Nitrux founder Uri Herrera has released a new one-off version - Nitrux 1.3.2. The latest version 1.3.2 succeeds Nitrux 1.3.1 last month to bring new software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements and hardware support.
If you don't know, Nitrux is one of the unique 64-bit Linux distros with a beautiful KDE Plasma desktop and portable universal app format, AppImage, as well as package managers like APT and DPKG. So let's take a look at what more Nitrux 1.3.2 has to offer.
Nitrux 1.3.2: What's new?
Starting with the core element, Nitrux upgraded its Linux kernel from the previous version 5.6.0-1020 to the latest version 5.6.0-1021.
In addition to the kernel, he also updated KDE Plasma to version 5.19.4, KDE Frameworks to version 5.74.0, KDE applications to version 20.11.70, Nvidia driver to version 450.66, LibreOffice to version version 7.0.1.1.0+, and Firefox to version 80.
Now coming to the biggest change in this release, Nitrux has finally reached the end of replacing the current default Systemd with a new OpenRC boot system.
Therefore, if you want to try Nitrux 1.3.2 containing this fundamental change, Uri strongly recommends reinstalling the distribution after making a backup with Kup.
Subsequently, Nitrux now also uses openrc-init directly, instead of as another's service manager /sbin/init binary. As a result, you also may not be able to install programs that have a heavy dependency on systemd, for example Snaps.
However, for the extensive use of 'systemctl' by Debian packaging scripts, Nitrux has included a standalone binary of systemctl.
Another major update to Nitrux 1.3.2 includes the addition of a Wayland session, which you can now access from the SDDM Connection Manager. However, the Wayland session is currently not enabled by default.
Although the Plasma (Wayland) session currently works best with Intel and AMD graphics cards, the session can also work with Nvidia graphics cards, but with reduced performance.
In the future, v1.3.2 also added new components such as Docker to create AppImages using appimage-builder, Nitroshare to easily share files on the same network, and tree utility to display the contents of a directory in a tree format.
Among the bugfixes, Nitrux has now fixed crash issues by selecting a different region of America in a new Calamares-QML installer ported by QML.
Now if you want to get your hands on Nitrux 1.3.2 download the ISO image from here.
