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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Amazing what this distro does for it's size.

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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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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Thank you. I look forward to it.

Offering to Beta test.

Al

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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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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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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Eagerly waiting on the 4MLinux 40.0 STABLE release.

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

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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