Fri Mar 21 13:04:06 2025 UTC

Latest news 08-03-2025

NuTyX 25.03.1 available with cards 3.2.1

Spiky and me are happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 25.03.1 and cards 3.2.1 .

What's new

2 separated init systems

From now on, init system are separated. One set of ISOs is available in each init system.

Cards 3.0

A year of development will have been necessary.

No new runtime dependencies for cards.

Packages are now signed with the ED25519 EdDSA algorithm.

Hash is now via SHA512 instead of MD5Sum.

The archive name of a package is now easier to read.

The /etc/cards.conf configuration file has been simplified.

New commands (cards functions) are introduced:

• cards repo for metadata verification/generation
• cards dependent for displaying a package's reverse dependencies
• cards key for generating the key pair for signing packages

Existing commands have been improved:

• cards search allows search in package names only
• cards files and cards query allows search in installed packages AND in repositories
• cards diff displays all necessary information on package validity.
• cards info displays new info such as signature, hash sum, dependencies
• mybld command has been completely redesigned and requires much less time to perform tasks.

The cards deprecate and cards base commands have been removed.

The package building process is now done exclusively in an isolated NuTyX. The 'mybld' command now automatically checks for faulty dynamic links.

You will find all the details on the website, on https://github.com/NuTyX/cards and in the Changelog file of cards.doc package.

Updated packages

SysV in 3.13 and systemd in 257.0 .

glibc in 2.39, gcc 14.2.0, curl in 8.12.0, python in 3.13.2, etc .

The xorg-server graphics server version 21.1.15, the Mesa 3D library in 24.3.3, Gtk4 4.16.2 and Qt 6.8.2 .

• The nvidia driver is update to version 550.144.03 .
• The legacy driver 470.xx series in version 470.256.02 .
• The legacy driver 390.xx series in version 390.157 .

The python interpreter is updated to version 3.13.2.

The LXQt desktop environment is a 2.1.1 version .

The XFCE desktop environment is updated to version 4.20.0.

The MATE desktop environment is a 1.28.2 version .

The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 47.1

The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 6.2.5, Framework 6.10.0 and applications in 24.12.2.

Available browsers are: Firefox 135.0, Epiphany 47.3.1, etc

Many desktop applications have been updated as well like Telegram-desktop 5.10.7, Thunderbird 128.6.0esr, Scribus 1.6.3, Libreoffice 24.8.4.2, Gimp 2.10.38, etc.

Core NuTyX ships with Long Term Support (LTS) kernels: 5.4.290, 5.10.234, 5.15.178, 6.1.128, 6.6.76 and 6.12.13 and the latest stable version 6.13.2.

The kernel change logs are available here:

kernel 5.4.290 changelog

kernel 5.10.234 changelog

kernel 5.15.178 changelog

kernel 6.1.128 changelog

kernel 6.6.76 changelog

kernel 6.12.13 changelog

kernel 6.13.2 changelog

5 desktops are now available in: OPENBOX, XFCE4, MATE, GNOME, KDE6.

They are available on the download page.

Fixed bugs

Upgrade process

Please do as follow:

sudo cards upgrade

sudo cards upgrade
sudo shutdown -y r 0

Thanks

With Thanks to the BLFS Team which helped out with a few problems we encountered.

Thanks to Spiky for his patience and his generosity in upgrading all thoses many packages.

Thanks to all you guys that have giving us positive or negative feedbacks about the distribution.

Old news

Old news is available here.

Be the first to comment on this subject.