It will take a while until this becomes stable

Feb 5, 2015 15:17 GMT  ·  By

4MLinux Allinone Edition, a Linux operating system built from scratch that wants to provide a complete desktop experience and manage to keep the size to a minimum, has reached version 11.1 Beta.

The makers of 4MLinux operating system have always tried to keep the distro as small as possible and that is an achievement, but they are also doing the same thing for the Allinone Edition, which actually incorporates many more functionalities than the regular OS does. In fact, each time a few version is released for 4MLinux, the Allinone Edition is among the first to arrive.

The "huge" 189 MB size of the the distro is easily explainable because the system incorporates multiple tools for Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g. playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (Linux games), hence the name Allinone.

4MLinux Allinone Edition 11.1 Beta marks the end of a new cycle

All 4MLinux distros have two versions in a cycle, the regular one and the update. They are not all that far apart, and the developers are quickly going through the motions. It's mostly about package update and very few other important changes.

"This release has Wine 1.7.35, 4MLinux Printing Suite (CUPS 2.0.1, SANE 1.0.24, Xpdf 3.0.4, Ghostscript 9.15) and 4MLinux QtPack (Qt 4.8.6 and 5.4.0, QupZilla Git-2014-12-26, SMplayer r6639). Improved support for YouTube videos (via SMTube SVN r6639 with mpv 0.7.2 and youtube-dl) is also included. FTP (WinSCP 5.5.6), IRC (Irssi 0.8.17, XChat 2.8.9), P2P (rTorrent 0.9.4, eMule 0.50a), SSH (PuTTY 0.63), and VNC (TigerVNC 1.4.2) clients are available, too," wrote the dev.

A complete list of changes can be found in the official announcement. Users can also download 4MLinux Allinone Edition 11.1 Beta right now from Softpedia. This is a Live CD and it works very well in a virtual environment like VirtualBox, for example. It's a Beta release, so it's not advisable to use a production machine.

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