Phoenix release have a new look!

We are happy to announce the Macaroni Phoenix 24.08.01 release, a minor release with some cool new changes.

This new release come with a new Plymouth Theme with Macaroni OS logo that will be installed by default in all new installation.

In this release the GTK default Theme is Orchis that together with the new Papirus icons gift a very new look and feel to the our DE based on GTK.

This release supply the new Virtualbox 7.1 that seems finally a bit more stable and without the tons of dmesg errors about DRM. The cons is that the 3D option is now broken, we will waiting for the new version with the hope that this will be fixed. But considering that now it seems more stable we have move ahead things with this new release. Having the 3D option broken we have permitted to find an issue in the last release of Xorg server that is been patched and that permit to fix the unexpected close of Gnome Photo and other X tools in some systems with poor video cards.

Another good news is that now Firefox package is build with CLANG and uses system PNG library to have a better performance and integration. The new Firefox release resolve the issues with DRM introduces in the release 24.08.

Phoenix 24.08.01

The Phoenix 24.08.01 is a patching release always based on MARK next branch.

The kernel drivers Virtualbox and NVIDIA are now available for the the kernel 6.10. The new Kernel ZEN 6.11.2 is available for testing.

The new ISOs using NVIDIA Driver 560 as default version.

Phoenix 24.08.01 major updates

In additional to the points described before, in evidence we have:

• ZFS 2.2.6

• Incus 6.5

• LXD 5.21.1

• Waydroid 1.4.3

• Blender 4.2.1

• Firefox 130.0

• Grafana 11.2.0

• Google Chrome 128.0.6613.137

• Vivaldi 5.9.3447.33

See the complete changelog of Phoenix 24.08.01 release.

Setup new look in the existing system

In order to install the new Plymouth theme you need to follow these steps:

$> # Install the new plymouth theme
$> anise i plymouth-macaroni
$> # Rebuild the initrd image
$> macaronictl kernel gi --set-links --grub --purge --all

and later install the new Gnome Orchis Theme and the Papirus Icons:

$> anise i gnome-orchis-theme papirus-icon-theme

Based on the DE used configure the new Style Orchis-Orange-Compact or Orchis-Orange-Dark-Compact and the Papirus icons. Enjoy!

Terragon 24.10 is out!

We happy to share that this new release is been completly rebuild to upgrade GCC to 12.3.0 and the starting seed for the compilation is now based on the MARK stage3 tarball and on mark-testing branch of MARK.

Having Terragon based on MARK’s mark-testing branch will help for testing compilation process and to have soon a better integration with anise stack.

In evidence with the migration to GCC 12.3.0:

• Incus 6.5

• LXD 5.21.1

• Rust 1.81.0

• Nginx 1.26.2

• Python 3.9.20

• MariaDB 10.6.19 (columnstore feature is now available again!)

• PostgreSQL 16.4, 13.16

• Bash 5.2.37

See the complete changelog of Terragon 24.10 release.

Eagle 24.10 and 24.10.01 is out!

In evidence:

• Incus 6.5

• LXD 5.21.1

• HaProxy 2.9.11

• Minio Object Store 2024.10.02.08.27.28

• Nodejs 20.18.0

• Go 1.23.1

• PHP 8.2.24, 8.1.30

• FreeRadius 3.0.27

See the complete changelog of Eagle 24.10 release and of Eagle 24.10.01 release.

M.A.R.K. Updates

A lot of updates are been introduces in the mark-testing branch in order to organize things and later create the new stable releases.

In about one month we have closed 50 issues. Kudos to all people help on this!

In evidence some of the issues resolved by our team in the last period:

• sys-apps/usbutils-018 now uses Meson for compilation. The autogen now follow this new way (Thanks @borisp)

• app-crypt/xca is been fixed (Thanks @cuantor)

• app-emulation/incus autogen is been reviewed

• new packages available: app-backup/backrest, x11-themes/papirus-icon-theme, x11-themes/gnome-orchis-theme, dev-util/volk.

• sys-power/cpupower autogen is been fixed

• the packages sys-apps/baselayout and sys-apps/lsb-release are been rebranding

• the old GCC ebuilds are been removed

• the XFCE Kit is now managed inside kit-fixups repository directly

• the Debian kernel ebuild are now autogen! See PR#158 (Thanks @cuantar)

• Go autogen is been pinned to version 1.22.7 and 1.23.1 (Thanks @siris)

• the intel64-tremont subarch is been added (Thanks @cuantor)

And a lot of other PR are been closed. See our repository for details.

Thanks

Many thanks to all Developers and Contributors that are the sap of all this and to all people that helps us with testing and donations.

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