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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 RC2 available for Download with few Updates & Fixes

Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 RC2 available for Download with few Updates & Fixes

Manjaro development team officially announces the release of 2nd release candidate of Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 flavor with new changes and fixes. This is another maintenance release which primarily includes fixes for previous RC release.

According to official announcement, Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 RC2 comes with shortcut key updates along with addition of Menda cursor theme. This release includes updated Thunar with a fix so that preferred apps can remember it properly and also introduces support for polkit along with latest Pamac 2.0 development fixes/updates as well as multi-word AUR search fix.

Apart from these new additions, Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 RC2 also includes minor fixes like fixed CUPS service which doesn't start, fixed keyboard layout issue with CLI installer, fixed lack of support for thumbnailing ODF docs and RAW images and fixed xfce4-notifyd theme warnings. You can also download the ISO Image of Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 RC2 for your machine.

Other miscellaneous changes includes, steam-native dependency fix/update, change AC power battery icon to match rest, many upstream updates, including 3.16 series kernel updated to 3.16.7.1. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Manjaro Xfce 0.9.0 Pre1 available for Download with Calamares Framework Support

Manjaro Xfce 0.9.0 Pre1 available for Download with Calamares Framework Support

Manjaro XFCE development team officially announces the release of Manjaro XFCE 0.9.0 Pre1 distro with new features and updated applications. Well some of you already know that a small community developers already started developing next stable release of Manjaro XFCE. With this XFCE series, Manjaro Xfce tried to switch over to more modern graphical installer framework called Calamares. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

According to official announcement, Manjaro Xfce 0.9.0 pre1 release comes with XFCE 4.11 series, linux318 kernel series and all other usual upstream updates of Manjaro. The main highlighted feature of this pre version is the introduction of Calamares framework which is simply a installer framework and modular in approach. You can also download the ISO Image of Manjaro Xfce 0.9.0 Pre1 to install it on your machine.

Because of modular nature of Calamares, it uses about 10% of modules which are specific to Manjaro, but other stays entirely integrated. Currently, Calamares is in beta phase but soon it will available in stable version. The idea of Calamares born because developers of Netrunner, KaOS and Manjaro discussed together the possibility to work jointly on a brand new Qt5 based installer. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Friday, November 20, 2015

Manjaro 0.8.13 first Preview is available with XFCE 4.12 and Plasma 5.2.2

Manjaro 0.8.13 first preview is available with XFCE 4.12 and Plasma 5.2.2

Manjaro development team officially announces the release of Manjaro 0.8.13-pre1 which is the first preview release of upcoming Manjaro 0.8.13 distro. This upcoming release might come with updated XFCE 4.12, Plasma 5.2.2, KDE Frameworks 5.8.0 and latest KDE Apps 14.12.3.

The Manjaro 0.8.13-pre1 KDE flavor receives migration to new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL scenegraph. It also going to include Plasma which is built using Qt 5 and Frameworks 5. The Thunar file manager in Manjaro 0.8.13-pre1 now supports tabs, inverting selection, improves on location handling and shortcut side pane.

According to official announcement, Manjaro 0.8.13-pre1 comes with bootloader, refractor chroot.py, mount special dirs at the start of configure_system functions, calculate partition sizes using integer divisions, adds efi partition size when calculating root partition size and add gtk 3.16 compatibility.

Apart from these new features, Manjaro 0.8.13-pre1 also fixes several bugfixes such as fixed grub-install call, fix some typos in slides, fix bootloader crash, fix double-installation attempt of bootloader, fix broken creation of /home folder for user, fix crash when detecting ssd, fix forward labeling issue, fix slide order in check and fix translation issues. You might also like to check out other latest Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Manjaro 0.8.11 Xfce Preview released with Kernel 3.14 & Settings Manager


Manjaro community officially announces the release of Manjaro 0.8.11 Xfce with new features and updated applications. Well the community just provided sneak preview of upcoming stable Manjaro 0.8.11 Xfce distro. Few days ago, after the release of Manjaro 0.8.10 the team is actively opens the doors for development of next Manjaro 0.8.11 release and now community release the first preview of their upcoming Manjaro release.

