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Parabola GNU/Linux-libre 2016.07.27 Adds LightDM as Default Display Manager

Release highlights of the Parabola GNU/Linux-libre 2016.07.27 release include the LightDM display manager as default login screen, better reading and write permissions for the Home directory, as well as the addition of the octopi-cachecleaner, octopi-notifier and octopi-repoeditor packages for the Octopi graphical package manager. Among other improvements, we can mention that sudo is now available by default to let users that are part of the wheel group to execute any command, the GRUB bootloader theme was changed to grub2-theme-gnuaxiom, and several new packages were added, including p7zip, unar, zip, unzip, Linphone, qTox, and mate-extra.

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