4MLinux 39.1

4MLinux is a small, independent, general-purpose Linux distribution with a strong focus on the following four "M" of computing: Maintenance (system rescue Live CD), Multimedia (full support for a huge number of image, audio and video formats), Miniserver (DNS, FTP, HTTP, MySQL, NFS, Proxy, SMTP, SSH, and Telnet), and Mystery (meaning a collection of classic Linux games).

Tags x window system x11 console terminal osdistro
License GNU GPLv3
State stable

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Recent Releases

39.129 May 2022 10:05 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
38.130 Jan 2022 20:33 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
39.0 BETA26 Dec 2021 19:25 major feature: 4MLinux 39.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages.
39.0 Core BETA25 Dec 2021 22:45 major feature: This is a core system (only about 15 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 39 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 5.10.79, GNU C Library 2.34, and BusyBox 1.33.2. The 4MLinux 38 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 11.2.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.
38.0 STABLE06 Dec 2021 22:37 major feature: This is a major release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
38.0 BETA30 Aug 2021 13:56 major feature: 4MLinux 38.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages.
38.0 Core BETA22 Aug 2021 17:44 major feature: This is a core system (only about 15 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 38 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 5.10.47, GNU C Library 2.33, and BusyBox 1.33.1. The 4MLinux 38 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 10.3.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.
37.031 Jul 2021 21:26 major feature: This is a major release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
36.130 May 2021 10:39 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
37.0 BETA25 Apr 2021 19:32 major feature: 4MLinux 37.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages.
37.0 Core BETA18 Apr 2021 21:27 major feature: This is a core system (only about 15 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 37 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 5.10.27, GNU C Library 2.33, and BusyBox 1.32.1. The 4MLinux 37 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 10.2.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.
36.028 Mar 2021 19:20 major feature: This is a major release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
35.221 Feb 2021 22:38 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
35.124 Jan 2021 13:03 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
36.0 BETA31 Dec 2020 19:04 major feature: 4MLinux 36.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages.
35.024 Dec 2020 21:22 major feature: This is a major release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
34.222 Nov 2020 22:58 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
34.125 Oct 2020 22:21 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
35.0 BETA30 Sep 2020 21:51 major feature: 4MLinux 35.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages. Road map: September 2020 - BETA, December 2020 - STABLE, March 2021 - OLD STABLE, June 2021 - EOL
35.0 Core BETA27 Sep 2020 19:47 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 35 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 5.4.61, GNU C Library 2.32, and BusyBox 1.31.1. The 4MLinux 35 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 10.2.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.
34.019 Sep 2020 13:22 major feature: This is a major release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
33.230 Aug 2020 00:46 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
33.124 Jul 2020 21:07 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
34.0 BETA29 Jun 2020 20:15 major feature: 4MLinux 34.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages. Road map: June 2020 - BETA, September 2020 - STABLE, December 2020 - OLD STABLE, March 2021 - EOL
34.0 Core BETA28 Jun 2020 15:59 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 34 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 5.4.41, GNU C Library 2.31, and BusyBox 1.31.1. The 4MLinux 34 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 10.1.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.
33.0 STABLE14 Jun 2020 13:28 major bugfix: This is a major release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
32.210 May 2020 09:39 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
32.113 Apr 2020 13:58 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
33.0 Core15 Mar 2020 23:12 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 33 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 5.4.17, GNU C Library 2.31, and BusyBox 1.31.1. The 4MLinux 33 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 9.2.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.
33.015 Mar 2020 23:11 major feature: This is a major release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. Details at www.4mlinux.com
31.210 Feb 2020 12:08 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.95. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.41, MariaDB 10.4.11, and PHP 7.3.13. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
31.111 Jan 2020 22:03 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.90. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.41, MariaDB 10.4.11, and PHP 7.3.13. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
32.030 Dec 2019 10:38 major feature: As always, the new major release has some new features. Better support for Intel video cards (via Mesa 3D drivers with VDPAU emulation). PCManFM in 4MLinux can now create video thumbnails (using FFmpeg) as well as PS/PDF thumbnails (using ImageMagick). AV1 video decoding is finally available out of the box (via FFmpeg with the dav1d library). Good news for nerds! The following applications have been added for them: SciTE (source code editor), GNU nano (with spell checker), mg (originally called MicroGnuEmacs). Additionally, Vim (with gVim) is now available as a downloadable extension.
32.0 Core28 Dec 2019 00:29 major feature: 4MLinux 32.0 Core BETA released. This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 32 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.19.86, GNU C Library 2.30, and BusyBox 1.31.1. The 4MLinux 32 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 9.2.0 to compile programs designed for the x86_64 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports both BIOS and UEFI boot modes.
31.015 Dec 2019 14:59 major feature: This is a milestone release due to the fact that 4MLinux has finally dropped 32-bit support. It is now a fully 64-bit operating system. For this reason one must perform a fresh installation. There are two versions available for downloads: 4MLinux-31.0-64bit.iso (Desktop) and 4MServer-31.0-64bit.iso (Desktop with LAMP server). If you need a pure server environment (i.e. without Desktop), you can try an official 4MLinux fork called TheSSS, which is only about 120 MB in size.
