14 DAY TRIAL // Porteus 3.0.1, a portable Linux operating system that can be installed on a USB device, CD ROM, SD card, or hard drive, and based on the Linux Live Scripts, has been made available by the Porteus Community.
Porteus 3.0.1 Desktop Edition has been released for the 32- and 64-bit architectures, and the developers have made a number of changes and fixes, but this is a maintenance version and no new features have been added.
“The Porteus Community is elated to announce the release of Porteus Desktop Edition 3.0.1, as well as Porteus Kiosk Edition v3.1.1! As usual we have available prepackaged modules for Google-Chrome, Opera, LibreOffice, Abiword, Skype and printing/scanning software, which can be dropped in place to get out-of-the-box functionality! The ‘Development’ module will now need to be downloaded as a standalone module if you wish to compile additional software in Porteus.”
“This is a bugfix and security update release only so there are no new features included. Portus 3.1 rc1 will be released in early October. We would like to give a big thank you to our community for helping to reach our hosting targets which ensure the continued development of Porteus,” reads the official announcement.
According to the changelog, the Linux kernel has been updated to version 3.14.15, the ecryptfs, ipv6 iptables, and aloop kernel modules have been added, the handling of .wh files in “changes=EXIT:” cheatcode has been fixed, roadcom-sta-6.30.223.248 has been implemented, curl has been updated to version 7.36.0, the “changes-time” script now works properly when run from a guest account, the “dump-session” script that broke after introducing “changes-ro” cheatcode has been fixed, and the “usbhid” module has been blacklisted in usb-autosuspend.conf.
Also, burning Audio CDs through pburn has been fixed by adding the missing packages for audiofile 0.3.6, cdrdao 1.2.3, esound 0.2.41, and libao 1.1.0, a few fixes for the Porteus Settings Center have been implemented, gnupg has been updated to version 1.14.17, the flashplayer plugin is now at version 11.2.202.394, Mozilla Firefox 31.0 is now available by default, Google Chrome has been updated to version 36.0.1985.125, and LibreOffice is now at version 4.3.
The Porteus Linux distribution has been designed to run from small installation media, such as CD, USB flash drives, and so on, and it's smaller than 300MB, making this the perfect candidate for systems that need a light and easy-to-install OS.
A complete list of changes can be found in the official announcement.
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