What's new in RhinoLINUX Lite XFCE Edition 7.0
May 24, 2014
- XFce Desktop Environment 4.10:
- (XFCE is a low-resource,modern looking desktop GUI with its own Window Manager, File Manager called Thunar and other components necessary to provide the services needed by an Operating System.)
- Whisker Menu 1.2:
- The Whisker upstream menu component was used instead of MintMenu to build the RhinoMENU. This brings the following new features...
- An option to load menu hierarchy
- An option to not include favorites in recently used items
- Options to set custom commands
- An option to show recently used items by default
- An option to position the search entry next to the panel button
- An option to position the command buttons next to the search entry
- AUDIO SUBSYSTEMS:
- This release features better out of the box support for Pulse Audio but also the ability for users to switch back to ALSA.
- The sound applet can work with either pavucontrol or xfce4-mixer depending on which mixer is installed...
- To use PulseAudio, simply leave things as they are, with pavucontrol acting as the default mixer.
- To switch back to Alsa, remove pavucontrol and install xfce4-mixer.
- MDM Login screen:
- Compatible with GDM 2.x themes as well as newer HTML5 Themes. MDM received the following improvements...
- Drastic speed improvements and an easier codebase to facilitate maintenance, bug fixing and innovation (niche features and some 24,500 lines of code were removed)
- A streamlined user interface which focuses on important features
- The ability for the last logged-in user to simply log in by entering his/her password
- Num-Lock support
- New theme techniques were also implemented and featured in the default theme. The animated background and the user selection will inspire other artists to create a new generation of Login screen themes.
- Performance improvements:
- RhinoLINUX 7.0 focuses on the task at hand, it does less and does it better than before. It features many speed and performance improvements, such as...
- The boot and login sequence no longer scan your system for btrfs partitions.
- The MDM display manager no longer listens or communicates over the network.
- The Update Manager is now started with a delay to make it faster for the session to load.
- The Software Manager features significant speed improvements.
- The RhinoLINUX 7.0 ISO images are not as compressed as before. They take more space and are bigger to download but also easier on the system and faster to decompress during the live session.
- System improvements:
- Safer kernel updates.
- Faster boot sequence and faster login.
- Better EFI support.
- Better support for Steam and its addition in the repositories and the featured section of the Software Manager.
- Additional private/secure search engines in certain countries.
- APT "recommends" disabled by default.
- Better colors in terminal and the addition of "ll" as an alias to "ls -al".
- Better help support.
- UPSTREAM Components:
- Xubuntu 13.10 'Saucy Salanabder'
- Certain system tools & utilities were adapted from Linux Mint 16 'Petra'
- DOCUMENTATION INCLUDED:
- For the first time there is an introductory User Manual included with the distribution - look in your Documents folder in your Home directory.
- Also included is a PDF file and introductory web page for the customized RhinoLINUX Tools explaining their function, look under Documents - RhinoLINUX Help.