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Going beyond: Finestra 0.4, X11 applications and a month of hardening
Eight releases separate the ARM build from Finestra 0.4.0. Firefox, Thunderbird and X11 programs now run in a window; sessions survive a lost connection and a slow one; and the desktop is easier to operate.
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Finestra is now available on ARM processors
Finestra 0.3.8 ships an arm64 build next to the x86 one. It runs on AWS Graviton and other ARM servers, it is tested on the same six distributions, and the one-line installer picks the right build by itself.
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Close the tab, the shell keeps running
Finestra 0.3.7 lets a terminal outlive its browser. Shut the laptop, come back tomorrow, and the build is still going — with nothing to type and no tmux to remember.