aLinux 14.0

aLinux™ is an advanced Office/Multimedia RPM based GNU/Linux distribution.

Installing new programs, applications and updating your system from time-to-time has never been easier using our Synaptic Package Management System. aLinux™ is a Professional Linux Operating System already designed to surpass both Microsoft Windows XP/Vista and Apple Mac OS X. While sporting an even more visually stunning Graphical User Interface then our competitors, we still are able to maintain a high level of sophistication, experienced Linux users, have come to appreciate. We believe Linux hobbyists, new users and advanced users, will find the aLinux™ Operating System an utmost PROFESSIONAL, FAST and EXTREMELY FUN distribution.

Jay Klepacs has announced the release of aLinux 14.0, a desktop distribution and live CD featuring the KDE 3 desktop. What's new in this release? "aLinux now uses a graphical installer; tons of bug fixes and many system init script updates to make the boot process quicker; RPM Manager now defaults to LZMA compressed archives aka XZ; while we fully transition to LZMA which is fully supported as of aLinux 14.0 there are still a few GZIP remnants that might not work as they once did, like in earlier Midnight Commanders; system - X.Org 7.5, KDE 3.5.10, KOffice 1.6.3, Linux kernel 2.6.34, GNOME 2.14.3, Perl 5.10.0, glibc 2.5, GCC 4.1.2, PHP 5.2.0 and MySQL 5.0.33; by default aLinux on X Window / KDE can view most common and not so common Unicode, UTF-8, ISO-10646 font/glyph locales in applications such as Konqueror, Firefox, SeaMonkey, GVim, Kedit, Konsole."