PC/OS Desktop 20.04.4 Released
Today, the PC/OpenSystems LLC development team is pleased to announce the release of PC/OS Desktop 20.04.4, our newest incremental release for this desktop product line — a fully commercial supported release. With a great application lineup for the enterprise environment, PC/OS Desktop paired with PC/OS Server makes PC/OS a very compelling solution for your school or business.
We have listened to our customers and have included the most requested contemporary services and applications, as well as a change to the KDE Plasma desktop environment. PC/OS Desktop 20.04.4 also includes tools and resources to help users switching from legacy distributions from other Linux providers. We have also included a new minimal install feature that allows users to install PC/OS with just the web browser and essential system services for specialized deployments.
PC/OS Desktop support comes in 1/3/5 year support subscriptions, with incremental upgrade and ISO refreshes every 6 to 8 months and new releases every 12 to 16 months. For security, reliability and long term viability, PC/OS Desktop is an attractive and well-supported solution.
The distribution includes :
KDE Plasma 5.18.8 — The fast and lean Linux desktop, fully functional and performance enhanced; peerless in terms of speed and user friendliness.
Kernel 5.13.0 LTS — Long Term Support kernel designed to stand the test of time.
Flatpak — Alternative package manager to SNAP, the current Ubuntu standard.
Microsoft Edge 99 — Web browser from Microsoft engineered for privacy, web app integration and performance
Thunderbird — Mail client that you can use to sync your e-mail (IMAP or POP) calendars or Microsoft Exchange services
Kpat — Solitaire game
Knights — Chess game
OnlyOffice 7 — Office suite that can handle even the most complex documents and is compatible with Microsoft Office.
DragonPlayer — Multimedia player
Juk — Music Player
PowerShell 7.2 — Alternative shell thats a free/open source project from Microsoft
Balena Etcher — Utility for writing ISO’s to a USB stick
Kbackup — Backup utility to save valuable and crucial data to a NAS, USB stick or other device
Timeshift — System rollback type functionality
Active Directory integration — Use active directory in your infrastructure? You can add Xandros clients to them
Virtual Machine software — KVM based virtualization for users who need multiple operating systems within the same system.
This release also contains many functionality / security updates to secure the system against outside intrusion.
You can download the free self support release of PC/OS Desktop here
https://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/pc-os/pc-os-20-04-desktop-amd64.iso
https://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/pc-os/pc-os-20-04-desktop-amd64.md5
https://distro.ibiblio.org/blacklab/pc-os/pc-os-20-04-desktop-amd64.sha256
If you need commercial support you can purchase PC/OS Desktop from our webstore. When you purchase PC/OS Desktop you get physical media with your support subscription. If you have special license requirement you can contact the sales team at pcopensystems.sales@outlook.com