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Deepin Linux 20.3 Is Out as One of the First Distros Powered by Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS
The Deepin Linux community announced today the release of Deepin Linux 20.3 as one of
the very first GNU/Linux distributions powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.`15 LTS
kernel series.
Deepin Linux 20.3 is here almost two months after Deepin Linux 20.2.4 and it upgrades
the stable kernel to Linux 5.15, bringing users features like a brand-new and fully
functional NTFS file system implementation, support for 12th Gen Intel processors, in-kernel
SMB server, realtime preemption locking, and many other goodies.
This makes Deepin one of the very first GNU/Linux distributions (at the moment of writing) to
offer the Linux 5.15 kernel in their installation image. However, since Deepin Linux offers
a dual-kernel feature, Linux kernel 5.10 LTS is kept as the default kernel in this release,
so if you want to install the distro with Linux kernel 5.15, which is also an LTS (Long-Term
Support) branch, you’ll have to go to the Advanced Options in the boot menu.
In addition to Linux kernel 5.15 LTS, Deepin Linux 20.3 updates the Album app to provide
users with a better batch selection of photos, improved interaction of main functions, new
buttons for quick actions, the ability to import, preview, and search videos, as well
as support for displaying the number of photos and videos separately in the status bar.
Also updated in this release is the Screen Capture app, which now lets users take a long
scroll-shot instead of a website, for example, as well as the File Manager app, which now
shows permanently mounted Samba shares in the left panel and Computer page, which can
finally be accessed using the Backspace key, adds support for colors to the current tab,
and lets you re-order columns in the list view by dragging them.
Furthermore, the Movie app received new decoding settings, video information interface, and
support for NVIDIA GPUs via FFmpeg, the Music app now shows the “Add Music” button in
an empty playlist and lets users add music using the context menu of a playlist, the
Draw app now offers dimension settings for exported pictures, and the Voice Notes app
now lets you customize the order of your notes, as well as to show/hide the notebook panel.
Besides various performance optimizations for the Dock and Bluetooth functionality,
the Deepind Destkop Environment (DDE) received a new keyboard shortcut for the Global Search
feature, which now also supports searching of markdown files. Also, Deepin Linux now
supports 2K hardware decoding of OLAND chips.
Of course, numerous bugs were fixed, so you should study the full changelog on the release
announcement page for more details on that. Also there, you’ll be able to download the
Deepin Linux 20.3 release as an installation image that you have to install on your PC
as no live session is provided.
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Deepin 20.3 arrives with Linux 5.15 and improvements in desktop apps
About a month and a half after the previous versionWe already have a new installment of
the most popular Chinese distribution. We are talking about Download Deepin 20.3, among
whose novelties it stands out that they have updated the kernel to the latest version.
Deepin Linux usually puts two cores in our distribution, one recent and the last LTS,
something that they have also done this time, although the last LTS also coincides with
the last stable version of the Linux kernel, so there are two LTS.
If this distribution is so popular it is for two reasons: first, it is more so in China,
the country of origin of the project; second, by his desk, which includes a graphical environment
with modern interface and useful applications such as the screenshot tool. In Deepin 20.3
everything has been improved a little, something that was expected by the change of the first
decimal.
Most outstanding news of Deepin 20.3 Linux 5.15. It is mentioned that it is the
stable kernel and some of the benefits it brings. Deepin says that there is an LTS and
a stable one available, so it should offer Linux 5.10 and Linux 5.15, although 5.15 is
also LTS. Improvements in the album app, such as a better
batch selection of photos and new buttons for quick actions, among other new features.
Now the snapshot tool supports scrolling snapshots, instead of taking multiple snapshots.
A keyboard shortcut for global searches has been added.
Added video information interface. Ffmpeg support for NVIDIA cards.
OCR also supports scrollshots. Added management, preview and video search.
Improvements to the GRUB EFI program for generating EFI files with the latest GRUB vision.
Complete list of changes to this link. The launch of Deepin 20.3 it's official, and
can be downloaded from the own project link, SourceForge, Google Drive and through the
network Torrent. After having tried all the options, I would recommend trying the Google
Drive, which is the only one that goes fast (although the download sometimes cuts off
...). If you just want the desktop, it will soon be available on Linux distributions that
offer it, like the community's Manjaro DDE. UbuntuDDE has not released its version 21.10,
so it doesn't seem to be an option. In any case, Deepin 20.3 has arrived and can now
be installed.
