Slackware-Based PorteuX 1.9 Released with Linux Kernel 6.13, Docker Support
Powered by Linux kernel 6.13, PorteuX 1.9 is here one and a half months after PorteuX 1.8, which was the first distro to ship with the latest and greatest Xfce 4.20 desktop environment. It introduces GUID Partition Table (GPT) compatibility to the installer, Docker support, CUPS support to GTK3, and the NVIDIA 570 graphics driver.
PorteuX 1.9 also updates the GNOME and Cinnamon editions with latest the GNOME 47.3 and Cinnamon 6.4.6 desktop environments, adds the latest KDE Frameworks 6.10 software suite to the KDE Plasma edition, improves support for some network devices, and improves GCC build flags to include additional optimizations.
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Slackware-based PorteuX 1.9 portable Linux launches with multiple fixes, CUPS support in GTK3, a new kernel, and more
Back in December 2024, PorteuX 1.8 arrived with the usual set of small changes. Now, the time has come for PorteuX 1.9 to take the spotlight, and while the list of changes is still not very long, there are a few highlights worth mentioning.
The seven desktop environments remain the same, namely Cinnamon, GNOME, KDE Plasma, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, and Xfce. The list of problems that were fixed in PorteuX 1.9 includes the x265 encoding issue, procps appls version display errors, several Xfce 4.20 issues, and others. Support improvements include several network devices, CUPS in GTK3, and Docker compatibility. GPT compatibility has been added to the Linux installer as well. When talking about optimizations, GCC build flags and 0050-multilib-lite stripping are in the list, alongside other tweaks.