What's new in Calculate Linux LXQt 20
Dec 27, 2019
- We moved to profile Gentoo 17.1.
- All binary packages were recompiled with GCC 9.2.
- Calculate Linux will no longer come in 32 bits.
- eselect replaced layman as the overlay manager and the enabled overlays moved to /var/db/repos.
- A local overlay was added, located at /var/calculate/custom-overlay.
- You can run ‘emerge --config’ to launch the new cl-config tool for service configuration.
- ‘modesetting’ video driver supported.
- CPU-X was replaced by the graphical HardInfo utility for better hardware browsing.
- mplayer was replaced by mpv.
- cronie replaced vixie-cron for cron job scheduling.
- Fixed single disk autodetection for installation.
- Fixed the bug with several applications playing ALSA audio at the same time.
- Fixed default audio device configuration.
- The Xfce desktop was updated to v4.14, as well the icon theme.
- Plymouth-driven bootloader screen.
- Fixed name reservation for network devices by excluding devices with local MAC addresses.
- In cl-kernel, fixed the bug when switching between desktop and server kernel configuration.
- Fixed Web browser icon on the bottom panel disappearing at update time.
- CLDXE, the educational CL flavour was renamed to CLDXS.
- More precise disk space calculation for installation.
- Fixed container shutdown.
- Fixed disk partitioning for logical sectors over 512 bytes of size.
- Fixed single disk selection as the autopartition default.
- emerge-like usage of the ‘–with-bdeps’ option of the update tool.
- You can put yes/no in tool parameters, if you prefer them to on/off.
- Fixed current video driver detection via Xorg.0.log.
- Fixed system cleanup bug: the current kernel settings are reserved.
- Fixed the bugged system image compilation for images with UEFI.
- Fixed IP detection for bridge devices.
- Fixed GUI login (lightdm used if applies).
- No more freezing at start time, that was due to interactive operation of OpenRC.
- The IRC client has also Spanish and Portuguese preconfiguration.
- Added the Norwegian locale (nb_NO).