14 DAY TRIAL // Patrick Emmabuntüs is informing Softpedia today about the immediate availability for download of the Debian-based Emmabuntus Debian Edition 1.02 operating system.
Designed to revive those old computers donated to humanitarian organizations, as well as to promote the discovery of GNU/Linux and extend the lifespan of computer hardware, the Emmabuntüs distro received its second maintenance update for the Debian edition, based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.7 "Jessie" and the Xfce 4.12 desktop environment.
"This update is released to ease even more the refurbishing workload on all the associations using Emmabuntüs, and on our JerryClan friends in France and Africa who practice intensively the recycling of computer components while they are building their Jerry Do It Together," reads the announcement.
Here's what's new in Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 1.02
Prominent new features introduced in Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 1.02 release include the integration of the Lilo search engine (see the attached screenshot for details), support for the new UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) standard during installations.
It also improves support for the KeePassX password manager utility to no longer send qwerty characters instead of azerty, adds "The beginner's handbook" that's been released on December 20, 2016, along with the English version of Emmabuntüs Tutorials, and updates the Emmabuntüs Wiki.
The Baobab (Disk Usage Analyzer), Systemback and Mint Stick utilities have been added, along with a new tool that promises to let users enable and disable the Cairo-Dock dock. On the other hand, Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 1.02 updates the TurboPrint, HPLIP, and Ancestris apps to their latest versions.
Among other changes, we can mention that the RecordmyDesktop screen recorder was replaced with Kazam, Pipelight Flash Player plugin with Freshplayerplugin, and the Catfish search utility with GNOME Search Tool. The Audacious audio player was updated as well to better support Cairo-Dock.
Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 1.02 also adds the usb-modeswitch package to implement support for the 3G USB sticks, makes the Cairo-Dock launchers to open the default web browser, increases the time delay of double click, sets the Thunar's path selector in path bar mode, and disables the LXDE task bar when the Cairo-Dock is enabled.
Several bugs that users reported from the previous release were fixed as well. Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 1.02 is available for download right now from our website, shipping with Live ISO images that you can use on both 32-bit and 64-bit computers.