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| 2011-10-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Puppy Linux 5.3 "Slacko" |
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Here comes a new edition of Puppy Linux: "Slacko Puppy". As the name suggests, it is a distribution which maintains binary compatibility with Slackware Linux and which is pre-configured to access some of the more popular Slackware package repositories. From the release notes: "Puppy Linux 5.3 'Slacko' is a child, or better a pup, of Barry Kauler's Woof build system. It has binary compatibility with Slackware 13.37 which means that it is a Puppy built with packages from Slackware, Salix and Slacky repositories. The main version has kernel 2.6.37.6 compiled with Aufs and layered file system support. Some new features of Slacko are a rebuilt GtkDialog, a program which allows Bash scripts to run in GUI. A showcase of this are Pmusic and Pequalizer, tiny applications to organise and play your music collection. Slacko Puppy introduces Frisbee Network Manager to connect wirelessly. There is also Simple Network Setup and Network Wizard to offer choice." Download: slacko-5.3-MAIN.iso (124MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-10-25 |
NEW • Development Release: PC-BSD 9.0-RC1 |
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Dru Lavigne has announced the availability of the first release candidate for PC-BSD 9.0, an easy-to-use desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: "The first release candidate for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available! This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 base, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements: added support for installing to BootCamp partitions on Apple OS X systems; added checks for invalid characters in the user name; added button to installer allowing toggle between US keyboard layout and currently selected; added improved portjail init scripts; Life-Preserver now defaults to backing up to a remote directory set as the client host name...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full changelog. Download links to the installation and live DVD images: PCBSD9.0-RC1-x86-DVD.iso (3,187MB, SHA256), PCBSD9.0-RC1-x86-DVD-live.iso (1,622MB, SHA256), PCBSD9.0-RC1-x64-DVD.iso (3,278MB, SHA256), PCBSD9.0-RC1-x64-DVD-live.iso (1,717MB, SHA256). |
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| 2011-10-24 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 12.1 RC1 |
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Although available since last week, the first of the two planned openSUSE release candidates 12.1 was finally announced earlier today: "The first release candidate of openSUSE 12.1 is now floating over the web. The next release of openSUSE is expected to bring a large number of improvements and changes. Many of these are the 'usual' updates any Linux distribution offers. These include the latest Firefox, GNOME 3.2 and KDE's Plasma Workspace 4.7. Under the hood, we have Linux kernel 3.1 and we expect to be the first to ship Google's new programming language Go. We also overhauled our boot procedure introducing systemd and GRUB 2. But we also have some really unique treats. The coolest among those is Snapper, a Btrfs-based tool which allows you to view the differences between current and previous versions of files on your system and lets you roll back the changes." The release announcement. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0379-i686.iso (664MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0379-i686.iso (666MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0379-x86_64.iso (677MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0379-x86_64.iso (679MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2011-10-23 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 |
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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the delayed release candidate one for FreeBSD 9.0. According to the release schedule, it will be followed by two more release candidates before the final build on 13 November. From the release announcement: "The first of the Release Candidate builds of the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. Wrapping up RC1 was a bit delayed due to a bug found during the initial testing of the RC1 images and a few glitches that came up as part of making FreeBSD-Update available. We'll update the schedule soon." See the above-mentioned announcement for detailed upgrade information. Quick download links for the i386 and amd64 installation ISO images: FreeBSD-9.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso (499MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-9.0-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso (608MB, SHA256). |
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| 2011-10-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Finnix 103 |
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Ryan Finnie has announced the release of Finnix 103, a Debian-based live CD for system administrators, now also with a new "forensic mode": "Finnix 103 released. Finnix 103 includes a new forensic mode. When booted with the 'forensic' or 'forensics' boot flags, Finnix changes its behavior to minimize the chance of loading suspect code or writing to suspect media. These changes include cryptographic hash verification of discovered Finnix CD media, locking block devices, and avoiding swap, LVM, RAID, crypt and network auto-detection. Entropy generation added. Modern Linux distributions add to their random number generator (RNG) entropy pool by saving some random data before shutdown, and adding it back into the pool during start-up. A live CD cannot normally do this, so Finnix includes a new feature to generate random data to be fed into the pool...." The release announcement. Download (MD5): finnix-103.iso (113MB, torrent), finnix-ppc-103.iso (115MB, torrent). |
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| 2011-10-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ZevenOS 2.0 "Neptune" |
