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| 2012-05-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Hybryde Linux 1 |
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Olivier Larrieu has announced the release of Hybryde Linux 1, a desktop Linux distribution with one unique feature - the ability to switch rapidly and fluidly between a number of desktop environments and window managers without logging out and without having to close open applications first. The list includes Enlightenment 17, GNOME Shell, GNOME 3 "Fallback" mode, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, Unity, Xfce and FVWM. The switching between desktops is achieved via a customisable Hy-menu which also allows launching applications and configuring the system. The project's website is in French and by default the distribution only supports the French language, but extra language packs can be installed from standard Ubuntu 12.04 repositories. If you understand French please visit the project's home page to learn more about the concepts and techniques employed by this distribution. Download (MD5) the live DVD image from here: Hybryde_Evolution_v1-live-dvd-32bits.iso (1,595MB). |
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| 2012-05-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2012_05_14 |
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Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2012_05_14, an updated build of the project's specialist live CD with a collection of software for hard disk management and data rescue tasks: "Parted Magic 2012_05_14. Huge updates with this one! New 3.3.6 Linux kernel, X.Org Server 1.12.1 with the most recent drivers, SpaceFM replaces PCManFM-Mod, Udisks replaces PMount, and an optional firewall for wired connections. To enable the firewall hit TAB and add 'firewall' at the first boot screen. All incoming traffic is blocked. Support for wireless connections is coming soon." Other updates include glibc 2.15 and MesaLib 8.0.2. See the distribution's news page to read the release announcement and consult the changelog for details about upgraded and newly added packages. Download (MD5) links: pmagic_2012_05_14.iso (193MB), pmagic_2012_05_14_i486.iso (193MB), pmagic_2012_05_14_x86_64.iso (194MB). |
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| 2012-05-16 |
NEW • Development Release: siduction 12.1 RC |
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Ferdinand Thommes has announced the availability of the first release candidate for siduction 12.1, a desktop Linux distribution with a choice of KDE, LXDE and Xfce desktops, based on Debian's unstable branch: "We are pleased to present our first release of siduction in 2012. 'Desperado' is shipped with three desktop environments: KDE, Xfce and LXDE, all in 32-bit and 64-bit variants. The released images are a snapshot of Debian 'Unstable' from 2012-05-13. They are enhanced with some useful packages and scripts, our own installer and a custom patched version of the Linux kernel 3.3.6, accompanied by X.Org Server 1.12.1. We ship KDE SC in version 4.8.3." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: siduction-12.1-RC1-kde-i386.iso (952MB, SHA256), siduction-12.1-RC1-kde-amd64.iso (946MB, SHA256), siduction-12.1-RC1-lxde-i386.iso (568MB, SHA256), siduction-12.1-RC1-lxde-amd64.iso (563MB, SHA256), siduction-12.1-RC1-xfce-i386.iso (729MB, SHA256), siduction-12.1-RC1-xfce-amd64.iso (725MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-05-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Ophcrack LiveCD 3.4.0 |
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Cedric Tissieres has announced the release of Ophcrack LiveCD 3.4.0, a specialist Linux distribution featuring a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables: "This new live CD includes the latest version of ophcrack 3.4.0. It is built on Slitaz GNU/Linux 4.0, the latest version of this great live CD. Christophe Lincoln from Slitaz helped us to enhance the scripts for partitions and tables detection. A new ncurses interface is also available to help users look for tables on other drives or interact with ophcrack. Finally a live CD without tables has been released as well for users that already downloaded or bought tables. The directory containing the table files must be placed inside another directory called tables in order for ophcrack to find them automatically." Visit the project's news page to read the release announcement. Download (MD5): ophcrack-xp-livecd-3.4.0.iso (425MB), ophcrack-vista-livecd-3.4.0.iso (506MB), ophcrack-notables-livecd-3.4.0.iso (46.0MB). |
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| 2012-05-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.05 |
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Anke Boersma has announced the release of Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.05, an updated release of the project's rolling-release "Archimedes" series featuring KDE 4.8.3: "The Chakra project is proud to announce the third 'Archimedes' release. As with the previous release, Chakra is no longer shipping a GUI for package management. Appset-qt was the GUI for Pacman, but was not handling complex updates as should, so it is dropped from this ISO. With this release KDE is updated to 4.8.3, a new toolchain including GCC 4.7 and glibc 2.15, updated glib2 stack, latest NVIDIA and Catalyst, updated SQLite, unixODBC and Python groups, to name a few of the newer base packages included. These base updates made it so that the second Archimedes release is no longer usable for bundles, thus a new ISO needed." See the full release announcement for additional details. Download (MD5): chakra-2012.05-Archimedes-i686.iso (1,459MB), chakra-2012.05-Archimedes-x86_64.iso (1,452MB). |
