Calculate Linux Desktop KDE is the main edition of the Calculate Linux operating system, built around the powerful KDE Plasma Workspaces and Applications desktop environment. Calculate Linux is an one-man, open source Linux distribution that gets its roots from the complex and exclusivist Gentoo Linux operating system, which is known to perform great on any type of computers and other devices.
Distributed in multiple editions, as Live DVDs
The project provides users with multiple editions, each one designed to be used for a specific task or by a distinct group of people. For example, the two desktop editions can be used by home users as a workstation, or on small and medium businesses as an office workstation.
Calculate Linux Desktop is distributed as two Live DVD ISO images, one for each of the officially supported architectures (64-bit and 32-bit). It supports many languages, including Russian and English.
Boot options
The boot menu will allow users to boot the operating system that is currently installed, test the system memory (RAM) for errors, start the live environment with the X11 Window System, copy the entire ISO image to RAM (requires at least 4GB of system memory).
Features the KDE desktop environment
The desktop session is carefully designed to provide users with a modern and stylish computing environment, comprised of a single panel placed by default on the upper part of the screen (it can be used to launch applications, switch between virtual workspaces and interact with the system tray area.
Default applications
Default applications include the Chromium web browser, LibreOffice office suite, Amarok music player and organizer, as well as the digiKam image viewer and editor. In addition to these, there are also many other useful utilities and tools.
If you don’t like the KDE desktop environment or you find it “too heavy” for your computer, Calculate Linux also provides a special edition dedicated to all fans of the Xfce window manager.
What is new in this release:
- We moved to the new Gentoo 17.0 profile. All binary packages were rebuilt, in the repo as well as on Live DVDs/USBs
- All currently available Meltdown and Spectre patches were included
- grub.d privileges are safe now
- Restore functionality supported for LXC containers file capabilities
- Network interfaces can be once again renamed and saved
- Password configuration fixed for editing Grub entries
- IO Scheduler option removed
- Network configuration inside containers fixed
- File attributes updated correctly by templates
- Kernel start fixed (warnings and errors OK)
- Possible to use a file as swap memory
What is new in version :
- Installation:
- SoftRaid support added.
- Fixed autopartitioning problems.
- Third-party overlays supported.
- Performance:
- The Calculate Utilities server does not run on the background. Instead, it is launched by D-Bus.
- The MuQSS patch was included to the kernel configuration for better application task scheduling.
- The UKSM patch was included in the kernel configuration for less memory load.
- PAE binary kernel supported for 32-bit systems.
- All server kernel settings optimized.
- Miscellaneous:
- GCC completely updated to v6.4 and the kernel updated to v 4.14.
- In CLDC, CLDM and CLDX Pidgin was replaced by Gajim. The "httpupload, "image" and "url image preview" come included.
- The LXC/LXD container version was renamed to Calculate Container Scratch (CCS).
- 11 493 binary packages are available.
- Software:
- KDE Frameworks 5.41, KDE Plasma 5.10.5, KDE Applications 17.08.3, LibreOffice 5.4.2.2, Firefox 57.0.1
What is new in version 17.6:
- Calculate Linux Desktop was updated to KDE 5.
- Testing and stable updates now coming separately and labelled as such.
- Multiple instances, built with different USE flags, are available in a special repository (binpkg-multi-instance).
- The main Git mirror migrated to Github.
- Faster XZ compression on multi-core processors.
- The XZ algorithm will be used from now on for initramfs, the kernel and its modules.
- File moving and renaming issues fixed for OverlayFS.
- Defaulting to Python 3.4.
- More efficient mirror selection for updates.
- Mirrors were rearranged.
What is new in version 17:
- Calculate Linux Desktop was updated to KDE 5.
- Testing and stable updates now coming separately and labelled as such.
- Multiple instances, built with different USE flags, are available in a special repository (binpkg-multi-instance).
- The main Git mirror migrated to Github.
- Faster XZ compression on multi-core processors.
- The XZ algorithm will be used from now on for initramfs, the kernel and its modules.
- File moving and renaming issues fixed for OverlayFS.
- Defaulting to Python 3.4.
- More efficient mirror selection for updates.
- Mirrors were rearranged.
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