ExTiX is dubbed the ultimate Linux system

Apr 18, 2015 05:00 GMT  ·  By

After having announced his new RaspArch distribution that helps users run the powerful Arch Linux distribution on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B computer board, Arne Exton informed Softpedia about the immediate availability for download of the ExTiX 15.2 Linux operating system.

ExTiX 15.2 build 150417 is based on Canonical's Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) operating system and boasts a custom Linux 3.19.0-14-exton kernel, which is based on the upstream Linux kernel 3.19.3. The distribution comes in two editions, with the LXQt and KDE desktop environments.

"I have made two new versions of ExTiX 15.2. I call them ExTiX 15.2 LXQt Live DVD respectively ExTiX 15.2 KDE Live DVD," says Arne Exton in an email to Softpedia. "ExTiX Linux Live DVD’s 64 bit are based on Debian Jessie/Ubuntu 15.04."

While Ubuntu 15.04 features the Unity user interface, Arne Exton has replaced it with the lightweight, next-generation LXQt 0.9.0 desktop environment derived from the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) and Razor-qt projects in ExTiX 15.2 Build 150417.

An extra version with KDE 4.14.6 and Frameworks 5.9.0 exists

In addition, there's an extra edition of the ExTiX 15.2 operating system, with the KDE Applications 4.14.6 and KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 technologies. Some of the core components of the ExTiX OS are based on the upstream Debian 8.0 Jessie distribution.

Both editions of the new ExTiX distro now use the Google Chrome web browser by default in order to allow users to watch Netflix movies. However, the KDE version also includes Mozilla Firefox. The Nvidia 346.59 video driver is installed by default in the LXQt edition of ExTiX.

Arne Exton considers ExTiX 15.2 Build 150417 a stable distro, despite the fact that it is based on unfinished versions of the soon-to-be-released Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (Jessie), due for release on April 25, and Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet), due out on April 23, 2015. Download ExTiX 15.2 Build 150417 right now from Softpedia.

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