Since we recently worked and reported on figOS 2.6, we took it up to ascii, installed OpenRC and openbox to it, Refracta published a beta version of its refracta9 (ascii based) 32bit iso.  FigOS published a 2.8 version based on this new Refracta9.  Note: both of those systems are 32bit but just a few hours ago the 64bit also appeared on SurgeForge as well.  If you are number 2 downloading it you are the one after us 🙂

Distrowatch has only announced Refracta as a 32bit only system, which we think is a mistake.  Here is the FigOS announcement as it came out on codeinfig.wordpress.com

fig os 2.8 — first version from refracta 9

April 19, 2018

a little over a week ago, this post mentioned plans for the next version of fig os:

https://codeinfig.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/the-next-versions-of-fig-os-probably/

since then, ive updated mkfigos 2.6 to 2.7 with the same refracta iso, and now that refracta 9 is in beta, ive taken the recent 2.7 and fig os 2.8 is now here:

(it looks about the same)

you can get mkfigos 2.8 here: https://ptpb.pw/MbR_

hopefully there will be a downloadable .iso soon too.

im not in love with the icewm theme, by the way. the latest icewm comes with that, i would have kept the existing one.

theming aside, fig os 2.7 is a week old, but fig os 2.8 is about 3 years newer, due to what its made from. thats only really exciting if you wondered: “will there be a refracta 9 / devuan 9 version of fig os?” yes, its here now.

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