It's based on the Debian Testing and Unstable repos

Oct 8, 2016 11:20 GMT  ·  By

After announcing the release of DebEX KDE Live DVD Build 161001, GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton informs us today about the availability of a new build of his DebEX GNOME Live DVD.

Borrowing packages from the software repositories of both Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" (Testing) and Debian Sid (Unstable) operating systems, DebEX GNOME Live DVD Build 161007 comes with a lot of goodies for fans of the GNOME 3 and MATE (GNOME 2 fork) desktop environments, as it upgrades them to the latest GNOME 3.22 and MATE 1.16 releases, respectively.

"It’s a pure Debian system using the Testing (Stretch) and Unstable (Sid) repositories. Two desktop environments are pre-installed. GNOME 3.22 (latest) and MATE 1.16 (latest)," says Arne Exton in the release announcement. "I have also installed Nvidia’s proprietary graphics driver 370.28 in this new version of DebEX."

Now powered by Linux kernel 4.8

In more good news, the new DebEX GNOME Live DVD release, which launched officially on the day of October 7, 2016, ships with the recently released Linux 4.8 kernel, which was tweaked and optimized, as well as injected with additional drivers to support more hardware components. Therefore, DebEX GNOME Live DVD Build 161007 uses Arne Exton's special kernel 4.8.0-21-exton.

The default system language is English for DebEX GNOME Live DVD, which includes various up-to-date applications and core components (you can study the entire list here), among which we can mention the latest Google Chrome web browser, which can be used to watch Netflix movies. DebEX GNOME Live DVD can be used as is from the live medium (USB or DVD), but it can also be installed locally.

Download DebEX GNOME Live DVD Build 161007 right now.

The MATE 1.16 Desktop logged in as root
The MATE 1.16 Desktop logged in as root

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