| 2008-03-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Astaro Security Gateway 7.2 Beta |
| The first public beta of Security Gateway, an integrated firewall and gateway distribution, is available for testing: "Astaro
invites you to participate in the Astaro Beta test program. The new ASG
V7.200 features an improved Instant Messaging (IM) and Peer-to-peer
(P2P) detection engine, including Skype blocking, an updated IPS engine
and Linux kernel, as well as bug fixes and other improvements. What's
new? Exceptions for IM/P2P; Skype detection, blocking and alerting;
bandwidth management (QoS) for IM/P2P protocols; filter web content on
Mime-Type or Content-Type. Besides these new features, the new release
includes kernel bug fixes and updates that increase the stability and
extend the supported hardware." Read the rest of the for more information and known issues. Download from here: (461MB, ). |
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| 2008-03-26 |
NEW • |
| Robert Shingledecker has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Linux 4.3. From the : "Updated
murgaLua to 0.6.6; updated nano-tiny to 2.0.7; updated and
consolidation of mydslBrowser with new mydslBrowser.lua; new picture
puzzle added to games collection; new calculator.lua replaces Calcoo;
optimized minirt24.gz - much smaller; new background and theme for both
JWM and Fluxbox; improved removal of mydsl extensions on traditional
hard drive installations; dropped SCSI modules for needed space -
available in the modules section. A thanks goes to many community
members for ideas, suggestions and contributions that make this release
possible." Interested beta testers can the CD image from here: (47.2MB, ). |
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| 2008-03-25 |
NEW • |
| Live 5.0, a live edition of the Slackware-based Zenwalk Linux distribution, has been released: "Zenwalk
Live 5.0 is ready! Based on the 'current' repository, the new Zenwalk
Live features all the latest secure and stable versions of Zenwalk 5.0
standard packages. With this release, it is also our great pleasure to
present Zen Installer which will enable you to install a standard
Zenwalk system onto your computer's hard drive. Now, if you first use
Live Clone to remaster your own live CD and then execute Zen Installer
from that remastered live CD, you will install your own customized
version of Zenwalk rather than the standard edition. This is very
helpful if you need to deploy a highly personalized Zenwalk system on
the computer park of a school, a cybercafé, an office or an
organization. As always, Zenwalk Live 5.0 also offers extended
multilingual, multimedia and WiFi support." Here is the brief . Download: (482MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-03-25 |
NEW • |
| Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the beta release of 9. Highlights: "GNOME
2.22, with new features like a helpful world time clock, better file
system performance, security improvements, power management at the
login screen, the ability to dynamically configure displays, better
Bluetooth integration; KDE 4.0.2, which includes a brand new desktop
and panel with many new concepts; Firefox 3 Beta 5 featuring a native
look and feel; support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions
during install; support for creating and installing to encrypted file
systems; PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution
with a yum backend; kernel 2.6.25-rc5." Read the complete for more details. The installation DVD and live CD images are available for download from Fedora or ; quick links to the desktop live CDs for i386 and x86_64 architectures: (696MB, , ), (708MB, , ). |
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| 2008-03-24 |
NEW • |
| Neowin has announced the release of Linux 0.6.5, a preview version of the live CD image set based on Ubuntu 8.04 beta: "Shift
Linux 0.6.5 is the first public preview release of Shift Linux One. The
version number may be confusing, but the team is focused on a solid 1.0
release soon. Shift Linux comes in 3 different flavors - GNOME, Lite,
and KDE. All three are based on brand-new Ubuntu Hardy Beta 1 packages.
