| 2007-05-11 |
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| The long-awaited 7.04, a variant of Ubuntu aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast, has arrived: "The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its first release: 7.04 for Intel i386-compatible processors. With this release, which you can download for DVD in little over 860 MB, we offer a feature that is somewhat reminiscent of Ubuntu Server: on installation, you can choose between the Audio, Graphics or Video tasks; and choose also to install a number of plugins, which for this release is mainly aimed at audio production. We have endeavoured to keep as many of our packages in the standard Ubuntu repositories as possible." Read the rest of the release announcement and visit the project's to learn more about Ubuntu Studio. : (868MB, ); also available . | |
| 2007-05-10 |
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| Jeff Moe has announced the release of Linux And GNU 60001, an updated version of the Fedora-based distribution for the desktop: "The first update to the BLAG 60k series, BLAG 60001, has been released. This is just a 'roll up' of recent package updates, including an update from the 2.6.18 kernel to 2.6.20. The base package set remains the same. Over 200 updated packages are included. This release is primarily done so people who download the ISO don't have to then download a bunch of package updates. The repository now has over nine thousand packages and the developer's DVD set now takes three DVDs." Find more information in the and . : (694MB, ); also available . | |
| 2007-05-10 |
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| Michael Creel has announced the availability of the first 64-bit edition of , a KNOPPIX-based live CD that provides an easy way of setting up a cluster of machines for parallel processing: "Big news - the first release candidate of a 64-bit edition of ParallelKnoppix is out. This is version 2.6, for 64-bit CPUs. It won't run on 32-bit CPUs, so for mixed clusters you need to use the 32-bit edition. A big thanks to the VMKNOPPIX people for their 5.1.1 64-bit release, which was used as the base, and to Intel Software for a hardware donation that helped with development of this version. I have a limited set of 64-bit hardware for testing, so reports are especially welcome." Please visit the project's to read the release announcement. The CD image is available and also from this HTTP server: (644MB, ). | |
| 2007-05-10 |
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| João Batista Esteves has announced the third release candidate of 2.2, Multimedia GL edition: "The Dreamlinux Team is pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate 3 of the 2.2 Multimedia GL edition. This will be the last test before the final version. Changelog: new Engage Configurator which allows easy creation of icons; added Brasero, software for burning CDs ans DVDs, replacing Gnomebaker; replaced XDVDShrink with DVD:Rip; added Jokosher, an audio editing application; added QTParted; general updates, keeping compatibility with Debian Etch; new Easy-Install 1.9 with installer scripts written in GTK2-Ruby." Read the rest of the for full details. : (698MB). | |
| 2007-05-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.14 |
| Secure Linux has been updated to version 3.0.14: "Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.14. What's New? Major feature enhancements to Network Intrusion Detection System. The Attack Monitor now shows much greater detail on each attack (including links to packet dumps and CVE information) and refreshes automatically using AJAX. Also, the graphs are now much easier to read and are generated faster. There is now a link to the Network Attack Monitor directly from the main WebTool Auditing menu. This makes monitoring the Network IDS much easier. There were several improvements made to the hardware detection subsystem of einstall, the EnGarde Secure Linux Installer, which makes installing on newer hardware more reliable. Several new packages...." More details in the . : engarde-community-3.0.14.i686.iso (552MB, MD5), engarde-community-3.0.14.x86_64.iso (554MB, MD5). | |
| 2007-05-08 |
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| Clement Lefebvre has announced the first beta release of Linux 3.0, code name "Cassandra": "This is the first beta release of Cassandra. The system is stable but some work is ongoing in 'mintinstall', 'mintmenu' and in the artwork. For this reason this is not considered a release candidate. Important new features: GNOME 2.18 (speed improvements); kernel 2.6.20 (better hardware support); Ubuntu Feisty innovations (restricted manager, desktop effects, Windows migration assistant, Avahi); OpenOffice.org 2.2; Thunderbird replaces Evolution as the default email reader; GIMP is installed by default; GNOME Control Center replaces mintConfig as the default control center application; drag & drop support in mintMenu with many other improvements; Sun Java 6 replaces Sun Java 5; Compiz, Beryl and Emerald installed by default." Read the complete for more details. : (700MB). | |
| 2007-05-07 |
