took place the release of the distribution Manjaro Linux 21.3 , built on the basis of Arch Linux and oriented to beginner users. Distribution is notable the presence of an installation process, a simplified and friendly user, supporting the automatic determination of equipment and installing the drivers necessary for its operation. Manjaro supplies in the form of a Live assembly with graphic surroundings KDE (3.5 GB), gnome (3.3 GB) and XFCE (3.2 GB). With the participation of the community addition AUR (arch user repository). The distribution is equipped with a graphic installer and a graphic interface for setting up the system.
The main innovations:
- The installer is updated to fresh release of the Calamares framework. In the installer module for reduction of disk sections, support for encrypted sections of LUKS is expanded. In the module of the initial creation of users, a list of prohibited names of accounts and host names are implemented, which intersect with the names used in the installation process.
- editors based on GNOME updated before the release of GNOME 42, which implements global dark settings of the interface design. For applications, the possibility of separate inclusion of light or dark design is provided, regardless of the general systemic style. Many applications have been transferred to the use of GTK 4 and Libadwaita library, which offers ready -made widgets and objects for building applications corresponding to the GNOME HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) recommendations and capable of adaptively adjusting to the screens of any size. Optimized drawing applications operating in full screen mode.
- KDE -based editors updated to KDE Plasma 5.24. In editing mode, the possibility of arbitrary movement of the panel by the mouse is given, holding for any area, and not just for a special button. A new review effect has been implemented to view the contents of virtual desktop. In the program search interface (Krunner), a built -in hint on available search operations shown when clicking on the question icon or input of the command “?”
- The main edition continues to be delivered with the user environment of XFCE 4.16.
- As in the last issue in the distribution, the Linux 5.15 nucleus branch continues to be used
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