The distribution is also based on Debian 8.1 Jessie

Jul 26, 2015 23:13 GMT  ·  By

On July 26, Arne Exton, the creator of numerous distributions of GNU/Linux as well as various Android-x86 Live DVDs, was more than proud to announce the immediate availability for download of a new build for his ExLight Linux distribution.

According to Mr. Exton, the ExLight Linux Build 150726 is now rebased on both the Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) and Debian GNU/Linux 8.1 (Jessie) operating systems. The default desktop environment was updated to the Enlightenment DR 0.19.7 release, and the Linux kernel packages were upgraded from Linux kernel 3.18 to Linux kernel 4.0, which is based on the upstream Linux 4.0.7 kernel.

"ExLight is now based on Ubuntu 15.04 (alias Vivid Vervet) and Debian 8.1 Jessie," says Arne Exton. "I have upgraded the desktop environment Enlightenment (beauty at your fingertips) to version 0.19.7. I have replaced kernel 3.18.0-10-exton with kernel 4.0.0-4-exton."

The new ExLight build adds support for new Nvidia GPUs

In addition to a new Linux kernel version and the recently released Enlightenment 0.19.7 desktop environment, ExLight Linux Build 150726 adds support for new Nvidia graphics cards, such as GeForce GTX 980M, GeForce GTX 970M, GeForce 800M, and GeForce 800A, by updating the Nvidia video driver to the latest long-lived branch, version 352.21.

Furthermore, the ExLight Linux distribution includes various popular applications, among which the Synaptic Package Manager, Wicd network manager, Gparted partition editor, GIMP image editor and viewer, as well as Google Chrome web browser, which can be used to watch Netflix movies. All the included packages were updated to their latest versions available as of July 26, 2015.

Last but not least, Arne Exton added numerous compilation tools to this ExLight Linux distribution to make it easier for new users to compile software from sources. Download ExLight Linux Build 150726 right now from Softpedia, where the OS is distributed as a 64-bit Live DVD ISO image.

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