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| 2009-01-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 1.1.4 |
| François Dupoux has announced the release of SystemRescueCd 1.1.4, a Gentoo-based live CD designed for data rescue and hard disk management tasks. What's new? "Updated the standard kernels to Linux 2.6.27.10 with Reiser4fs; updated the alternative kernels to Linux 2.6.27.9 with Reiser4fs; updated FSArchiver to 0.2.3 (file system backup and deployment tool); updated the Memtest86+ floppy disk image to 2.11; new script to help installing SystemRescueCd on an USB stick: sysresccd-usbstick; updated GRUB to 0.97-r8 (boot manager); updated Portage to version 2.2_rc20; updated Mozilla Firefox to version 3.0.5; added atop 1.21 to monitor processes; added support for floppy disks in the kernel." Consult the full changelog for more information. Download (MD5): systemrescuecd-x86-1.1.4.iso (245MB). |
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| 2009-01-05 |
NEW • BSD Release: FreeBSD 7.1 |
| The first big release of the new year is FreeBSD 7.1: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.0 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: The ULE scheduler is now the default in GENERIC kernels for amd64 and i386 architectures; support for using DTrace inside the kernel has been imported from OpenSolaris; a new and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client; boot loader changes allow, among other things, booting from USB devices and booting from GPT-labeled devices; the cpuset(2) system call and cpuset(1) command have been added, providing an API for thread to CPU binding and CPU resource grouping and assignment; KDE updated to 3.5.10, GNOME updated to 2.22.3; DVD-sized media for the amd64 and i386 architectures." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (torrents): 7.1-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,808MB, MD5, torrent), 7.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,806MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2008-12-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: MoLinux 4.2 |
| MoLinux 4.2, an Ubuntu-based, general-purpose distribution developed by the regional government of Castilla La Mancha in Spain, has been released. Code named Toboso, the new release of MoLinux is based on Ubuntu 8.10, which means that most of the included applications have been upgraded to their latest versions; these include Linux kernel 2.6.27, X.Org Server 1.5.2, GNOME 2.24.1, Firefox 3.0.5 and OpenOffice 3.0.0. The distribution's artistic team has delivered new desktop backgrounds depicting images from the autonomous community and some abstract designs, as well as brand new icons for the panels, menus and desktop. An interesting new feature is a new backup manager that automates backing up of data to external devices or over the local network. There is more - please see the full release announcement (in Spanish) for further details. Download the installable live CD from here: Molinux_4.2_Toboso.iso (649MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-12-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Berry Linux 0.94 |
| Yuichiro Nakada has announced the release of Berry Linux 0.94, a Fedora-based live CD with KDE 4 as the default desktop: "Berry Linux 0.94 released." This is the project's first version based on the stable Fedora 10, with Linux kernel 2.6.27.10, glibc 2.9, GCC 4.3.2, X.Org Server 1.5.3 and KDE 4.1.3 as the default desktop. Besides the kernel and toolchain, other major packages were also upgraded to their latest versions; these include Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5, OpenOffice.org 3.0.0, Flash Player 10, Samba 3.2.5, WINE 1.1.9, Digikam 0.10.0 and Inkscape 0.46. The distribution, which promotes itself as "the most beautiful OS in the world", comes with support for both English and Japanese (selectable from the boot menu), a control centre for configuring network interfaces and update features, and a simple graphical hard disk installer. For further information please refer to the full changelog. Download (MD5): berry-0.94.iso (542MB). |
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| 2008-12-28 |
NEW • Development Release: GeeXboX 1.2 Beta 3 |
| The third beta release of GeeXboX 1.2, a bootable, Linux-based media player, is now ready for testing: "Here comes beta 3 which is definitely a candidate for 1.2 release. We've performed a huge amount of bug fixes in various areas and were able to correct some longstanding issues we had. Two major changes come with this release: a completely new auto-mounter that now relies on D-BUS and HAL and the restoration of installer feature. Finally you should be able to install GeeXboX again, on both your hard disk drives and USB keys. Other parts of GeeXboX also had a few changes, mostly regarding the player that received a few fixes for audio CDs, DVDs, AAC and RealVideo 9 playback. Changelog: upgraded Linux kernel to 2.6.27.10; upgraded ATI Radeon and RAGE 128 drivers; updated MPlayer to r28184 (provides native RealVideo 9 / RV30 decoder)...." Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5): geexbox-1.2-beta3-en.i386.glibc.iso (19.0MB), geexbox-1.2-beta3-en.x86_64.glibc.iso (20.4MB). |
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| 2008-12-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Lunar Linux 1.6.4 |
| Stefan Wold has announced the release of Lunar Linux 1.6.4, a source-based distribution designed for advanced Linux users: "The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.4, code name 'Lacus Autumni'. It is our most polished release to date. New features: working software RAID configuration; improved language selection; installation from a USB stick or other media; ships with kernel 2.6.27.10; ReiserFS, XFS and JFS file systems are now also built-in with the precompiled kernels. Summary of changes since beta 1: isolinux updated; all modules refreshed; installer will now skip the 'swap file' step if a swap partition has been added; USB modems in the precompiled kernel have been disabled since they require firmware images that we don't supply; added lsb-release." Refer to the full release announcement for more details. Download: lunar-1.6.4-i686.iso.bz2 (296MB, MD5), lunar-1.6.4-x86_64.iso.bz2 (305MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-12-27 |
NEW • Development Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 2.0 Test 1 |
