Many of the internal packages have been updated

Mar 21, 2015 16:00 GMT  ·  By

The Neptune development team was proud to announce today, March 21, the immediate availability for download and update of the third maintenance release of their awesome Neptune 4 Linux operating system derived from the fantastic Debian GNU/Linux distribution and based on the latest KDE Applications 4.14.3 desktop environment.

Neptune 4.3 is now based on Debian 7.8 (Wheezy), powered by Linux kernel 3.16.3, which includes many patches for the distribution’s default file system, Btrfs, as well as the Nouveau video driver for Nvidia video cards. Chromium 41 is now the default web browser, and the VLC Media Player was updated to version 2.2, LibreOffice office suite to version 4.3.3, and Icedove email and news client to version 31.5.0.

“Besides that this new version also offers Updates for Kdenlive which bring in better codec support as well as a fix for the localization of video effects,” was stated in today’s announcement. “The problem with Persistent Creator in the live media not being able to format the persistency file on a non german localization has been solved.”

Many of the pre-installed packages have been updated to their latest versions

Many of the pre-installed packages have been updated to their latest versions, including GRUB 2.0.2 Beta 2, which also offers better support for Btrfs, libc6 2.13-38, XOrg Server 1.12.4, Samba 4.1.17, CUPS, 1.5.3, OpenJDK 6 Build 34, MySQL 5.5.41, cURL 7.26.0, and OpenSSL 1.0.1e. The PPAPI Flash plugin has been updated to version 17.0.0.134, and the Adobe Flash Player plugin to version 11.2.202.451.

Lastly, Neptune 4.3 comes now with an updated Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) component, version 1.1.8, which offers better support for today’s most popular smartphones and media players. You can download Neptune 4.3 right now from Softpedia, but if you’re using Neptune 4.2, you can simply update to this version via an update in the Software Center app. Until then, please enjoy our in-depth screenshot tour of Neptune 4.3 below.

Neptune 4.3 (16 Images)

Neptune 4.3 desktop environment
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