Meet Calculate Linux 21!

Lautre · April 28, 2021, 6:37am

Released on April 28, 2021

We are pleased to announce the release of Calculate Linux 21.

It includes a new Calculate Container Games flavor, allowing you to run Steam games on your computer. All packages in the binary repository were recompiled with GCC 10.2 and packed with Zstd. Calculate Linux Desktop user profiles now synchronize much faster.

Are available for download: Calculate Linux Desktop featuring the KDE (CLD), Cinnamon (CLDC), LXQt (CLDL), Mate (CLDM) or else Xfce (CLDX and CLDXS) scientific, Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) and Calculate Scratch Server (CSS).

Full changes and fixes

Added LXC Calculate Container Games (CCG) build for running Steam games
Added support for high DPI scaling at user profile setup time
Faster domain profile setup
Much faster domain profile synchronization
Moved from ConsoleKit to elogind
Moved from NT1 to SMB 3.11
Zstd compression used for binary packages
Btrfs used by default
Calculate containers supported with LXC-4.0 and higher
Fixed wake-up for some notebooks (ASUS X509U)
Faster update checking if repository not modified
Fixed setup for packages that may prevent templates from being applied
Fixed reconnection of domain resources when exiting hibernation mode
Fixed first boot-up after reinstallation in domain
Fixed pre-building setup for OverlayFS
Fixed using swap for hibernation mode
Fixed volume detection for autopartitioning
Fixed ISO creation
Fixed GRUB setup at installation time
Fixed checking for bios_boot partition
Fixed lags when fetching updates from FTP mirrors
Fixed installation of Nvidia drivers for video cards that do no support version 460
Fixed system installation with Btrfs compression
Added Greek locale

Featured Packages

CLD (KDE desktop): KDE Frameworks 5.80.0, KDE Plasma 5.20.5, KDE Applications 20.12.3, LibreOffice 6.4.7.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.85 - 2.93 G
CLDC (Cinnamon desktop): Cinnamon 4.6.7, LibreOffice 6.4.7.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.85, Evolution 3.38.4, Gimp 2.10.24, Rhythmbox 3.4.4 - 2.67 G
CLDL (LXQt desktop): LXQt 0.17, LibreOffice 6.4.7.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.85, Claws Mail 3.17.8, Gimp 2.10.24, Clementine 1.4.0_rc1 - 2.70 G
CLDM (MATE desktop): MATE 1.24, LibreOffice 6.4.7.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.85, Claws Mail 3.17.8, Gimp 2.10.24, Clementine 1.4.0_rc1 - 2.76 G
CLDX (Xfce desktop): Xfce 4.16, LibreOffice 6.4.7.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.85, Claws Mail 3.17.8, Gimp 2.10.24, Clementine 1.4.0_rc1 - 2.64 G
CLDXS (Xfce Scientific desktop): Xfce 4.16, Eclipse 4.13, Inkscape 1.0.2, LibreOffice 6.4.7.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.85, Claws Mail 3.17.8, Gimp 2.10.24 - 3.00 G
CDS (Directory Server): OpenLDAP 2.4.57, Samba 4.12.9, Postfix 3.5.8, ProFTPD 1.3.7a, Bind 9.16.6 - 813 M
CLS (Linux Scratch): Xorg-server 1.20.11, Kernel 5.10.32 - 1.39 G
CSS (Scratch Server): Kernel 5.10.32, Calculate Utilities 3.6.9.19 - 593 M