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zk1234 04-30-2022 04:16 PM

The 4MLinux 40 series.
 
This thread is for tracking the development of the 4MLinux 40 series.'

4MLinux 40.0 Core BETA released.
This is a core system (only about 15 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 40 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 5.16.14, GNU C Library 2.35, and BusyBox 1.34.1. The 4MLinux 40 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 11.2.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture.

Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.

More:
https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.co...-released.html

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eight.bit.al 04-30-2022 05:18 PM

Amazing what this distro does for it's size.

zk1234 05-03-2022 05:42 AM

4MLinux 40.0 BETA released.
 
4MLinux 40.0 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:
April 2022 -> BETA
July 2022 -> STABLE
November 2022 -> OLD STABLE
March 2023 -> EOL

More:
https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.co...-released.html

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eight.bit.al 05-07-2022 11:54 PM

I tied editing install2hd to install to nvme0n1; but it's a little beyond my skills. And hope of installing to nvme0n1?

zk1234 05-08-2022 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eight.bit.al (Post 6351533)
I tied editing install2hd to install to nvme0n1; but it's a little beyond my skills. And hope of installing to nvme0n1?

I will add such an option in 4MLinux 40 STABLE.

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eight.bit.al 05-08-2022 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zk1234 (Post 6351617)
I will add such an option in 4MLinux 40 STABLE.

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Thank you. I look forward to it.

eight.bit.al 06-13-2022 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zk1234 (Post 6351617)
I will add such an option in 4MLinux 40 STABLE.

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Offering to Beta test.

Al

zk1234 06-29-2022 04:36 AM

Antivirus Live CD 40.0-0.105.0 released.
 
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 40.0-0.105.0 is based on 4MLinux 40.0 BETA and ClamAV 0.105.0.

More:
https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.co...-released.html

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zk1234 06-30-2022 05:19 AM

BakAndImgCD 40.0 released.
 
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, Partimage, 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 40.0.

More:
https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.co...-released.html

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zk1234 07-29-2022 05:10 PM

TheSSS 40.0 released.
 
This is a major release based on the 4MLinux Server 40.0, meaning that the components of the LAMP server are now: Linux 5.18.7, Apache 2.4.54, MariaDB 10.8.3, and PHP (both 5.6.40 and 7.4.30).

You can update your TheSSS by executing the "zk update" command (fully automatic process).

More:
https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.co...-released.html

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eight.bit.al 07-29-2022 06:16 PM

Eagerly waiting on the 4MLinux 40.0 STABLE release.

zk1234 07-30-2022 10:43 AM

4MLinux 40.0 STABLE released.
 
The status of the 4MLinux 40.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.3.5 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.32, Gnumeric 1.12.52), share your files using DropBox 143.4.4161, surf the Internet with Firefox 103.0 and Chromium 103.0.5060.53, send emails via Thunderbird 91.12.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.17.3 and mpv 0.34.0, play games powered by Mesa 21.3.8 and Wine 7.12. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 5.18.7, Apache 2.4.54, MariaDB 10.8.3, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.4.30). Perl 5.34.1, Python 2.7.18, and Python 3.9.12 are also available.

As always, the new major release has some new features. Legacy MPlayer with MEncoder are now available out of the box (HyperVC can be used as MEncoder’s GUI for transcoding). Many system-wide changes has been done to improve 3D support (both on real and virtual machines). QEMU (with its GUI called AQEMU) as well as TrueCrypt (encryption utility) are now also included. New games: GNOME Mahjongg (available out of the box) and Entombed! (available as a downloadable extension). And finally, a preliminary support for NVM Express interface has been added (currently it seems to work well in VirtualBox).


More:
https://4mlinux-releases.blogspot.co...-released.html

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shortarcflyer 07-30-2022 11:31 AM

Just downloaded it and will be "testing" it out today. Many thanks!

eight.bit.al 07-30-2022 02:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eight.bit.al (Post 6351533)
I tied editing install2hd to install to nvme0n1; but it's a little beyond my skills. And hope of installing to nvme0n1?

Quote:

Originally Posted by zk1234 (Post 6351617)
I will add such an option in 4MLinux 40 STABLE.

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I don't see it, did it happen?

zk1234 07-30-2022 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eight.bit.al (Post 6370848)
I don't see it, did it happen?

More details please. What are you trying to do and it is not working for you ?

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