| guide | Uri Herrera announced the release and downloadability of Nitrux 2.8.1, another monthly release of the Debian-based, systemless GNU/ Linux distribution built around KDE Plasma and the application ecosystem. |
Nitrux 2.8.1 sounds like a minor release of last month's Nitrux 2.8, but it's a massive update that brings exciting changes like the latest and greatest Linux 6.3 kernel series, with Plasma Wayland as the default session, and all the latest KDE software, including Plasma 5.27.5, Frameworks 5.106, and Gear 23.04.1.
Plasma Wayland is clearly the number one attraction of this release, and the developers have done their best to make it as flawless as possible for everyone. To this end, they added xdg-desktop-portal-gnome to prevent font rendering issues, especially in Flatpak applications.
For users of NVIDIA graphics cards, Plasma Wayland sessions will use a traditional Dock configured with a Plasma panel. Plasma Wayland, on the other hand, will display the Latte Dock for those who rely on the Mesa driver (AMD, Intel, etc.).
The developer advises that NVIDIA GPU users experiencing issues running certain applications can switch to a Plasma X11 session. For AMD Radeon GPU users, Nitrux 2.8.1 ships with the latest AMD Vulkan 2023.2.2 open source driver.
Among other things, Nitrux 2.8.1 brings support for managing Btrfs partitions, support for running distros with Hyper-V, LFS extensions for Git, a pre-release of the upcoming Mesa 23.2 graphics stack, and industrial I/O subsystem proxy to D-Bus to support more hardware.
In addition, this version introduces a new parameter for AppArmor to always load by default, and enables the services of OpenRC, DNSCrypt-Proxy 2, supports Tor anonymous communication system, AIDE intrusion detection system and Rsyslog multi-threaded implementation syslogd.
For more details on the changes implemented in Nitrux 2.8.1, as well as information on known issues and other release notes to get you started using Nitrux, check out the Release Announcements page.