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.

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This release upgrades the kernel to the latest Linux 6.2, ships with the KDE Plasma 5.27 LTS desktop environment family, comes with KDE Frameworks 5.104 and the KDE Gear 22.12.3 software suite, and features new Flatpak generic and sandboxed binary format support.

Most importantly, OpenMandriva Lx 23.03 comes with the latest Mesa 23 graphics stack, Wayland 1.21.0, XOrg Server 21.1.7, LLVM / Clang 15.0.7, GNU Binutils 2.40, GCC 12.2, GNU C Library 2.37, systemd 253 and Calamares 3, systemd 253 and Calamares 3.2.61 graphical installer.

The various applications included have also been updated to the latest version. In this version, users can use LibreOffice 7.5.1 Office Suite, Firefox 111 and Chromium 110 browsers, Krita 5.1.5, digiKam 7.9 and GIMP 2.10.34 image editors, Calligra Suite 3.2.1, SMPlayer 22.7. 0 and VLC 3.0.18 video player, VirtualBox 7.0.6, etc.

The official download address for OpenMandriva Lx 23.03 “ROME”. In addition to the KDE Plasma version, users can also download two other versions with GNOME and LXQt desktop environments.

The GNOME version is GNOME 43.3 and the LXQt version is LXQt 1.2. The team at OpenMandriva recently announced that the LXQt desktop is a new version of ROME and Cooker variants and is a great choice for users with older hardware.

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This news means that the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS version will also be upgraded to the Linux 6.2 kernel in the near future. According to the previous update history, the kernel provided in the Ubuntu short-term support version is usually backported to the latest in the LTS version of .

Therefore, it is best for the users to stick to the LTS version, which can get longer support and wait for Linux 6.2.

Linux 6.2 brings several content updates, fixes the running freeze problem of AMD Ryzen processor devices after enabling fTPM, and enhances the file system.

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Additionally, the submission specifically mentions compatibility with Apple’s Mac Studio, a device powered by an M1 Max or M1 Ultra chip.

Currently, only a few downstream kernels such as Asahi Linux support Apple M1 series chips, and when Linux 6.2 is released, there will be good out-of-the-box support for Apple M1 series hardware in Linux and distributions other than Asahi Linux , but drivers and patches still need follow-up improvement.

Asahi Linux is an organization group that studies Linux for Apple Silicon macs. It has successfully run its distribution on the M1 MacBook Air laptop before, and the latest version has supported the M2 chip.

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