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January 26, 2024 | Mabox

“New LTS Kernel Headlines Latest Release of Mabox Linux 23.12, Powered by Manjaro”

“Surprising News for Linux Fans: Mabox Linux 23.12 Refresh Features Latest LTS Kernel for Long-Term Support!”

As we near the end of 2023, the Linux community is buzzing with excitement as Mabox unveils its game-changing update: Mabox Linux 23.12. But don’t be fooled, this is no ordinary upgrade. With the introduction of the latest LTS kernel 6.6, Mabox guarantees unparalleled stability and durability for its users.

Not only does the 6.6 kernel promise support until December 2026, but Mabox also caters to legacy hardware users with an alternative ISO featuring the reliable LTS 5.4 kernel. And the best part? Users have the freedom to install and choose from multiple kernels, including the robust 4.19 version, at boot time.

But that’s not all – Mabox takes customization to a whole new level with its integration of Tint2 and Jgmenu. This dynamic duo allows users to attach custom actions to panel elements, elevating the overall user experience. Want even more control? The integration of Jgmenu and Bash scripts makes Mabox the go-to choice for tweaking and personalization.

And let’s not forget the fan-favorite Quake-style terminal, accessible with just a tap of the F12 key. Not only is it a convenient feature, but Mabox also provides a handy Conky cheat sheet to make navigating the terminal a breeze for even the newest users.

But above all, Mabox Linux 23.12 sets itself apart with its focus on user empowerment and customization. Whether you’re a tech-savvy user looking for advanced control or a casual user seeking stability and longevity, Mabox Linux 23.12 has something for everyone. Don’t miss out – download the ISO now!

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January 26, 2024 | Tiny Core

Hands-on with piCore 7.0: Tiny Core Linux for the Raspberry Pi – ZDNet

Tiny Core Linux now runs on the Raspberry Pi 1 and Pi 2 (pictured above) hardware.

Image: Raspberry Pi

This is going to be a tiny post (pun intended). The recent announcement of piCore Linux 7.0 caught my eye — I have been meaning to try Tiny Core on the Raspberry Pi. The fact that they now have one distribution which will run on both Pi 1 and P 2 hardware was just the impetus I needed to actually download it and give it a try.

First, what is Tiny Core Linux? It is one part of The Core Project, which produces very, very small Linux distributions. Their smallest distribution is about 10MB, a size I haven’t seen since the days when I was loading 7th Edition Unix on a Motorola 68000-based system. The distribution is modular, so it is easy to add extensions. It actually comes in three basic packages:

Core, which is not much more than a Linux kernel and a minimal set of utilities, including a CLI interface.
TinyCore, which is Core with graphics and a basic GUI interface.
CorePlus, which is Core with a selection of window managers, a variety of common wireless network adapter drivers, and installation tools.

The Core family of distributions are not intended to be complete ready-to-use general purpose distributions. They are building blocks, or perhaps better described as the foundation onto which building blocks can be added, to create whatever kind of system you want.

The new release of piCore includes Linux kernel 4.1.13, which is quite recent, that’s good. It also has SSH pre-installed and configured, and the SSH server starts on boot, so you can access the system remotely.

The piCore distribution is in the Core family, so it has only a command-line shell (CLI) interface, as I mention below during installation. The modular design makes it easy to add the GUI package and get a simple graphical desktop, as I also show below.

The piCore distribution image can be obtained as a 34MB ZIP file from their downloads page. This is not an installer, it is a raw SD card image of the installed system. All you have to do is unzip it, then copy it directly to an SD card using dd. You can then simply put the SD card into a Raspberry Pi and boot it. Kernels for both Pi CPU architectures are included in the image, and the boot configuration file will figure out which image to boot.

Because of the way the Raspberry Pi boots, the piCore image includes a small FAT32 filesystem with the actual boot images and such, followed by an ext4 filesystem where extensions, backups, user files and the like can be kept. This ext4 filesystem is initially very small, so that the distribution image can be written to very small SD card (as small as 512MB), but for a normal system with a typical SD card, you are probably going to want to increase that size.

