Neptune ISO Download

UPDATE:
As by our tradition Neptune 7.9 Beta 1 ISO is now available on time for Carneval. You can find the ISO here: https://download.neptuneos.com/dev/

This one comes based  upon Debian Testing (Bookworm) with the latest Plasma 5.27 (Beta) aswell as Linux kernel 6.1.8. For the first time we ship Plasma Wayland as session aswell as Flatpak with activated Flathub repository for a vast amount of apps available for Linux.

Notice: This version is a bit bigger _3GB in size due to some apps relying on Qt5 libs and the default being Qt6. We are looking into it if we can reduce size further but did already do some tweaking to reduce the size.

Known Bugs:

• Btrfs installation end up with a read only mount after installation (this needs fixing in Calamares still)
• Kernel 6.1.8 has issues with AMD GPUs and external displays staying black after standby and wakeup (This is fixed in Kernel 6.1.9 and higher - Debian Sid has 6.1.11 already so it should be fixed soon)

Please visit our Forum to give us feedback.

We are proud to announce the release of Neptune 7 ("Faye") named after the member of the Bebop crew in the anime Cowboy Bebop.

This version comes with a new Debian base (11 "Bullseye") that offers newer and better hardware support as well as newer software and apps.
KDE Plasma 5.20.5 ships with a new Neptune specific theme that embraces the Breeze widget style for maximum compatibility and introduces a new subtle but modern flat look and feel to Neptune. We also updated the Icon theme to our own variation of the Tela Icon theme to fit with the new look of the system. The default panel has been modernized to allow pinning more apps and tasks to it aswell as offering a new bigger easier look to the eyes.
Besides that Linux Kernel 5.10 offers modern hardware support aswell as bugfixes.

We put effort in optimizing the memory usage on Neptune by fine tuning swap behavior. Instead of ZRAM we now ship ZSwap which allows compressing pages of memory before swap out instead of relying on virtual compressed swap space in memory. That allows us to activate Suspend to Disk again as long as you have a swap partition/space that is big enough. Overall it improves low memory handling also on low speced machines.
We also worked on little details and feature improvements requested by our users. So we offer now an easy way to open up the default file manager Dolphin as root user via right click. Image files can be easily set as wallpaper via right click on the file aswell.  

With the underlying change of our Debian base many of our own apps had to be updated to use newer versions of the Qt 5 libraries. We updated the video encoding application Encode, Recffmpeg & KNetworkMounter. For some applications we decided to remove support like snapshot manager and persistent creator. Those applications were less and less used by our users and the effort to port them to the newer base made no sense anymore.

The new Debian base allows you to enjoy newer software versions of LibreOffice 7.0.4, Chromium 90, Thunderbird 78.14 and more.

As always you can find the new version on our download page. We also offer an upgrade script for users of Neptune 6.x. Please do a full backup of your system before you start the upgrade process and refer to the upgrade manual linked here.

The Neptune team wishes everyone Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Neptune 6.5 is out now. Its codename is 'Jet' which is the name of the mechanic and pilot of the Bebop in the anime Cowboy Bebop.

It is the first maintenance release of Neptune 6 which is also available as update for all Neptune 6 users.
This version features more modern hardware support by providing Linux kernel 5.6 together with updates to proprietary firmware blobs aswell as updated systemd 245.6.

Neptune is now bootable on UEFI secureboot machines.
With the newly activated buster-backports repositories you can enjoy newer software updates for LibreOffice in version 6.4.5 and Inkscape in version 1.0.
Updated are also the browser Chromium to version 83 and Thunderbird to version 68.10.
When it comes to multimedia VLC got an update to version 3.0.11, ffmpeg to version 4.1.4 and pulseaudio to version 13.

This version comes with some tweaks to KWin the window manager of Plasma which removes the limit of 60 frames per second and should provide a smoother experience.

We also updated the Neptune Look and Feel which you can optionally activate and it allows you to see a new currently developed and aimed to be new default style of Neptune 7.

The new version is available as download on our download page.
Existing users can upgrade to Neptune 6.5 by simply upgrading their system and optionally activating the Debian Buster Backports repository to get newer kernel and software upgrades.

Update: We received around 595€/~642USD/527GBP of donations. We thank every donator and hope to get even a bit more for the coming years. The main download and repository server is still offline. Works on a new server will start soon.

We were told somewhat unexpectedly that the previous main server for downloads, repos and forums will be switched off at the end of this month.

Therefore I ask everyone who wants to support the Neptune project to make a donation to get a new server. About 500 € are needed to rent the server for 1 year.

Donations can be made here:

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