We are then quickly walked through picking our time zone, confirming our keyboard's layout and partitioning the hard disk. Calamares begins by asking us to select our preferred language from a list. Redcore utilizes the Calamares graphical system installer to get the distribution installed to a local disk drive. The latter icon opens a web browser and connects us to a web-based IRC chat room where we can interact with other Redcore users. On the desktop we find icons for launching the project's system installer and another for getting help. A panel runs across the bottom of the screen, providing us with access to the system's application menu, task switcher and system tray. Signing into the live session brings up the LXQt 0.11.0 desktop. Later, if we need to access administrative functions we can elevate our privileges using "root" as both the username and password. Its installation media is built to run exclusively on 64-bit x86 computers.īooting from Redcore's installation media brings us to a graphical login screen where we can sign into the live desktop environment using "redcore" as both the username and password. The distribution ships with LXQt as the default desktop environment and there is just the one edition of Redcore we can download.
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Redcore is designed to be quick and easy to install on laptop and desktop computers. Redcore Linux is a desktop distribution based on the source-based Gentoo project. Listen to the Podcast edition of this week's DistroWatch Weekly in OGG (69MB) and MP3 (57MB) formats.
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Plus we share the releases of the past week and provide a list of torrents we are seeding. In our Opinion Poll we ask how many of our readers are running a flavour of BSD. We also report on Gentoo phasing out their security hardened kernel.
In our News section we talk about Snap support arriving on Solus, KaOS adopting a hardened Linux kernel and mobile devices running Debian.
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Rolling release operating systems are a good way to keep up to date with the latest available software and we explore rolling release options for BSD users. Rolling release platforms are also the topic of our Questions and Answers column. Our Feature Story explores Redcore Linux and what it is like using it as a desktop system. Not many projects are based directly on Gentoo these days, but one young project, Redcore Linux, is working to provide a user friendly desktop distribution based on Gentoo. The Gentoo project develops a popular, source-based operating system that is well known for its flexibility. Welcome to this year's 34th issue of DistroWatch Weekly!