We have gotten tons of feedback and praise for switching to Plasma as our recommended edition. This release comes with Plasma 6.7, the new Union theme engine, performance improvements, and bug fixes galore. Budgie has made the switch to Wayland. It now sports the SDDM window manager and a new Bluetooth app. This was the second to last edition to be stuck on X11, so we're really excited to finally modernize it. If you're upgrading from 43 you'll be prompted to visit this wiki page and follow its instructions, we were not able to automatically transition users to SDDM for stability reasons, but you can follow our simple instructions to switch. We've made a couple improvements to the GNOME edition that make things significantly better. Most notably, we fixed that annoying 'Window is Ready' notification, now a window will just focus itself like it would on the other editions. We're also enabling the minimize and maximize buttons on every window by default...
CalyxOS 7.2.2.0 is up online. This release will receive all future updates. If you haven’t previously installed 7.2.1.0 (test build) and want to start or continue using CalyxOS, you need to flash your phone and install 7.2.2.0. With CalyxOS releases back to normal, we will continue with other backlog issues. Join the Matrix channel for our progress and user support. Dear CalyxOS community members, we are excited to share the release of CalyxOS 7.2.2.0. This means CalyxOS is officially back from the hiatus! It has been an enduring journey for our team to resume CalyxOS releases, and we deeply appreciate all the support and solidarity we received from you along this journey, especially the latest voluntary testing you did with us. Below we are sharing some important notes for anyone planning to install or reinstall CalyxOS, along with our next steps as we work through a large backlog of issues.
Galactic Mandate Linux version 99 adds a deeper visual conversion than earlier preview builds. The system now boots into a custom FUI desktop with HUD rails, live CPU, memory, and swap readouts, theme-linked book cover wallpaper, custom app launchers, and a first-start tour that explains where everything is. The new control center acts as the command room for the distro. It lets users switch between the hand-authored Galactic Mandate themes, preview the desktop language, control the FUI shell, and rehearse or disable yellow/red alert effects. Main features: Space-FUI desktop built on Ubuntu Budgie, Wayland and labwc; eight selectable book-cover themes with coordinated GTK, icons, wallpaper, shell chrome, window borders, terminal colors, and custom app palettes. HUD shell with live telemetry, clock, theme identity, book identity, and buy book control....
This release presents the new Linux kernel 7.1.2 as well as the new versions 149.0.7827.200-1 of the web browser Google-Chrome-Stable and 5.38.2-3.2ubuntu0.3 of the programming language Perl. In addition, among other things, Starbuntu has worked on its documentation and published an introductory video of itself on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBNtfLh3K-o (currently only in German).
We increase hardware requirements for 32bit systems, you will require a CPU with SSE2 features. You will find that extension for the packages and the part for architecture in the name of the ISO images have changed from i586 to i686. Also, due most of the software projects are dropping 32-bit support, you can find that the support is not as full as in the x86_64 systems. Our atelier and dev teams have worked hard to find the best balance between visual appeal and disk space usage. As usual, we've selected a range of resolutions for the main background to accommodate a wide variety of monitors, and we've also optimized their sizes using tools available in our repositories. For the main screensavers, we have chosen an image size of 3840×2160 and the JXL format, allowing them to look great on modern 2K and even 4K monitors, while maintaining a disk space footprint similar to those included in Mageia 9, which used lower resolutions and the JPG format.