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Thursday, June 29, 2023

BakAndImgCD 43.0 released.

BakAndImgCD 43.0
 
BakAndImgCD is an official 4MLinux fork, which has been designed to perform the following two tasks: data backup and disk imaging. The 4MLinux Backup Scripts make use of FSArchiver, GNU ddrescue, Partclone, rsync, and other utilities. The output files (archives and images) can be optionally compressed and sent to a remote sever (using Ethernet, WiFi, PPP or PPPoE). This release is based on the 4MLinux Backup Scripts 43.0. 

More: 
http://bakandimgcd.4mlinux.com/



Friday, June 23, 2023

Antivirus Live CD 43.0-1.0.1 released.

Antivirus Live CD 43.0-1.0.1


Antivirus Live CD is an official 4MLinux fork including the ClamAV scanner. It's designed for users who need a lightweight live CD, which will help them to protect their computers against viruses. The latest version 43.0-1.0.1 is based on 4MLinux 43.0 BETA and ClamAV 1.0.1.
 
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Sunday, June 11, 2023

4MLinux 43.0 BETA released.

4MLinux 43.0

4MLinux 43.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages.

Road map: 
May 2023 -> BETA
July 2023 -> STABLE
November 2023 -> OLD STABLE
March 2024 -> EOL

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Monday, May 29, 2023

4MLinux 43.0 Core BETA released.

 
4MLinux 43.0 Core running in QEMU

 
This is a core system (only about 15 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 43 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 6.1.10, GNU C Library 2.37, and BusyBox 1.36.1. The 4MLinux 43 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 12.2.1 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture.

Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes
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Monday, April 10, 2023

4MLinux 42.0 STABLE released.

4MLinux 42.0

The status of the 4MLinux 42.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.5.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55), surf the Internet with Firefox 111.0 and Chromium 106.0.5249.91, send emails via Thunderbird 102.8.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.3, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.18 and SMPlayer 22.7.0, play games powered by Mesa 22.2.3 and Wine 8.3. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 6.1.10, Apache 2.4.56, MariaDB 10.6.12, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33, and PHP 8.1.17.). Perl 5.36.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.10.8, and Ruby 3.1.3 are also available.

As always, the new major release has some new features. Krita (raster graphics editor) and Hex-a-Hop (video game) have been added as downloadable extensions. 4MLinux 42.0 comes with improved support for many image, audio and video formats. AlsaPlayer, Baka MPlayer, GNOME MPlayer, GNOME MPV, mp3blaster are now available out of the box. Big work has been done to adopt famous (but quite old) XMMS as a default media player in 4MLinux, which is able to open modern audio and video files (support for MOD and MIDI music is also included). One can also download a rich set of XMMS skins with one click.


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4MLinux 41 is now OLD STABLE.

The status of the 4MLinux 41 series has been changed to OLD STABLE. All users must update before July 2023 (EOL).

 

4MLinux 40 reaches its EOL.

The status of the 4MLinux 40 series has been changed to UNSUPPORTED. All users must update ASAP.