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Leszek Lesner has announced the release of ZevenOS 2.0 "Neptune" edition, a Debian-based Linux distribution featuring the latest KDE and LXDE desktops: "The ZevenOS team is pleased to announce ZevenOS Neptune 2.0. This is the first version we ship in two editions - Minimal edition (with LXDE) and Full edition (with KDE SC). Both ship with an updated and optimized Linux kernel 3.0.4. Minimal edition includes PCManFM 0.9.8, DeaDBeeF 0.5.1, GNOME-MPlayer 1.0.4, AbiWord 2.8.6, Iceweasel 7 and Icedove 5. Full edition includes KDE Plasma Workspace 4.7.1, Chromium 14, Iceweasel 5, VLC 1.1.11, Amarok 2.4.3, LibreOffice 3.4.3. Both editions are suitable for media playback and ship with a full set of codecs as well as the Flash Player plugin (version 11). The Full Edition includes also media creation and editing software like Audacity and Kdenlive." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (MD5): neptune-full-2.iso (1,305MB), neptune-minimal-2.iso (660MB). |
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| 2011-10-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Kororaa Linux 15.1 |
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Chris Smart has announced the release of an updated build of Kororaa Linux 15, a user-friendly distribution based on Fedora: "The second release of Kororaa 15 has been released. Version 15.1 is available for download in 32-bit and 64-bit variants with KDE 4.6 and GNOME 3. This release includes a number of fixes and enhancements: fixed KDE crash in live mode (prelink wasn't properly disabled); fixed Kdenlive bug which stopped it from running; fixed KPackageKit crash in live mode; bypass the login screen and load straight to desktop; disable screensaver and locked screen in live mode; renamed desktop switcher to 'Switch between Shell and Fallback desktops'; added Google Talk plugin repository for easy installation; added a wrapper package for Skype dependencies (can't ship Skype though); added more GNOME Shell themes...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full list of major changes and a couple of screenshots. Download (MD5): Kororaa-15.1-i686-Live-KDE.iso (1,601MB), Kororaa-15.1-i686-Live-GNOME.iso (1,386MB), Kororaa-15.1-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (1,622MB), Kororaa-15.1-x86_64-Live-GNOME.iso (1,415MB). |
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| 2011-10-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: blackPanther OS 11.1 |
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Charles Barcza has announced the release of blackPanther OS 11.1, a Mandriva-based Hungarian distribution designed for use at school, home and work: "Charles Barcza from the blackPanther OS developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of blackPanther OS 11.1 'Darkness'. Here are some of the major improvements, fixes and updates since beta: 10 official repositories with up to 10,000 packages are available; Firefox 6.x and XULRunner with NSS, NSP and dependent packages; the install / live disc includes GIMP again (version 2.7.3); fixed all reported bugs." Here is the brief release announcement with some screenshots (a similar announcement in Hungarian is available here). Download the live CD image from here: blackPanther_OS_v11.1_Darkness_CD.iso (699MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-10-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Sabayon Linux 7 "Core" |
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As the tradition dictates, every new Sabayon Linux release is followed by several "Core" editions - "SpinBase", "CoreCDX", "ServerBase" and "OpenVZ". They are built for more advanced Linux users who wish to create their own custom systems. Features: "Representing the Sabayon base system from where all the Sabayon releases are built on; bootable image suitable for a CD or USB thumb drive; shipped with Linux Kernel 3.0; ext4 file system as default, Btrfs, encrypted file system support; installable in less than 5 minutes; completely customizable system after install, thanks to Entropy package sets it's possible to install GNOME, KDE, Xfce, E17...." Here is the full release announcement. Links to download the "SpinBase", and "CoreCDX" images: Sabayon_Linux_SpinBase_7_x86.iso (431MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_SpinBase_7_amd64.iso (456MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_CoreCDX_7_x86.iso (591MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_CoreCDX_7_amd64.iso (623MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2011-10-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Kwort Linux 3.2 RC1 |
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David Cortarello has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Kwort Linux 3.2, a modern, CRUX-based distribution designed for more advanced Linux users: "today I'm rolling out a new release of Kwort Linux. This will be our first release candidate for version 3.2. There's nothing new that you should be aware of if you already know the system. This is just an upgrade of almost every software included in Kwort 3.14 but perhaps the most noticeable changes are the move from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice, a new shinny 3.0 kernel series, Firefox 7.0.1 and the latest version of Chromium. Also, a complete PyGTK stack is available in the mirror so Python programmers (and users) can enjoy tons of Python applications. There are tons of improvements under the hood, like the inclusion of LVM2 and mdadm for logical volume management and raid support, and ext4 file system supported in the installation. " Visit the project's home page to read the release announcement. Download: kwort-3.2rc1.iso (411MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-10-15 |
NEW • BSD Release: FreeNAS 8.0.2 |
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Josh Paetzel has announced the release of FreeNAS 8.0.2, a bug-fix update of the project's FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "The FreeNAS team is proud to announce FreeNAS 8.0.2, a follow-up release to 8.0.1. Major changes since 8.0.1-RELEASE: the email subsystem was not working correctly in 8.0.1-RELEASE, which resulted in the system not being able to send mail, as well as malfunction of the alerting system in the GUI. Changes since 8.0.1-RELEASE: allow decimal numbers for a dataset quota; fix setting recursive ACLs; start ProFTPd after ix-ssl to use the correct SSL certificate; use wildcards in cron and rsync jobs instead of listing all values; fix case in iSCSI targets to match the behavior specified by RFC 3722." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (SHA256) links: FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-i386.iso (102MB) FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso (109MB). |
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| October 2011 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're an online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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