14 DAY TRIAL // The Pisi GNU/Linux development team is happy to announce the availability of the second Beta release of the upcoming Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 operating system for personal computers and laptops.
It appears that we omitted to write here anything about a first Beta build of Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 because the last subject we touched upon was about an Alpha development milestone back in February 2016. However, development of Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 started somewhere in September 2015.
And today we have the pleasure of test driving the Beta 2 release, which promises to add many improvements to the Pardus Linux-based operating system, such as the latest Linux 4.7.2 kernel and KDE Plasma 5.7.2 desktop environment, along with KDE Frameworks 5.24.0 and Qt 5.6.0, as well as the brand new LibreOffice 5.2 office suite.
There are many other updated core components and open-source applications in the Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 Beta 2 milestone, and among the ones that might interest you are the Google Chrome 52.0.2743.116 web browser, GIMP 2.8.16 image editor, SMPlayer 15.11.0 video player, qBittorrent 3.3.1, and InkScape 0.91 vector graphics editor.
Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 is migrating to Python 3 and PyQt5
It looks to us like Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 wants to be a modern and up-to-date Linux-based operating system, powered by some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies, and that's why this second Beta build is starting the transition to the OS to Python 3 and PyQt5. Also, the most recent version of the Calamares graphical installer is now available.
What else is new in Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 Beta 2? Well, there are also many updated in-house built tools, such as Pisi, Çomar and Kaptan, deprecation of the old Qt4 and KDE4 packages. In addition, there's a new desktop theme was added to please the eye of newcomers, and many under-the-hood optimizations were made to make Pisi more stable, safer, faster and, last but not least, elegant.
Download Pisi GNU/Linux 2.0 Beta 2 right now via our website and give it a try today!