Debian-Based Q4OS 1.8.4 Operating System Lets Users Select Alternative Desktops

Today, April 26, 2017, the developers behind the Debian-based Q4OS GNU/Linux distribution announced the release of the fourth stability and security update of the Q4OS 1.8 "Orion" series.

Q4OS 1.8.4 comes almost two months after the release of the previous point release, and besides incorporating all the security patches backported from the upstream repositories of the Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" operating system series, it adds an exciting new feature, namely the integration of alternative desktop environments.

Q4OS is one of the few Linux-based operating systems to be built entirely around the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE), and open-source initiative to keep the spirit of the old-school KDE 3.5 desktop environment alive, and the new feature is implemented in the native Q4OS 'Desktop Profiler' utility.

"Users can now select alternative desktops to install and use alongside the default Q4OS Trinity desktop," reads today's read more)

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