Dubbed “Poupille,” Vine Linux 6.5 is now the latest stable and most advanced release of the GNU/Linux distro built around the GNOME desktop environment. It’s powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4.52 kernel series and comes with an updated toolchains consisting of GCC 4.9.3, Glibc 2.23, and GNU Binutils 2.26. As mentioned before, it took two years and two months for Vine Linux 6.5 to be ready for deployment, but it’s finally here and ships with the latest Mozilla Firefox 52.0 web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird 45 email and news client, LibreOffice 5.2 office suite, as well as OpenSSL 1.0.1u, Adobe Flash Player 24.0, and OpenJDK 1.7.0.91.
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