The Calculate Linux team announced release of Calculate Linux 15.12, latest stable release of Gentoo based GNU/Linux distribution. As usual, this release of Calculate Linux is also applicable for it's different flavors, including Calculate Linux Desktop(MATE/KDE or XFCE), Calculate Directory Server, Calculate Media Center, Calculate Linux Scratch and also Calculate Scratch Server.
According to official release announcement, following are some notable changes in this release.
According to official release announcement, following are some notable changes in this release.
See more information in official release announcement.
- Chromium was replaced with the QupZilla web browser on desktop CL versions.
- A Calculate Linux ISO image can be booted from a Live HDD volume. To do so, select the Live HDD formatting line that was added to the Grub menu. Current system settings will be default for graphics, locales and the timezone.
- The open source AMDGPU driver is now supported.
- Autopartition settings were modified.
- We attended to our users’ feedback to bring back a reserved partition for a default system update when autopartitioning.
- Eudev updated up to v3.1.5, that provides restored former udev code. The latter renames network devices if they are named similarly to the kernel.
- The updated Calculate repository includes over 2900 binary packages, both for KDE 4 and KDE 5.