|
 Latest News and Updates |
|
|
| 2013-06-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Bridge Linux 2013.06 |
 |
Dalton Miller has announced the availability of Bridge Linux 2013.06, an Arch-based Linux distribution available in four separate flavours (with Xfce, GNOME, KDE and LXDE desktops) and now also featuring Pacaur, a simple and powerful package management wrapper for Arch Linux packages: "Announcing Bridge Linux 2013.06. This update was mostly just a re-package, but there were a few changes still. Update overview: switched from Packer to Pacaur (don't worry, it's aliased in ~/.bashrc for a while); removed LXMed due to Java dependency; switched to official font packages, no more recompiling the AUR version." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5) your the live CD/DVD image with your preferred desktop environment from SourceForge: bridge-xfce-2013.06-x86_64.iso (689MB), bridge-gnome-2013.06-x86_64.iso (976MB), bridge-kde-2013.06-x86_64.iso (991MB), bridge-lxde-2013.06-x86_64.iso (564MB). |
|
|
|
| 2013-06-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2013_06_14 |
 |
Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 2013_06_14, the latest stable version of the project's specialist live CD designed for disk management and data rescue tasks: "Another month of solid development is complete, it's time to release Parted Magic with a new look and a growing number improvements. After what seems like a good part of 5 years, Parted Magic has a new desktop wallpaper! Colin Skees put together the Steampunk/Tron theme for us and I have to say it is really cool. We came up with 2 sizes and probe for screen resolution, so it looks good on most machines. A lot of work went into Parted Magic Mount. It now auto refreshes and supports device mapper, smart phones, cameras, and Kindles. Most of the little quirks have been worked out and we honestly believe it is becoming one of the best GUI mount utilities available. Clonezilla has been updated to 3.3.40, drbl to 2.3.28, and partclone 0.2.61." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Download (MD5) link to the bug-fixed version 2013_06_15: pmagic_2013_06_15.iso (315MB). |
|
| 2013-06-14 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 2 |
 |
Andres Silva has announced the availability of the second milestone release of openSUSE 13.1: "For those of you waiting for (or working on) openSUSE 13.1, we have good news: milestone 2 is now out for you to download. As to be expected, the inclusion of newer software versions is the highlight of this release. Broken in M1 and fixed now are Automake, Boost, and WebYaST. With M2 out, openSUSE 13.1 is still in an early period of development and lots of changes are coming. The most notable list of changes made in Milestone 2 includes: live CDs using Overlayfs now with persistent hybrid support; Automake 1.13.2, Evolution 3.9.1, GTK+ 3.9.0, Linux kernel 3.10-rc4, LibreOffice 4.0.3, Firefox 21.0, PulseAudio 4.0...." Here is the full release announcement. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-Factory-KDE-Live-Build0504-x86_64.iso (917MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-Live-Build0504-x86_64.iso (889MB, MD5, torrent). |
|
| 2013-06-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Window Maker Live 2013-06-05 |
 |
Window Maker Live is a Debian-based Linux distribution that integrates the Window Maker window manager with well-known open-source components in an attractive graphical user interface. A new version was released and announced earlier today: "Window Maker Live 2013-06-05. What is new since the last release? Both Firefox and Thunderbird are not pre-installed any more into the static Squashfs of the live system. Instead, the upstream archives are now shipped separately on the ISO image within the top level 'custom' folder. These archives are then automatically unpacked at runtime of the live session or during installation to disk. This not only enables users to easily replace the contained English-language Mozilla applications with different language versions, but also allows for updating these release versions with newer ones." Read the rest of the release announcement for more features and known issues. Download: wmlive_2013-06-05-amd64.iso (691MB, MD5). |
|
| 2013-06-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Peppermint OS Four |
 |
Kendall Weaver has announced the release of Peppermint OS Four, a lightweight and easy-to-use desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 13.04: "Welcome back to the new and improved Peppermint web site and welcome to the next iteration of our operating system: Peppermint Four. We are seriously excited about this release and we hope you are as ecstatic as all of us on Team Peppermint. Make sure to download a bunch of copies and give them to friends and family; they will thank you, for sure. Peppermint Four is based on the Ubuntu 13.04 code base and uses the LXDE desktop environment, but now with Xfwm4 instead of Openbox as the window manager. Other new features in this release are that we've included some example games by default including Entanglement and First Person Tetris. We've also added some metapackages for popular tasks such as graphic arts and photography to the Featured section of the Software Manager." Read the full release announcement for further information and useful links. Download from here: Peppermint-4-20130611-amd64.iso (592MB). |
