinux Core 12.0 Beta right now from Softpedia. Keep in mind though that the operating systems are unstable, thus not suitable for production machines. Nvidia and AMD video drivers can be downloaded from the 4MLinux website.  

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