A lot of very useful packages have been integrated in this release

Dec 4, 2013 15:05 GMT  ·  By

4MLinux Media Edition, a special distribution with a wide set of multimedia tools and software, is now at version 7.2 Beta.

As expected, it has the newly released and improved 4MLinux 7.2 at the core, but it features a few other applications as well: (MPlayer SVN-r36461-4.8.1 with SMPlayer and SMTube SVN-r5820, Qmmp 0.7.3, xine 1.2.4, TiMidity++ 2.14.0, MikMod 3.2.4), decoding/encoding (FFmpeg Git-2013-10-09, FLAC 1.3.0, LAME 3.99.5, MAD 0.15.2b, MEncoder SVN-r36461-4.8.1, VorbisTools 1.4.0, WavPack 4.70.0), recording (Audacity 2.0.5, SoX 14.4.1), and ripping media (cdparanoia III 10.2, cdrkit 1.1.11, dvd+rw-tools 7.1, DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15, xorriso 1.3.2).

4MLinux is a mini Linux distribution focusing on the following four Ms: Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g. playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (a collection of Linux games).

Download 4MLinux Media Edition 7.2 Beta right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.