| 2007-07-02 |
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| Linux 12.0 has been released: "Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.0! Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.0 has many improvements over our last release and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user. Here are some of the advanced features of Slackware 12.0: runs the 2.6.21.5 version of the Linux kernel; system binaries are linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.5; X11 7.2.0; Apache 2.2.4 web server with Dynamic Shared Object support, SSL, and PHP 5.2.3; the udev dynamic device management system; updated versions of the Slackware package management tools...." Read the rest of the for full details. The CD and DVD images should be available from Slackware's in a few days; in the meantime get the new Slack : (3,714MB). | |
| 2007-07-02 |
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| A new version of , a Linux-based movie player, has been released: "GeeXboX 1.1. Although development never stopped, more than a year has passed without any new official GeeXboX release. This new one is a really good candidate for your HTPC multimedia distribution choice. It comes with an improved hardware support, providing dozens of new drivers (a lot of new WiFi controllers, DVB card chipsets and new remote controls). It also comes with a massively upgraded and more stable MPlayer, which features native decoding of various audio and video formats that used to be available through non-free Win32 DLLs only. Also, GeeXboX now has some decoding speed improvements and the OSD menu has been completely rewritten to provide a lot of new attractive features." More details in the . : (8.9MB, ). | |
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| 2007-06-30 |
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| is a French live CD featuring the Xfce desktop. The project announced a new major release earlier this week; the new Evinux 200701 is based on Debian Etch and KNOPPIX 5.1.1, it comes with Linux kernel 2.6.19, Xfce 4, Iceweasel, Icedove with Enigmail, AbiWord, Gnumeric, Grisbi, GParted... It is designed to work in French but should accept other languages. The particularity of this release is that it's the first one which is not made as a remastered build of KNOPPIX, but with a "debootstraped" Debian Etch with all the necessary KNOPPIX packages to let it work as a live CD. For more details please read the full (in French). the live CD image from here: (393MB, ). | |
| 2007-06-29 |
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| The Multimedia GL (MMGL) edition of 2.2 has been released: "If you are searching for an operating system that allows you to: be free, communicate with the whole world, read, write and produce art, music, drawings, images, etc, you now have no excuses not to give Dreamlinux 2.2 Multimedia GL Edition a try. Packaging the best office, electronic publishing, image, design and digital painting open source software, Dreamlinux 2.2 MMGL Edition allows you to produce professional quality contents. Joining the proven Linux OS base and a well organized and clean desktop you will experience a new way to deal with your computer." Read the and for more details. : (700MB). | |
| 2007-06-28 |
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| Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of a new, light-weight edition Linux 3.0 "Cassandra", featuring the Xfce desktop: "The first release candidate for Cassandra Xfce Community edition is out available for download. This is the first community edition of Linux Mint, made by and for the Linux Mint community. This edition aims at replacing GNOME with the Xfce desktop. It is based on Cassandra and comes with the following mint tools: mintInstall 2.3, mintDisk, an Xfce adaptation of mintConfig. Although very similar to the main edition, the Xfce Community edition runs faster and takes fewer resources. This is ideal for older computers." Read the brief . : (690MB); also available . | |
| 2007-06-28 |
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| Martin Pitt has announced the second alpha release (also known as "Tribe 2") of 7.10: "Welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10. Features: GNOME 2.19.4 - Tribe 2 provides the GNOME unstable branch for testing and perfecting; Gnash - the long awaited free flash implementation currently being developed by GNU just got easier to install; XDG user directories - creates a standard set of default directories in your home folder; Firefox 3 Alpha in Universe; Compiz Fusion - is enabled by default and will bring 3D desktop visual effects that improve the usability and visual appeal of the system." See the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5): gutsy-desktop-i386.iso (692MB), gutsy-desktop-amd64.iso (697MB). Also released: the second alpha of (see ), and (see ) 7.10. | |
| 2007-06-28 |