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| Linux 2007.0 has been released: "After several delays, the Gentoo Release Engineering team is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named 'Secret Sauce'. This release includes a completely rewritten version of the Gentoo Linux Installer on the AMD64 and x86 live CD and live DVD images. It also includes GNOME 2.16.2, KDE 3.5.5, Xfce 4.4, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3, OpenOffice.org 2.1.0, and the 2.6.19 Linux kernel. Updated hardware support is among the highlights of the x86 release. Besides the many updated office and productivity packages x86 also brings an update to glibc 2.5. On amd64 you can enjoy updated 32-bit emulation libraries improving support for many closed source applications and browser plugins." Read the full for further information. the installable live CD images from here: (700MB, ), (698MB, ); also available . | |
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| 2007-05-07 |
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| Connie Sieh has announced the release of Linux 5.0, a distribution rebuilt from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and enhanced with a variety of additional applications: "Scientific Linux 5.0 i386 is now available." Some of the extra applications include: "CFITSIO - a library of C and FORTRAN subroutines for reading and writing data files in FITS; FUSE - an implementation of a fully functional file system in a userspace program; Graphviz - graph visualization tools; IceWM - a lightweight window manager; Intel wireless firmware, MadWiFi and NdisWrapper; Java; MP3 support; OpenAFS; R - a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics...." Please read the complete for further details. : (3,802MB, ). | |
| 2007-05-06 |
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| Delft, a live CD based on Mandriva Linux 2007.1, has been released: "A new edition of MCNLive, code name 'Delft' is out. It is a fun release based on Mandriva Spring 2007.1, lacking any office or work-related software packages that would seriously distract your mind. A portable Linux live system for CD or USB drives, with some smart wizards to get the best out of a live system. Add software, set it up on your pen drive, run it entirely from RAM, write to NTFS partitions, create your own version on-the-fly, switch languages, make all changes persistent. KDE 3.5.6 with a set of Internet, music and video applications, games and more: Opera 9.20, Midnight Commander, K3b, gnomad2." Visit the distribution's to read the full release announcement with screenshots. Download: (376MB, ). | |
| 2007-05-04 |
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| Tomáš Matějíček has announced the third release candidate of 6.0.0, a live CD based on Slackware Linux: "A third release candidate of SLAX 6 is available for testing. Changes: added Linux kernel 2.6.21.1; full NTFS write support including persistent changes on NTFS; added newer Aufs version with refined inode handling which works much better than the previous version and fixes the problem from rc1; upgraded to Slackware current; added full Perl; added Xterm by popular demand, plus a few more X applications; added some man pages, man, groff, gettext; KOffice is split into separate modules so you can remove it easily; released 28 modules for internationalization." See this for a complete of changes and features. Download from here: (199MB, ). | |
| 2007-05-04 |
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| Daniel James has announced the availability of a new development release of , version 1.3.0: "64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. Our latest development release (1.3.0) is the very first to be based on a stable release of Debian, the recent Etch release. This means that users should be able to add any packages they need from official Debian mirrors, including security updates, without breaking their systems. The forthcoming 64 Studio 2.0 release will retain compatibility with Etch, to create a long-lived and stable creative desktop. New packages in this release include Ardour 2 beta 12 and Xara. The serious bug with sample rate setting for USB audio interfaces in the 1.2.0 release has been fixed." Read the for full details. Download: (727MB, ), (697MB, ). | |
| 2007-05-04 |
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| The first development build of GNU/Linux 0.90 has been released for testing: "After two months of development, the first testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90, codename 'Barry', is available. This version comes with the latest Debian testing branch packages. Highlights: a brand new version of the Parsix installer that supports fully integrated update installation mode to update your existing installations without pain, new 2.6.20.1 kernel with CK performance and Suspend2 patches, Parsix-specific GNOME 2.18.1 desktop environment, improved live mode and lots of updates, clean-ups and minor bug fixes. Note that the kernel is frozen but is not complete yet, new artwork is not ready and will be shipped with test 2." Here is the brief for more details. : (701MB, ). | |