30.225 Nov 2019 23:01 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.79. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.41, MariaDB 10.4.8, and PHP 7.3.10. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
30.120 Oct 2019 08:26 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.69. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.41, MariaDB 10.4.7, and PHP 7.3.9. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
31.0 BETA30 Sep 2019 09:05 major feature: 4MLinux 31.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages. Road map: September 2019 - BETA, December 2019 - STABLE, March 2020 - OLD STABLE, June 2020 - EOL
31.0 Core BETA18 Sep 2019 11:16 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 31 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.19.63, GNU C Library 2.29, and BusyBox 1.30.1. The 4MLinux 31 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 9.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
30.0 STABLE01 Sep 2019 12:25 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 30.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.2.6.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.12, Gnumeric 1.12.44), share your files using DropBox 79.4.143, surf the Internet with Firefox 68.0.2 and Chromium 76.0.3809.100, send emails via Thunderbird 60.8.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.7.1 and mpv 0.29.1, play games powered by Mesa 19.0.5 and Wine 4.14. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.19.63, Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.4.7, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.3.8). Perl 5.28.1, Python 2.7.16, and Python 3.7.3 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features. OpenGL support in games is now available out of the box (no need to install additional drivers). Additionally, 4MLinux automatically disables Pulseaudio when needed (for example, in classic games like DOOM). New multimedia applications: FlMusic (audio player), Sound Studio (sound editor), fdkaac (command line front-end for Fraunhofer FDK AAC codec library). Both Qt5 and Gtk3 in 4MLinux now include full support for WebP images.
29.204 Aug 2019 21:34 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.57. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.3.16, and PHP 7.3.7. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
29.106 Jul 2019 22:15 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.49. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.3.15, and PHP 7.3.6. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
30.030 Jun 2019 13:27 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 30.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.2.6.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.12, Gnumeric 1.12.44), share your files using DropBox 79.4.143, surf the Internet with Firefox 68.0.2 and Chromium 76.0.3809.100, send emails via Thunderbird 60.8.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.7.1 and mpv 0.29.1, play games powered by Mesa 19.0.5 and Wine 4.14. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.19.63, Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.4.7, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.3.8). Perl 5.28.1, Python 2.7.16, and Python 3.7.3 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features. OpenGL support in games is now available out of the box (no need to install additional drivers). Additionally, 4MLinux automatically disables Pulseaudio when needed (for example, in classic games like DOOM). New multimedia applications: FlMusic (audio player), Sound Studio (sound editor), fdkaac (command line front-end for Fraunhofer FDK AAC codec library). Both Qt5 and Gtk3 in 4MLinux now include full support for WebP images.
30.0 Core13 Jun 2019 15:15 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 30 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.19.41, GNU C Library 2.29, and BusyBox 1.30.1. The 4MLinux 29 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 8.3.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
29.002 Jun 2019 10:57 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 29.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.2.4.2 and GNOME Office ( AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.10, Gnumeric 1.12.44 ) , share your files using DropBox 73.4.118, surf the Internet with Firefox 66.0.5 and Chromium 74.0.3729.108, send emails via Thunderbird 60.7.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.6 and mpv 0.29.1, play games powered by Mesa 18.3.1 and Wine 4.7. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server ( Linux 4.19.41, Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.3.14, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.3.5 ) . Perl 5.28.1, Python 2.7.15, and Python 3.7.1 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features: Audacious available out of the box, a new desktop sub-menu called Office ( with AbiWord, Gnumeric, LazPaint ) , spellcheck functionality added to Sylpheed and HexChat, improved LibreOffice installation script, better support for MINIX file system (via util-linux and GParted) , much improved 3D acceleration in Quake2. And finally, the 4MServer now includes PHP 7.3 with NaCl cryptography support.
28.204 May 2019 20:50 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.35. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.3.14, and PHP 7.2.17. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
28.104 Apr 2019 21:56 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.19.28. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.38, MariaDB 10.3.13, and PHP 7.2.16. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
29.0 BETA25 Mar 2019 22:33 major feature: 4MLinux 29.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages. Road map: March 2019 - BETA, June 2019 - STABLE, September 2019 - OLD STABLE, December 2019 - EOL
29.0 Core10 Mar 2019 22:10 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 29 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.19.19, GNU C Library 2.28, and BusyBox 1.30.1. The 4MLinux 28 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 8.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
28.001 Mar 2019 19:58 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 28.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.2.1.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.8, Gnumeric 1.12.43), share your files using DropBox 66.4.84, surf the Internet with Firefox 65.0.2 and Chromium 72.0.3626.53, stay in touch with your friends via Thunderbird 60.5.2 and Skype for Web, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10.1, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.6 and mpv 0.29.0, play games powered by Mesa 18.2.0 and Wine 4.1. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.19.19, Apache 2.4.38, MariaDB 10.3.12, PHP 5.6.40 and PHP 7.2.15). Perl 5.28.0, Python 2.7.15, and Python 3.7.0 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features: improved installation script (new disk formatting options have been added), much more firmware available (for network devices, sound cards and scanners), added support for reading bar codes (via ZBar), better support for Debian and Fedora packages (via Midnight Commander and Engrampa), new web browser (NetSurf) as well as new download manager (Gwget). Additionally, Electrum is now available as a downloadable extension (both Bitcoin and Lite Coin wallets are supported by 4MLinux).
