A large number of packages has been updated for this release

Jan 21, 2014 10:02 GMT  ·  By

4MLinux Media Edition, a special distribution with a wide set of multimedia tools and software, is now at version 8.0 Beta.

As expected, it has the newly released and improved 4MLinux 7.2 at the core, but it features a few other applications as well: MPlayer SVN-r36521 with SMPlayer and SMTube SVN-r5949, Qmmp 0.7.4, xine 1.2.4, TiMidity++ 2.14.0, MikMod 3.2.4, decoding/encoding (FFmpeg Git-2013-11-28, FLAC 1.3.0, GStreamer 0.10.36, LAME 3.99.5, MAD 0.15.2b, MEncoder SVN-r36521, VorbisTools 1.4.0, WavPack 4.70.0), recording (Audacity 2.0.5, SoX 14.4.1), and ripping media (cdparanoia III 10.2, cdrkit 1.1.11, dvd+rw-tools 7.1, DVD Shrink 3.2.0.15, xorriso 1.3.2). XPaint 2.9.9.4, XPdf 3.03, Ghostscript 9.10 (with GNU gv 3.7.4) are also included.

4MLinux is a mini Linux distribution focusing on the following four Ms: Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (e.g. playing video DVDs), Miniserver (using the inetd daemon), and Mystery (a collection of Linux games).

Download 4MLinux Media Edition 8.0 Beta right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.