In a move that will undoubtedly upset some users, but which might bring others into the fold, with this release Window Maker Live is swapping sysvinit for systemd. The default web browsers are Pale Moon and Surf, and the default email client Claws-Mail. Starting with this release, the window manager is the distro’s exclusive desktop session option, as the Xfce desktop option has been removed.įans of Xfce shouldn’t fret, however, as “selected components and utilities of xfce4, Mate, and LXQT were seamlessly integrated with Window Maker” for this version, so there are still Xfce goodies included. Those of you who prefer to run Debian using a tightly integrated window manager instead of a full-blown desktop environment should be happy to know that Wednesday saw the release of Window Maker Live 0.95.9-0, based on stable Debian version 12.1 and using the current Window Maker version 0.95.9. Window Maker Live 0.95.9-0 Released with Systemd You can look at the release notes here, or find out about supported devices and download options here. If you’re interested in looking into /e/OS, you can download it and install it yourself, or Murena (the company behind /e/OS) will be happy to sell you a phone with the OS preinstalled. It’s your machine do with it what you want. Some of you might know that I sometimes get grief from some open-source purists because I say it’s OK with me if you want to install proprietary software on your Linux machine. He basically said that Google’s apps are in the App Lounge because it wasn’t the software project’s job to tell people what they can or cannot install on their devices - an opinion I really appreciate because of my thoughts on software freedom. Given the company’s commitment to giving its users a de-Googlefied experience, I was surprised by this and asked Duval, the company’s founder and CEO, to ‘splain it to me. I was surprised, for example, to discover that through /e/’s app platform, I could download and install just about any Google app I might want if I were a Google sort of gal. Speaking of apps, one of the things I really liked about /e/OS when I took it for a test drive several years back, is that not only have the developers come up with free, open, and privacy-respecting ways to do everything that people do on phones, they do so while respecting their users’ freedom to do what they want with their devices, even things that don’t match /e/’s stated values. For example, new categories in App Lounge mean users can now discover “way more apps.” This is basically a bug fix release, but this new version does come with a few improvements under the hood. New /e/OS Releaseįor those of you who like your Android de-Googled, Gaël Duval and the rest of the folks at Murena have come out with /e/OS 1.13, which is the company’s LineageOS-based take on Android. That being said, let’s get to the news roundup. Remember, she was the one who used to say over and over and over again: “I’m not going to worry about that today. What I am going to do is take the Scarlet O’Hara approach, which is appropriate since I live in the South. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that this doesn’t mean a shoe is about to drop. While most of the world bakes under the hottest temperatures since people have been keeping track of such things, in my part of the world we’re having one of the mildest summers in memory, which has followed what was also one of the mildest winters I’ve experienced in these parts. In this week’s news roundup we look at the release of three Linux-based operating systems - one focused on privacy, one on the desktop, and the third for going mobile.
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