27.202 Feb 2019 21:48 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.94. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.37, MariaDB 10.3.12, and PHP 7.2.14. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
27.106 Jan 2019 15:32 major feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.87. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.37, MariaDB 10.3.11, and PHP 7.2.13. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
28.0 BETA25 Dec 2018 21:39 major feature: 4MLinux 28.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages. Road map: December 2018 - BETA, March 2019 - STABLE, June 2019 - OLD STABLE, September 2019 - EOL.
28.0 Core10 Dec 2018 09:54 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 28 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.14.80, GNU C Library 2.28, and BusyBox 1.29.3. The 4MLinux 27 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 8.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
26.204 Nov 2018 09:47 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.74. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.35, MariaDB 10.3.10, and PHP 7.2.10. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
26.107 Oct 2018 20:15 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.68. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.34, MariaDB 10.3.9, and PHP 7.2.10 (see this post for more details). You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
27.030 Sep 2018 17:26 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 27.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.1.3.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.8, Gnumeric 1.12.43), share your files using DropBox 61.4.95, surf the Internet with Firefox 63.0.3 and Chromium 70.0.3538.67, stay in touch with your friends via Thunderbird 60.3.2 and Skype for Web, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.4 and mpv 0.28.2, play games powered by Mesa 18.1.4 and Wine 3.20. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.14.80, Apache 2.4.37, MariaDB 10.3.10, PHP 5.6.38 and PHP 7.2.12). Perl 5.26.2, Python 2.7.15, and Python 3.6.5 are also available. As always, the new major release has some new features: optional support for AV1 video coding (encoding via FFmpeg and decoding via VLC and mpv), an option to disable PulseAudio with one click (important for those who use 4MLinux to play classic video games such as DOOM), better support for display drivers when 4MLinux is running in KVM (important for those who use a VNC client to manage 4MServer). LazPaint (small yet powerfull raster image editor with layers) and Blender (professional 3D computer graphics software) have been added as downloadable extensions. Additionally, some good news for gamers: more engines available for XBoard (GNU Chess, GNU Shogi, Fairy-Max) as well as more video games to play (Duke3D, Liero, Strifle). A few small terminal-based games have been added, too.
27.0 Core09 Sep 2018 18:59 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 27 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.14.64, GNU C Library 2.27, and BusyBox 1.28.4. The 4MLinux 27 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 8.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
26.001 Sep 2018 21:38 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 26.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.1.0.1 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.6, Gnumeric 1.12.43), share your files using DropBox 55.4.171, surf the Internet with Firefox 61.0.2 and Chromium 68.0.3440.75, stay in touch with your friends via Thunderbird 52.9.1 and Skype for Web, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.10, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.3 and mpv 0.28.2, play games powered by Mesa 17.3.7 and Wine 3.14. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.14.64, Apache 2.4.34, MariaDB 10.3.9, PHP 5.6.37 and PHP 7.2.9). Perl 5.26.1, Python 2.7.14, and Python 3.6.4 are also available. 4MLinux 26.0 comes with some new features: Tcl/Tk (with a collection of small games) has been integrated into 4MLinux, Engrampa (archive manager) is finally able to open Debian packages, Git in 4MLinux has now both GUI and cgit web interface, Beaver (with syntax highlighting) has been added for easier editing of scripts and C/C++ code, TiMidity++ now uses the Tcl/Tk interface while AbiWord has migrated from GTK2 to GTK3, Expect has been added to the 4MLinux Server to facilitate task automation, Xorriso (with its GUI) is now available as a downloadable extension, Vala and Rust have been added to the set of 4MLinux development packages. And finally the biggest change: full support for modern image and video encoding. ImageMagick and GIMP are now able to handle WebP, HEIF and BPG images. You can use Hyper Video Converter for: VP8/VP9/AVC/HEVC encoding, creating video for web, extracting audio tracks, and many other tasks.
25.205 Aug 2018 20:58 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.55. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.33, MariaDB 10.3.8, and PHP 7.2.7 (see this post for more details). You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
25.101 Jul 2018 20:00 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.48. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.33, MariaDB 10.3.7, and PHP 7.2.6. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
26.0 Core10 Jun 2018 22:09 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 26 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.14.39, GNU C Library 2.27, and BusyBox 1.28.1. The 4MLinux 26 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 7.3.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
25.003 Jun 2018 13:17 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 25.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.0.4.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.10.0, Gnumeric 1.12.40), share your files using DropBox 47.4.74, surf the Internet with Firefox 60.0 and Chromium 66.0.3359.26, stay in touch with your friends via Thunderbird 52.7.0 and Skype for Web, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.9, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.2 and mpv 0.27.0, play games powered by Mesa 17.2.5 and Wine 3.8. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.14.39, Apache 2.4.33, MariaDB 10.2.14, PHP 5.6.36 and PHP 7.2.5). Perl 5.26.1, Python 2.7.14, and Python 3.6.4 are also available. As always, a new major release comes with some new features: better handling of CA certificates (no need to accept them manually), full support for Zstandard data compression algorithm (4MLinux Backup Scripts), login screen can now be disabled (it's a response to user requests), GIMP 2.10 with full support for scanners and digital cameras, Python3 with Meson and Ninja (this is now, de facto, the main build system in GNOME/GTK+ ecosystem). The default media player in 4MLinux is now mpv (with GNOME MPV). Other players (MPlayer, SMPlayer, xine and VLC) are available as downloadable extensions. Good news for modern computers: all these applications are now able to make use of hardware video acceleration (via VA-API and VDPAU). Good news for old computers: MPlayer, xine and VLC can play videos without X Window System (use Midnight Commander to select files to play).