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| Technalign has announced the first beta release of Explorer 1.0, a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu: "Technalign, Inc. has announced the release of Pioneer Explorer 1.0 after extensive internal and partner testing. Pioneer Explorer is the initial release of its operating systems based on Technalign Trailblazer. Trailblazer is Technalign's framework utilizing all the best of development in open source. With the release of Pioneer Explorer, users in business as well as the consumer markets have the potential to continue to use a product with a long life expectancy on the server as well as the workstation." See the for more details. : (696MB, ). | |
| 2007-06-27 |
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| Jeff Moe has announced the first alpha release of Linux And GNU 70000, a free, desktop oriented distribution based on Fedora 7: "An alpha test image of BLAG 70k is available on the FTP site. This release is meant for people who would like to preview and test the next stable release of BLAG which will be 70000. The current stable release of BLAG is 60001. This 70k series is updated to use Fedora 7 as a base and kernel 2.6.21. It's in pretty good shape already, but has a few things to smooth out." The doesn't give away any further information, but interested alpha testers can download the CD image from here: (699MB, ). | |
| 2007-06-26 |
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| Connie Sieh and Troy Dawson have announced the release of Linux 4.5, a distribution rebuilt from source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: "Scientific Linux 4.5 has been officially released. This release took a little longer because of changes in the installer. Although you cannot use Scientific Linux 4.5 as a Xen virtual host, it can now be installed as a Xen paravirtual guest. This gives a significant speed increase over fully virtualized guests. We want to thank all those tested, retested, contributed, and worked with the developers. We think the Scientific Linux community is one of the best to work with. We hope you enjoy the release." Here is the brief . The CD image sets for i386 and x86_64 architectures are available for download from the project's and its . | |
| 2007-06-26 |
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| The development of Linux 12.0 has reached a release candidate 2 state - that's according to this message found in the latest ChangeLog: "This might as well be called 12.0 RC2 so that we're not accused on skimping on release candidates. ;-) Still going through various reports, and (especially) looking into getting the php.ini defaults reasonable (as well as figuring out which features can be safely built as extensions). But, we're getting there." Some of the changes since RC1 include: kernel (and glibc) recompile with a slightly modified configuration file, upgrade to K3b 1.0.2 and Amarok 1.4.6, miscellaneous minor changes to udev, pkgtools, kernel drivers, etc. As usual, Slackware does not provide official development CDs or DVDs, but interested beta testers can download the entire Slackware current tree from one of and create an ISO images by following these instructions. Happy testing! | |
| 2007-06-26 |
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| Martin Willner has announced the release of Server optimized Linux () version 25.00: "SoL - Server optimized Linux 25.00. Features: Fast and easy installation system with RAID wizard; supports network (over PXE) and DVD installation; optimized for modern CPU architectures; ready to use as XEN dom0 or domU; features QEMU mode to boot right from Windows; integrated server development workbench tools; full-featured diskless training; software: Nagios monitoring tools, IPVS, Heartbeat, DRBD, keppalived cluster tools, Xen 3.1.0 and QEMU 0.9.0, X.Org 7.2, Zope 2.10.3 application server, Apache 2.2.4 with PHP 5.2.1 extension, Enlightenment E17 desktop; MySQL 5.0.x and MySQL GUI Tools, PostgreSQL, Firebird and SQLite database backends...." Please visit the project's to read the complete list of features. the installation DVD from here: (1,815MB, ). | |
| 2007-06-26 |
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| Fabio Erculiani has announced the third beta release of 3.4: "The Sabayon Linux crew is happy to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 3.4 Loop3 for both x86 and x86-64 architectures. What happened since Sabayon Linux 3.4 Loop2? Removed Enlightenment 16 desktop to let us focus on GNOME/KDE integration; removed NX server, Internet Kiosk framework and all the server oriented applications (they will show up in the Business Edition); strengthen the SabayonLinux games deployment framework, supporting many cool games; updated NVIDIA drivers to 100.14.11, ATI drivers to 8.37.8; strengthen VMware 6.0 support; updated KDE to 3.5.7, VirtualBox to 1.4.0, WINE to 0.9.39...." Read the and for further details. Download the DVD images via BitTorrent: (4,167MB), (4,345MB). | |
