2008-02-17 |
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| Miklós Vajna has announced the second and final release candidate for Linux 0.8: "The
Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of Frugalware Linux 0.8rc2, the second (and last) release
candidate of the upcoming 0.8 stable release. Changes since 0.8rc1:
Installer optimizations - a general install should now be about 30%
faster; improved documentation - added details about our mailing lists;
minor bug fixes to help the upgrade from 0.7; package updates - Linux
kernel 2.6.24 + security fixes, Perl 5.10.0, GCC 4.2.3, more than 150
other package updates; new packages - iwlwifi-4965 and iwlwifi-3945
firmware packages, several new Drupal modules, Alpine (a replacement
for Pine), more than 25 other new packages." Read the for more information. : (4,161MB, ). |
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2008-02-17 |
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| The second alpha build of 8.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring MythTV, is ready for testing: "Today
we are introducing second Mythbuntu 8.04 alpha image. It is very
important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu
7.10 or any other MythTV 0.20.2 based distribution. Changes from alpha
1: Rudimentary transmitter selection support is available for all
devices but the PVR-150; include support for lircrc files that are
generated to ease the editting process; include support for lircd.conf
files to organize lircd.conf; DKMS support; all themes are modularized
into their own packages; community themes; based on the MythTV
0-21-fixes branch which was created recently to prepare for 0.21
release; most of the bugs that were reported about the 7.10 release
have been resolved." Here is the full . : mythbuntu-8.04-alpha2-i386.iso (493MB, MD5), mythbuntu-8.04-alpha2-amd64.iso (519MB, MD5). |
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2008-02-17 |
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| Joey Schulze has announced the availability of the third update to GNU/Linux 4.0: "The
Debian project is pleased to announce the third update of its stable
distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. This update mainly adds corrections
for security problems to the stable release, along with a few
adjustment to serious problems. The installer has been updated to use
and support the updated kernels included in this release. This update
also includes stability improvements and added support for SGI O2
machines with 300 MHz RM5200SC (Nevada) CPUs. Flashplugin-nonfree has
been removed, as this is closed source and we don't get security
support for it. For security reasons, we recommend to immediately
remove any version of flashplugin-nonfree and any remaining files of
the Adobe Flash Player. Tested updates will be made available via
backports.org." Read the rest of the for a detailed list of all changes. As always, Debian stable revisions are available for via Debian's Advanced Package Tool (APT); alternatively, full CD and DVD images will be provided within the next few days. |
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2008-02-14 |
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| Adam Williamson has announced the second beta release of Linux 2008.1: "The
fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008.1 is here. This pre-release
brings recognition of other installed distributions during
installation, NTFS-3G (with write support) by default for all NTFS
partitions, significant improvements to the Mandriva graphical software
management tool and more. The beta is available in Free and One
editions, with i586 and x86_64 DVDs for the Free edition and i586,
KDE-based and GNOME-based CDs for the One edition. As far as testing
goes, for this pre-release we are particularly interested in testing
the NTFS support, detection of other installed distributions during
installation, PulseAudio, multimedia keyboard support, hardware
detection and hibernation support." Read the and for further details. : mandriva-linux-2008...dvd-i586.iso (4,113MB, MD5), mandriva-linux-2008...dvd-x86_64.iso (4,154MB, MD5). |
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2008-02-13 |
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| Tomáš Matějíček has announced the final release of 6.0.0: "SLAX
6 is released. What's new? First, SLAX is officially released in two
forms - ISO and TAR. The ISO format (labelled as 'SLAX for CD') is to
be burnt to a CD, while the TAR format (labelled as 'SLAX for USB') is
for all who need to run SLAX directly from USB media or from a disk.
Simply unzip the tar archive directly to your device (to its root
directory, it will create 'boot' and 'slax' subdirectories). That's
almost all; you only need to make it bootable. For that purpose,
navigate to the 'boot' directory and find bootinst.sh (if you are in
Linux) or bootinst.bat (if you are in Windows). Run it. Linux users
will need to use root account for that. The script will setup the
device to be bootable. If you are using 'SLAX for USB', you will notice
that all the changes you made are permanent." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. the CD image from here: (196MB, , ). |
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2008-02-13 |
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| Glynn Foster has announced the second developer preview release of the Project 's OpenSolaris distribution: "I'm
pleased to announce that OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 is now
available for your download pleasure. This is an x86-based live CD
install image, containing some new and emerging OpenSolaris
technologies and should be considered a developer preview only. Among
the spiffy features contained in this release are: based on Nevada
build 79b; pkg(1) improvements, including progress reporting,
verification support and incremental catalog update; ksh93 is the
default system shell (bash remains the default user shell);
introduction of /usr/has/bin (experimental); addition of several new
packages, including OpenOffice.org 2.3.1; JRE included by default." See the release announcement for a list of included drivers and other relevant info. : in-preview2.iso (646MB, MD5). |
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2008-02-12 |
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| Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for 7.0: "The
second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 7.0 is now available on most of
the FTP mirror sites. Users of i386 or amd64 systems may wish to
perform a binary upgrade to 7.0-RC2 using code recently added to the
freebsd-update utility. On systems running 7.0-BETA4 or 7.0-RC1, the
instructions for minor upgrades
should be followed for this purpose; on systems running older releases
or BETAs (including 7.0 BETAs prior to BETA4) the lengthier
instructions for major upgrades
should be followed. We sincerely hope this will be the last of the
public tests for 7.0 and that the -RELEASE builds will start in about a
week and a half. If bug(s) considered big enough to be show-stoppers
are found we will of course reconsider but hopefully we're in good
enough shape now to proceed with the release." Here is the full release announcement. : (510MB, ), (501MB, ). |
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2008-02-12 |
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| The third and final beta release of 3.0 is out and ready for testing: "We
are proud to announce the 3rd and last beta before the final release.
