It's powered by the latest Linux 4.16 kernel series

Apr 30, 2018 19:58 GMT  ·  By

Porteus Linux developer Jay Flood announced over the weekend the release and general availability of the final Porteus 4.0 operating system series, based on the Slackware Current software repositories.

Coming four years after the Porteus 3.0 series, the Porteus 4.0 release ships with the latest Slackware Linux packages, it's powered by the latest Linux 4.16 kernel branch (Linux 4.16.3 is included in the install images), and comes with no less than seven desktop flavors, including KDE, Xfce, LXDE, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE, and Openbox.

Porteus 4.0 features support for UEFI/EFI installations using the syslinux bootloader for both BIOS and UEFI/EFI machines with a single, universal configuration file that you can find in /mnt/sdXY/boot/syslinux/porteus.cfg. Also, a new porteus/porteus-v4.0-x86_64.cfg configuration file replaces the old .sgn file and adds support for cheatcodes.

New update-browser and Porteus Update features

Also new in Porteus 4.0 there's an update-browser GUI feature that promises to let users download and install, as well as to update their favorite web browser, along with a new Porteus Update feature that's implemented by default to allow users to more easily update the base modules of the operating system.

Last but certainly not least, this release ships with the most recent Intel microcode firmware update in the boot folder, which you can load with the initrd=/boot/syslinux/intel-ucode.cpio,/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz boot line before starting the system to patch it against the Spectre V2 vulnerability.

You can download the Porteus 4.0 KDE, Porteus 4.0 Xfce, Porteus 4.0 LXDE, Porteus 4.0 LXQt, Porteus 4.0 Cinnamon, Porteus 4.0 MATE, and Porteus 4.0 Openbox editions for either 64-bit or 32-bit computers right now through our web portal or via the official release announcement.

Porteus 4.0 Cinnamon
Porteus 4.0 Cinnamon
Porteus 4.0 LXDE
Porteus 4.0 LXDE

Porteus 4.0 (4 Images)

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