24.201 May 2018 09:37 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.33 and Chromium updated to its latest version. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.33, MariaDB 10.2.13, and PHP 7.2.4. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
4MRecover 25.028 Apr 2018 11:25 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 25.0 BETA as the base system.
24.101 Apr 2018 20:28 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.14.25. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.29, MariaDB 10.2.13, and PHP 7.2.3. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
25.0 BETA22 Mar 2018 14:25 major feature: 4MLinux 25.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including major changes in the core of the system, which now uses the GNU C Library 2.26 and the GNU Compiler Collection 7.2.0. Road map: March 2018 - BETA, July 2018 - STABLE, November 2018 - OLD STABLE, March 2019 - EOL
25.0 Core BETA11 Mar 2018 13:50 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 25 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.14.18, GNU C Library 2.26, and BusyBox 1.27.2. The 4MLinux 25 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 7.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
24.0 STABLE04 Mar 2018 20:41 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 24.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 6.0.0.1 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2, GIMP 2.8.22, Gnumeric 1.12.38), share your files using DropBox 43.4.49, surf the Internet with Firefox 58.0.2 and Chromium 64.0.3282.119, stay in touch with your friends via Thunderbird 52.6.0 and Skype for Web, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.9, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.0 and MPlayer SVN-r37946, play games powered by Mesa 17.1.4 and Wine 3.1. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.14.18, Apache 2.4.29, MariaDB 10.2.12, PHP 5.6.33 and PHP 7.2.2). Perl 5.26.0 and Python 2.7.13 are also available. Huge amount of hardware-related improvements: added support for tablet devices (via kernel and X.Org drivers), added support for digital cameras (via libgphoto2 with gtkam and its GIMP plugin), added support for PPPoE (via kernel drivers and PPPD), improved support for UVC webcams (via v4l-utils and Guvcview), improved support for sound cards (via PulseAudio with pavucontrol), improved support for wireless cards (via kernel drivers and firmware), improved support for mice and joysticks (via kernel drivers and Joystick Calibrator). And finally the biggest change: there are now two ISO images available for download: 4MLinux-24.0-32bit.iso and 4MServer-24.0-64bit.iso. The latter one is a multi-lib system running a 64-bit LAMP suite (Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and PHP).
4MParted 24.017 Feb 2018 18:49 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.29.0 and it uses 4MLinux 24.0 BETA as the base system.
23.301 Feb 2018 15:40 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.9.78. Desktop users can enjoy GIMP, which is now available out of the box. The 4MLinux Server includes Apache 2.4.29, MariaDB 10.2.12, and PHP 7.2.1. Important remainder: this is the last release supporting the 32-bit version of the 4MLinux LAMP server. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
4MRecover 24.022 Jan 2018 21:37 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 24.0 as the base system.
23.206 Jan 2018 20:00 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.9.75. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.29, MariaDB 10.2.11, and PHP 7.0.26. Additionally, some popular programs (Audacity, Chromium, VLC) have been updated, too. 4MLinux 23.2 includes bugfixes for VLC (which now plays the "https" network streams correctly) and Chromium (restored good sound quality). You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
23.1.125 Dec 2017 22:15 major feature: 4MLinux 21.1.1 is ready for download. Exceptionally, so called point release has been marked as a major one due to some new amazing features. The live CD is now over 1GB in size and it comes with some popular programs available out of the box (Audacious, Chrome, VLC, GNOME Office). Full 3D support is enabled by default for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA video cards. On the other hand, 4MLinux is still friendly for older PCs. So called Legacy Installer makes it possible to install 4MLinux on the machines with 128 MB of RAM and 2 GB of free disk space. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!
