The latest stable release of 4Mlinux 46.0 is now available. This minimalist user distribution, which is not derived from other projects, utilizes a graphic environment based on JWM. 4Mlinux serves multiple purposes, functioning as a Live-cropping platform for playing multimedia files, resolving user issues, serving as a recovery system post failures, and supporting the launch of LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, Mariadb, and PHP). The live-image (x86_64) is available for download, featuring a graphic environment (1.5 GB) and a console environment version (16.5 MB) here.
In the latest version, there are various updates and additions:
- Updated packages include Mesa 24.0.4, Libreoffice 24.8, Abiword 3.0.5, Gimp 2.10.38, Gnumeric 1.12.57, Firefox 124.0, Chrome 128, Thunderbird 115.12.2, Audacius 4.4, VLC 3.0.0, SMPlayer 24.5.0, Wine 9.12, BusyBox 1.36.1, Perl 5.38.2, Python 3.11.8, and Ruby 3.3.0.
- GTK 4 distribution is now included for the first time.
- The separation between server and applied assemblies has been removed, with the contents of 4MSERVER integrated into one universal assembly.
- New images have been added in EMF (Windows Enhanced Metafile) and RAW formats, commonly used in digital cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF, DNG).
- Improved support for old sound formats used on Amiga and Commodore computers.
- Additional programs such as DVDauthor, VCDIMAGER for CD/DVD design, and QV4L2 for Webcam testing have been included. The Gamepack package now features the classic game GNU GO.
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