14 DAY TRIAL // It's been more than a year since Yann Le Doaré released version 2.4 of his independently developed LinuxConsole gaming distribution, and now a new release makes its way to users' computers.
Yes, that's right, LinuxConsole 2.5 is finally here, after being in development for the past 14 months. It ships with modern GNU/Linux technologies and open source software/games (see below for a details list), as well as with both the LXDE and MATE desktop environments.
"This release is designed to be used with children and kids. It’s easy to install it on old computers with the Windows Installer, a lot of games and music software are available for use," reads the announcement. "Both releases boots with BusyBox 1.24.2. Core software and libraries are stored into a SquashFS file system."
Under the hood, LinuxConsole 2.5 is powered by Linux kernel 4.4.19 LTS for the 64-bit edition, which makes use of the MATE 1.2 desktop environment and it's also UEFI compliant, and Linux kernel 4.1.31 LTS for the 32-bit variant, which is designed to run on old, non-PAE computers and built around the more lightweight LXDE desktop.
Here's what's included in LinuxConsole 2.5
And now for the games and apps included in LinuxConsole 2.5. The games are Minecraft Demo, Open Arena, SuperTux, FreedroidRPG, XMoto, Neverball, Aisleriot, MegaGlest, Hedgewars, Armagetron Advanced, AstroMenace, TORCS, and Battle for Wesnoth. GCompris educational software and Steam for Linux are also present.
As for the open-source apps included in LinuxConsole 2.5, we can mention VLC Media Player, Audacity, FreetuxTV, QjackCtl, FluidSynth, ZynAddSubFX, InkScape, LibreOffice, GIMP, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Skype, Filezilla, VirtualBox, Stellarium, Tux Paint, GUVCView, and Linotte. Download LinuxConsole 2.5 right now via our website and check out the screenshots and video below for more details.