There are instructions in the README file explaining how to do this after you have booted the piCore image, but if you are writing the SD on another Linux system, it is much easier to take care of this using gparted (or your favorite disk/parition management tool) before you boot piCore the first time.

Once you have dumped the raw image to an SD card, all you have to do is stick that in the Raspberry Pi (any model), and plug it in. There is no “installation” or installer program in the typical sense of other Linux distributions, and there is no “first run” script for configuration.

It boots fast — very fast, even compared to Raspbian and especially compared to Ubuntu MATE – but it only comes up to a shell prompt. Depending on who you are, where you are, what you want and/or expect, and what you plan to do with piCore, your setup might be done at this point. But there are a number of limitations and restrictions:

If you want a graphical user interface (GUI), you have to add the necessary extension, see below.
The initial image only supports a wired network connection. If want or need wireless networking, you have to add the necessary extensions for your wireless adapter.
piCore initially uses a compressed swap file in RAM, allocating 25% of the total memory to swap. If you need a bigger swap space, or you don’t want to give up that much memory for swap, you need to create a swap partition on the SD card. This can also be easily taken care of while creating the card and expanding the ext4 partition above.
The keyboard is assumed to be a US Ascii layout. If you have something else, you will have to adjust that accordingly, see below.
Other system parameters, such as timezone, language and locale will have to be adjusted as necessary.

piCore boots entirely to RAM, and it actually unmounts the boot partition once it is running, so you can even remove or replace the SD card after booting if you want. That’s pretty cool.

The most common next step is installing a GUI package. This turns out to be surprisingly easy, all you have to do is use the tce-load utility to install the TC.tcz extension:

tce-load -iw TC

Note that the extension name is upper-case, and this command is case-sensitive. The -iw options tell tce-load to download and install this extension, and to put it in the OnBoot list so that it will automatically be available in the future. After this command finishes, you can start the GUI with startx, or you can just reboot the Pi and it will come up with the GUI running.

Well, I have to say that is pretty impressive. The Raspberry Pi running piCore is very fast. I’m pretty sure that is because piCore has eliminated the biggest bottleneck in ordinary use of the Raspberry Pi — the SD card. By running only from RAM and unmounting the SD card after booting, piCore makes itself much faster other Linux distributions for the Raspberry Pi.

piCore is certainly not for everyone — but then again neither is Tiny Core, or any of the other Core distributions, for that matter. piCore is intended for intermediate to advanced Linux users who want a solid base on which to build their own system, making it exactly what they want.

If you are interested in piCore, give it a try. It is dead easy to download and install, you should be able to have it up and running within 10 minutes. Be prepared to dig around on the web for information about piCore, don’t forget to check the Wiki for more information, and don’t be shy about asking for help and information in the Forums.

Good luck!

4MLinux Is So Lightweight It’s Anemic – LinuxInsider

4MLinux is a unique mini Linux distribution that tries to be what it is not. Its limited-purpose design is too basic for even lightweight distro functions.Much of any benefit users might derive from 4MLinux mimics what already is available from USB-launched pocket Linux distros such as Puppy Linux,Porteus and Knoppix. However, much of the advanced functionality of these other distros is missing from 4MLinux.

The 4MLinux name is derived from this distro’s specialized uses: Multimedia, Miniserver, Maintenance and Mystery. The only mystery with this last component is how its moniker fits. This part of the distro’s lineup is a collection of games.

4MLinux originated in Poland and became available in 2010. 4MLinux can be run as a live CD or USB. It also can be installed to a hard disk drive. However, this option is less inviting, given the extremely lightweight structure of the distro and its relatively small repository footprint.

4MLinux boots from a CD or USB drive and mounts all hard drives on the computer for quick and easy access to troubleshooting and recovery.

Forked Lineage

I found the concept behind 4MLinux a bit confusing. The developer offers numerous official forks to focus on specific computing tasks.

For instance, the Multimedia branch is a system for playing video DVDs. The Miniserver is for using the inetd daemon. The Antivirus Live option is based on using ClamAV to keep computers running Linux, OS X and Windows platforms infection free. Users also can choose the BakAndImgCD to run data backup and disk imaging tasks. TheSSS, or Smallest Server Suite, is a lightweight server suite distributed as a live CD.