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| 2012-05-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROSA 2012 |
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Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced the release of ROSA 2012, a Linux distribution forked from Mandriva with the goal of delivering a functional and easy-to-use business desktop using KDE 4.8.2: "The ROSA company is pleased to inform that it has completed the work on ROSA 'Marathon' 2012 operating system - a Linux distribution with an extended 5-year technical support and with a focus on enterprise customers. We have optimized the package base of the officially supported main repository of the distribution by selecting the most stable and important components necessary for the enterprise, though still providing desktop users with possibility to install large variety of applications from our extended repositories. The distribution includes application software sufficient to fulfill most typical tasks." Read the press release and the detailed release notes for further information. Download: ROSA.2012.MARATHON.EE.i586.iso (1,425MB, MD5, torrent), ROSA.2012.MARATHON.EE.x86_64.iso (1,453MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2012-05-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 Core 58 |
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Arne Fitzenreiter has announced the release of IPFire 2.11 Core 58, an updated version of the project's specialist distribution for firewalls: "It is time for a maintenance update of the IPFire series 2 which is called Core Update 58. This update comes with cryptodev, a bunch of security fixes and minor bug fixes. Cryptodev has been ported from BSD and provides the kernel crypto system to the userspace. The advantages we gain from that is much faster hashing, encryption and decryption of data. On a normal system, the performance will double, on systems that come with crypto processors like VIA Padlock or Marvell CESA, the speed will be significantly higher and the CPU load will be much lower. The update is shipping fixes for security issues in OpenSSL 0.9.8u and libpng 1.2.46." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (SHA1): ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core58.iso (76.6MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-05-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 2.7.0 |
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François Dupoux has released an updated build of SystemRescueCd, a Gentoo-based live CD with a collection of data rescue, disk management and networking utilities. What's new? "Updated standard kernels to long-term supported Linux kernel 3.2.16 (rescuecd + rescue64); updated alternative kernels to latest stable Linux kernel 3.3.5 (altker32 + altker64); Updated btrfs-progs from Fedora 17 sources; Updated XFS file system tools xfsprogs 3.1.8 and xfsdump 3.1.0; Updated system packages - GCC 4.4.7, OpenRC 0.9.8.4 and Portage 2.1.10.49; Updated OpenSSH to 5.9p1 and Partclone to 0.2.47; added Debian and Red Hat package management tools (dpkg, debootstrap, rpm); updated pkgstats script to avoid warnings; updated list of graphical programs used by cleansys; removed GObject introspection data to save space." Read the full changelog and take a look at this overview of system tools for further information. Download: systemrescuecd-x86-2.7.0.iso (365MB, SHA256). |
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| 2012-05-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Liberté Linux 2012.1 |
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Maxim Kammerer has announced the release of Liberté Linux 2012.1, a Gentoo-based security live CD with the primary purpose of enabling anyone to communicate safely and covertly in hostile environments: "A new release has been published. Summary of important changes since the previous release: hardened Linux kernel 3.2.11; fixed memory wiping in KEXEC kernel - 64-bit kernel is used for wiping memory where possible and 32-bit kernel can wipe 2.9 GB of RAM; better file system security - most file system is read-only, with carefully selected exceptions; CD/SD boot media ejection now triggers shutdown; perfect forward secrecy and repudiability in cables communication; added open virtualization bundle (OVA) for easy virtual machine setup; replaced Midori browser with Epiphany which uses the same WebKit backend; partial migration to GTK+ 3 and dconf (Midori, Audacious, Gucharmap), using light themes...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a complete list of changes and improvements. Download: liberte-2012.1.iso (210MB), liberte-2012.1.zip (208MB). |
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| 2012-05-10 |
NEW • Distribution Releases: Rocks Cluster Distribution 5.5, 6.0 |
