Lumina 1.2 Desktop Environment Launches for TrueOS with Various Enhancements

Ken Moore, the creator of the TrueOS BSD-based distribution that was formerly known as PC-BSD, kicks off 2017 with a new stable release of his lightweight Lumina desktop environment. Primarily an enhancement release, Lumina 1.2.0 desktop environment is here a little over two months after the release of version 1.1.0, and promises to a whole lot of goodies, including new plugins, a brand-new utility, as well as various other under-the-hood improvements that users might find useful if they use Lumina on their OS. While focusing on minimalism, Lumina 1.2.0 is here to do some general cleanup by removing a bunch of useless things, such as the LuminaUtils library, thus resulting in faster and reliable binaries. It also begins the deprecation of some of the external utilities, and introduces pre-defined profiles for system interface configurations. "I have often ment...