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| 2009-07-02 |
NEW • Development Release: Slackware Linux 13.0 RC1 |
| Patrick Volkerding has announced that Slackware "Current", the distribution's development branch, has reached release candidate status: "The to-do isn't entirely empty here, but it's pretty much down to minor nits, and so we're going to call this release candidate 1 and (mostly) freeze further updates unless they happen to fix problems. Regarding the kernel, 2.6.29.x has been well tested with this userspace and seems like the best choice to ship for production use. Perhaps we can put something else (at least source and configurations) in /testing, though." See the complete changelog for further information regarding updates and changes. As always with Slackware, there are no official ISO images released for download, but unofficial weekly builds are available from slackware.no (MD5): slackware-current-30_Jun_2009-DVD.iso (1,747MB), slackware64-current-30_Jun_2009-DVD.iso (1,682MB). |
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| 2009-07-01 |
NEW • Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Beta |
| Red Hat has announced the availability of the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of 5.4 (Linux kernel 2.6.18-155.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products. This beta includes the following improvements: full support for the KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) hypervisor; Power Systems LPAR enablement; new SAP resources agents for SAP instance and SAP database; virtual machine (vm.sh) resource agent now uses libvirt; new fencing agent for Cisco MDS SAN switches and IBM LPAR instances via HMC; updated ALSA audio infrastructure; improvements for docking and undocking with CD-ROM in dock; updates to i810, Intel, mga, ATI, and nv drivers; FUSE is fully supported...." Read the rest of the detailed release announcement for a complete list of changes and new features. As usual, this beta release of RHEL is available to existing customers from Red Hat Networks. |
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| 2009-06-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: PCLinuxOS 2009.2 |
| Bill Reynolds has announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2009.2, a beginner-friendly distribution and live CD for the desktop: "The quarterly ISO image updates of PCLinuxOS 2009.2 and PCLinuxOS GNOME 2009.2 are now available, featuring a fully updated ISO image with the latest applications from the PCLinuxOS repositories. Additional features include a notification updater to let you know when there are updates available for your installation. 'Addlocale' will localize your PCLinuxOS into one of the many languages. 'GetOpenOffice' allows you to install OpenOffice.org 3.1 in any of the 104 languages available." Here is the brief release announcement with a couple of screenshots. Download: pclinuxos-2009.2.iso (690MB, MD5), pclinuxos-gnome-2009.2.iso (674MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-06-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Sabayon Linux 4.2 "GNOME" |
| Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 4.2 "GNOME" edition, a Gentoo-based desktop distribution and live DVD: "On the behalf of the Sabayon Linux team, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 4.2 GNOME. Features: based on Sabayon 4.1 GNOME, containing hundreds of bug fixes and performance improvements; less than 2 GB ISO footprint; custom Linux kernel 2.6.29; ext4 as default file system; complete GNOME 2.26.2; OpenOffice.org 3.1. Changes since Sabayon 4.1: environment in sync with latest available Entropy updates; featuring Entropy framework 0.96.26, improved performance, reduced hardware requirements; featuring the new user-friendly Entropy graphical interface...." Find more information in the detailed release notes. Download: Sabayon_Linux_4.2_x86_G.iso (1,699MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_4.2_amd64_G.iso (1,814MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2009-06-30 |
NEW • Development Release: sidux 2009-02 Preview 1 |
| Stefan Lippers-Hollmann has announced the availability of the first preview release of sidux 2009-02, a desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian's unstable branch: "We have the pleasure to announce the availability of the first preview for sidux 2009-02 'Aether', shipping with kernel 2.6.30. 'Aether' mostly concentrates on integrating KDE 4 into sidux and implementing the changes caused by kernel 2.6.30. While KDE 4 is certainly a work in progress, both upstream and in terms of making it viable for a release, this marks the first milestone release for sidux. Be aware that the KDE-lite flavours avoid KDE 3 and Qt 3 packages, which means that K3b, Kaffeine and UMTSmon are not installed. These packages will be part of the KDE-full flavours and are still installable." Read the detailed release notes to learn more about all the changes in this release. Download (MD5): sidux-2009-02-pre1-kde-i386.iso (582MB), sidux-2009-02-pre1-kde-amd64.iso (587MB), sidux-2009-02-pre1-xfce-i386-amd64.iso (760MB). |
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| 2009-06-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 |
| Fixstars has announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2, a CentOS-based distribution designed for the Apple PowerPC and Sony PlayStation machines: "Fixstars today announced the immediate availability of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2, delivering several updates and improvements making it simpler to install, faster, and easier to use. This release offers an updated kernel 2.6.29 for 64-bit systems, OpenOffice.org 3.0, Firefox 3.0.6 and IBM Cell SDK 3.1.0.1, as well as the next generation of ps3vram for fast, temporary file storage or swap using PS3 video RAM. With this release, ps3vram is up to 50% faster than in Yellow Dog Linux 6.1 and is automatically enabled as swap. With Yellow Dog Linux 6.2, Fixstars has added a fourth alternative for the desktop environment: Xfce." Read the full release announcement for further details. Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 is available for immediate download from the YDL.net subscription service (US$69.95) and will be released to pubic mirrors for free download at the end of July. |
