Nitrux 3.1.0, a distribution built on the package base of Debian, KDE technologies, and the initialization system OpenRC, has been released. The project, which offers its own desktop called NX Desktop, is a superstructure over KDE Plasma. The distribution is developing typical user applications based on the MauiKit library, which can be used on both desktop systems and mobile devices. Additional applications can be installed using the self-sufficient AppImage packages. The full loading image size is 3.3 GB, and the projects of the project are distributed under free licenses.
The NX Desktop offers a unique design style with its own system tray, notification output center, and various plasmoids including a configurator for network connections and a multimedia applet for controlling volume and multimedia playback. Notable applications developed using the MauiKit framework include the Index file manager (can be used by Dolphin), Note text editor, Station terminal emulator, VVAVE music player, CLIP video player, NX Software Center application control center, and PIX Viewer.
The main innovations in Nitrux 3.1.0 include:
- By default, the Linux 6.4.15 kernel is used with the Liquorix patch.
- The components of the NX Desktop are updated to the versions of KDE Plasma 5.27.9, KDE Gear 08/23/2, and KDE Frameworks 5.111. Updated versions of packages, including Mesa 23.2.1 and Firefox 119.
- New versions of the Vulkan Driver AMD 2023.Q4.1 and the NVIDIA drivers 545.29.02 are included.
- AMD and Intel processors have been updated, and new firmware drivers have been added to the Linux-Firmware package for Amlogic, iwlwifi, Qcom, and USBDux.
- The interface for updating the Nitrux Update Tool System has been improved, with Version 2.0.2 being used.
- The desktop-config has implemented the Plasma-Hud screen interface when starting the user session.
- The ISO-image is based on Rootfs from Debian Testing, not Debian Unstable (