According to official announcement, the community state that the upcoming Manajro 0.8.11 Xfce will include Calamares, a graphical installer which is not ready still in development. Teo is the lead developer for Calamares which might be included in next release. Also, review recent Linux Distro releases.

The recent released sneak preview of Manjaro 0.8.11 is basically taken from the unstable branch which mainly includes linux314, latest proprietary drivers and bunch of latest upstream packages. The developers also fixes some of the issues related with automatic partitioning. The team completely focus on Calamares, due to which they are not planning to include any new features in upcoming release. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

Apart from this, the team is also planning to include Manjaro Settings Manager which will be completed by Ramon. This manager installs media ships with MSM 0.1.7 but 0.1.9 version is already on our unstable branch ready for installation. This install media is mainly dedicated for those who understands how to use Manjaro distro. You can also download the Install Media for your Manjaro Linux Distro.

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Monday, November 9, 2015

Manjaro 0.8.11 Preview 2 released with Kernel 3.14, KDE Themes, Office Suites


Manjaro development team officially announces the release of Manjaro 0.8.11 Preview 2 with new features. This preview is primarily based on fifth update pack which was released few days ago for Manjaro 0.8.11 Linux Distro. This is just a maintenance release which primarily released for testing purposes. 

According to official announcement, Manjaro 0.8.11 Preview 2 comes with updated Linux Kernel 3.14 LTS series along with latest Mesa release and other free or proprietary drivers. This release also includes latest graphical tools which the team has developed to easily operate Manjaro in few clicks. Apart from this, Manjaro 0.8.11 Preview also includes octopi and pamac. You can also download ISO Image of Manjaro KDE 0.8.11 Preview 2 for your machine.

The main highlighted feature of this preview is the addition of new themes which are taken from KDE edition. It also includes latest Manjaro Settings Manager 0.2.3 which offers enhanced kernel and graphic driver management experience. This setting manager will provide you notifications when one should run an unsupported kernel or new language packages. You can also manage other changes related with user interface which will be finally available in next preview release. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Manjaro 0.8.11 Preview 2 also includes calligra suite as default office suite in KDE edition where as it includes LibreOffice suite ad default office suite in XFCE edition. If you are using Openbox Edition, then you have a choice to made where you select which office suite you want to install (either calligra or LibreOffice). You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Monday, November 2, 2015

Manjaro 0.8.11 Final released with Xfce 4.11, KDE5, Kernel 3.16 & Octopi 0.5

Manjaro 0.8.11 Final released with Xfce 4.11, KDE5, Kernel 3.16, Octopi 0.5 & Pamac 2.0

Manjaro development team officially announces the release of stable and final version of Manjaro 0.8.11 with new features. Well from previous RC releases, the team was quite focusing on common core requirements of Manjaro's broad user-base. The Xfce flavor of Manjaro 0.8.11 is considered as the flagship release for this year.

According to official announcement, the developers of Manjaro Xfce claims that they ship components from Xfce 4.11 series after having tested them in house and also ensures suitability for everyday use. The Manjaro Xfce 0.8.11 now uses LightDM for login management, display locking and user switching including custom integration for Xfce.

The Turkish Manjaro community state that Manjaro 0.8.11 KDE edition is one of the powerful, mature and feature-rich desktop environment with unique look and feel along with perks of Manjaro's latest tools. The most prominent feature of KDE edition is the introduction of KDE Plasma 5 along with KDE 5 desktop environment. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

As we discussed in our previous posts that Manjaro 0.8.11 edition uses Linux Kernel 3.16 branch because being the latest one among kernel series it also offers long term support along with modern features and hardware support. Manjaro 0.8.11 edition also comes with updated Manjaro Settings Manager which provides easy-to-use graphical interface for installing and removing many Kernel versions because at least 6 kernel series are available in binary repository of Manjaro. You can also download the ISO Image of Manjaro 0.8.11 both in Xfce and KDE flavor to install it on your machine.

Apart from settings manager, Manjaro 0.8.11 edition also includes Octopi 0.5 which is based on Qt5 toolkit along with Pamac 2.0 which is the GTK package management tool. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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