| 2008-01-19 |
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| Paul Cutler has announced the third alpha release of Linux 2.0: "The third alpha of Foresight Linux 2.0 has been released. The Foresight 2.0 alpha series features a new tar-based installer that should install in less than 10 minutes, including formatting a 200 GB hard drive. Foresight is also developing new editions including KDE and Xfce, in addition to GNOME available for x86 and x86_64 processors. Foresight is proud to be the first distribution to ship with: PackageKit to help users update their system and add and remove software; Syslinux - a new bootloader to replace GRUB; GNOME-Do: GNOME Do - allows user to quickly search for many items present in the GNOME desktop environment (applications, Evolution contacts, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies, etc.) and perform commonly used actions on those items." Read the and for more details. : (932MB, ), (984MB, ). | |
| 2008-01-18 |
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| 6.3 has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.3. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch providing performance and stability improvements, many bug fixes and new features. Some of the highlights: KDE updated to 3.5.8, GNOME updated to 2.20.1, X.Org updated to 7.3; BIND updated to 9.3.4; Sendmail updated to 8.14.2; lagg driver ported from OpenBSD / NetBSD; Unionfs file system re-implemented; freebsd-update now supports an upgrade command. FreeBSD 6.3 is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Junichiro Hagino for his visionary work on the IPv6 protocol and his many other contributions to the Internet and BSD communities." Read the and for further information. : (625MB, ), (673MB, ). Also available . | |
| 2008-01-18 |
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| The openSUSE development team has announced the release of 11.0 Alpha 1: "We kickstart a major development into the next version of openSUSE: openSUSE 11.0. A very early alpha version, Alpha 1, is now available for download and testing. Despite many other products being developed in parallel to Factory, we have seen a heavy stream of development on it, so it is really worth a try if you have time for testing. The main changes against Alpha 0 are: Sat Solver integration, Michael Schröder's 'sat solver' library is now the default package solver for libzypp; heavy changes to the appearance of the Qt installation (ported to Qt 4); KDE 4.0.0, Perl 5.10, glibc 2.7, NetworkManager 0.7, CUPS 1.3.5, Pulseaudio." Here is the full . Installation CD and DVD images are ready for ; quick torrent links to the DVDs: (4,348MB), (4,316MB). | |
| 2008-01-18 |
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| Jean-Philippe Guillemin has announced the release of Linux 5.0: "Zenwalk Linux 5.0 has been released! Version 5.0 is the first Zenwalk release to introduce the Freedesktop HAL system. Noticeable enhancements found in version 5.0 are numerous software updates, including the latest X.Org 7.3 suite of X servers, drivers, fonts and other software. Other updates include the latest version of the Iceweasel web browser, the Icedove email client and hundreds more! WiFi support in Zenwalk 5.0 is probably the very best of what you can expect to find in the GNU/Linux world. The modern and powerful Wicd WiFi browser replaces WiFi Radar, while the Intel wireless device firmware is provided out of the box. Following tradition, Zenwalk's default desktop environment is based on Xfce, which is now at version 4.4.2." Further details can be found in the . : zenwalk-5.0.iso (469MB, ). | |
| 2008-01-18 |
Development Release: Trinity Rescue Kit 3.3 Beta, Build 310 |
| Tom Kerremans has released a new development build of Rescue Kit, a Mandriva-based distribution designed to facilitate data rescue tasks from Linux and Windows: "This release should fix the hottest problems reported on the forum: WinPass and new Intel Ethernet cards that weren't supported." From the changelog: "WinPass received the newer version of chntpw; added the Intel E1000 network card driver from Intel; put in a very recent kernel 2.6.23.12; all start-up options from the initial syslinux start-up screen now have pci=conf1 added to it; minor bug fixes." Read the complete release announcement for further information. : trinity-rescue-kit.3.3-build-310.iso (112MB). | |
| 2008-01-16 |
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| Troy Dawson has announced the release of Linux 5.1, a Red Hat-based distribution with additional software for scientific and educational purpose: "Scientific Linux 5.1 is finally out. This release has the ability to easily make sites (customized Scientific Linux distributions). The ability to make sites was missing from SL 5.0. We also managed to add back some of those packages that didn't make it into SL 5.0, as well as a few packages new for this release. Scientific Linux release 5.1 is based on the rebuilding of RPMs out of SRPMs from Enterprise 5 Server and Client, including Update 1. It also includes all errata and bugfixes up until January 16, 2008." Some of the extra software added to Scientific Linux include 915resolution, Alpine, CFITSIO, dropit, FUSE, Graphviz, IceWM, Intel wireless firmware, Java, MadWiFi, GStreamer plugins, NdisWrapper, NEdit, NumPy, OpenAFS, R and others. Read the and for a detailed list of features. : (4,345MB, ). | |
| 2008-01-16 |
