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| 2012-05-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Dream Studio 12.04 |
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Dick MacInnis has announced the release of Dream Studio 12.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a goal of helping users to create graphics, videos, music and websites: "DickMacInnis.com is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Dream Studio 12.04, the latest version of our popular multimedia content creation suite. 12.04 is the best Dream Studio ever, featuring graphic design and photography tools, composition and audio editing applications, and programs for video editing, script-writing, and physical media authoring. Some of the features Dream Studio users have come to know and love: a full desktop operating system based on Ubuntu, for unprecedented security, stability, portability, and ease of use; graphic design tools such as Inkscape for vector graphics, and GIMP for painting and photo retouching...." Read the rest of the release announcement for a more detailed list of features and improvements. Download: dreamstudio-12.04.iso (2,412MB, MD5). |
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| 2012-05-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ExTiX 10 |
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Arne Exton has announced the release of ExTiX 10, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution for 64-bit computers featuring the GNOME 3 and Razor-qt desktops: "ExTiX 10 64-bit is a remastered build of Ubuntu 12.04. The original system includes the Unity 5.8 desktop. After removing Unity I have installed GNOME 3.4, GNOME Shell and Razor-qt so that everyone can compare the different desktop environments. The system language is English. Installed programs include LibreOffice 3.5.3, AbiWord, Firefox 12.0, Opera, Thunderbird 12.0.1, Brasero, VLC 2.0.1, GIMP and win32 codecs. In addition, Java and all necessary additions are available in order to install programs from source. All programs have been updated to the latest available stable versions as of May 17, 2012. I have installed NVIDIA driver 295.53 so that you can enjoy the full GNOME desktop." Visit the distribution's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: extix10-64bit-12.04-1410mb-120517.iso (1,446MB, MD5). |
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| 2012-05-19 |
NEW • Development Release: Zorin OS 6 RC |
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Artyom Zorin has announced the availability of the release candidate for Zorin OS 6, a user-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04: "The Zorin OS team is very proud to release the Zorin OS 6 Core release candidate, the pre-release version of our ground-breaking new operating system. Zorin OS 6 has been our most significant leap forward since our initial release nearly 3 years ago. At the core of Zorin OS 6 lies our new, unique desktop environment named 'Zorin Desktop' instead of the Unity, GNOME Shell and Cinnamon offerings. Zorin Desktop embraces all of the latest and greatest of open-source software and technologies such as GTK+ 3 and other software from the GNOME 3 software stack, all without affecting the familiarity and usability of the desktop which still retains its Windows 7-like default look." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (MD5): zorin-os-6-core-32-rc.iso (1,361MB). |
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| 2012-05-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Linux Mint 13 RC |
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Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of the release candidate for Linux Mint 13 - in MATE and Cinnamon flavours: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 13 RC 'Maya'. Available in two editions, Linux Mint 13 features the choice between a productive, stable and mature MATE 1.2 desktop and the brand new, modern-looking and exciting Cinnamon 1.4. These two desktops are among the best available, they're perfectly integrated within Linux Mint and represent great alternatives to GNOME 2 users. Linux Mint 13 is also an LTS (long-term support) release and it will be supported until April 2017." Read the release announcement, release notes and what's new page for more information, known issues and screenshots. Download (SHA256): linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-32bit-rc.iso (898MB, torrent), linuxmint-13-mate-dvd-64bit-rc.iso (885MB, torrent), linuxmint-13-cinnamon-dvd-32bit-rc.iso (817MB, torrent), linuxmint-13-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso (800MB, torrent). |
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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 via BitTorent: 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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