Neptune 7.5 Is Out Based on Debian GNU/Linux 11.4, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.18

posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 19, 2022,
updated Aug 20, 2022

• Neptune 7.5 Is Out Based on Debian GNU/Linux 11.4, Powered by Linux Kernel 5.18

  Dubbed “Ada”, Neptune 7.5 is based on the software repositories of the Debian GNU/Linux 11.4 “Bullseye” release, but it comes with a newer kernel, namely Linux 5.18.2, from the Debian Backports (Testing) repositories.

  There aren’t any major changes in this release, but Neptune 7.5 does come with a few new apps, including Timeshift for full system backups and rollbacks, as well as Persistent Creator 2.0 for creating a persistence partition on USB thumb drives.

The official page is below.

• Neptune 7.5 "Ada" released - Neptune EN

  We are proud to announce the release of Neptune 7.5 ("Ada") the first service release of the Neptune 7 series.

  This version comes with the updates provided by Debian 11.4 ("Bullseye") that offer the latest and greatest in terms of security. We updated the Linux Kernel to version 5.18 to provide better support for modern hardware aswell as fixing some bugs with existing hardware support. We put effort in optimizing the performance of Neptune by providing tweaks to kernel that speed up the write speed on USB thumb drives for example.