Neptune 5.4 releases, based-on Debian Distro

Ddos July 23, 2018 2 minutes read

Neptune is a GNU/Linux Distribution for desktops based fully upon Debian 9.0 (‘Stretch’), except for a newer kernel and some drivers. It ships with a modern KDE Plasma Desktop with its main view on a good looking multimedia system which allows for getting work done. It also is a system which is flexible and very useful on usb sticks. Therefore we developed easy to use applications like USB Installer aswell as a Persistent Creator that allows you to store changes to your system on your live usb stick.

The Debian repository is the major base for getting updates and new software. Furthermore Neptune ships with its own software repository to update our own applications. (see Neptune Repositories for more information)
Neptune tries to get the BeOS message of a fully supported multimedia OS to a next generation of users.

Neptunes focuses on providing an elegant out of the box experience for the users. Therefor we ship a nice and simple overall look and feel aswell as a whole bunch of multimedia tools, like codecs, flash player, audio and video player.

Multimedia being one of the core features of Neptune we also ship the greatest free and open source tools for audio and video editing.

Neptune 5.4 has been released.

Changelog

Fix mtp opening for many android devices
Update Kernel to 4.16.16
Added remove all notification history to notification widget (backported from Plasma 5.13)
Tweaked default vm.swappiness in neptunes systctl config for even later swapping out and more responsive desktop
Added artwork-lookandfeel-neptune-dark
Added new Faenza-Dark icon theme for dark background themes like neptune dark
Added Blackbird gtk theme (for use with neptune dark)
Plasma Discover update for better overall progressbar when only installing one package
Plasma Discover update to support multiple archives for Plasma Extensions
Fixed Neptune ZRAM config not working for only single core CPUs
Fixed ksysguard leaking pipe fds in md raid code
Updated E22 to 0.22.3 (in repo)
Updated terminology to 1.2.1 (in repo)
Updated Thunderbird to 52.9
Updated Chromium to 67 and fixed html5 audio & video playing issue
Updated LibreOffice to 6.0.6
Updated KDE Frameworks 5 to 5.48
Updated KDE Applications to 18.04.3
Updated KWin to 5.12.5 (real version compiled against Qt 5.7.1 instead of just relabled 5.11.5)
Updated FFmpeg 3.2.11 security update
Included v86d by default on ISO (used for uvesafb)
Included mdadm by default on ISO (support for software raid [mdraid])
Updated Excalibur menu to 2.7
Updated Debians Stable base to 2018-07-21