Distro watch
What’s behind the free software sofa?
mpeg-1 and mpeg-2
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are video codecs that are used widely, but because they were proprietary software, many distros (including Fedora) did not ship with them. However, in a note (http://bit.ly/lxf251fedoralegal) posted by Tom Callaway of the Fedora Legal team, MPEG-1 (H.261) and MPEG-2 (H.262) video implementations are now permitted in Fedora. So it appears that the patent constraints that plagued those codecs are no longer in use.
project trident 19.04
This desktop operating system is based on Trueos, and has been updated to 19.04. It uses features included in the FREEBSD 13.0-CURRENT branch, as well as the Lumina 1.5.0 desktop environment. According to the release statement (https://project-trident.org/ post/2019-05-07_19.04_available), there have been a number of important changes since the last version, such as refind being incorporated into the Project Trident install ISO by default.
fatdog64 Linux 801
The body-shaming Linux distro is a lightweight 64-bit distro that started life as a fork of Puppy Linux. The latest version comes with a number of bug fixes since the previous version, along with new features – including xtrlock, which enables you to lock the screen without blanking, madock, which is a screen magnifier tool, and Uextract and Packit are included by default. Find out more in the release announcement at http:// murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=115537.
guixsd 1.0.0
Also known as the Guix System Distribution, Guixsd is a stateless Linux-based operating system built around the GNU Guix package manager. The aim of the distro is to provide advanced package management features. The new release brings a new system installer, improved X.org configuration and over 1,000 new packages in its repositories. Since the 0.16.0 release, 5,700 commits have been made by 99 people. Find out more at www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2019/gnu-guix1.0.0-released.