|
|
|
| 2013-06-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: UberStudent 3.0 |
 |
Stephen Ewen has announced the release of UberStudent 3.0, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution for learning and teaching academic success at the higher education and advanced secondary levels: "I'm very pleased to announce the release of UberStudent 3.0. 32-bit and 64-bit Xfce editions are ready for download and installation. Version 3.0 is a major leap forward for UberStudent. It is in many ways a dividing line between itself and prior editions in terms of both stability and features. The singular most important reason for this is the UberStudent repository. It represents months and months of work. Updates and any needed fixes will be quick and seamless. You can browse the whole repository, but the better way to get an idea of what they contain is to just install UberStudent and experience it." See the release announcement for more details. Download: uberstudent-3.0-xfce-amd64.iso (2,379MB, MD5). |
|
| 2013-06-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Zorin OS 7 |
 |
Artyom Zorin has announced the release of Zorin OS 7, a major new release of the Ubuntu-derived distribution designed for new Linux converts and featuring a custom desktop user interface based on GNOME Shell: "The Zorin OS team is proud to finally release the Zorin OS 7 Core and Ultimate, the latest version of our operating system designed for Linux newcomers. Zorin OS 7 brings about a plethora of changes and improvements such as a wide array of updated software, the Linux kernel version 3.8, the introduction of new software (Pidgin replacing Empathy and Steam in Zorin OS 7 Ultimate) and an enormous design overhaul. We have given the brand a facelift with our new logo. In addition to this, Zorin OS itself includes a brand new desktop theme. Zorin OS 7 is based on Ubuntu 13.04." Read the rest of the release announcement for a brief overview of the release. Download (MD5) the live DVD image from here: zorin-os-7-core-64.iso (1,583MB). |
|
| 2013-06-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Point Linux 13.04.1 |
 |
Peter Ryzhenkov has announced the release of Point Linux 13.04.1, an updated version of the project's Debian-based distribution featuring the MATE 1.4 desktop: "Point Linux 13.04.1 is out. While Point Linux 13.04.1 is a minor bug-fix release and it generally has the same specifications as Point Linux 13.04, it also offers some improvements: LibreOffice 4.0.3; Firefox 21.0; stable Debian 'Wheezy' packages; Debian repository moved to cdn.debian.net; Point Linux repository moved to cdn.pointlinux.org; FTP CLI utility added; MATE 1.6 migration simplified; installer downloads and installs iBus and input method packages when CJK languages are detected; installer removes VirtualBox guest additions in target system when VirtualBox is not detected; installer creates /media/cdrom and /media/usb folders in target system...." See the release notes for more information. Download: pointlinux-mate-full-13.04.1-64.iso (946MB, MD5, torrent). |
|
| 2013-06-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROSA 2012 R1 "Desktop Fresh" |
 |
Konstantin Kochereshkin has announced the availability of an updated build of ROSA 2012 "Desktop Fresh" edition, a desktop-oriented Linux distribution with a highly customised and enhanced KDE 4.10.3 desktop: "ROSA is glad to announce a new release of its distribution for the Linux community - ROSA Desktop Fresh R1. ROSA Desktop Fresh R1 is a new distribution based on the ROSA Fresh platform. The 'R' series is targeted at advanced users and enthusiasts who will appreciate rich functionality and freshness of distribution components without serious loss of quality. This series is developed by ROSA with significant help of community. Users of ROSA Desktop Fresh 2012 are able to update their systems to ROSA Desktop Fresh R1 using official update mechanisms. The new version has a set of important new features: Windows Azure and Hyper-V support; Steam support; font smoothing has been improved significantly...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full list of improvements. Download: ROSA.FRESH.KDE.R1.x86_64.iso (1,562MB, MD5, torrent). |
|
| 2013-06-08 |
NEW • Development Release: Korora 19 Beta |
 |
Ian Firns has announced the availability of the beta release of Korora 19, a Fedora-based distribution with GNOME or KDE desktops and a variety of tweaks and enhancements: "The Korora project is pleased to announce the first beta release of version 19 (code name 'Bruce') which is now available for download. This is the first beta release of Korora which is derived from a beta release of Fedora (previous beta versions of Korora were from a stable upstream release) and as such there will likely be a larger number of bugs and many software updates. Features: GNOME 3.8 brings new applications such as clock and improvements to the desktop including privacy and sharing settings, ordered search, frequent applications overview; KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.10 includes new features for printing and screen-locking...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download: korora-19-x86_64-gnome-live-beta.iso (1,735MB), korora-19-x86_64-kde-live-beta.iso (2,265MB). |
