4MLinux 21.0 BETA released.

Default desktop in 4MLinux 21.0

4MLinux 21.0 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, including a major change in the core of the system, which now uses the GNU C Library 2.24. 

Development plan:
November 2016 -> beta
March 2017 -> stable
July 2017 -> old stable
November 2017 -> EOL

List of packages: 

http://4mlinux.com/addons-21.0.txt

Download link:
4MLinux-21.0.iso

4MLinux 21.0 Core BETA released.

4MLinux 21.0 Core running in VirtualBox

This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 21.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.4.30, GNU C Library 2.24, and BusyBox 1.25.0. The 4MLinux 21.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 6.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.

Download link:

4MLinux-21.0-core.iso

4MLinux 20.0 STABLE released.

 

4MLinux 20.0

The status of the 4MLinux 20.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.2.3.2 and GIMP 2.8.18, share them using DropBox 12.4.22, surf the Internet with Firefox 49.0.2 and Chromium 53.0.2785.143, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.4.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.8 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37881 and VLC 2.2.4, play games with Mesa 12.0.1/Wine 1.9.20 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.27, Apache 2.4.23, MariaDB 10.1.18, and PHP 5.6.27). Perl 5.24.0 and Python 2.7.12 are also available. 

4MLinux now supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware. See the recently updated documentation for details.

List of packages (*): 

http://4mlinux.com/addons-20.0.txt

Download link:
4MLinux-20.0.iso

(*) Exceptionally, the STABLE version ships with a newer kernel (4.4.27) than the one, which was included in BETA (4.4.17). This is to fix the Dirty COW bug.