The following applications were included in this release: gThumb
replacing GQview, Pidgin instant messenger, NDISwrapper module, WineQ +
Wine Doors installer. Fixes and improvements: now booting from any
CD-ROM unit; improved Dreamlinux control panel and installer; theme
switcher on GNOME changes theme without the need to restart X; network
now set up to automatically start during boot; CUPS also starting up on
boot; new wizard for Emerald themes; new wallpapers and icons; new
Avant window manager themes; new GDM themes, now featuring countdown;
other minor overall improvements." Read the rest of the for further details. Download: (696MB, , ). |
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2008-02-11 |
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| Patrick Verner has announced the release of , a specialist live CD designed for hard disk partitioning tasks: "Parted
Magic 2.0 is finally released! GParted has been forked to VisParted to
add features GParted doesn't have. VisParted can read and write volume
labels for most supported file systems. Point and click disk wiping was
added. When you mount a partition with VisParted, a Thunar window will
open at the selected location. Desktop icons are automatically created
for mounted CDs, DVDs and USB flash drives. The boot menu is all new
and all the boot options can be displayed by hitting F1. Networking and
Firefox were added to surf the web, to get help and to view the online
documents. A simple 7zip package management system was created so users
can add their own stuff with little effort." Visit the project's to read the release announcement. : (42.6MB, MD5). |
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2008-02-11 |
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|
is a Thai community distribution based on Ubuntu, with emphasis on
complete support for Thai throughout the user interface. A major new
update, version 9.0 "Hua-Hin" and based on Ubuntu 7.10, was announced
today. Some of the new features in this release include: support for 3D
desktop features with Compiz Fusion; Iceweasel with pango-ligature and
LibThai patches for Thai support; Thai-enabled OpenOffice.org 2.3.0;
new fonts (Arundina, Angasana, Cordia); updated Thai scalable fonts by
TLWG; introduction of the Brasero CD/DVD burning application and
DisplayConfigGTK display configuration utility; new artwork and desktop
theme. Please read the full (in Thai) for further details. The installation CD image is available for from here: (695MB, ). |
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2008-02-11 |
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| Alex Ross has announced the release of Core Platform 1.0, a free and open source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland: "The
Nexenta team is pleased to announce Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 release -
the 1.0 release. List of the changes and highlights: OpenSolaris
b82-based (x86, 32bit and 64bit, non-debug); Ubuntu Dapper-based;
project integration: NWS, AVS, COMSTAR, in-kernel CIFS client;
apt-clone - ZFS-integrated safe upgrade via remote APT repository;
support for in-place (live) and safe upgrades; installer - multiple
improvements, installs from USB; small memory requirement - 256 MB;
Nexenta Zones - multiple improvements, integrated automatic Zone
upgrades; CIFS client included in the default installation; Xen DomU
and Xen Dom0 (32bit); GRUB-integrated memory test; Nexenta ISO Builder;
APT repository - status complete, stable repository (elate-stable)
ready for usage." Here is the complete . : (320MB). |
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2008-02-08 |
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| The openSUSE development team has announced the second alpha release of 11.0: "Only
three weeks after Alpha 1, we are glad to announce the release of
openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that
we would like to have feedback on. Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1:
KDE 4.0.1 replaced KDE 3.5.8 as the default KDE; GNOME 2.21.90 was
integrated; continued work on the installation workflow; live CDs for
both GNOME and KDE; CDs support German as an additional language; DVDs
have only open source software; Linux 2.6.24; OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta;
ALSA 1.0.16rc2; D-Bus 1.2rc2." Here is the full . Download the installation DVD images via BitTorrent: (3,576MB), (3,592MB). Single-CD installation images as well as live CDs with KDE and GNOME are also .
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