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Philip Papadopoulos has announced the availability of Rocks Cluster Distribution versions 5.5 and 6.0, two new builds of the project's CentOS-based open-source toolkit for real and virtual clusters: "The latest update of Rocks, code name 'Mamba' is now released. Mamba is available for both CentOS 5.8 (Rocks 5.5) and CentOS 6.2 (Rocks 6.0). The Rocks-supplied OS rolls have all updates applied as of May 7, 2012. Rolls use the same code base but are compiled on the different version of operating systems. Mamba is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. New features: Rocks now supports both CentOS 5 and CentOS 6 from the same source code; Xen is no longer supported...." See the release announcement and release notes for a full list of new features. Download the "jumbo" DVDs containing the OS and all available "rolls": area51+...+xen-5.5.i386.disk1.iso (2,578MB, MD5), area51+...+xen-5.5.x86_64.disk1.iso (2,640MB, MD5), area51+...+web-server-6.0.i386.disk1.iso (2,469MB, MD5), area51+...+web-server-6.0.x86_64.disk1.iso (2,580MB, MD5). |
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| 2012-05-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Salix OS 13.37 "MATE" |
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George Vlahavas has announced the release of Salix OS 13.37 "MATE" edition, a Slackware-based distribution featuring the increasingly popular fork of the GNOME 2 desktop: "Salix MATE 13.37 is now officially released. Available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, this release introduces the MATE desktop environment. For anyone not familiar with MATE, it's a GNOME 2 fork, that continues development of the GNOME 2.x branch. MATE uses the traditional desktop metaphor that was abandoned for newer GNOME 3.x releases. All of the GNOME parts that have been forked have been renamed, so that they don't conflict with GNOME 3.x applications, but otherwise the functionality and behavior is exactly the same as it was in GNOME 2.32.x. For example, the Nautilus file manager is now named Caja in MATE, the Evince document viewer is now Atril and the File-Roller archive manager is now Engrampa." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5): salix-mate-13.37.iso (610MB, torrent), salix64-mate-13.37.iso (601MB, torrent). |
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| 2012-05-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Mageia 2 RC |
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Anne Nicolas has announced that the sole release candidate for the upcoming Mageia 2 is now ready for final testing: "After some delay, Mageia 2 RC is available for the last tests before the final release. We've included a lot of bug fixes to the installation and upgrade since the beta 3 release and we hope it will give you a very nice experience with Mageia. Major new features in Mageia 2: help text made by the documentation team; stable glibc 2.14.1; stable release of Linux kernel 3.3.4; a pre-release version of PulseAudio 2.0 has been included; CUPS printing system has been updated to version 1.5.2; KDE 4.8.2, and GNOME 3.4.1 desktop environments...." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (mirrors): Mageia-2-rc-i586-DVD.iso (3,468MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-2-rc-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,522MB, MD5, torrent). Installable live CD images with either GNOME or KDE in a number of languages are also available. |
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| 2012-05-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SolusOS 1 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the release of SolusOS 1, an inaugural stable release of the project's desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "stable" branch featuring the GNOME 2 desktop, but also an updated kernel and applications: "I am pleased to announce the final release of SolusOS 'Eveline' 32-bit edition. All issues have now been corrected and installing from a live USB stick is now possible, via dd or UNetbootin. SolusOS is based on Debian 'stable' and features recent applications, multimedia and will automatically install proprietary graphics drivers if you wish. Brief overview of software versions: Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0.1, LibreOffice 3.5.3.2, Linux kernel 3.0.0 (with BFS, PAE, preempt), GNOME 2.30, OpenShot 1.4.2, Nautilus Elementary, PlayOnLinux 4.0.18, VLC 2.0.1, FirstRunWizard 0.8. Many new applications are available in the software repository." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download: SolusOS-1.iso (983MB, MD5). |
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| 2012-05-07 |
NEW • Development Release: Porteus 1.2 RC2 |
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The second release candidate for Porteus 1.2, a Slackware-based distribution and live CD with a choice of KDE 3 (Trinity), KDE 4, LXDE and Xfce desktops, is ready for testing: "After a couple long months in the making, the Porteus community is happy to announce the second release candidate of Porteus version 1.2. This release candidate includes several upgrades, application rewrites and bug fixes. Major changes include: Linux kernel bumped to version 3.3.4; KDE upgraded to 4.8.3; Trinity upgraded to 3.5.13; Xfce upgraded to 4.10; LXDE upgraded to latest version from git; Firefox upgraded to version 12.0; rewritten language selection tool, magic folders setup tool, save.dat setup tool (including encrypted save.dat support); upgraded Porteus installer...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: Porteus-v1.2-rc2-i486.iso (257MB, MD5), Porteus-XFCE-v1.2-rc2-i486.iso (213MB, MD5), Porteus-v1.2-rc2-x86_64.iso (261MB, MD5), Porteus-XFCE-v1.2-rc2-x86_64.iso (199MB, MD5). |
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