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Feren OS’s first release of 2022 includes new wallpapers, desktop environment upgrade,
and a few more improvements!
Feren OS, the Ubuntu-based distro for users migrating from Windows and Chrome OS, has
just released version 2022.03!
Not to forget, it also happens to be one of the most beautiful Linux distributions available.
With the latest Feren OS 2022.03 update, the release brings a few new features and improvements.
What Happened To Feren OS 2022.01?
For those of you familiar with Feren OS’s release cycle, you may be surprised to see
a 2022.03 release directly before debuting any other update earlier this year.
Well, as per the announcement blog post, the developer clarifies:
Feren OS 2022.01 didn’t happen “as there were 0 changes made to justify a new release
until now”.
This was apparently due to a lack of motivation, which I’m sure we can all relate to.
Nevertheless, we have now received an update, so let’s take a look at what’s new!
What’s New?
This Feren OS update has a new set of wallpapers, among other features and changes, including:
KDE Plasma 5.24 The removal of Theme Colouriser in KDE Plasma
The replacement of Kate New overview button on the desktop layout
KDE Plasma 5.24 Feren OS 2022.03 now comes with KDE Plasma
5.24.
As a result, it has gained some interesting new features, notably the much-awaited “overview”
feature.
Additionally, this inclusion has some Feren OS-specific patches.
Firstly, the Global Theme page has been redesigned, meaning that it now displays both themes and
desktop layouts.
This should make customizing Feren OS slightly easier and is a very nice touch.
One other interesting change resulting from this is that the Tablet Mode has been redesigned.
As such, it is now much easier to use and feels a lot more natural.
While not necessarily a huge upgrade over Plasma 5.23, it is always good to see the
latest version.
The Removal Of Theme Colouriser Theme Colouriser was an app introduced in
2017 that allowed users to easily change the accent color of their favorite themes.
However, just five years later, this app has been deprecated, in favor of it being integrated
directly into Plasma.
As a result, Theme Colouriser has now completely disappeared from all Feren OS versions, except
for the Feren OS classic.
While somewhat sad to see this much-loved tool go, it is good to know that it has been
replaced with a more integrated solution.
The Replacement Of Kate
Kate, the hugely popular text editor from KDE, has been replaced with Kwrite.
While this may initially seem like a downgrade, it should be kept in mind that Kwrite is much
simpler and easy to use.
To be honest, I’m surprised this change hadn’t been made many years ago, especially
considering Feren OS’s target audience of Linux newbies.
For the full list of changes, please refer to the release notes.
Wrapping Up
While not particularly large, Feren OS 2022.03 seems to have a nice number of useful changes.
If you are already running Feren OS, you can simply upgrade to version 2022.03 in the update
manager.
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Feren OS 2022.03 is officially released after delays
The developers of Feren OS have released the new version of the operating system after
a couple of delays in the pipeline.
One of the most clean-looking Linux distros, Feren OS, has reached the 2022.03 version.
The most recent version before the 2022.03 version was released in October 2021.
Developers state that there are several reasons behind this delay and one of them is having
too few changes to justify it as a new release.
Linux kernel is updated to 5.13 The new release of Feren OS, the Ubuntu-based
operating system, comes with KDE Plasma 5.24 desktop environment and it uses Linux kernel
5.13; which is a little bit old version.
The developers have added new wallpapers to the system and updated KDE Plasma to 5.245.24.
The Theme Colouriser is now abandoned except for Foren OS Classic and leaving the Accent
Colors function to the KDE Plasma itself.
From now on, the desktop environment will handle it.
The new version brings an Overview button to the desktop layout and the Tablet Mode
layout is completely redone.
Applications Menu and Feren OS Clock are now rebased to upstream Plasma 5.24 base.
The title bar buttons on windows are slightly changed.
The Kate text editor is replaced with KWrite as well.
Feren OS users can update their operating system to the latest version by using the
Update Manager easily.
However, some users might have some issues updating to the latest version due to the
expiring keyring of the instances installed before the July 2021 snapshot.
If that’s the case, you can use the following commands in order:
wget -qO - https://gitlab.com/feren-os/feren-repositories-focal/raw/master/public.key pkexec apt-key add -
If it says “OK” in your Konsole window after using the commands, you can check for
updates again.
You can also download the ISO file for a fresh installation of Feren OS 2022.03
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Feren OS 2022.03 released with KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS, and various improvements
Feren OS developer has announced the release of Feren OS 2022.03.
Check out the news and find out where to download the distribution.
Feren OS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop.
The system comes with a tweaked Calamares system installer, a custom theme and fonts,
the Vivaldi browser, launch options for power users, and a Feren OS Tour app, among the
many features and improvements built in-house.
Prior to November 2020, the distribution was based on Linux Mint and included an edition
with the Cinnamon desktop.
Now, Feren OS developer has announced the release of Feren OS 2022.03.
What's New in Feren OS 2022.03
Feren OS 2022.03 comes almost six months after the previous ISO snapshot, Feren OS 2021.10
, and is the first ISO release of the Ubuntu-based distribution to ship with the latest and greatest
series of KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop environments.
KDE Plasma 5.24.3 is included by default in this updated media, along with the KDE Frameworks
5.92 and KDE Applications 21.12.3 software packages, all of which are compiled into the
Qt 5.15.3 open source application framework.
With that, the Application Menu and Feren OS Clock have been rebased on Plasma 5.24
code.
With the move to the KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS series, Feren OS no longer makes use of the Theme
Coloriser utility as the Plasma desktop now comes with support for built-in highlight
colors.
Theme Coloriser still exists for the Feren OS Classic session, but is no longer installed
by default in the ISO image.
According to the release announcement:
“Any highlight colors made with Theme Colouriser, for existing Feren OS users, have been copied
and saved to a text file in your Home folder so you can reapply them with the new Custom
Accent Color option whenever you want.”
Feren OS 2022.03 is powered by Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) Linux 5.13 kernel.
Among other changes, the Ferens OS 2022.03 release adds an Overview button to the desktop
layout, makes KWrite the default desktop text editor instead of Kate, improves the titlebar
buttons for the Window decor and introduces a redesigned panel layout for the Tablet Mode
desktop layout.
Download and try Feren OS 2022.03
As this is just an updated ISO snapshot of the distribution, existing Feren OS users
do not need to download it.
You can update your installations and receive all the above features and improvements just
by going to the Update Manager utility, clicking the “Update” button and installing all
available updates.
That said, the Feren OS 2022.03 ISO image can now be downloaded by going to the distribution's
download page .
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