Recently Cody Garver has announced the availability of the second public beta of your next system, Elementary OS OS 5.0 Beta 2.
Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that provides its own desktop and your own custom applications, which integrate very well with the entire desktop.
As it is based on Ubuntu, Elementary OS it comes with the standard kernel version, however it uses a custom desktop environment called Pantheon and many custom applications, including photos, music, videos, calendar, terminal, files, and much more.
Work on the next version of the Elementary operating system is underway and its developers are already beginning to share the new features of the elementary 5.0 Juno operating system, which will be released this year.
As many of you must know Elementary OS Juno adopted a new version scheme, which means that the next version will be 5.0 instead of 0.5, as many users may have waited.
Elemental OS 5.0 beta 2 brings fixes for more than 200 problems and retrieves more than 50 applications in the AppCenter created specifically for this new version "Juno".
Also, some issues around Gala, Greeter, HiDPI, and related refinements have been fixed during the beta 2 cycle.
Main Features of Elementary OS 5.0 Juno
As the main element of this new release of this Linux distribution, is that eThis new version will be based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), with which it will take some characteristics of this as a basis.
Among other novelties that stand out we can find the animated indicators in the system panel, as well as a new installer and the initial configuration assistant which were totally renewed.
On the other hand, we can find the standard applications of the system that were updated to their most recent versions, thereby solving many common errors found in them.
One of the most anticipated features and that of course many of its users of this distribution will love is that HiDPI support is almost complete and the Night Light function, which helps to avoid having eye strain during the process. use of the PC.
As well we can find a search icon (accessible with the keyboard shortcut Super + Space) which is now available next to the Applications menu to quickly find installed applications.
On the side of the panel we can find two translucent modes, light and dark, the application of the full screen will now be mixed in the panel.
For completeness, the system configurations received an improvement in password creation or validation, resulting in useful feedback on invalid input and helping you to create strong passwords.
Finally, of the other novelties that we can find in this new Beta we can highlight:
- A new Gala daemon offers better native GTK + context menus for applications.
- This means that context menus are properly resized in HiDPI, in addition to non-native applications with title bars that also receive a menu.
- Now the picture-in-picture mode is also better scaled in HiDPI.
- Lockscreen login and grid are now sharper in HiDPI.
- This is because the system now has a simple composer, which also provides elements such as shadows below the shutdown window and indicators.
- Now the system also uses the same panel on the welcome screen as in the login session, which means that the indicators work more consistently.
- Fixed an issue in AppCenter where new apps were not displaying correctly on the home page due to a bug in the package ID format.
Download the beta version of Elementary OS 5 Juno
For those who are interested in knowing a little more about it of the new that is preparing for this new version, you can download this beta version to test it in virtual machine or in their teams if they want to collaborate with the detection of errors.