The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.4 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.
Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.17 kernel series, PorteuX 2.4 ships with no less than eight editions featuring the GNOME 49.1, KDE Plasma 6.5.2, Xfce 4.20, Cinnamon 6.4.13, LXDE 0.11.1, **[LXQt 2.3](https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-3-desktop-environment-released-with-new-features-and-enhanceme…
The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.4 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.
Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.17 kernel series, PorteuX 2.4 ships with no less than eight editions featuring the GNOME 49.1, KDE Plasma 6.5.2, Xfce 4.20, Cinnamon 6.4.13, LXDE 0.11.1, LXQt 2.3, MATE 1.28.2, and COSMIC Beta 5 desktop environments.
Some of the highlights of the PorteuX 2.4 release include support for the latest NVIDIA 580.105.08 graphics driver, improved touchpad support, search/filter support for the PorteuX Language Switcher, as well as support for changing the timezone and clock type in the PorteuX Timezone Switcher.
This release also adds the noupdateclock cheatcode to disable the automatic update of the machine date/time during boot time, support for the kmap cheatcode in Wayland sessions (except for Cinnamon and GNOME), HEIC image support in the LXQt edition, and autoload support for cron and docker daemons.
There are various enhancements as well in PorteuX 2.4, such as an improved deactivate -f command for reliability, support for line wrapping to gtkdialog.py, improved linker flags for better performance and smaller binaries, as well as a rewritten PorteuX Modules application to be faster and more reliable.
Among other changes, the Xfce edition received an updated elementary-icon package so that the icons now automatically adapt when switching between dark and light themes, the LXDE edition received an updated theme, and the MATE edition received an updated search tool to show results in binary format.
PorteuX 2.4 also changes all sections in rc.M and rc.S to avoid multiple sub-shell instances, changed the deactivate script to use the lazy parameter, which fixes some modules that refuse to be deactivated, improves Cinnamon rendering in Wayland, and fixes date/time issues during boot time.
Some other bugs were fixed as well, so check out the release notes on the project’s GitHub page for extra reading. You can download PorteuX 2.4 from the same location as Slackware Stable and Slackware Current flavors.