NuTyX 11.5 available with cards 2.4.115
I'm very pleased to announce the new NuTyX 11.5 release.
The 64-bit version contains about 700 packages upgraded.
The 32-bit version of NuTyX, still actively supported.
In the newest release, base NuTyX comes with the Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel 4.19.123 (4.9.224 for the 32-bit version).
For 64-bit systems,the kernel release 5.6.13 is also available.
Changelogs for the kernels are available here: kernel 4.19.123 changlog kernel 5.6.13 changelog
The gnu c library, glibc, is now glibc 2.31
The graphical server is xorg-server 1.20.8.
The mesa lib is 20.0.6, gtk3 is 3.24.20, and qt has been updated to 5.14.2.
Python interpreters 3.8.3 and 2.7.18 have been included in this release.
The MATE Desktop Environment comes in 1.24.0, the latest version.
The XFCE Desktop Environment comes in 4.14.1, the latest version.
The KDE Plasma Desktop is now 5.18.5, the Framework is now 5.70.0 and applications are now 20.04.1
Available browsers are: firefox 76.0.1, falkon 3.1.0, epiphany 3.36.1, etc
Many desktop applications have been updated as well like thunderbird 68.8.0, Scribus 1.5.5, libreoffice 6.4.3.2, gimp 2.10.18, etc.
5 news ISOs are available.
for 64-bit:
The first ISO is a base NuTyX "rolling" version with a size of 412 Mbytes.
A 5.3 GByte ISO base NuTyX "fixed" version is available which contains a complete repository of the binaries for the NuTyX 11.5 release. You can install NuTyX 11.5 completely without having to use the internet. To install packages from this ISO, once your base system is installed, configured and booting, it's just a question of mounting the media on the /mnt mounting point.
Suppose you media is found under /dev/sdc1, use the following command to mount it:
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt
Change this command to reflect your system.
A 891.3 Mbyte ISO Miyo Linux Openbox desktop in "rolling" version. This ISO is the result of the expertise of Miyo, our new ISOs maintainer.
A 1.6 GByte MATE desktop in "rolling" version.
for 32-bit:
A 327 Mbytes ISO base NuTyX "rolling" version.
ISOs are available on the download page.
What's new ?
News kernels
The 'kernel-419' package replaces the 'kernel-lts' package.
There are now 4 versions of LTS kernel in addition to the last stable kernel to date:
kernel 4.9
kernel 4.14
kernel 4.19 (replace the kernel-lts)
kernel 5.4
NVIDIA
NVIDIA graphics card drivers and utilities are now available for all 5 kernel versions available.
Virtualbox
The virtualbox drivers are available for the 5 kernels of NuTyX.
Upgrade process
Since this is a minor release, an upgrade is possible and as simple as:
sudo cards upgrade
