Barry Kauler is still actively developing his lightweight Quirky Linux operating system, a sister project of Puppy Linux, and he has just announced earlier today, April 21, 2016, the release of Quirky Linux 8.0.
Dubbed simply Xerus, Quirky Linux 8.0 launches today with many great new features, among which we can mention Linux kernel 4.4.7 LTS, SeaMonkey 2.40 Internet suite, BluePup GUI management for Bluetooth, as well as support for booting the ISO image on UEFI-based machines.
There’s also a YASSM GUI to manage Samba, along with the YouTubeDL GUI for downloading YouTube videos. InkscapeLite has received various bug fixes, there’s now daemon management in QuickSetup, as well as several new and improved applications and utilities.
“This is codenamed ‘Xerus,’ as it has binary compatibility with Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit package repositories. This means that Quirky is able to install DEB packages from these repositories,” reads today’s announcement. “Other than that, Quir… (read more)
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