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Grandma will be thankful when you install deepin Linux 20.3 on her PC this Thanksgiving
This Thursday is one of my favorite holidays -- Thanksgiving! While I will absolutely fill
my (large) belly with turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and other traditional foods, I will
be sure to celebrate the true nature of the day as well -- being thankful. This year,
I am thankful for my health, my family, and of course... Linux!
Yup, folks, we should all be thankful that many wonderful Linux distributions exist,
making it possible for people to enjoy truly free and open source software. One of the
prettiest Linux-based operating systems is deepin. Today, version 20.3 of the Debian-based
operating system becomes available for download, meaning you can install it on your Grandma's
computer after eating her yummy cooking. What better way to thank your Thanksgiving host
than replacing Windows with Linux for them? Forget dual-booting. She will be so pleasantly
surprised when she turns on the computer!
"In deepin 20.3, the Stable kernel is upgraded to version 5.15 with better compatibility,
system security vulnerabilities are fixed, some deepin applications come with new features
and optimizations to meet the needs under different scenarios, and DDE issues are fixed
and optimized to improve the overall user experience. The Stable kernel is upgraded
to version 5.15 with better support for Intel 12th Gen processors and NTFS file systems,
and better system compatibility. Both LTS and Stable kernels can be installed and manually
upgraded in deepin," explains the developers.
The devs also share, "Album provides a better batch selection of photos and new buttons
for quick actions, supports importing, previewing, and searching videos, displays the number
of photos and videos separately in the status bar, and improves the interactions of main
functions, making photo and video management more convenient. Screen Capture supports taking
a long scrollshot instead of several screenshots. In the process of taking scrollshots, all
you need to do is to scroll the page. The OCR feature released in deepin 20.2.4 is also
available under scrollshot scenarios to extract text from the image easily."
The deepin Linux developers share a changelog below.
DDE
Added: a shortcut for the Global Search, which also supports searching markdown files.
Optimized: the minimum scale of volume in the Dock.
Optimized: if the extended mode is selected under the multi-display environment, in the
context menu of the Dock, you can set how to display the Dock on multiple displays.
Optimized: the time and date in the Control Center.
Optimized: Bluetooth pairing prompts. Optimized: playback pause logic of multimedia
files after Bluetooth disconnection. File Manager
Added: in the list view, columns can be dragged to change the order.
Added: the color for the current tab. Added: the mounted Samba shares are permanently
shown in the left panel and the computer page. Added: the computer page can be finally reached
by pressing the Backspace key. Optimized: change the context menu "Log out
and unmount" to "Clear saved password and unmount" for remote mountings.
Optimized: change the fallback path from "Home" to "Computer" after ejecting removable devices.
Optimized: selection logic when pressing the Ctrl/Shift key and dragging the mouse.
Movie
Added: video information interface. Added: decoding settings.
Added: ffmpeg supports NVIDIA graphics cards. Optimized: prompts for abnormal audio and
video playback. Screen Capture
Added: take scrollshots and support manual and automatic scrolling.
Added: the preview of scrollshots. Added: OCR support of scrollshots.
Optimized: the save paths of screenshots and video recordings.
Draw
Added: dimension settings for exported pictures. Optimized: the eraser functions.
Optimized: the display effect of imported pictures.
Album
Added: video management. Added: video preview.
Added: video search. Added: display the number of photos and video
separately. Optimized: batch import of pictures.
Input Methods
Added: drag input methods to change the list order.
Added: advanced settings. Added: group input methods by languages.
Added: restore to default settings. Document Viewer
Added: the print entrance. Music
Added: the "Add Music" button in an empty playlist.
Added: add music using the context menu of a playlist.
Voice Notes
Added: customize the order of notes. Added: more text-editing features, including
bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, etc. Added: hide and show the notebook panel.
Games
Added: Lianliankan and Gomoku games. Graphics Card
Added: support for 2K hard decoding of OLAND chips.
