Anyone is welcome to download the Q4OS RPI image from the Downloads section of the Q4OS website and install it on a SD card, please read our installation guide.
Q4OS on Pine64 hardware runs stably and swiftly, due to its lightness and typical low hardware requirements.
MX installation including your home directory and including all hidden files and folders before you start customizing it, so in case things go haywire you can easily restore MX back to the way it was.
If you add your own you can either paste them there as root or put them in a directory inside your home directory and browse to it from your Desktop Settings so it uses that directory instead.
Microsoft currently boasts of over 200 million devices currently running its flagship operating system, which is a humongous amount if you ask me.
Please note, there is also a Q4OS for Windows installer on the downloads page available for users who want to install Linux from within Windows as easy as an application, even without need of partitioning.
Anybody is invited to try out the brand new version and report bugs and glitches, you can download live CD's for x64 cpu architecture from the dedicated Testing releases page.
Here's how to install an OS on your Raspberry Pi and how to clone your perfect setup for quick disaster recovery.
As reported recently, we have made several significant modifications in Q4OS Orion to be ready for installation under other Debian based operating systems, so anyone is now enabled to gain Q4OS Orion based on Ubuntu as well as Devuan.
Create Virtual machine on your current operating system using tools like Oracle Virtual Box and boot your Virtual machine using ISO of Q4OS.
We had to replace it with Chromium webbrowser for i686 architecture, while Google Chrome will continue to be the default browser for x64 Q4OS systems.
Q4OS is recommended to be used on production machines, as it has been built on top of the rock stable, secured and reliable Debian system tested by lot of people around the World.
System installer configures the system the usual way, but decides afterwards to offer additional installation of the KDE Plasma desktop, if sufficient hardware resources detected.
The default desktop look has been slightly changed, Q4OS 'Bourbon' start menu and taskbar has been polished a bit and has got a few enhancements, for example the icons size varies proportionally to the system panel.
Enjoy Q4OS and feel free to download installation media images from the Downloads section of the Q4OS website.
KDE for a while (like since KDE3) and who either wants to go back to an older DE or to check out Gnome 3 activities (which behave more like KDE4 Desktops), this is definitely a distro to check out.
Other updates include improvements in hardware support, for example better synaptics touchpads configuration, better power management configuration, Thinkpad laptops detection and more.
Proprietary multimedia codecs installation script has been superseded by native Q4OS 'Setup' tool, that enables smooth and user friendly installation of external applications.
