Uri Herrera released the Nitrux 2.8 system at the end of April, a Debian and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution with a focus on KDE software and the Plasma desktop.
Nitrux 2.8 is powered by Liquorix’s Linux 6.2 kernel series, with zswap enabled by default, and ships with the latest KDE Plasma 5.27.4 LTS desktop environment, which ships with the KDE Frameworks 5.105 and KDE Gear 23.04 software suites.
The major change in Nitrux 2.8 is the default inclusion of WayDroid, a container-based approach to booting a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system, which means users can now install and use Android apps on their Nitrux-powered computers program.
Thanks to the addition of the Maliit keyboard, the Nitrux 2.8 release also supports NFS shares, tablets and 2-in-1 devices with touchscreens, Arabic and Bengali language support, and updated OpenRC and ZSH configurations.
Nitrux 2.8 also includes the fscrypt userland tool for managing Linux native filesystem encryption and supports the F2FS filesystem, which is now used by default for /home and /var/lib partitions instead of XFS, which is still available for the /root partition.
Additionally, there is now an updated partition layout in the Calamares installer to reflect these changes and better accommodate sandboxed apps like AppImage and Flatpak.
Besides that, the new Nitrux version adjusts Sysctl settings with custom files and adds prelinking to improve performance slightly, increases the maximum number of open files or file descriptors (FD) by providing custom files, adds Mozc for Japanese users ( Use Fcitx5 ), update Mesa graphics stack to version 23.2-git, update AMD Vulkan driver to version 2023.Q2.1, update dmcrypt-openrc package.