23.102 Dec 2017 16:51 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.9.61. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.29, MariaDB 10.2.10, and PHP 7.0.25 (see this post for more details). Additionally, some popular programs (Audacity, PeaZip, UNetbootin) have been updated, too. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
24.0 BETA25 Nov 2017 19:14 major feature: 4MLinux 24.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including a major change in the core of the system, which now uses the GNU Compiler Collection 7.1.0. Development Plan: November 2017 - BETA, March 2018 - STABLE, July 2018 - OLD STABLE, November 2018 - EOL
24.0 Core BETA12 Nov 2017 19:39 major feature: This is a core system (only about 10 MB in size) for the 4MLinux 24 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.9.52, GNU C Library 2.25, and BusyBox 1.27.2. The 4MLinux 24 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 7.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
23.0 STABLE01 Nov 2017 20:44 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 23.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your own images with GIMP 2.8.22, edit your documents with LibreOffice 5.4.3.1 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.2 with Gnumeric 1.12.35), share your files using DropBox 37.4.29, surf the Internet with Firefox 56.0 and Chromium 61.0.3163.100, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 5.5.0.1 and Thunderbird 52.4.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.9, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37931 and VLC 2.2.6, play games powered by Mesa 17.0.4 and Wine 2.19. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.9.52, Apache 2.4.28, MariaDB 10.2.9, PHP 5.6.31 and PHP 7.0.24). Perl 5.24.1 and Python 2.7.13 are also available. 4MLinux 23.0 comes with much improved support for FAAC, GIF, JPEG 2000, Monkey's Audio and Musepack file formats. GNOME Office (AbiWord with Gnumeric) has been added as a downloadable extension. Full support for SCSI, RAID and LVM devices is now available out of the box. And finally, the biggest change is related to the installation script, which now makes it possible to install 4MLinux on ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, Btrfs, and NILFS2 partitions.
4MRecover 23.0 BETA15 Oct 2017 19:30 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 23.0 as the base system.
4MRescue 23.0 BETA15 Oct 2017 19:29 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 23.0 as the base system.
4MParted 23.0 BETA08 Oct 2017 20:53 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.29.0 and it uses 4MLinux 23.0 as the base system.
22.3 STABLE01 Oct 2017 13:20 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.9.49. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.27, MariaDB 10.2.8, and PHP 7.0.23 (see this post for more details). Additionally, some popular programs (Dropbox, Java, Skype) have been updated, too. 4MLinux 22.3 is the first release that includes the r8168 Realtek Ethernet driver. You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process). You can update your 4MLinux by executing the "zk update" command in your terminal (fully automatic process).
22.2 STABLE03 Sep 2017 14:04 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.9.43. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.27, MariaDB 10.2.7, and PHP 7.0.22 (see this post for more details). Additionally, some popular programs (Audacious, Dropbox, FileZilla) have been updated, too. 4MLinux 22.2 provides better support for removable USB drives.
22.1 STABLE04 Aug 2017 11:42 minor feature: This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 4.9.40. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.27, MariaDB 10.2.7, and PHP 7.0.21. Additionally, some popular programs (Chromium, Java, PeaZip, SMTube) have been updated, too. The 4MLinux ISO is about 100 MB bigger (than it used to be) due to the changes in the 4MLinux initrd image, which now includes the full set of the Linux firmware to provide better support for modern Ethernet and WiFi cards.
23.0 BETA23 Jul 2017 16:44 major feature: 4MLinux 23.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including a major change in the core of the system, which now uses the GNU C Library 2.25.
23.0 Core09 Jul 2017 11:42 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 23 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.9.33, GNU C Library 2.25, and BusyBox 1.26.2. The 4MLinux 23 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 6.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Despite its extremely small size, 4MLinux Core supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware.
22.0 STABLE01 Jul 2017 17:09 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 22.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.4.0.1 and GIMP 2.8.22, share them using DropBox 28.4.14, surf the Internet with Firefox 54.0 and Chromium 59.0.3071.86, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 5.3.0.1 and Thunderbird 52.2.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.8.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37904 and VLC 2.2.6, play games powered by Mesa 13.0.4 and Wine 2.10. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.9.33, Apache 2.4.25, MariaDB 10.2.6, PHP 5.6.30 and PHP 7.0.15). Perl 5.24.0 and Python 2.7.12 are also available. 4MLinux 22.0 comes with some amazing new features (Skype BETA, FreeCol game, support for the LUKS disk encryption, to name but a few examples). However, the biggest changes are related to the 4MLinux Server, which is now a feature-rich, the lightest and the fastest server suite available on the market. See the recently updated documentation for details.
21.3 STABLE04 Jun 2017 12:39 minor feature: This is a minor maintenance release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. The release ships with the Linux kernel 4.4.70. Additionally, some popular programs (e.g., GNU GRUB, SMTube, VLC) have been updated, too. As a response to user requests, an RDP client (rdesktop 1.8.3) is now available out of the box.
4MParted 22.0 BETA21 May 2017 15:03 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.28.1 and it uses 4MLinux 22.0 as the base system.
21.2 STABLE07 May 2017 10:38 minor feature: This is a minor maintenance release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. The release ships with the Linux kernel 4.4.63. Additionally, some popular programs (DropBox, FileZilla, Firefox, Java, LibreOffice, PeaZip) have been updated, too. 4MLinux 21.2 includes changes in WiFi configuration files to fix the problem with password-protected access points reported by some users.
4MRecover 22.0 BETA23 Apr 2017 09:08 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 22.0 as the base system.
21.1 STABLE01 Apr 2017 11:22 minor feature: This is a minor maintenance release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. The release ships with the Linux kernel 4.4.56. Additionally, some popular programs (Audacity, Chromium, Firefox, SMTube) have been updated, too. 4MLinux 21.1 includes the updated apulse package (backported from 4MLinux 22.0) to fix the problem with sound in the Firefox 52 series.
