Published a new version of the distribution kit PorteuX 2.9, based on Slackware and developed under the influence of the Slax and Porteus projects. From features PorteuX notes the presence of pre-configured environments based on the Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE, LXDE, LXQt, MATE and Xfce desktops, the inclusion of hardware acceleration for processing multimedia files on Intel, AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, loading in Live mode for 3 seconds, system image in read-only mode with additional installation of applications from the PorteuX App Store catalog, support for rollback of update installations, boot mode to RAM (copy2ram) and the ability to boot over the network. The project generated iso images of 625 MB (cinnamon) and 801 MB (cosmic).
Key changes:
- Work has been done to check the code and correct errors in the installer, initrd, rc scripts and porteux scripts.
- In packages with Xfce, the ability to move files with the mouse from one window to another without switching input focus has been implemented.
- Build options have been optimized to improve performance.
- The Linux kernel has been updated to version 7.3.1. Improved performance of the zstd implementation and page cache reads.
By default, support for the io_uring mechanism is enabled, which is necessary for some window managers, such as jay. - The wget utility has been replaced with wget2.
- In the assembly with the COSMIC desktop, instead of gpicview, the cosmic-viewer image viewer has been added.
- The dolphin file manager has enabled the generation of thumbnails for PDF files
- Added firmware for Blutooth chips Qualcomm and Cirrus sound cards.
- Added missing dependencies for Vulkan API support in mpv media player.
- Added 32-bit gcc15-compat package.
- Removed breeze-grub, gcc-gfortran, kapidox, kio-gdrive, kpeople, kpeoplevcard, kwayland-integration, kwin-x11, openblas and opencv.
- Updated versions of GNOME 51.1, KDE Plasma 6.8.2, COSMIC 1.11.0 and NVIDIA 615.78.08 drivers.