Manjaro Linux i3 0.8.13.1 is now available for download

Aug 4, 2015 02:55 GMT  ·  By

Today, August 4, Bernhard Landauer, the maintainer of the i3 community edition of the Manjaro Linux distribution, had the pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of Manjaro Linux i3 0.8.13.1.

According to the release notes, Manjaro Linux 0.8.13.1 i3 Community Edition is a major version based on the latest i3 window manager and the Linux 3.18 LTS kernel. It is using the Thus advanced graphical installer, and it's powered by the latest stable version of the Arch Linux-based Manjaro Linux 0.8.13.1.

The i3 edition of Manjaro Linux is designed from the ground up to be resource-friendly, but the new version was optimized to the max to boot on low-end machines that have even less then 150MB of RAM (system memory). Manjaro Linux 0.8.13.1 i3 edition is distributed with either the systemd or OpenRC init systems.

"The Manjaro Community is proud to present our new i3 Edition. As usual, this release comes with our advanced graphical installer Thus as well as our CLI-installer. Default kernel is linux318. Stable branch was used to create these install media," says Bernhard Landauer. "Please give us feedback and report any issues with this release."

The many features of Manjaro Linux 0.8.13.1 i3 Community Edition

Among other features present in Manjaro Linux 0.8.13.1 i3 Community Edition, we can mention the addition of the i3status-manjaro and dmenu-manjaro packages for easy customization and configuration of the i3 window manager, updated Conky installation, the addition of preconfigured Hexchat, and addition of Xarchiver-gtk2.

Moreover, the i3exit-script and i3lock packages were added to replace light-locker, Alsa-audio with Volumeicon was introduced, the configuration of Compton and urxvt packages was tweaked, AUR-building-tools and several command-line utilities were included, and the Xautolock, blurlock and switch-user function were added.

Of course, there are numerous other small tweaks and under-the-hood improvements in the configuration of the i3 window manager. Download Manjaro Linux 0.8.13.1 i3 Community Edition right now from Softpedia, where you will find Live DVD ISO images for the 64-bit and 32-bit hardware architectures.

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