22.0 BETA18 Mar 2017 21:30 major feature: 4MLinux 22.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including major changes in the core of the system, which now uses the LTS Linux kernel 4.9 series and the GNU Compiler Collection 6.2.0.
22.0 Core BETA12 Mar 2017 12:00 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 22 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.9.13, GNU C Library 2.24, and BusyBox 1.26.2. The 4MLinux 22 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 6.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.
21.0 STABLE04 Mar 2017 16:58 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 21.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.3.0.3 and GIMP 2.8.20, share them using DropBox 19.4.13, surf the Internet with Firefox 51.0.1 and Chromium 56.0.2924.76, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.7.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.8.2 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37889 and VLC 2.2.4, play games with Mesa 13.0.4/Wine 2.2 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.44, Apache 2.4.25, MariaDB 10.1.21, PHP 5.6.30 and PHP 7.0.15). Perl 5.24.0 and Python 2.7.12 are also available. 4MLinux now supports Windows shares (CIFS is available out of the box, while Samba client can be found on the 4MLinux installation CD). The proprietary drivers set is wider than ever and it includes: AMD (Crimson and FirePro), NVIDIA (both mainline and legacy), and Broadcom (WiFi driver). The new (easy to notice) programs in user space are: LXTerminal (terminal emulator with full UTF support), Xpad (sticky notes application), and AlsaPlayer (music player). And finally, PHP7 has been added to the 4MLinux LAMP Server.
20.3 STABLE03 Feb 2017 18:13 minor feature: This is a minor maintenance release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. The release ships with the Linux kernel 4.4.44. Additionally, some popular programs (Audacious, Dropbox, FileZilla, Firefox, Java RE, LibreOffice, PeaZip, Thunderbird, WinSCP) have been updated, too.
4MParted 21.0 BETA14 Jan 2017 20:13 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.26.1 and it uses 4MLinux 21.0 as the base system.
20.2 STABLE01 Jan 2017 11:22 minor feature: This is a minor maintenance release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. The release ships with the Linux kernel 4.4.39. Additionally, some popular programs (Audacious, Chromium, Dropbox, Firefox, LibreOffice, MuCommander, Opera, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Wine) have been updated, too. This is the first 4MLinux live CD that includes the Broadcom proprietary WiFi driver (aka "wl driver").
4MRecover 21.0 BETA16 Dec 2016 17:32 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 21.0 as the base system.
20.1 STABLE02 Dec 2016 19:41 minor feature: This is a minor maintenance release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel. The release ships with the Linux kernel 4.4.34, which restores PAE support that "magically" disappeared in 4MLinux 20.0 (sorry :-). Additionally, some popular programs (Double Commander, Dropbox, Firefox, Java RE, Opera, PeaZip, Thunderbird, Wine, Java RE) have been updated, too.
21.0 BETA19 Nov 2016 15:30 major feature: 4MLinux 21.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including a major change in the core of the system, which now uses the GNU C Library 2.24.
21.0 Core BETA10 Nov 2016 18:56 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 21.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.4.30, GNU C Library 2.24, and BusyBox 1.25.0. The 4MLinux 21.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 6.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.
4MLinux 20.0 STABLE01 Nov 2016 07:47 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 20.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.2.3.2 and GIMP 2.8.18, share them using DropBox 12.4.22, surf the Internet with Firefox 49.0.2 and Chromium 53.0.2785.143, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.4.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.8 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37881 and VLC 2.2.4, play games with Mesa 12.0.1/Wine 1.9.20 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.27, Apache 2.4.23, MariaDB 10.1.18, and PHP 5.6.27). Perl 5.24.0 and Python 2.7.12 are also available. 4MLinux now supports all possible boot options: BIOS with 32-bit CPU, BIOS with 64-bit CPU, UEFI with 32-bit firmware, and UEFI with 64-bit firmware. See the recently updated documentation for details.
4MParted 20.0 BETA16 Oct 2016 16:11 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.26.1 and it uses 4MLinux 20.0 as the base system.
4MRecover 20.0 BETA02 Oct 2016 10:20 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 20.0 as the base system.
20.0 BETA18 Sep 2016 08:59 major feature: This is the 20th release, so it should be something special. And it is! The 4MLinux live CD can now be run (and installed to a hard disk drive) on the following configurations: BIOS with 32 bit CPU, BIOS with 64 bit CPU, UEFI with 32 bit firmware, and UEFI with 64 bit firmware. All these possibilities are handled by the same Linux kernel and initrd. It is even more interesting because 4MLinux is still a 32 bit system (both user-land and kernel). AFAIK 4MLinux is the only GNU Linux offering this kind of functionality. The final (stable) version should be released on the 1st of November 2016.
20.0 Core BETA11 Sep 2016 12:14 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 20.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.4.17, GNU C Library 2.23, and BusyBox 1.25.0. The 4MLinux 20.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 6.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. This is the first 4MLinux live CD, which can be run on UEFI machines (with both 32-bit and 64-bit firmware !).