These releases are available as separate Linux distros or an all-in-one package. The logic behind this apparent redundancy escapes me. Why carry numerous separate single-task tools when you can have them all in one distro? Size and convenience are not the obvious answer.

Size Might Matter

The 4MLinux all-in-one distro is a mere 392 megabytes. That makes it very lightweight and small. Unless I focused only on a single task when working on computers, why would I need a mini distro that did just one thing?

Perhaps the answer lies in the ability to run a needed function on a seriously underpowered computer. Each small distro needs just 256 MB of RAM. The all-in-one distro takes 1 GB.

Another limitation the 4MLinux mini distros might have over other small distro solutions is familiarity with terminal box operations. The all-in-one distro runs the very fast and lightweight JWM desktop, but the mini single-purpose distros rely a lot more on terminal windows within the basic Linux GUI.

The use of terminal commands in 4MLinux is the primary way of controlling the OS. This distro lacks the usual menu-driven system applications.

Piecemeal Distro Rundown

I worked with the all-in-one distro version for several days. I had a very frustrating experience trying to deal with the little distro that could not. The separate mini distros had a few usability issues of their own.

The Antivirus Live CD is a 4MLinux fork that includes the ClamAV scanner. In the all-in-one release, ClamAV is found in the Miscellaneous Tools submenu within the Maintenance category in the main menu. The installation uses WINE, so the CLamAV application is not a native Linux component. It is ClamAV 0.98.4.

BakAndImgCD is a small Linux-based operating system designed to perform data backup and disk imaging. It uses Partimage, Partclone and GNU ddrescue. The output files (archives and images) can be optionally compressed and sent to a remote FTP sever via Ethernet, WiFi or dial-up interface.

The all-in-one release places this component in its own submenu within the Maintenance category in the main menu. BakAndImgCD is fully compatible with UNetbootin to create an easy-to-use live USB. The latest version 10.1 is based on 4MLinux Backup Scripts 10.1. Either variant makes this component or mini distro a pretty handy rescue or recovery tool.

More Mini Distro Details

TheSSS, or Smallest Server Suite, is a lightweight server suite distributed as a live CD. It is designed for system administrators who need a small (about 30 MB in size) set of server software for local area networks. It supports FTP/SFTP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH and Telnet servers. A proxy server (Polipo) with the Tor anonymizer is included.

In the all-in-one version, this server component is found in the Miniserver category within the main menu. TheSSS is fully compatible with UNetbootin for easy live USB creation. Either within the full distro or as a standalone mini distro, this Smallest Server Suite is almost fully automated and runs from included 4MLinux scripts in terminal windows.

The main security components in the 4MLinux line are Clam AntiVirus and the 4MLinux Firewall. The firewall is based on iptables.

Minimalistic Meltdown

Like numerous other portable Linux distros, 4MLinux uses the JWM desktop. Joe’s Window Manager, as in Joe Wingbermuehle, is a very capable lightweight window manager for the X11 Window System.

JWM is written in C and uses only Xlib at a minimum. Its footprint is small enough that adding support for additional lightweight features gives distro developers useful flexibility. Too few of these extras are integrated into 4MLinux to make it comparable to the performance JWM in Puppy Linux.

The user experience suffers from 4MLinux’s bare bones use of JWM desktop’s capabilities. For example, most iterations of JWM I have used in other Linux distros have a very handy menu pop open anywhere on the desktop with a right click of the mouse. Not this one, though.

Another example of the poor use of the user interface is the lack of a real shutdown feature. The panel has no shutdown button. The menu button has a shutdown icon, but that only lets you Exit JWN or cancel the exit function. The only true shutdown control is typing the reboot command into the terminal window.

Or you could press the computer’s power button — but doing this is akin to pulling the power cord from the wall socket. This has no real consequence to the hardware, but it’s a lousy exit strategy.

Look and Feel

Functionality aside, the screen appearance of 4MLInux is not bad. A Docky bar with preconfigured launch icons is anchored to the top center of the screen. A Conky display along the right edge of the screen shows system information. A Microsoft Windows 98-style panel sits across the bottom of the screen.

4MLinux runs the JWM desktop. The display includes a Docky bar and Conkey applet.

