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Jay Flood has announced the release of Porteus 5.0, a set of eight live Linux distributions
based on Slackware Linux and available for both x86_64 and i586 architectures: "Team
Porteus is finally able to announce the immediate availability of Porteus 5.0 final in eight
desktop flavours.
Main changes include: Linux kernel 5.18.8; Core is based on Slackware 15.0; Perl has
been moved to 05-devel; Slackware package managers included slackpkg (in core) and slpkg
(in 05-devel); a simple wrapper for slackpkg, pmod, to produce a module of the package;
a small script, pkginfo, to provide some info about whether a package is installed, what's
in it, whether it has missing libraries and which module it's in, if any; numerous tweaks,
fixes and optimizations to our core scripts.
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Porteus 5.0 announced
The 5.0 version of Porteus , a Slackware Linux-based distribution available as a fast, portable
and modular live CD/USB, has been announced by Jay Flood . New version available with
8 desktop environments; KDE Plasma offers GNOME, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, LXQT, Openbox
desktop environments (7 for i586) . Flood stated that the Porteus team is happy to announce
the final version of Porteus 5.0 with eight desktop environments; He said that the system,
which is built on the 5.18.8 Linux kernel, comes based on Slackware 15.0.
Flood says Perl has moved to 05-devel; he stated that various bug fixes were made.
Porteus 5.0
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Slackware-Based Porteus Linux 5.0 Released with Eight Desktop Flavors, Linux 5.18
The Porteus Linux team announced today the release and general availability of Porteus
Linux 5.0 as the latest stable release of this portable, complete, and fast GNU/Linux
distribution based on Slackware Linux.
Based on Slackware 15.0 and powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.18 kernel series
and BusyBox 1.35, Porteus Linux 5.0 is here more than four years after version 4.0 to
offer you more recent GNU/Linux technologies and a choice of no less than eight desktop
flavors as standalone and live ISO editions.
These eight flavors include some newer desktop environment releases like Xfce 4.16, LXQt
1.1.0, Cinnamon 5.4.2, and MATE 1.26, but also some older ones like the KDE Plasma 5.23.5
and GNOME 41.5.
In addition, you’ll find live editions with the older LXDE desktop environment and the
lighter Openbox window manager.
Package management has been improved in this release thanks to the addition of slackpkg
and slpkg Slackware package managers, as well as the pmod simple wrapper for slackpkg to
produce modules for packages, as well as pkginfo, a small script to provide various information
about installed packages.
Other interesting changes include in this release are the move of Perl to the 05-devel
repository to make it easier to install it and support for NMVe installations in the
syslinux bootloader.
Of course, there are also numerous tweaks and optimizations to core scripts which makes
Porteus Linux faster and smoother.
If you want to try Porteus Linux 5.0 on your personal computer, you can download any of
the eight live ISO editions right now from the official mirrors (HTTP not secure website
warning).
Seven of them are also supported on older 32-bit (i586) computers.
All ISO editions are installable, and the developers recommend that you choose the fastest
mirror for downloading packages after installation by running the fastest-mirror command in a
root console, as well as to set a default password for the guest user and the root account,
and install a web browser of your choice using the Browser Selection and Update Tool utility.
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