19.0 STABLE01 Sep 2016 07:39 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 19.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.2.1.2 and GIMP 2.8.18, share them using DropBox 7.4.30, surf the Internet with Firefox 48.0.2 and Chromium 52.0.2743.116, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.3.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.7.2 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37870 and VLC 2.2.4, play games with Mesa 11.2.2/Wine 1.9.16 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.14, Apache 2.4.23, MariaDB 10.1.16, and PHP 5.6.25). Perl 5.22.2 and Python 2.7.11 are also available. Fuse (ZX Spectrum emulator) is now available out of the box, while Double Commander is offered as a downloadable extension. 4MLinux 19.0 includes the improved support for the MP2 format (via TwoLAME and SoX). Additionally, users have now more options to control the X.Org Server.
4MRescueKit 19.0 BETA21 Aug 2016 16:24 major feature: 4MRescueKit provides its users with software for antivirus protection, data backup, disk partitioning, and data recovery. It is distributed in the form of a multiboot CD, which includes four (extremely small) operating systems. This release has Antivirus Live CD 19.0-0.99.2, BakAndImgCD 19.0, 4MParted 19.0, and 4MRecover 19.0.
4MParted 19.0 BETA15 Aug 2016 10:56 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.26.1 and it uses 4MLinux 19.0 as the base system.
4MRecover 19.0 BETA31 Jul 2016 16:04 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 19.0 as the base system.
19.0 BETA16 Jul 2016 22:35 major feature: 4MLinux 19.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including a major change in the core of the system, which now uses GNU Compiler Collection 6.1.0. The latest stable Qt (5.7.0) has also been included.
19.0 Core BETA10 Jul 2016 08:37 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 19.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.4.14, GNU C Library 2.23, and BusyBox 1.24.2. The 4MLinux 19.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 6.1.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.
18.0 STABLE01 Jul 2016 07:14 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 18.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.2.0.1 and share them using DropBox 5.4.24, surf the Internet with Firefox 47.0 and Chromium 51.0.2704.79, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.1.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.7.2 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37852 and VLC 2.2.4, play games with Xorg 1.18.3/Mesa 11.2.1 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.8, Apache 2.4.20, MariaDB 10.1.14, and PHP 5.6.22). Perl 5.22.1 and Python 2.7.11 are also available. 4MLinux 18.0 is the first release offering GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP 2.8.16) as a downloadable extension. Additionally, support for the DjVu image format (via DjVuLibre and qpdfview) is now available out of the box.
4MRescueKit 18.0 BETA19 Jun 2016 16:21 major feature: 4MRescueKit provides its users with software for antivirus protection, data backup, disk partitioning, and data recovery. It is distributed in the form of a multiboot CD, which includes four (extremely small) operating systems. This release has Antivirus Live CD 18.0-0.99.2, BakAndImgCD 18.0, 4MParted 18.0, and 4MRecover 18.0.
4MParted 18.0 BETA12 Jun 2016 12:05 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.25.0 and it uses 4MLinux 18.0 as the base system.
4MRecover 18.0 BETA28 May 2016 21:31 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 18.0 as the base system.
18.0 BETA15 May 2016 11:15 major feature: 4MLinux 18.0 BETA is ready for testing. Basically, at this stage of development, 4MLinux BETA has the same features as 4MLinux STABLE, but it provides a huge number of updated packages, including a major change in the core of the system, which now uses the GNU C Library 2.23. Additionally, the problem with logging into WiFi networks (using the CCMP encryption) has been fixed.
4MLinux 18.0 Core08 May 2016 14:26 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 18.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.4.8, GNU C Library 2.23, and BusyBox 1.24.2. The 4MLinux 18.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.3.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.
4MLinux 17.0 STABLE01 May 2016 08:55 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 17.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.1.3.1 and share them using DropBox 3.18.1, surf the Internet with Firefox 46.0 and Chromium 50.0.2661.75, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 45.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.7.2 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37590 and VLC 2.2.2, play games with Xorg 1.18.1/Mesa 11.1.1 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.1, Apache 2.4.20, MariaDB 10.1.13, and PHP 5.6.20). Perl 5.22.1 and Python 2.7.11 are also available.
4MRescueKit 17.0 BETA17 Apr 2016 10:43 major feature: 4MRescueKit provides its users with software for antivirus protection, data backup, disk partitioning, and data recovery. It is distributed in the form of a multiboot CD, which includes four (extremely small) operating systems. This release has Antivirus Live CD 17.0-0.99.1, BakAndImgCD 17.0, 4MParted 17.0, and 4MRecover 16.0.
4MParted 17.0 BETA10 Apr 2016 11:35 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.25.0 and it uses 4MLinux 17.0 as the base system.
4MRecover 17.0 BETA29 Mar 2016 17:56 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 17.0 as the base system.
4MLinux 17.0 BETA220 Mar 2016 15:44 minor bugfix: This is a minor bug-fix release. The /etc/init.d/rcS script has been modified to avoid system freezing when 4MLinux is booted in VirtualBox. The updated ISO image should be downloaded only by these users, who intend to run 4MLinux 17.0 in virtual machines.