4MLinux has little in the way of user configuration and system preference settings. The bottom panel stays visible. There are no system update tools or software repositories to add or remove applications. That includes no APT commands in the terminal window for Advanced Packaging Tool. Nada as well for the Synaptic Package Manager.

Most of the included software needs to be unpacked and installed before you can use it. This limitation restricts access to much of the scaled-down software inventory unless you install 4MLinux to the hard drive or have a very large capacity USB device running the OS. The only control users have in changing the desktop’s appearance is five background images and turning off/on the Docky bar and Conkey applet.

Software Shortfall

I was disappointed by the too minimalistic software inventory in the 4MLinux all-in-one and individual mini-distros. Unless you install to the hard drive for regular use, very few of the included apps actually run without first being installed.

Another disappointment with the software could be a deal breaker. The few software packages that did run without requiring additional downloads or full installation often locked up.

Even launch icons on the panel bar did little more than open a configuration file in a text editor. The combined result is that 4MLinux is not very user-friendly. New users, especially, will be at a loss for what to do within the interface.

Bottom Line

4MLinux is a good idea that is badly executed. It is difficult to use it for its intended purposes. It is too bare-bones to be of much use for continuous regular computing tasks.

If you are looking for a small and useful portable Linux distro, look elsewhere. 4MLinux needs a lot more development to catch up to the ease of use and resources available in other lightweight Linux distributions.

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January 26, 2024 | Slax

“Boosted Compatibility with the Latest USB Devices and a More Streamlined Size: Introducing Slax Linux 9.7 – Softpedia News”

“Experience the Power of Slax Linux 9.7.0: Smaller Size, Improved Performance, and Enhanced Device Support”

Get ready to meet the ultimate Linux distribution – Slax 9.7.0. With a smaller size and improved support for new USB devices, this maintenance update is set to revolutionize your computing experience. Our proficient developer, Tomas Matejicek, has compressed the SquashFS filesystem using 1MB blocks, making Slax even smaller than before. And that’s not all! The updated “slax activate” command will now only copy modules to your RAM when needed, saving valuable space and resources. Plus, with the inclusion of the usb-modeswitch tool, compatibility with newer USB drives is at an all-time high. So what are you waiting for? Download Slax 9.7.0 and see for yourself why it’s the buzz of the Linux community.

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January 26, 2024 | Proxmox

“Discover the Newly Released Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 – Leading the Way on StorageReview.com”

“Revolutionize Your Backup Game with Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 – The Ultimate Solution for Virtual Machines and Physical Hosts”

Proxmox is back with another game-changing release – the highly anticipated Proxmox Backup Server 3.1. Following hot on the heels of the successful launch of Proxmox VE 8.1, this open-source server backup solution is set to take the IT world by storm. With enhanced capabilities for backing up and restoring virtual machines, containers, and physical hosts, this latest version is a must-have for any serious IT professional.

Experience the Power of Incremental Backups, Deduplication, and More
The all-new Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 boasts a range of powerful features. Whether it’s incremental backups to save time and storage space, deduplication to streamline data management, or Zstandard compression for maximum efficiency – this release has got you covered. And with authenticated encryption, you can rest easy knowing your data is always safe and secure.

Powered by the Latest Technologies
Built on top of Debian 12.2 “Bookworm” and running on the stable Linux kernel 6.5, Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 utilizes the cutting-edge ZFS 2.2.0 technology. Plus, with upcoming fixes from ZFS version 2.2.2, you can be sure of a robust and up-to-date data storage system.

Secure Boot Support for Enhanced Security
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Effortless Syncing with Local Datastores
The new Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 also introduces support for local sync jobs. This means you can now effortlessly synchronize backups between local datastores, in addition to remote Proxmox Backup Server instances. Say goodbye to tedious manual syncing and hello to seamless data management.

Elevate Your Backup Experience
Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 isn’t just about new features. It also includes enhancements such as improved tape backup compatibility and support for Croatian and Georgian languages in the user interface. And with seamless integration with Proxmox Virtual Environment, adding storage for the backup server has never been easier.

