Post by Admin on Feb 12, 2022 22:05:25 GMT
Today the Freespire team has released a new beta for testing on what will become 8.2. Due to user feedback this beta is exploring a change to the KDE Plasma desktop. THIS DOES NOT MEAN PLASMA WILL BECOME THE NEW DESKTOP this is just experimental to see how it performs and on user engagement. If you would like to see Plasma as the new default desktop comment down below. If you dont want to see it as the default desktop and want us to stay GNOME let us know below as well. Some of the changes we have made
Obviously, Plasma 5.18.8
Falkon Web Browser as the default browser
Thunderbird 91
LibreOffice 7.3.0.3
kernel 5.13.0-28 for more modern hardware
Koulourpaint
Flatpak instead of SNAPS
Timeshift for the ability to roll your system back in case of failure
Shotwell for photo management, while we would love to use a KDE equivalent there are just no native KDE alternatives that dont depend on 396 other packages
Balena Etcher for flashing ISO images to USB drives
Users have asked us repeatedly to make the multimedia codecs available for Freespire and now we have built in full CODEC support
Several other fixes and security updates
We look forward to your feedback.
Thank you
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WE DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BUILD FOR PRODUCTION USE
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distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/beta/freespire-82-desktop-amd64.iso
distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/beta/freespire-82-desktop-amd64.md5
Obviously, Plasma 5.18.8
Falkon Web Browser as the default browser
Thunderbird 91
LibreOffice 7.3.0.3
kernel 5.13.0-28 for more modern hardware
Koulourpaint
Flatpak instead of SNAPS
Timeshift for the ability to roll your system back in case of failure
Shotwell for photo management, while we would love to use a KDE equivalent there are just no native KDE alternatives that dont depend on 396 other packages
Balena Etcher for flashing ISO images to USB drives
Users have asked us repeatedly to make the multimedia codecs available for Freespire and now we have built in full CODEC support
Several other fixes and security updates
We look forward to your feedback.
Thank you
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WE DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BUILD FOR PRODUCTION USE
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distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/beta/freespire-82-desktop-amd64.iso
distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/beta/freespire-82-desktop-amd64.md5