4MLinux 17.0 BETA12 Mar 2016 18:18 major feature: 4MLinux 17.0 is ready for testing. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.1.1.1 and share them using DropBox 3.14.7, surf the Internet with Firefox 44.0.2 and Chromium 50.0.2654.0, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 38.6.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.7.1 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37590 and VLC 2.2.2, play games with Xorg 1.18.1/Mesa 11.1.1 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.4.1, Apache 2.4.18, MariaDB 10.1.11, and PHP 5.6.18). Perl 5.22.1 and Python 2.7.11 are also available.
4MLinux 17.0 Core BETA06 Mar 2016 11:48 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 17.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.4.1, GNU C Library 2.22, and BusyBox 1.24.1. The 4MLinux 17.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.3.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.
4MLinux 16.0 STABLE01 Mar 2016 10:51 major feature: Major change in the core of the system, which now uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.3.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Users can enjoy newly added network applications: uGet (download manager, a front-end to cURL), rTorrent (powerful CLI BitTorrent client), Grsync (backup utility, a front-end to rsync), and gFTP (old but still quite usable FTP client). Additionally, Chrome web browser (which was one of so called downloadable extensions in 4MLinux) has been replaced with Chromium (in March 2016 Google will drop its support for the 32-bit version of Chrome). And finally, the way in which 4MLinux handles compressed archives has been greatly improved.
4MRescueKit 16.0 BETA21 Feb 2016 13:16 major feature: 4MRescueKit provides its users with software for antivirus protection, data backup, disk partitioning, and data recovery. It is distributed in the form of a multiboot CD, which includes four (extremely small) operating systems. This release has Antivirus Live CD 16.0-0.99, BakAndImgCD 16.0, 4MParted 16.0, and 4MRecover 16.0.
4MParted 16.0 BETA14 Feb 2016 12:05 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.25.0 and it uses 4MLinux 16.0 as the base system.
4MRecover 16.0 BETA31 Jan 2016 22:21 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 16.0 as the base system.
16.0 BETA16 Jan 2016 12:25 major feature: 4MLinux 16.0 is ready for testing. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.0.4.2 and share them using DropBox 3.12.6, surf the Internet with Firefox 43.0.4 and Chrome 47.0.2526.106, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 38.5.1, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.7 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37557 and VLC 2.2.1, play games with Xorg 1.18.0/Mesa 11.1.0 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.1.13, Apache 2.4.18, MariaDB 10.1.9, and PHP 5.6.16). Perl 5.22.0 and Python 2.7.11 are also available.
16.0 Core BETA10 Jan 2016 10:41 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 16.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.1.13, GNU C Library 2.22, and BusyBox 1.24.1. The 4MLinux 16.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.3.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.
15.0 STABLE01 Jan 2016 10:49 major feature: The status of the 4MLinux 15.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Major change in the core of the system, which now includes GNU C Library 2.22. As a response to the requests from 4MLinux users, the following applications have been added: Audacity (digital audio editor), GNU GRUB (boot loader), InfraRecorder (CD/DVD writing program), LXInput and LXRandR (small yet powerful setup tools from the LXDE project). Additionally, important change in the 4MLinux LAMP Server, which now uses Postfix to handle emails sent via PHP mail.
4MRescueKit 15.0 BETA18 Dec 2015 13:29 major feature: 4MRescueKit provides its users with software for antivirus protection, data backup, disk partitioning, and data recovery. It is distributed in the form of a multiboot CD, which includes four (extremely small) operating systems. This release has Antivirus Live CD 15.0-0.98.7, BakAndImgCD 15.0, 4MParted 15.0, and 4MRecover 15.0.
4MParted 15.0 BETA12 Dec 2015 16:45 major feature: 4MParted is a very small live CD designed for disk partitioning. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes GParted 0.24.0 and it uses 4MLinux 15.0 as the base system.
4MRecover 15.0 BETA28 Nov 2015 19:15 major feature: 4MRecover is a small live CD designed for data recovery. It's a part of 4MRescueKit, which in turn is one of the three main 4MLinux releases available for download. This version includes TestDisk 7.0 and it uses 4MLinux 15.0 as the base system.
15.0 BETA15 Nov 2015 08:11 major feature: 4MLinux 15.0 is ready for testing. Create your documents with LibreOffice 5.0.3.2 and share them using DropBox 3.10.11, surf the Internet with Firefox 42.0 and Chrome 46.0.2490.80, stay in touch with your friends via Skype 4.3.0.37 and Thunderbird 38.3.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 3.6.2 and aTunes 3.1.2, watch your favorite videos with MPlayer SVN-r37544 and VLC 2.2.1, play games with Xorg 1.17.2/Mesa 11.0.2 support enabled. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 4.1.10, Apache 2.4.17, MariaDB 10.1.8, and PHP 5.6.14). Perl 5.22.0 and Python 2.7.10 are also available.
15.0 Core08 Nov 2015 14:36 major feature: This is a core system (only a few MB in size) for the 4MLinux 15.0 series. The system includes: the Linux kernel 4.1.10, GNU C Library 2.22, and BusyBox 1.24.1. The 4MLinux 15.0 series uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture.
08 Nov 2015 08:30 minor feature: