Exton|OS MATE Is Now Based on Debian 8 Jessie and Ubuntu 15.04

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Marius Nestor
Apr 30, 2015

In other words, Exton|OS MATE is now among the first distributions to based on Canonical’s brand-new Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) operating system, as well as the recently announced Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (Jessie) OS. Powered by a custom 3.19.0-14-exton kernel, based on one of the latest versions of the upstream Linux 3.19 kernel, the new Exton|OS MATE update upgrades all included packages to their latest available versions as of April 28, 2015.

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Marius Nestor

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