14 DAY TRIAL // GNU/Linux developer Arne Exton informs us today, December 21, 2016, about the release and general availability of a new build of his ExTiX operating system based on Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak).
Dubbed "The Ultimate Linux System," ExTiX 17.0 KDE Live DVD is here four months after the release of ExTiX 16.4, it's tagged as build 161221 and based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 "Jessie," Debian GNU/Linux 9 "Stretch" (a.k.a. Debian Testing), and Ubuntu 16.10, but without the Unity user interface.
"I have made a new version of ExTiX - The Ultimate Linux System. I call it ExTiX 17.0 KDE Live DVD. [...] The best thing with ExTiX 17.0 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or from hard drive you can use Refracta Tools (pre-installed) to create your own live installable Ubuntu system," said Arne Exton in the release notes.
Built on top of KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 with KDE 4.16, powered by Linux kernel 4.9
ExTiX 17.0 is a Live distro developed for fans of the KDE4 desktop environment, as it's built on top of KDE Frameworks 5.26.0 with KDE Development Platform 4.16. However, the good news is that this appears to be one of the very first Live systems shipping with the recently released Linux 4.9 kernel.
As expected, all the pre-installed packages have been updated to their latest versions as of December 21, 2016, and you can study the full list here. Among the most popular apps included in ExTiX 17.0, we can mention Google Chrome web browser, BlueGriffon WYSIWYG editor, and Refracta Tools, which allow you to respin your own Live ISOs.
Other noteworthy apps installed by default in ExTiX 17.0 include the LibreOffice office suite, Mozilla Thunderbird email and news client, Gparted partition editor, Brasero CD/DVD burning utility, SMPlayer video player, and GCC for those who want to compile software from sources. Download ExTiX 17.0 Build 161221 right now from our website.
