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4MLinux 21.0 Distro Hits Stable Channel with Support for Windows Shares, More

Many of the pre-installed apps have been updated

Mar 5, 2017 23:59 GMT  ·  By
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4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki informs Softpedia today about the promotion of the 4MLinux 21.0 independently-developed operating system to the stable channel.

4MLinux 21.0 has been in development since early November 2016, and only now did it hit the stable channel, which means that existing 4MLinux 20.0 users can finally upgrade their installations and receive new package versions, along with all the latest GNU/Linux technologies and a bunch of new exciting features.

Among these, there's out-of-the-box support for Windows shares, thanks to the implementation of the CIFS (Common Internet File System) file system and Samba. Most of the drivers have also been updated for AMD Radeon and Nvidia GPUs, as well as Broadcom wireless adapters.

"4MLinux now supports Windows shares (CIFS is available out of the box, while Samba client can be found on the 4MLinux installation CD)," said Zbigniew Konojacki in the release announcement. "And finally, PHP7 has been added to the 4MLinux LAMP Server."

Here's what's new in 4MLinux 21.0

Among the pre-installed applications included in the 4MLinux 21.0 release, we can mention the LibreOffice 5.3.0.3 office suite, Mozilla Firefox 51.0.1 and Chromium 56.0.2924.76 web browsers, GIMP 2.8.20 image editor, Dropbox 19.4.13 client, Skype 4.3.0.37 VoIP client, as well as the Mozilla Thunderbird 45.7.1 email and news client.

There's also the VLC Media Player 2.2.4 and MPlayer SVN-r37889 multimedia players, Audacious 3.8.2 and aTunes 3.1.2 audio players, the Mesa 13.0.4 3D Graphics Library and Wine 2.2 for better gaming, and the latest 4MLinux LAMP Server, which includes Apache 2.4.25, MariaDB 10.1.21, PHP 5.6.30 and 7.0.15, Perl 5.24.0, and Python 2.7.12

A few new apps have been included as well, such as the LXTerminal terminal emulator from the LXDE desktop environment, AlsaPlayer music player, and Xpad sticky notes utility. Under the hood, 4MLinux 21.0 is powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4.44 kernel. Study the full package list to see what's included in 4MLinux 21.0.

You can download the 4MLinux 21.0 Live ISO image right now from our website if you want to install this GNU/Linux distribution on your personal computer, as your daily driver or alongside another operating system. Please note that the 4MLinux 20.0 series has now reached end of life.