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| , a firewall distribution based on FreeBSD, has reached the fourth and final release candidate for the new version 1.2: "The pfSense development team is happy to bring you the final release candidate in the 1.2 series. Summary of the changes since RC3: libc fix for a security advisory; do not ping other end of IPsec connections on CARP backup hosts; fix edit.php error when opening empty file; math fix on throughput graph; increase maximum alias count (99 to 299); captive portal locking improvements to fix issues in high load environments; IPsec stability fixes for large deployments; VLAN support for ALIX hardware; forced page refreshes removed from all pages; fix for display of wireless networks with a space in the SSID; updated PHP version...." Here is the full release announcement. : (50.7MB, ). | |
| 2008-01-16 |
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| Test 7, a PCLinuxOS-based distribution designed for installation on older computers, has been released: "TinyMe test 7 is now available! Here's a list of what we've done since test 6: Created TinyCC, a desktop control center; fixed bug where users could not change resolution in PCLinuxOS control center; Openbox menu now conforms to PCLinuxOS menu system; updated Openbox to 3.4.5; updated SciTE, gThumb, Opera, Galculator, ALSA, Sakura, and NDISwrapper; updated Conky, system monitor; switched to Nitrogen for wallpaper setting tool; simplified desktop system monitor to make it less obtrusive; improved logout options; added Sylpheed e-mail client, gFTP, video installation tool...." See the complete for further details. : (200MB, ). | |
| 2008-01-15 |
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| Eddy Nigg has announced the first release candidate for MultiMedia Edition 5.0.7: "We are glad to announce a first release candidate of version 5.0.7 of the StartCom MultiMedia Edition codenamed 'Kessem'. This test release introduces a new low-latency 2.6.23 kernel in addition to many, many updated packages and version upgrades. We invite anybody interested to install this test release and help us find eventual problems in this distribution. What's New? This OS is now much more compatible and in par with the StartCom AS-5 series (aka RHEL 5) as far as the basic underlying system and desktop packages is concerned. This includes a switch from Xgl to AIGLX for Compiz, but Firefox and Thunderbird have been updated to more recent 2.0.0.10 and 2.0.0.5 releases. The desktop is polished and boosts a huge sound and video section." Read the rest of the for further information. : (3,830MB, ). | |
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| 2008-01-12 |
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| Flavio Pereira de Oliveira has announced the availability of the first release candidate for 2.6 "Standard" edition, a Slackware-based distribution featuring five desktop environments and window managers: "The GoblinX Standard 2.6 RC1 is released. GoblinX Standard is the original edition, first released at the end of October 2004. It includes five window managers: KDE, Fluxbox, Xfce, Enlightenment and WindowMaker. Main upgrades since 2.0/2.5: upgraded all packages; upgraded Linux kernel (2.6.21.3), Aufs, linux-live scripts and Squashfs; rebuilt Magic Center to add new features and to use with different windows managers; rebuilt GoblinX hard disk installer; added more graphical interfaces; corrected and upgraded some scripts; removed Beryl; Compiz and Mesa are included in a separated module. This is the first release candidate." Visit the project's to read the full release announcement. : (296MB, ). | |
| 2008-01-12 |
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| is a server-oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and the "pkgsrc" package management system from NetBSD. Voltalinux 2.0 "Viareggio", a new major update, was released yesterday: "Voltalinux 2.0 is out. Voltalinux 2.0 is based on the 2.6.21 kernel, Slackware 12.0, and pkgsrc-2007Q3. The big new feature is the installer. 120 packages ready to be installed (even those for Slackware 12.0). Like all the previous releases, Voltalinux 2.0 has no graphical user interface and is more server oriented as most of the packages are for server use. These include Postfix, Dovecot, SpamAssassin, Pure-FTPd, MySQL, Hylafax, Quagga, Exim, MaraDNS and many more." Here is the brief release announcement. Download from here: voltalinux2.0.iso (314MB, MD5). | |
| 2008-01-12 |
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| Adam Williamson has announced the availability of the second alpha release of 2008.1: "The second pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008.1 is here. This pre-release brings a near-final snapshot of KDE 4.0 (final 4.0 packages are currently being uploaded to the Cooker repositories), new NVIDIA and ATI drivers, the chance to test the experimental Nouveau open source driver for NVIDIA cards, kernel 2.6.24-rc7, and more." See the release announcement and check out the for a detailed list of changes. Installable live CDs (with either KDE or GNOME), as well as the traditional installation DVDs are available from these ; here are a few quick download links: mandriva...one-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso (669MB, MD5), mandriva...one-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso (628MB, MD5), mandriva...free-dvd-i586.iso (4,396MB, MD5). | |
