The AryaLinux team has announced release of AryaLinux Xfce 2016.08, latest stable release of independently developed, general purpose GNU/Linux distribution built from scratches, offering Xfce desktop environment.
AryaLinux Xfce 2016.08 is basically a bug fix release with a few enhancements. Though the main motive of this release was to provide a more stable system with less bugs, it also ships a refreshing desktop look and feel. The desktop layout is restructured, light themes are used and some heavy applications have been replaced with lightweight counterparts to make things more appealing for the users.
Some notable features/changes in AryaLinux 2016.08 can be summarized as follows:
AryaLinux Xfce 2016.08 is basically a bug fix release with a few enhancements. Though the main motive of this release was to provide a more stable system with less bugs, it also ships a refreshing desktop look and feel. The desktop layout is restructured, light themes are used and some heavy applications have been replaced with lightweight counterparts to make things more appealing for the users.
Some notable features/changes in AryaLinux 2016.08 can be summarized as follows:
You can find details of this release on a release announcement published in projects website.
- Linux kernel version 4.7.2 – this update brings in support for some newer hardware
- XFCE 4.12 – The latest version of XFCE.
- Libreoffice 5.1.4.2
- gcc 6.1.0
- qt-5.7.0
- VLC and audacious have been dropped in favour of Parole and Exaile as the video and audio player simply to keep the entire default application stack on GTK2/3
- Support for Chinese language has been provided through the ibus and ibus-rime packages
- Language Selector included in the base installation.
- Firefox 47.0.1
- AryaLinux Installer can now install into USB and Removable Hard Disks.
- A notable change in the base-system build scripts is the addition of italian translations.
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