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Title: El Sneako Peako
Post by: Jerry on March 29, 2020, 06:12:11 AM

Excuse the title, I'm trying to avoid for once SEO using our title to get peoples hopes up.

Here's some 5.0 work to date. Of note:

Lite Widget - now shows the status of the Firewall (firewalld) This is one of those important, piece of mind security features.
Lite Welcome - fixed those pesky shortcuts that never quite worked, now they ALL work.
Paint - We now have a simple Paint app included by default. Why? Because we're chasing Windows folk and that's what they have too.
Mousepad - Is the new text Editor.
Terminal - moderate transparency.
Whisker Menu - some new features there.
Lite Welcome & Lite User Manager have both been ported to Python 3 and GTK3.

There's a whole lot of that's new, but we're saving all the good stuff for the Beta/RC release.

Hope you like the video below (no sound):

https://streamable.com/eqkfa (https://streamable.com/eqkfa)

Title: Re: El Sneako Peako
Post by: elelme on March 29, 2020, 11:08:48 AM

Looks really nice...can hardly wait!

Title: Re: El Sneako Peako
Post by: TheDead on March 30, 2020, 08:20:55 AM

Wooo! Nice! ;)
How are the memory/hardisk ressources on this first pre-RC version? o.O

Title: Re: El Sneako Peako
Post by: elelme on March 30, 2020, 10:22:26 AM

But will this be UEFI-only, or will it be able to be legacy-booted as well?

Title: Re: El Sneako Peako
Post by: Jerry on March 30, 2020, 08:03:29 PM

Quote from: TheDead on March 30, 2020, 08:20:55 AM

Wooo! Nice! ;)
How are the memory/hardisk ressources on this first pre-RC version? o.O

Memory is much higher, hence the other KDE thread. No signs of it lowering as the build gets closer :(

Quote from: elelme on March 30, 2020, 10:22:26 AM

But will this be UEFI-only, or will it be able to be legacy-booted as well?

UEFI decision has not been made yet.

Title: Re: El Sneako Peako
Post by: WytWun on March 31, 2020, 07:32:02 AM

Quote from: elelme on March 30, 2020, 10:22:26 AM

But will this be UEFI-only, or will it be able to be legacy-booted as well?

There are plenty of examples of live ISO installers which support both boot modes (e.g. Xubuntu 18.04 for one) so it is technically possible.  Whether Jerry's installer creation setup can/does is something only he can determine.

If the new version does support UEFI, I hope Jerry will be able to include the 32bit UEFI bootloader (NOT 32bit Linux!!) so that class of Atom mini-PCs and laptops so afflicted are supported (all of which have 64bit CPUs but most only have 1 or 2GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage and so Microsoft has stopped supporting W10 updates on them because of the lack of storage).