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| 2009-06-29 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3 |
| Joe Brockmeier has announced the availability of the third milestone of openSUSE 11.2 "The openSUSE project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2 milestone 3. Images are ready for download and testing. This release includes the 2.6.30 Linux kernel, KDE 4.3 beta 2, GNOME 2.27.2, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 alpha, and more! A lot has changed since the milestone 2 release, and many packages have been updated for 11.2 milestone 3. Some of the major changes in this release include: PulseAudio 0.9.15, Konversation 1.2 alpha 3, VirtualBox 2.2.4, WINE 1.1.23." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download the installable live CD images with either KDE or GNOME: openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0148-i686.iso (680MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0148-i686.iso (679MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0148-x86_64.iso (693MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0148-x86_64.iso (689MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2009-06-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: blackPanther OS 9.1 |
| blackPanther OS is a Hungarian desktop Linux distribution with RPM package management. The just released version 9.1 is a major update, featuring many new technologies, Linux kernel 2.6.29.1, KDE 4.2.0 and OxygenOffice 3.1. Besides the live CD, the distribution provides a total of eight software repositories containing over 4,800 extra packages, including a good selection of games and a variety of kernel drivers. There is also a seeker repository with over 2,000 untested packages. Although blackPanther OS is a free distribution, the developers have included some blackPanther ads and sponsored links into the distribution in order to earn revenue - these can be removed by users. For more information please see the release announcement (in Hungarian). Download the CD edition (a DVD edition will be released in a few days) from here: blackPantherOS_v9.1.iso (694MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-06-29 |
NEW • Development Release: PC-BSD 7.1.1 RC2 |
| Kris Moore has announced the availability of the second release candidate for PC-BSD 7.1.1, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: "I've just finished uploading PC-BSD 7.1.1 RC2 for your inspection. This version fixes many of the bugs you've reported from RC1, and also seems to fix a lot of the issues with Intel video cards. Changelog: updated 7.2-STABLE to 2009-06-24; fixed bugs in py-cups port, which corrects 'Print a test page' failure from the GUI; fixed bugs in ksyslog program, now finds /var/log/messages properly; added GVim to the menu; removed obsolete printing menu icons; improved the system updater tray, don't issue pop-up on failure, change icon instead; updated WINE to 1.1.24, which fixes issues with certain 3D games; miscellaneous other bug fixes." Read the full release announcement for more details and known issues. Download: PCBSD7.1.1-RC2-x86-DVD.iso (1,976MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-06-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Tiny Core Linux 2.1 |
| Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of Tiny Core Linux 2.1, a minimalist desktop distribution in 11 MB: "The Tiny Core team is pleased to announce version 2.1 of Tiny Core and Micro Core Linux. Changelog: new modutils results in much space savings; new changed from using initramfs to tmpfs for better support of df and mount bind option; new Squashfs module to prevent spurious Squashfs errors upon boot; new aterm for better interaction with Appbrowser; new waitforX eliminates WM timing issues; new BusyBox 1.13.4 - command line history set to 150; new usbinstall, a command line tool to install to pen drive; new upgrade_tce.sh command line script, an extremely conservative batch upgrade script; new added modules hwmon and rfkill for better support of laptops; updated virtual hard drive to support persistent home on a virtual hard drive...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more changes. Download: tinycore_2.1.iso (11.0MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-06-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Toorox 06.2009 |
| Joern Lindau has announced the release of Toorox 06.2009, a Gentoo-based live DVD featuring the latest KDE 4: "Toorox 06.2009 is finished now. As always, the KDE was updated to the latest version 4.2.4. The recent CVS snapshot of the lancelot_part plasmoid was included because Qt was updated to 4.5.1 and the old version of the plasmoid had some trouble with it. The USB stick creator script was optimised; now there are three options - static, personal and encrypted. For the last two options the home folder will be stored and with the remaining option even password-encrypted when shut down. Now two partitions will be created - ext2 for Toorox and FAT32 for regular data storage on the pen drive. Some users had kernel panics after installation and booting from an USB hard disk - this has been fixed." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: Toorox_06.2009.iso (1,713MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-06-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Absolute Linux 13.0 RC1 |
| Paul Sherman has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Absolute Linux 13.0, a lightweight modification of Slackware Linux for the desktop: "Absolute Linux 13.0 RC1 released. Pre-release that includes fixes for slapt-get and wicd, addition of a control panel, centralizing control and eliminating the sometimes confusing utilities menus. Big updates to Midori and Inkscape on repositories (under /CD2). New theme, new log on, Qt 4 up and running, several new applications along with Qt 4-based K3b. Overall a more cohesive look and simpler navigation. Wanted a release candidate so that 13.0 will not necessitate updates -- also wanted to have feedback on whether Midori is functional enough to become the default browser. (It uses about 1/3 the memory of Firefox in my tests.)" Visit the distribution's home page to read the release announcement. Download: absolute-13.0.rc1.iso (698MB, MD5). |
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