DDE
Fixed: under 1.25x display scaling, the file on the desktop dragged from the File Manager
cannot be opened. Fixed: in the Bluetooth module of the Control
Center, the edited names of Bluetooth devices cannot be saved and the input box did not
work normally. Fixed: the slow response when switching from
the Control Center to the Notification Center. Fixed: the time was not completely shown in
the Dock after the font size was adjusted. Fixed: results were shown when there was no
result actually in the Global Search. Fixed: applications installed by deb packages
cannot be uninstalled correctly in the launcher. Fixed: woke up the computer from the suspend
mode and entered the correct password, but the system cannot be entered in.
Fixed: enabled "Auto Login" and "Login Without Password", and entered the correct password
in a normal boot, the system cannot be entered in for the first time.
File Manager
Fixed: if the disk encryption was enabled during the system installation, and the full-text
search was checked in the settings, the file search speed was very slow.
Fixed: it crashed during the full-text search if there was an encrypted PDF file.
Fixed: some options in the right-click menu on the desktop were missed within three minutes
after restarting some computers. Fixed: manually mounted the USB flash drive
to the /data directory, and deleted the files in it, it prompted that you have no permission.
Fixed: burning failed if an empty text file was burned to a UDF disc.
Fixed: after selecting a file in the mounted MTP device, checking "Show item counts and
sizes in the path of mounted MTP devices" in settings, and selecting another file, the
file info was not refreshed on the status bar.
Fixed: when the primary screen displayed the screensaver, inserted a secondary screen,
the secondary screen showed the desktop instead of the screensaver.
Fixed: on some computers, the selection state of files reselected by pressing the CTRL key
and dragging the mouse on the desktop was inconsistent with that shown in the File Manager.
Fixed: a crash occurred on some computers when clicking the icon of the information
column after selecting a file. Fixed: two compression windows popped up after
right-clicking a file and choosing "Compress". App Store
Fixed: it might crash if pausing the downloading. Fixed: unable to click the Delete or Cancel
icon in the deletion confirmation dialog. Fixed: unable to pause all downloading tasks
by clicking "Pause All". Optimized: adjusted the trigger area for redownloading
under the abnormal state. Fixed: the selection state of apps on the
one-click installation page might be incorrect. Fixed: the type in the configuration file
was shown as "other" after searching and installing game apps.
Browser
Fixed: the crash issue in the process of clicking the forward and backward icon in the title
bar quickly. Fixed: when the uploaded jpeg image from the
external device was larger than 10 MB, the dialog box cannot be exited by pressing the
ESC key, and the focus was on the custom tab page.
Fixed: light scroll bar was shown when the system theme was dark.
Fixed: the background of the opened tabs was not restored to the default after resetting
the custom background to the default. Fixed: the custom background of the opened
tabs was not synchronized automatically. Fixed: the logo was not displayed in the address
bar and search engine management page when Google was set as the default search engine.
Fixed: there was a small white block in the lower right corner when the window was adjusted
to the minimum size under the dark theme. Draw
Fixed: the wrong cursor position when there was text with different font sizes in the
same row. Calculator
Fixed: the Clear icon was wrongly displayed in the process of inputting an operator after
clearing contents in the input box and history box.
Fixed: on a touchscreen, the content in the input box still existed after right-clicking
and choosing "Cut" or "Delete" under non-standard mode.
System Installer
Updated: updated the GRUB EFI program to generate EFI files with the latest version of GRUB.
Fixed: the boot loading failure of Xen. Font Manager
Fixed: the corresponding fonts were not deleted completely after the font files in the User
font and System font directory were deleted. Fixed: the Delete/Disable/Enable popup was
not adjusted accordingly in real-time and was wrongly displayed in the process of adjusting
the font size. Fixed: the verification popup would be stuck
and displayed in transparency in the process of installing TTC fonts.
Fixed: the Enable/Disable/Delete popup of font families closed unexpectedly after pressing
the Tab key to move the cursor focus to "Apply to all selected font families", and pressing
the Enter key. If you are ready to install deepin Linux 20.3,
you can download an ISO here. While surprises are nice, you should always check with the
owner of a PC before making any changes. In other words, even though I am confident your
Grandma, Grandpa, or other Thanksgiving host would absolutely love having Windows replaced
with a Linux distro from China, you should definitely get their permission first.
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