Greetings!
We're pleased to announce that Redcore Linux Hardened 2102 (codename Polaris) is now available for download. This cycle was a rather smooth one, without major incidents, until the nasty portage bug announced in our last blogpost. But that one was not the only bug we addressed since our previous release. In fact, this release is mostly focused on polishing and fixing bugs, so you won't find many exciting new features inside. Though, we still updated over 1300 packages since our previous release and, to top it off, we did a mass rebuild of the whole repository.
Changelog :
- resync with Gentoo's testing tree as of 01.10.2021
- linux kernel 5.14.10 as default
- LTS linux kernels 5.10.71 && 5.4.151 available in repository
- KDE Plasma 5.22.5, KDE Gear 21.08.1
- Xwayland is now a standalone package
- Chromium replaces Firefox as the default web browser
- Mailspring replaces Thunderbird as the default mail client
- better nvidia-drivers support, PRIME offloading works out of the box via nvidia-prime package
- bugfix : live session no longer freezes when connecting to a WIFI network
- bugfix : live session can be used for long periods of time, previous releases had a tendency to become readonly after a while
- bugfix : live user creation during live boot was extremely slow
- bugfix : updated installer, now correctly sets ESP flag while installing in UEFI mode
- bugfix : steam native runtime now works correctly using system libraries
- bugfix : brand new wiki (some detailed articles published, more will follow)
Known issues :
- Ask for help icon on the desktop no longer works, it really wants Firefox for some reason
- at first boot after the installation SDDM will complain about a wrong permission : chown -R sddm:sddm /var/lib/sddm to fix it (L.E.: or just update the system)
Ending thoughts :
In November, Redcore Linux will be 5 years old. We never asked for monetary donations and we never will as we do not need them, such donations are purely optional. We do need more mirrors though. At the moment we only have 4 and frankly that's not enough. The entire Redcore Linux archive is about 80Gb in size. If you have the space and bandwith or know someone who can help, that would be a great anniversary gift and much appreciated. Please, do not hesitate to get in contact with us and ask for rsync details.