Don’t Wait, Get Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 Now!
Ready to take your backup game to the next level? Head to the Proxmox downloads page and get your hands on Proxmox Backup Server 3.1 today. Download the ISO image for easy installation on bare metal or upgrade via APT if you’re a current user. And with the open-source GNU AGPLv3 license, you can enjoy the benefits of this powerful software for free.

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January 26, 2024 | Proxmox

News Veeam Contemplates Switching to Proxmox Over VMware Amidst Uproar Over Acquisition – BNN Breaking News

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January 26, 2024 | deepin

New Deepin Linux Gets Even Better With Touchscreen Gesture Support – Forbes

I still stand behind my claim that Deepin is one of the slickest and most beautiful desktop Linux distributions on the planet. Beyond that, it honestly blows away Windows 10 and macOS in terms of visual appeal. It has a number of innovative features that feel way ahead of the curve compared to more “mainstream” distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Now the developers are killing some bugs and bringing a few more notable features to the OS with the new Deepin 15.9 update.

Jason Evangelho

Touchscreen Support With Gestures

Easily the most welcome new feature is enhanced touchscreen support, especially during a time when 2-in-1 devices are becoming more popular. And in many Linux distributions, touchscreen functionality is a bit of a weak point. Deepin 15.9 adds support for multiple touch gestures including click, double click, a long press to bring up the context menu, as well as sliding up and down.

Also added is an onscreen keyboard plugin, available from the dock.

Deepin

As you’re expecting, I’ll be throwing this on a spare touchscreen laptop ASAP, because I’m dying to test this out. Deepin 15.8 very nearly became my “forever distro” but it lacked a few key features at the time; this being one of them.

Other New Features

Smart Mirror Switch makes it debut in the updates settings area, allowing users to automatically switch to the fastest available download mirror.
Boot Menu Interface: Deepin already has a slick option to re-order and adjust your default OS at boot time. Now you can simply drag and drop your image of choice to set the background for that menu. Very cool!
Better Power Management: From the control panel you can quickly change suspend and power off times when running or battery or wall power for both monitor and PC

The remaining release notes are extensive, so I’ll just drop them below and you can browse them if desired.

All Bug Fixes And Additions:

Control Center:

* Supported dragging and dropping pictures to change boot menu background;

* Fixed the crash caused by keyboard settings module;

* Supported checking password strength;

* Fixed the bug that the default applications list was not refreshed;

* Fixed the bug that the prompt text was not hidden automatically after switching off “Auto-download Updates”;

* Fixed the incorrect time on Time Settings page;

* Fixed the null pointer exception when update;

* Fixed the bug that the current language was not identified when searching the language.

Launcher:

* Fixed the issue that the app icon could not be dragged onto the dock after switching from mini mode to fullscreen mode;

* Fixed the bug that shortcuts cannot be used after searching.

Desktop:

* Added screensaver function;

* Fixed the bug that the desktop edition on login screen was not in system language;

* Fixed the bug that the logo on login screen was cut off;

* Added tries limit for login password;

* Added “Hibernate” on the shutdown interface (shown if there was SWAP partition);

* Added onscreen keyboard.

Dock:

* Optimized the animation when changing dock size;

* Optimized touchscreen operations;

* Added the animation for expanding and folding the tray area in fashion mode;

* Fixed the disabled state of time plugin was invalid after restart;

* Fixed the issue that tray icons were still on dock while dragging the tray;

* Fixed dock crash caused by network plugin;

* Fixed the bug that the order of tray icons was invalid after reboot;

* Fixed the bug that the expanding state of the tray was invalid after reboot;

* Added onboard keyboard plugin;

* Added the tooltip when hovering over the tray icons.

Deepin File manager:

* Fixed the “not mounted” error when right click the disk to open it on computer page;

* Optimized the file rename background;

* Fixed several issues when searching in “Recent” files;

* Optimized the reject logic of removable disk (click the triangle icon to unmount and reject the device at the same time);

* Supported gif preview;

* Optimized the style of disk mount plugin;

* Supported viewing files in applications of Apple device;

* Fixed the bug that the default application could not be set in some cases;

* Supported compilation on low version Qt;

* Folder size was no longer shown in list view (use “-” instead);

* Fixed the refresh issue of recent files;

* Improved the check logic of filesystem;

* Improved the support for recent file specification;

* Fixed the issue that removing USB flash disk may unmount the mounting samba server in some cases;

* Fixed the bug that the files in the recycle bin was in wrong order when clicking “Time deleted” in list view;

* Fixed the bug that the icon of the disk mount plugin in dock tray was not changed in time when switching icon theme;

* Adjusted the interval between icons in the Computer page;

* Supported touch screen scrolling in “Open with” dialog box;

* Changed the split line color between the columns in list view under dark theme;

* Improved touch screen scrolling in list view;

* Fixed the issue that extensions were always shown in lowercase in list view;

* Fixed the issue that there were two pop-up dialog boxes asking for deletion when opening the invalid shortcuts;

* Other UI improvements and bug fixes.

Deepin Installer:

* Fixed the incorrect time in Windows after deepin installation;

* Fixed the crash when deleting a newly-created partition in advanced mode.

Deepin Store:

* Fixed the blank page in other languages;

* Added Remote App list in personal center;

* Supported auto install synced new apps;

* Supported viewing all your donations;

* Supported viewing all your comments.

Deepin Movie:

* Improved the font style of subtitles;

* Kept the screen lit when playing movie;

* Supported dragging window on touch screen;

* Supported recent file specification.

Deepin Music:

* Fixed the issue that duplicate songs were in playlist when opening a song from context menu while the playlist was empty.

Deepin Graphics Driver Manager:

* Fixed the switching failure to default driver for NVIDIA card;

* Added dark theme;

* Fixed the bug that switching driver again when pressing space key after the switching was finished.

Deepin Image Viewer:

* Fixed the issue that svg file can’t open by double click;

* Fixed the issue that there was no close button of navigation window at right bottom;

* Fixed the cursor style;

* Fixed the issue that the open image can’t be fit to window.

* Supported print preview;

* Fixed the blur issue when zooming out and printing a big picture;

* Supported recent file specification;

* Fixed the issue that the previous and next picture was not opened according to file name order.

Deepin Terminal:

* Added support for closing the tab with scroll wheel;

* Added support for copying the text to clipboard automatically once selected (disable by default in settings);

* Fixed the issue that URL can not be opened by Ctrl+click when NumPad or CapsLock enabled;

* Improved touchscreen operations.

Deepin Editor:

* Improved the experience on touchscreen;

* Supported opening and editing m3u8 files;

* Fixed the incorrect dedit language;

* Supported Nepali unicode;

* Fixed the content missing when save as;

* Added the notification when the open file was removed or changed;

* Added the status bar at the bottom;

* Added file read-only information on the tab;

* Added “Word Wrap” in Settings window;

* Added F5 refresh function;

* Added brackets highlight function;

* Theme optimization.

January 26, 2024 | deepin

“Take Your Programming to the Next Level: Unleashing the Power of Deepin Linux’s AI Features for Enhanced Productivity and Photo Editing – Notebookcheck.net”

Deepin Linux: The Latest Operating System to Embrace AI Integration

Known for its stunning aesthetics and user-friendly interface, Deepin Linux is taking things to the next level with its latest announcement. In an effort to stay on the cutting edge of operating system trends, the developers of Deepin Linux are now incorporating artificial intelligence features into the desktop environment and accompanying apps.

From AI coding assistants to an AI-powered image editor, Deepin Linux is bringing intelligence to every corner of the operating system. With features like background blur and removal, image upscaling, and colorizing, the possibilities are endless. And for developers, Deepin-IDE offers similar capabilities to GitHub’s Copilot, making coding faster and more efficient.

To experience these game-changing features, simply download Deepin Linux or install the Deepin Desktop Environment on a Debian-based distribution. And stay tuned for more AI integrations coming to Deepin Linux in the near future. Whether it’s for personal or professional use, Deepin Linux is revolutionizing the way we use operating systems.

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January 26, 2024 | ReactOS

“Open source Windows” ReactOS boots on Lumia, iPhones, requirements are less than Windows 11 – Neowin

ReactOS, which has often casually been referred to as the “Open source Windows”, has received a major update this week. In its latest Newsletter, the ReactOS development team has announced that 64-bit (AMD64 and ARM64) UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) booting is now available on a lot more devices. These include PCs, Nokia’s Lumia, Apple’s iPhone, and Valve’s Steam Deck.

