14 DAY TRIAL // Manjaro Xfce 0.8.9 RC2, a Linux distribution based on well-tested snapshots of the Arch Linux repositories and 100% compatible with Arch, is now out and comes with a ton of changes.
Manjaro has slowly become one of the best Arch-based distributions, and the Xfce flavor is powering on with yet another Release Candidate.
“With this release we have updated our XFCE edition and fixed the known bugs from our last release candidate.”
“We focused again on thus, the graphical installer, fixed issues regarding UEFI installations, updated our partitioning engine and speed up the installation process,” the developers note.
One of the packages that received the largest number of updates is Pamac 0.9.7. According to the developers, users can now enable or disable the AUR support, the pamac-tray refresh period has been changed, a number of deps (recurse option: -Rs) have been removed, settings can now be edited via the pamac-manager/updater GUI, a “view history” entry in pamac-manager menu is now available in the menu, and the AUR support has been added to the pamac-install script.
Also, the Linux kernel for Manjaro Xfce 0.8.9 RC2 has been updated to version 3.10.28, the Mesa drivers are now at version 10.0.3, Gstreamer has been updated to version 1.2.0, LibreOffice has been updated to version 4.1.4, MHWD has been updated to version 0.3.2, the AMD Catalyst drivers have been updated to version 13.12, the NVIDIA Linux drivers are now at version 331.38, and Xorg Server has been updated to version 1.15.0.
Users will also be happy to note that the UEFI support has been fixed, and a number of other critical problems have been corrected.
More details about this release can be found in the official announcement. Download Manjaro Xfce 0.8.9 RC2 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.