|
| 2013-06-08 |
NEW • BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.4 |
 |
Glen Barber has announced the release of FreeBSD 8.4, the new production release of the project's legacy 8.x branch: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.3 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights: GNOME version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.10.1; feature flags 5,000 version of the ZFS filesystem; support for all shipping LSI storage controllers. FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64 and i386 architectures. Images for the pc98 architecture should be available within the next 24 hours. FreeBSD 8.4 can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download links: FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso (2,626MB, SHA256), FreeBSD-8.4-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso (2,323MB, SHA256). |
|
| 2013-06-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: TurnKey Linux 12.1 |
 |
Liraz Siri has announced the release of TurnKey Linux 12.1, a maintenance update of the project's Debian-based set of virtual appliances that attempt to integrate the best open-source software into highly specialised and ready-to-be-deployed solutions: "TurnKey Linux 12.1 is out and it's the first 64-bit maintenance release to be built with tkldev - TurnKey's shiny new open appliance build system in a box. With 64-bit support out the door, we've also pushed out a round of updates to the Hub so that users can finally deploy TurnKey on all instance sizes. Full details on the changes to the Hub below, but first I'd like to talk a little bit about tkldev, TurnKey's new open build system. tkldev will soon be released as a standalone appliance along with the full source code to all appliances in the TurnKey Linux roster, which we will be maintaining on TurnKey's GitHub page." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. The 100+ TurnKey Linux virtual appliances are available for download from SourceForge. |
|
| 2013-06-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: AV Linux 6.0.1 |
 |
Glen MacArthur has announced the release of AV Linux 6.0.1, an updated version of the Debian-based distribution with a collection of audio and video production software: "Out of the uncertainty of the successful AV Linux 6.0 release an unexpected 6.0.1 update has arrived. What began as a minor update to bring a few bug fixes and fresh releases of Ardour 3 and Kdenlive to the DVD image has ballooned into a major update encompassing many of the main applications and bringing the best of what is new and happening to Linux audio and video enthusiasts. Changelog: updated to Trulan's 3.6.11.2 Linux kernel with Yamaha THR10 patches and USB 2 audio clock switching patch; complete new 'Dozer' theme and graphics; two new menu sections for audio and video utilities...." Continue to the release announcement to read the complete changelog. Download the live DVD image from here: avlinux6.0.1-lxde-i386-en.iso (3,115MB, MD5, torrent). |
|
| 2013-06-05 |
NEW • Development Release: Porteus 2.1 RC1 |
 |
Ira McDaniel has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Porteus 2.1, a new version of the project's Slackware-based live CD with a choice of KDE, LXDE, Razor-qt or Xfce desktops: "The Porteus Community is pleased to announce Porteus 2.1 RC1 (standard Desktop edition), as well as Porteus Kiosk edition 2.0.4. We've restructured our layout a bit and now offer standalone ISO image releases of four desktop environments (KDE 4, Razor-qt, Xfce and LXDE) for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. We've also put together prepackaged modules for Google Chrome, Opera, LibreOffice, AbiWord, and printing and scanning software, which can be dropped in place to get out-of-the-box functionality. Please note that the 'Development' module will now need to be downloaded as a standalone module if you wish to compile additional software in Porteus." Read the rest of the release announcement for a full changelog. Download (MD5): Porteus-KDE4-v2.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (193MB), Porteus-LXDE-v2.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (137MB), Porteus-RazorQT-v2.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (191MB), Porteus-XFCE-v2.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (144MB). |
|
|
| Web Security |
Scan your website for Cross Site Scripting with Acunetix WVS and safeguard your WordPress website by signing up for a WebsiteDefender account. WebsiteDefender detects malware, vulnerabilities, backs up and restores your website, and advises you how to keep your website secure.
|
|
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