| The first test release of the upcoming Parsix GNU/Linux 2.0, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian's testing repository, is ready for download: "The first testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux, code name 'Boss Skua', is finally out. It took little longer due to more dramatic changes in GNOME 2.24 than in the older releases. Parsix 'Boss' ships with a brand new kernel based on Linux 2.6.26.8, with extra patches and drivers. The live CD compression system has been upgraded to version 3.4 which brings higher compression rate, Unionfs is default for live CD mode. Several bugs have been fixed and many packages updated. Highlights: GNOME 2.24.2, GNU Iceweasel 3.0.5, GParted 0.4.1, Pidgin 2.4.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, Compiz Fusion 0.7.8, VirtualBox OSE 2.0.6 and GNU Flash Player 0.8.4." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download: parsix_2.0r0-test-1-i386.iso (641MB, MD5), parsix_2.0r0-test-1-amd64.iso (653MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-12-26 |
NEW • Development Release: SimplyMEPIS 8.0 RC1 |
| Warren Woodford has announced the availability of the first release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.0: "ISO files of RC1 of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 have been released for 32-bit and 64-bit processors. The kernel in RC1 has been updated to upstream version 2.6.27.10 and the wl wireless driver has been updated to improve reliability. Some minor changes have taken place "under the hood" to address issues that were reported by individual testers. Warren Woodford, the builder of SimplyMEPIS, says: 'There have been lots of good updates from the upstream Debian developers. I know they are working very hard to finalize the release of Lenny, which is the foundation for SimplyMEPIS 8.0.'" Here is the brief release announcement. Besides the new SimplyMEPIS release candidate, the project has also announced the availability of the first test of MEPIS antiX, a lightweight distribution for older computers. Download the CD images from here: SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.94-rc1_32.iso (657MB, MD5), SimplyMEPIS-CD_7.9.94-rc1_64.iso (651MB, MD5), antiX-M8-public-test1.iso (389MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-12-26 |
NEW • BSD Release: pfSense 1.2.1 |
| pfSense 1.2.1, a maintenance and bug-fix update of the FreeBSD-based mini-firewall system, has been released: "The pfSense team has a Christmas present for you all - the 1.2.1 final release. The only changes since RC4: fixed problem preventing RIP from starting; fixed broken link in VLAN reboot notification; fixed problem with SSL certificate generation. This is a strictly a maintenance release, meaning it contains only bug fixes in the pfSense code, no new features. Though we also upgraded the base operating system from FreeBSD 6.2 to 7.0, which necessitated numerous changes in how things were configured. The change to FreeBSD 7.0 brings improved performance and more hardware support." Read the complete release announcement for further information. Download the installation CD from here: pfSense-1.2.1-LiveCD-Installer.iso (49.2MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-12-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Sabayon Linux 4 |
| Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 4: "On the behalf of the Sabayon Linux team, we're pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 4. Bringing a more accessible, easy-to-use and fast way of doing business and home computing in a web 2.0 flavour is what we are going to achieve by the beginning of the new year. Sabayon Linux 4 offers an easy-to-use and attractive desktop coming with thousands of tools and applications, such as effortless connections to any kind of wireless network, web and multimedia applications (Java, Flash player, Google Earth, Picasa), browsers (Firefox, Opera, Konqueror), instant messaging clients (Pidgin, Kopete, aMsn), multimedia and playback tools (Elisa media centre, GeeXboX, VLC, SMPlayer), productivity tools (OpenOffice.org, AbiWord, GNU Calc, Kontact, Adobe Reader). Technically, Sabayon Linux 4 has been completely rebuilt on top of GCC 4.3, for i686 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) architecture." Here is the full release announcement. Download: Sabayon-Linux-x86-4.iso (3,960MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon-Linux-x86_64-4.iso (4,282MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2008-12-25 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 |
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| Ken Smith has announced the second release candidate for FreeBSD 7.1: "FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the release candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along the release itself will be anywhere from a week to two weeks from now. We might be doing it next week since the release test cycle has gone on for quite a while now and the latest thing that delayed the release was a security advisory (SAs don't typically get or need much in the way of public testing). The traffic we're seeing on the lists and in Gnats is certainly stuff we'll pay attention to and deal with but isn't quite severe enough to warrant further delaying an already severely delayed release." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and update instructions. Download: 7.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,809MB, MD5), 7.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,807MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-12-24 |
NEW • Development Release: Zenwalk Linux 5.4 Beta 1 |
| Jean-Philippe Guillemin has announced the availability of the first beta release of Zenwalk Linux 5.4, a Slackware-based desktop distribution: "The first beta of Zenwalk Linux 5.4 is ready for testing. This beta version is a good preview of the upcoming Zenwalk 5.4, as we are mostly waiting for Xfce 4.6 final. The most important changes: Linux kernel 2.6.27.10 with gspca (supports many USB webcams); Xfce 4.6-beta2; faster boot; PAM authentication has been added to the system; wicd has become the main network configuration tool; improved suspend and hibernate with Xfce power manager; new Netpkg with orphan dependencies and 'offline operation' support; new Zenpanel with integrated disk manager, WiFi and wired network manager; Gksu keyring based desktop granting system; new artwork; many new applications." Here is the full release announcement. Download: zenwalk-5.4BETA1.iso (462MB, MD5). |
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