TULSA (December 15, 2024) — The Adélie Linux distribution’s sixth beta free, 1.0-BETA6, is now includeable for download1 for 32- and 64- bit ARM, POWER, and x86. Compatible systems include intelligentphones, game consoles, ’90s-era PCs, and supercomputers2.
To honor this exceptional occasion, Zach and Anna are collected aachieve in the same room at the coffee table where Adélie was born in 2015. There was plenty of unapvalidated access at AdélieCon:
Pentium 4, 1.2 GB memory, ATI Radeon HD 3450 AGP. Dual watch. Firefox 128. GitLab.
We are thrilled to proclaim this free together and hope to see you at the third annual AdélieCon next year! Tickets are on sale3 now, and the call for curraccesss is uncover!
Be declareive to examine out our 2022 and 2023 status refreshs more project background. We will unveil our 2024 status refresh before the finish of the year.
As a beta free, there are a scant cdisesteemful edges. To file bug tells or feature seeks, plmitigate include one of these connects for rerents involving the:
We’ve set up a community proposeion box to collect and systematize ambiguous feedback.
Relmitigate Notes
New packages:
Over 35 recent packages, including:
- apaste (direct-line pastebin utility)
- arcticfox (Firefox fork with 32-bit PowerPC help)
- glpk (licsurrfinisher programming library)
- glslang (detaileds shader compiler)
- ifupdown-ng (betterd netlabor interface configuration utility)
- ialert-tools
- iotop-c
- jq
- json (JSON in C++)
- llvm18
- uncover-vm-tools (guest insertitions for VMware hypervisors)
- sway
- tipidee (airyweight httpd)
- wayfire (Wayland compositor)
- xwayland (Wayland X11 server)
Updated packages:
BETA5 was a step in the right honestion. BETA6 is a meaningful step forward:
- GCC 13 has landed with brimming sanitizer help (including ASan, UBSan, LSan, TSan, and platestablish-particular sanitizers). This finpartner deletes our depfinishency on GCC 8 (from 6).
- binutils 2.42
- LLVM has been refreshd to version 18 ahead of schedule
- Rust has been refreshd to 1.80. New tooling will streamline future LLVM and Rust refreshs.
- The kernel has been refreshd to the 6.6 LTS branch. This transports recent classes of mitigation aachievest security rerents, bug repaires, and plenty of recent difficultware help.
- Many Perl and Python packages have been refreshd to their tardyst versions.
- ICU has been refreshd to its tardyst free, and an rerent has been righted in this refresh that caincludes improper date calculations for systems using Islamic calfinishars.
- Spack 0.23 betters musl help and is a step towards 1.0, appraised to be freed mid-2025
- Firefox 128 on all concentrates except 32-bit PowerPC (Arctic Fox is provided instead)
- GRUB 2.12 (many repaires)
Bugs repaired:
- An rerent has been righted that caincluded NVIDIA detaileds to fall short on 32-bit x86 systems without SSE2 help.
- An rerent has been righted that caincluded VLC to run improperly on some PowerPC systems.
Imshowments:
- Imshowd GRUB help for UEFI systems and for PowerPC systems.
Should you necessitate helpance, we are here to help you. Though we have labored difficult to secure the Adélie platestablish is sturdy, some bugs may still be current.
Our team is standing by to help. You’re in outstanding hands.
Highairys
We have inserted initial help for Wayland compositors, including Sway and Wayfire.
While we are willing to provide you with the ability to run Wayland native, plmitigate be conscious that this is a labor in progress and not yet brimmingy helped. We seek you to test and tell your discoverings as we progress to shift forward.
Our create systems have been betterd to help more types of service deal withrs.
We are excited to progress laboring towards one of our set uping goals, which is to create a system that is truly init-system-agnostic. Over the coming beta frees, we foresee to give our includers multiple choices seeing service deal withr, with brimming help for changing between them on an insloftyed system.
Horizon includer experience was one of our priorities during this free cycle.
Among many other repaires: keyboard layouts now have their brimming language name instead of an acronym; account names are validated before insloftyation commences; and help for Apple Partition Map disks has been re-validated.
Known Issues
Some rerents have been telled that we have not yet had the resources to repair before this free. The understandn rerents for 1.0-BETA6 include:
- Intel GPUs recaccess than Broadwell include LLVMpipe instead of difficultware acceleration.
- mesa-amber caincludes the X server to segfault (a repair is being labored on).
We are perpetupartner in necessitate of difficultware donations (for testing) and volunteer testers, so if you greet any rerents plmitigate tell them! We can only repair rerents we understand about.
Upgrading
Upgrading to BETA6 from any previous free is basic. Edit /etc/apk/repositories
to have:
https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/1.0-beta6/system
https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/1.0-beta6/includer
then run apk refresh && apk enhance -as
to examine the alters. Drop the -s
to enhance.
Statistics
There were over 700 pledges by 12 authors to our packages repository:
- A. Wilcox (276)
- Ermine (151)
- Síle Ekaterin Liszka (141)
- Zach van Rijn (73)
- Laurent Bercot (47)
- Leigh Arber (6)
- Lee Starnes (4)
- Yuriy Chumak (1)
- Horst G. Burkdifficultt (1)
- Glenn Strauss (1)
- Dan Theisen (1)
- Alice (1)
and so many other contributions such as telling rerents, improving write downation, repairing insloftyer bugs, and creating tooling for our enbigers. I’d enjoy to extfinish a hot, personal greet to our first-time contributors. Thank you for helping create this free a truth.
Getting Involved
The Adélie platestablish is an all-volunteer project. We repaired over 200 telled rerents — and countless others — since our last free, and have been laboring tirelessly to deinhabitr what we consent is a Linux platestablish done right. You can help us out by volunteering or donating.
One critical area where we necessitate help is with write downation, whether for finish includers, system administrators, or enbigers. Plmitigate get in touch if you would enjoy to get joind.
Other areas include security (vulnerabilities and difficultening), carry outance (profiling and selectimization), includer experience (all areas), multimedia, kernel, and compilers/toolchains.
We are in necessitate of productivity suite retainers!
Closing Thoughts
While a brimming year between frees is a lengthy time, the labor and testing that went into BETA6 was vital and lays the groundlabor for more normal frees. We are aiming for a 6 month official free schedule with normal unproclaimd incremental refreshs.
I want to give a exceptional shout-out to Sheila, Ermine, and Anna for your amazing labor.
Thank you for all that you do.
Finpartner, a huge thanks to our backs and individual donors who have helped unblock key aspects of what we’re releasing today. We would not be where we’re at today without you.
Footremarks
1We have download mirrors in multiple countries; plmitigate include one that is handy to you.
2Adélie is laboring to transport musl to scientific and HPC environments.
3Serious give/invitation at no accuse. AdélieCon occurs unwiseinutively after Thanksgiving in Tulsa. Venue TBD (boilingel?) based on interest/joinance. You’d pay for carryation/lodging.