We have also added in our own customizations such as the Shift original
theme in GNOME, present in 0.5 and 0.6, Shift Linux wallpaper, and
other packages not included in the Ubuntu release, such as GnomeDo, as
seen in the screenshots. This release is installable. Shift is a free,
GPL-based Linux distribution that can be freely distributed or modified." Here is the brief . : (627MB, ), (661MB, ), (658MB, ). |
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| 2008-03-21 |
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| Bogdan Radulescu has announced the availability of the release candidate for 2008, a Slackware-based mini distribution: "I
am very pleased to announce the release candidate of NimbleX 2008! The
important highlights since the beta release are: removed 16 MB of
software to remain below 200 MB on the CD image; added the NimbleX USB
installer; made improvements to the Safe installer; split NimbleX into
9 parts for greater flexibility; added important software, including
LinuxDC++, Avidemux and the GSlapt package manager; polished many
things so that it pleases the eye; added and configured Compiz. For
starters, everyone who has a supported 3D card can enjoy the 3D
effects. Hopefully, in the future, people will contribute to package
drivers for this feature." Read the rest of the for more information. : (200MB). |
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| 2008-03-21 |
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| The first development build of 1.7, an operating system based on the recently released FreeBSD 7.0, is out and ready for testing: "DesktopBSD
1.7 snapshot. First, remember it's an early snapshot, so there will be
certainly some problems! But apart from that it's DesktopBSD based on
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I did a first test, there are some minor quirks
with the mounting tool and the scheduler is SCHED_4BSD, so it has got a
performance drop, especially on uniprocessor systems. The first preview
version will follow soon with SCHED_ULE activated and some other useful
add-ons. So if you're eager to test, you're welcome, but remember it's
an early test! You can download the snapshot at the usual servers and
we have pre-built packages for FreeBSD 7 on the server." Here is the brief release announcement. : (1,349MB, ). |
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| 2008-03-21 |
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| A new testing version of GNU/Linux, an Ubuntu-based mini distribution with Xfce, has been released: "This
is a development version of PUD, but it contains many experimental and
new features, including a new installer, new package selection system,
enhanced live CD build kit, kernel patches, boot-time speed-up
optimisations, and better laptop and mobile device support. This system
is based on Ubuntu 8.04 so it may contain bugs. New features: PUD comes
with an installer now, as a result, OpenOffice.org and printer support
are built in; we patched the kernel with Squashfs LZMA compression and
Aufs file system as usual, and also added a patch called OpenLog to
help trace the boot process; we introduced two boot-time optimisation
methods here - sorted layout and boot gear; PUD will now auto-detect
whether you're using a mobile device." Read the complete for more information. Download: (257MB, ). |
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| 2008-03-21 |
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| Steve Langasek has announced the beta release of 8.04 "Hardy Heron": "The
Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
(Long-Term Support) on desktop and server. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop
edition features incremental improvements to familiar applications,
with an emphasis on stability for this second Ubuntu long-term support
release, and is easier than ever to try out with the new Wubi
installer. Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server follows in the footsteps of Ubuntu
7.10 with even more virtualization support and security enhancements -
enabling AppArmor for more applications by default, improving
protection of kernel memory against attacks, and supporting KVM and
iSCSI technologies out of the box." More info in the , . (): (691MB, ), (693MB, ). Also released: 8.04 Beta CD images for (, ), Kubuntu KDE4 (download), (download), (download), (download) and other Ubuntu subprojects. |
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| 2008-03-19 |
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| The third alpha release of 11.0 is out and ready for testing: "We
are very happy to announce openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 3. The highlight is the
re-worked Zypp framework, which gives you a much faster package
management experience. This release also contains a new and
professional installer theme. Many packages were also updated to newer
versions: Linux kernel 2.6.25-rc5, GCC 4.3 final, GNOME 2.22 final,
Compiz 0.7.2, KDE 4.0.2 and 3.5.9, Zypper 0.10.2. Due to the huge
amount of changes, there are also quite a few bugs that slipped in." Read the complete for further information. Download (, ) the single-CD installation media from here: (619MB, ), (672MB, ), (658MB, ), (691MB, ). Installation and images are also available. |
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| 2008-03-19 |
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| Adam Williamson has announced the second and final release candidate for Linux 2008.1: "The
sixth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008.1 is here. This pre-release
includes support for easy synchronization of Windows Mobile 5+,
Blackberry and Nokia devices, the Codeina multimedia codec installation
system, support for Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics cards, more
improvements to the Mandriva software installation tools, the finalized
2008 Spring theme, a new metapackage for easily installing a complete
LAMP setup, and KDE 4.0.2." Read the release announcement and for more information. the "Free" installation DVDs and "One" live CDs from here: mandriva-linux...dvd-i586.iso (4,436MB, MD5), mandriva-linux...dvd-x86_64.iso (4,424MB, MD5), mandriva...KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso (695MB, MD5), mandriva...one-GNOME-int-cdrom-i586.iso (692MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-03-18 |
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| Tomáš Matějíček has announced the release of 6.0.3: "Slax
6.0.3 has been released. Among all the updates described in the
changelog, it features a bug-fix for Squashfs LZMA kernel driver.
What's new? Added kernel 2.6.24.3 with kernel headers, stripped sources
and modules all using the same version, to prevent any possible
mismatch; silenced several boot-up messages; added wpa_suplicant;
updated to Slackware Current which adds new firmware; fixed a bug in
sqlzma, which may cause data read errors; the 'sgnfile' boot parameter
wasn't working, it's fixed now; make_iso.sh now works even if called
from a different directory; fixed loading of modules from
subdirectories while using copy2ram; the 'nocd' boot parameter has
different meaning now, it will cause CD-ROM to be skipped, but made
visible later on." Here is the full release announcement. : (191MB, ).
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