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feren OS becomes a rolling distribution; August 2017 snapshot is available now

Friday, 18 August 2017 Add Comment
The feren OS developers has announced that, they are switching to a rolling release model. As a beginning of this model, August 2017 snapshot is available now.


feren OS August 2017 snapshot is based on recently announced Linux Mint 18.2. On top of Linux Mint, feren OS brings various visual improvements and a large collection of applications which will find use in day to day life.  The main highlights of updated feren OS snapshot are:
  • Based on Linux Mint 18.2
  • Some of the applications has been removed from the default installation and it can be found in feren Welcome -> Recommended Apps
  • Alternative Themer Themes are now download-only
  • feren Welcome has received a huge upgrade, now resize-able, movable, theme-able...
  • The USB Boot Issue has now been FIXED!
  • HighContrast has a feren-styled Window Border Theme
  • More, that I've forgotten, because A LOT of stuff was done to make this.
In original release announcement, you can find more details and work around for common issues in feren OS.

feren OS 2017.0 Murdock released, based on Linux Mint 18.1

Tuesday, 2 May 2017 Add Comment
The feren OS developer has announced release of feren OS 2017.0, latest stable release of Linux Mint based, flexible, and visually appealing GNU/Linux distribution featuring Cinnamon desktop. This release of feren OS is based on Linux Mint 18.1 and brings several updated packages, visual improvements and other bug fixes.
Credit : feren OS
One of the notable highlight in feren OS 2017.0 is removal of Mint Welcome in favor of Budgie Welcome, a simple yet powerful welcome app developed by Ubuntu Budgie team which introduces the operating system surroundings to the end users and provides easy options to customize operating system. Feren OS comes comes with a visually customized version of Budgie Welcome, and it has been renamed to Feren Welcome.

Other highlights of Feren OS 2017.0 can be summarized as follows:
  • feren OS 2017.0 is based on Linux Mint 18.1. It comes with updated packages and themes. Automatic update is enabled by default.
  • Mouse Bug has been fixed
  • All themes work properly under Cinnamon 3.2
  • Many bugs have been fixed that were reported
  • Removed Mint Welcome and ships a customized version of Budgie Welcome
  • Feren OS theme switching application has been revamped. Now it can preview currently selected theme. 
For more information, screenshots and release notes see feren OS blog.

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