The developer of 4MLinux released a fresh version

Mar 30, 2015 13:44 GMT  ·  By

4MLinux Allinone Edition, a Linux operating system built from scratch that wants to provide a complete desktop experience while keeping the smallest size possible, has been upgraded to version 12.0.

The Allinone Edition of the 4MLinux distro brings all the tools under one roof. There are quite a few different editions out there of 4MLinux and all of them are specialized on a particular area, but Allinone has them all. It also means that it's much bigger than rest, but it's still one of the smallest operating systems available.

4MLinux is the name of a distro that aims to provide a complete desktop experience and a very small footprint, for both the system and the ISO. It's a difficult task, but the developer has managed to keep the size very small, despite the fact that some of the updated packages are a little bit bigger with each new edition.

The operating 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. The size of the ISO is just 159, so the fact that it comes with so many tools ready is very impressive.

4MLinux Allinone Edition 12.0 is just another step

The updates for the 4MLinux arrive on a pretty tight schedule and a new one is made available every couple of months. In order to keep the size down, the developer needs to make as few changes as possible, so there aren't too many differences from one version to another.

"This release has the same features as the basic version of 4MLinux, but it also includes 4MLinux Printing Suite (CUPS 2.0.2, SANE 1.0.24, Xpdf 3.0.4, Ghostscript 9.15) and 4MLinux QtPack (Qt 4.8.6 and 5.4.0, QupZilla Git-2014-02-18, SMplayer r6737). Improved support for YouTube videos (via SMTube SVN r6737 with mpv 0.8.0 and youtube-dl 2015.02.21) is also included. Fully automatic installation of Wine 1.7.38 (with WinScp 5.7.0 and 7-Zip 9.38) is supported, too" said the dev.

A complete list of changes can be found in the official announcement. Users can also download 4MLinux Allinone Edition 12.0 right now from Softpedia. This is a Live CD and it works very well in a virtual environment like VirtualBox, for example.

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