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Ultramarine 42 "Heart of Gold" Flagship
is the premiere edition of the Fedora-based Linux distribution, distinguished by its inclusion of the clean, modern, and lightweight Budgie desktop environment as its default, ensuring a performant and aesthetically pleasing user experience right out of the box. Built on Fedora 42, Ultramarine's core philosophy is to provide an instantly usable, pre-configured experience by including essential applications, multimedia codecs, and proprietary drivers (like for NVIDIA) that are often missing from a stock Fedora installation, all while maintaining the rock-solid stability and cutting-edge technology of its Red Hat base, including the default use of the Btrfs file system for fast snapshot capabilities.
The most significant functional difference in Ultramarine 42 compared to the previous Ultramarine 41 "Cyberia" release is the introduction of hardware-accelerated GPU support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which dramatically improves performance for users running graphical applications and workloads within Ultramarine inside a Windows environment. Furthermore, version 42 includes important stability and ease-of-use fixes, such as enhancements to the out-of-box setup utility Taidan for a smoother first-boot experience, and a solution for the recurring issue where some Nvidia and Microsoft Surface users experienced kernel panics due to the boot partition running out of space during upgrades.