What’s behind the free software sofa?
ROSA 12.5
Rosa Linux is developed by Russian company LLC NTC IT ROSA. The first stable releases came out in 2010 as a fork of Mandriva, but Rosa is now developed independently. The latest version (12.5) uses kernel version 6.6 and offers a number of different desktop environments (Gnome, KDE Plasma, LXQt, Xfce) for x64, i686 and AArch64 architectures. There’s also a console-only version for experienced users. Read more at https://rosa.ru/.
AV LINUX MX EDITION 23.2S
This is a bug-fix release for the Debian 12-based multimedia distribution that’s aimed at content creators. It’s built on the high-performance Liquorix Kernel and uses the Enlightenment desktop, with this edition based on MX Linux. With version 23 shifting to Debian 12 and moving to PipeWire, this point release is mopping up some showstopping bugs that had been introduced with the new base. You can read the full details at www.bandshed.net/2024/04/05/av-linuxmx-edition-23-2-iso-update/.
4MLINUX 45.0
4MLinux is presumably so-named because it’s designed for four main purposes: Maintenance, Miniserver, Multimedia and ‘Mystery’ (games). The latest version includes new print drivers. FFmpeg has improved support for video scaling via the zimg library. Stereo audio is improved via libbs2b. The distro’s DOSBox package now includes arcade game CHAMP Kong. Other games are playable via Mesa 23.3.0 and Wine 9.2. OpenSSL is now version 3. Learn more at https:
