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| 2014-10-19 |
NEW • Development Release: Porteus 3.1 RC1 |
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Jay Flood has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Porteus 3.1, a set of minimalist, Slackware-based live CDs with a choice of KDE, LXQt, MATE and Xfce desktops: "The Porteus community is stoked to announce that the candidate release of Porteus Desktop edition 3.1rc1 is ready for download. As usual we have available pre-packaged modules for Google Chrome, Opera, LibreOffice, AbiWord, Skype and printing/scanning software, all of which can be dropped in place to get out-of-the-box functionality. Changes in this release include: upgraded to Linux kernel 3.17.0; kernel configuration - compiled support for FB_EFI, increased number of Aufs branches to 1024; Porteus installer - user must type 'OK' before MBR is updated, this is to prevent installation made by accident on unwanted partition; upgraded to: cryptsetup 1.6.6; added 'rfkill' package...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full changelog. Download (MD5): Porteus-KDE4-v3.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (215MB), Porteus-LXQt-v3.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (183MB), Porteus-MATE-v3.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (206MB), Porteus-XFCE-v3.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (173MB). |
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| 2014-10-18 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 2.3.9 (Beta) |
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Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 2.3.9, the latest development build of the project's Debian-based distribution that features a customised Enlightenment desktop: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 2.3.9. This new version includes: Vim suite pre-configured with the best plugins and features available, keeping it fast and full-featured; important fixes in the installer - screen turned blank during installation process fixed, GRUB bootloader fixes and improvements, fixes on upgrade-mode, configurations are run in a detachable tmux now; fix for Thunar that blocked when creating a new file; Bash security fix included. Notes from the developers: Vim - we have finally shipped a default configuration for Vim full of the best plugins and features; we have put it directly in the user's home so the user is able to reconfigure it, we hope you enjoy this selection of the best vim features." Here is the full release announcement. Download: elive_2.3.9_beta_hybrid.iso (2,165MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Tails 1.2 |
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Tails 1.2 has been released. Tails is a Debian-based live distribution developed with the goal of preserving privacy and anonymity of users on the Internet. From the release announcement: "Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.2, is out. This release fixes numerous security issues and all users must upgrade as soon as possible. Major new features: install (most of) the Tor browser, replacing our previous Iceweasel-based browser, the version installed is from TBB 4.0 and is based on Firefox 31.2.0esr, this fixes the POODLE vulnerability; upgrade Tor to 0.2.5.8-rc; confine several important applications with AppArmor. Bug fixes: install Linux kernel 3.16.5. Minor improvements: upgrade I2P to 0.9.15 and isolate I2P traffic from the Tor Browser by adding a dedicated I2P Browser, also, start I2P automatically upon network connection, when the i2p boot option is added; make it clear that TrueCrypt will be removed in Tails 1.2.1 and document how to open TrueCrypt volumes with cryptsetup." Download: tails-i386-1.2.iso (905MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SELKS 1.0 |
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Peter Manev has announced the release of SELKS 1.0, the inaugural version from the project developing a specialist Debian-based distribution that ships with a variety of pre-configured network security management tools: "Stamus Networks is proud to announce the availability of the SELKS 1.0 stable release. SELKS is both live and installable network security management ISO image, based on Debian GNU/Linux, implementing and focusing on a complete and ready-to-use Suricata IDS/IPS ecosystem with its own graphic rule manager. SELKS is comprised of the following major components: Suricata IDPS, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and Scirius. It offers proven, powerful, innovative and scalable open-source multi-threading technologies in a bundle. SELKS 1.0 comes with 10 pre-installed Kibana IDS/NSM dashboards. They cover analysis of the Suricata alerts and events with per-protocol dashboards (Alerts, HTTP, Flow, SSH, TLS, DNS)." Read the full release announcement for more details and screenshots. Download (MD5): SELKS-1.0-desktop.iso (866MB, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.15 Core 84 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.15 Core 84, a new stable release of the specialist distribution designed for firewalls: "This is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.15 Core Update 84. This is a release that fixes some security issues in the GNU Bash package which are commonly known as 'Shellshock' and it comes with more fixes and minor feature enhancements. As you may have already seen on the news, the Shellshock issues made more people look into the code of the default shell of many *nix systems. Those people found many more programming errors and provided fixes for them which have been applied in this release. IPFire is now shipping GNU Bash 4.3.30 and the companion library readline in version 6.3. There have been some denial of service issues in the Squid web proxy which have been fixed in release 3.4.8. Those are of minor severity only and quite possibly cannot be exploited to inject code. The firewall got a couple of new features which I explained in detail in a post on the IPFire planet." Read the rest of the release announcement for a more detailed changelog. Download: ipfire-2.15.i586-full-core84.iso (132MB, SHA1, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 |
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Red Hat, Inc. has announced the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.6, the sixth update in the 6.x series of Red Hat's enterprise-class Linux distribution: "The Red Hat Enterprise Linux team is pleased to announce the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, the latest version of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, we continue to refine the stable and secure Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform which provides a reliable foundation for mission-critical systems across industries and regions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 delivers a variety of improvements that provide increased system performance across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. These optimizations and tuning improvements include: kernel locking improvements to allow for more efficient CPU utilization on large NUMA systems...." Read the release announcement and consult the comprehensive release notes for further information. Existing RHEL customers can download this version from access.redhat.com or perform an upgrade of existing installations via the usual channels. |
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| 2014-10-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.0 |
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Pat Riehecky has announced the release of Scientific Linux 7.0, a distribution compiled from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: "Scientific Linux 7.0 x86_64 released." Scientific Linux differs from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS in that the project enhances the system with extra software applications and utilities: "elrepo-release - this package contains the ELRepo driver yum repo and GPG key; epel-release - this package contains the EPEL driver yum repo and GPG key; OpenAFS - this package contains the OpenAFS driver and client utilities; SL_gdm_no_user_list - this package will disable the GDM user list in the chooser; SL_enable_serialconsole - will setup a serial console for login; SL_no_colorls - will disable the automatic colorized ls output; sl-bookmarks - replaces redhat-bookmarks and removes upstream branding...." Read the brief release announcement and check out the more detailed release notes for further information. Download: SL-7-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,019MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-13 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 10.1-RC2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 10.1: "The second RC build of the 10.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, armv6, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures. Some of the changes between 10.1-RC1 and 10.1-RC2 include: fix XHCI driver for devices which have more than 15 physical root HUB ports; fix old iSCSI initiator to work with new CAM locking; fix page length reported for Block Limits VPD page; add QCOW v1 & v2 support to mkimg(1). Note to consumers of the i386 DVD installer: as result of a package build failure, the X.Org-related ports (including GNOME 2) are not available on the 10.1-RC2 i386 DVD. This will not be an issue for the 10.1-RC3 DVD, nor the 10.1-RELEASE DVD." Continue to the release announcement for more details. Download: FreeBSD-10.1-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso (1,666MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-10.1-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (1,068MB, SHA256). |
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| 2014-10-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Smoothwall Express 3.1 |
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Following six release candidates spanned over 16 months, today Neal Murphy announced the final release of Smoothwall Express 3.1. This is an updated version of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls. From the release announcement: "The Smoothwall community is pleased to announce the release of the long-awaited Smoothwall Express 3.1 firewall. This release is a refresh of the Smoothwall Express 3.0 foundation and a culmination of five years of effort that began with the Roadster Test Vehicle. The build system has been thoroughly worked over, and the user interface has been freshened with several presentation improvements. The vast majority of the work was done 'under the hood'. Here are just a few of the software upgrades: Linux kernel 3.4.104, glibc 2.18, GCC 4.7.3, Perl 5.14.4, Squid 3.3.13, httpd 2.2.27, iptables 1.4.14, and OpenSwan 2.6.41. Some of these updates are ready to enable new features such as HTTPS proxying in Squid. In addition to these updates, numerous bugs present in 3.0." Download (MD5): Express-3.1-x86_64.iso (204MB). |
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| 2014-10-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Lunar Linux 1.7.0 |
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Stefan Wold has announced the release of Lunar Linux 1.7.0, a source-based distribution with a complete application management system: "You better believe it, the day you all have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Lunar team proudly announces the final release of Lunar Linux 1.7.0, code name 'Sinus Successus'. Like the phoenix rising from the ashes Lunar Linux is back with a vengeance; a lot of overhauling has been done all over the core tools, packages, installer and the ISO builder. Even though our journey to reach this milestone has been a long one we hope that the changes and quality improvements we've made was worth the wait. So what are you waiting for? Go grab a copy of Lunar Linux while it is hot! New features in 1.7.0: out with sysvinit and in with systemd; Linux kernel 3.16.3, GCC 4.9.1 and glibc 2.19; added support for the Btrfs file system; GRUB 2 or LILO, pick your poison; improved installer; now with initrd support; a bunch of updated modules." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: lunar-1.7.0-x86_64.iso.xz (361MB, SHA1). |
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| 2014-10-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GALPon MiniNo 2014 "PicarOS" |
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Antonio Sánchez has announced the release of GALPon MiniNo 2014 "PicarOS" edition, a Debian-based distributions designed for 3 - 12 year-old children: "Once again we have prepared for you a new PicarOS release with features that will please everyone. This year we have focused on making life a little more comfortable for our colleagues, K12 teachers, in addition to adjusting programs to this level and prepare them for using in the classroom or at home. We have prepared some extremely easy scripts (Menu - Minino Tools - Computer Room) used to install PicarOS in a computer room. They configure the network (computer name, give a static IP, Internet), Epoptes (to control all PCs in the class), a shared folder (Samba) and set up a program that synchronizes all the classrooms with a pair of clicks. No system administration knowledge is needed for do this. New desktop environment (Menu - Minino Tools - Desktop Style) designed specifically for interactive whiteboards." Visit the distribution's news page to read the full release announcement. Download: picaros_diego_2014.iso (644MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2014-10-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: BackBox Linux 4.0 |
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Raffaele Forte has announced the release of BackBox Linux 4.0, a major new version of the distribution designed for penetration testing - now based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: "The BackBox team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, version 4.0. This release includes features such as Linux kernel 3.13, EFI mode, anonymous mode, LVM + disk encryption installer, privacy additions and armhf Debian packages. What's new? New Ubuntu 14.04 base; handy Thunar custom actions; RAM wipe at shutdown and reboot; system improvements; upstream components; bug corrections; performance boost; improved anonymous mode; predisposition to ARM architecture (armhf Debian packages); predisposition to BackBox Cloud platform; new and updated hacking tools." Read the complete release announcement for system requirements and other information. Download: backbox-4.0-amd64.iso (1,824MB, MD5, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 10.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 10.0, the latest stable version of the project's minimalist and lightweight desktop Linux distribution featuring a highly customised JWM window manager: "4MLinux 10.0 'Allinone' edition final released. The status of the 4MLinux 10.0 series has been changed to stable. The final release has all the features included in 4MLinux 10.0 'Rescue', 'Media', 'Server' and 'Game' editions. Two major changes in user space: support for touchscreens has been added (they can be calibrated via the xinput calibrator) and support for webcams has been improved (more info available on the 4MLinux blog). The size of the final ISO image is now much bigger because it includes optional software (drivers and development packages)." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-10.0-allinone-edition.iso (392MB, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: VyOS 1.1.0 |
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VyOS is a community fork of Vyatta, a Debian-based distribution for firewalls and routers discontinued in 2013. The project's latest stable release is version 1.1.0, announced yesterday: "VyOS 1.1.0 is now available for download. Release highlights include: unmanaged L2TPv3; dummy interfaces (functionally identical to multiple loopbacks in IOS); 802.1ad QinQ; event handler that executes something when it finds a pattern in logs or command output; IGMP proxy (pulled from EdgeOS); commands conf mode filter that converts config output to set commands; strip-private filter that removes private information from the config for pasting and the like; ability to administratively disable PPPoE sessions; ability to specify required authentication protocol for remote access VPN; ability to reject OpenVPN clients for which no explicit configuration exists; configurable ARP filter settings; persistent tunnel (—persist-tun) option for OpenVPN; TWA hazards protection settings...." See the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: vyos-1.1.0-amd64.iso (231MB, SHA1, pkglist). |
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| 2014-10-09 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 13.2 RC1 |
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Kostas Koudaras has announced the availability of the first release candidate for openSUSE 13.2, the distribution's upcoming stable release scheduled for arrival in early November: "openSUSE 13.2 RC1 is baked and ready to be served. The beta release was a blast with almost 10,000 downloads. The community responded to the call and we had lots of eyes looking for bugs in openSUSE 13.2. Many of them have been already squashed and openSUSE 13.2 release candidate 1 is here to prove it. But don't fear the boredom, there are more things to test and enjoy than just bug fixes; the release candidate also brings important updates to the desktop experience. This release includes GNOME 3.14 which brings new animations, better handling of WiFi hotspots, improvements in some applications like Weather and Photos and much more. Another highlight is the brand-new Firefox 32, with new HTTP cache for improved performance and public key pinning support." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-13.2-KDE-Live-Build0019-x86_64.iso (912MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-13.2-GNOME-Live-Build0019-x86_64.iso (908MB, MD5, torrent). |
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