The images below (click on them to zoom in) show ReactOS and FreeLoader running on such devices. Meanwhile, the top image shows the Windows boot manager on a Framework laptop:

This is part of an effort to improve FreeLoader, which is the default bootloader in ReactOS. In the announcement, the development team writes:

Thanks to the work of Timo Kreuzer (tkreuzer) our AMD64 builds are now capable of booting on an increasing number of hardware. Thanks to Timo’s and Justin’s work, we are working towards supporting modern devices with UEFI class 3 firmware.

Work has been underway since the beginning of the year to transition FreeLoader, our default bootloader for ReactOS, to support UEFI on x86 and AMD64, as well as ARM32 and ARM64. Hermès has been developing a system for passing the UEFI framebuffer information in a fashion that allows Windows XP to run on UEFI systems, while Justin Miller (TheDarkFire) has been developing the UEFI freeloader build.

On top of supporting booting ReactOS, other features are being built such as EFI chainloading and a bootmgfw-compatible build of FreeLoader. These features would add boot management capabilities and allow modern Windows systems to bootstrap our favorite bootloader.

As you may have noticed, devices with UEFI class 3 firmware can run ReactOS which means Secure Boot-capable UEFI should not be a system requirement like it is the case for Windows 11. Hence, you won’t have to have a fairly modern system.

For those who may not know, enabling Secure Boot is what constitutes UEFI Class 3+ as it upgrades the firmware security even further compared to Class 3.

Besides this, the ReactOS team has also said that it is slowly working on improving NT6+ application compatibility and support

NT6+ is a terminology that encompasses Windows operating systems such as Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 that are based on a newer NT architecture design.

As many software developers no longer support older versions of Windows, most of the applications that we use day to day will not work on ReactOS. However, this is going to change.

At the moment it is mainly limited to user mode with kernel mode upgrades planned for later. There is no estimated time of arrival for this.

January 26, 2024 | TrueNAS

“Introducing the Revolutionary TrueNAS Mini R and Game-Changing TrueNAS Scale 22.12.1 – Elevating the Bar for Home Servers”

“New TrueNAS Mini R: The Ultimate Rack-Mountable ZFS Storage Solution”

Discover the new TrueNAS Mini R, the latest addition to the highly acclaimed TrueNAS Mini lineup. Equipped with the latest TrueNAS Scale 22.12.1 and featuring a 12-bay rackmount chassis, the TrueNAS Mini R offers expanded capabilities and improved performance for enterprise users.

Introducing TrueNAS Scale 22.12.1, an advanced dot release of TrueNAS Core that leverages the power of Linux for a robust and reliable platform. With performance enhancements and updates, this release promises stability and scalability for all your storage needs. And with the recent release of the TrueNAS Mini R, users can now enjoy the convenience of rack-mountable hardware for even more versatility.

The TrueNAS Mini R boasts a powerful Intel Atom C3000 CPU, making it a top-performing ZFS storage platform. While it may seem like a dated processor, its capabilities are still unmatched by many other competitors in the market. But for those who demand even more power, TrueNAS will soon be releasing a flagship Mini model with a newer Intel E822 NIC, setting a new benchmark for high-performance storage solutions.

With the TrueNAS Mini R, users can also take advantage of other features such as built-in 10Gbase-T and optional SFP+ networking for faster data transfer rates. It’s also equipped with up to 64GB of RAM and can support up to 12x18TB storage in a configuration that starts at just $10,000. What’s more, its compact 2U design and quiet noise footprint make it a perfect addition to any office or server room setup.

But as we look towards the future, we hope to see more powerful TrueNAS Mini units, especially in this revamped rack-mount form factor. With TrueNAS Scale, the possibilities are endless – from storage to other workloads, users can expect an all-in-one solution that caters to all their needs. So why settle for anything less when you can have the ultimate ZFS storage solution? Upgrade to the TrueNAS Mini R today and experience the power of TrueNAS Scale.

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