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| 2016-01-04 |
NEW • Development Release: Ubuntu MATE 16.04 Alpha 1 |
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Three Ubuntu community editions have launched new development releases in preparation for their stable 16.04 LTS launch in April. The new test images, which carry the designation 16.04 Alpha 1 "Xenial Xerus", are available for Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Kylin and Lubuntu. Martin Wimpress has introduced the new Ubuntu MATE release on the project's blog: "We are preparing Ubuntu MATE 'Xenial Xerus' (16.04) for distribution on April 21st, 2016 With this alpha 1 pre-release, you can see what we are trying out in preparation for our next (stable) version. Here is what has changed in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 alpha 1 since Ubuntu MATE 15.10 : updated to Ubuntu MATE Welcome 16.04.0; complete overhaul of the user interface; context menu removed; detects if the Ubuntu repositories are available; fixes re-install of Minecraft...." Additional information can be found in the Xenial Xerus alpha 1 announcement. Download: lubuntu/xenial-desktop-amd64.iso (850MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), ubuntumate/xenial-desktop-amd64.iso (1,187MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), ubuntukylin/xenial-desktop-amd64.iso (1,422MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2016-01-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 15.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has started the new year with the release of 4MLinux 15.0. The 4MLinux project produces a small sized, independently developed, multi-purpose distribution. The new 15.0 release features mostly software updates. "4MLinux 15.0 stable released. The status of the 4MLinux 15.0 series has been changed to stable. Major change in the core of the system, which now includes GNU C Library 2.22. As a response to the requests from 4MLinux users, the following applications have been added: Audacity (digital audio editor), GNU GRUB (boot loader), InfraRecorder (CD/DVD writing program), LXInput and LXRandR (small yet powerful setup tools from the LXDE project). Additionally, an important change in the 4MLinux LAMP Server, which now uses Postfix to handle emails sent via PHP mail. More details can be found on the 4MLinux blog." The release announcement also includes a screen shot of 4MLinux 15.0 in action. Download (MD5) the live CD image from SourceForge: 4MLinux-15.0.iso (396MB, pkglist). |
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| 2016-01-01 |
NEW • Development Release: siduction 15.1.0 Dev |
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Happy New Year! The first release announcement of the year 2016 is from the developers of siduction, a set of Linux distributions based on Debian's "unstable" branch, who have released an initial development build of the product's 15.1.0 version. The release includes Cinnamon, LXQt, MATE (a new addition) and Xfce flavours, with KDE Plasma, GNOME and LXQt not quite ready yet, although they should be available within a day or two. From the release notes: "We present to you today a dev-release at the last possible point in time for this year and inform you of some changes in our release model. siduction is a distribution based on Debian's unstable branch. With a heavy heart we dedicate this release to the memory of the founder of Debian, Ian Murdock, who passed away on December 28, 2015, aged 42. We will try to keep his vision alive. For 2015 we can just release this dev-release, even though we would have liked to do more. Due to the course that Debian Unstable and some desktop environments took over the course of the year, we had no chance to get a release ready with all flavours." Download links (pkglist): siduction-15.1.0-cinnamon-amd64.iso (1,203MB, SHA256), siduction-15.1.0-lxde-amd64.iso (1,016MB, SHA256), siduction-15.1.0-mate-amd64.iso (1,143MB, SHA256), siduction-15.1.0-xfce-amd64.iso (1,093MB, SHA256), siduction-15.1.0-xorg-amd64.iso (936MB, SHA256).
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| 2015-12-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Calculate Linux 15.12 |
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The developers of Calculate Linux, a Gentoo-based desktop and server distribution, have announced the release of Calculate Linux 15.12. One of the main changes in this release is the replacement of the Chromium web browser with Qupzilla. "We are happy to announce the release of Calculate Linux 15.12. Calculate Linux Desktop, featuring either the KDE SC 4 (CLD), the MATE (CLDM) or the Xfce (CLDX) environment, Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Media Center (CMC), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) and CLSK with KDE SC 5, Calculate Scratch Server (CSS) are all available for download. Chromium was replaced with the QupZilla web browser on desktop CL versions. A Calculate Linux ISO image can be booted from a live hard drive volume. To do so, select the Live HDD formatting line that was added to the GRUB menu. The release announcement contains a full list of changes and updates. Calculate Linux offers users several desktop editions, including KDE, MATE and Xfce, as well as a directory server, media centre and "Scratch" editions. Download (pkglist): cld-15.12-x86_64.iso (2,392MB, MD5, torrent), cldm-15.12-x86_64.iso (1,965MB, MD5, torrent), cldx-15.12-x86_64.iso (1,900MB, MD5, torrent), cmc-15.12-x86_64.iso (1,343MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2015-12-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: deepin 15 |
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The eventful last days of the year 2015 have brought us one truly tragic piece of news, but also a brand-new release of deepin, an increasingly popular distribution developed in China and featuring the Deepin desktop environment. This is the project's first version based on Debian GNU/Linux (the "unstable" branch), rather than Ubuntu. From the release announcement: "deepin is a Linux distribution committed to providing an elegant, user-friendly, safe and stable operating system for users all over the world. deepin 15 pays more attention to internationalization, and is enhanced with brand new mirror image acceleration (CDN acceleration). Languages supported are up to 30, thus the infinite charm of deepin can be experienced globally. Newly added languages are Malay, Bulgarian, Swedish, Croatian, Japanese, Korean, Finnish, Spanish (Latin America), Hindi (India), Ukrainian. Besides, we have reached an important cooperative relationship with Intel. We will collaboratively utilize Crosswalk Project to migrate existing web applications to deepin (Linux platform), thus enriching the diversity of applications for deepin and to improve the deepin experience." Download the installation DVD image from here: deepin-15-amd64.iso (1,851MB, MD5). |
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| 2015-12-31 |
NEW • Distribution Releases: Manjaro Linux 15.12 "i3", "bspwm" |
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The Manjaro Linux project has announced the availability of Manjaro Linux 15.12 "i3" and "bspwm" editions, two interesting variants of the distribution that features two of the less popular, but no less interesting window managers - i3 (a dynamic tiling window manager featuring extended Xinerama support) and bspwm (a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree). The "i3" variant (release announcement with a screenshot is an official Manjaro product, while the "bspwm" flavour is the latest addition to the project's growing number of community-built Manjaro variants: "We are happy to announce a new addition to our community editions, bspwm edition. Bspwm is a manual tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning that features intuitive mouse and keyboard controls. Compared with our i3 edition, it is more minimalistic and CLI-oriented, with the 64-bit edition booting at 105 MB of RAM used. It uses minimal RAM and CPU to be as light as possible without sacrificing functionality. This edition tries to make the command line more accessible for beginners." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download links: manjaro-i3-15.12-x86_64.iso (1,157MB, MD5), manjaro-bspwm-15.12-x86_64.iso (728MB, MD5). |
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| 2015-12-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: UberStudent 4.3 |
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Stephen Ewen has announced the release of UberStudent 4.3, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a collection of specialist software applications and tools designed primarily for students: "I'm pleased to announce the release of UberStudent 4.3 'Heraclitus', Xfce edition. UberStudent is a Linux distribution for everyone, especially higher education and college-bound secondary students, people who teach them, and their schools. Researchers, knowledge workers, and life-long learners will equally benefit. It has been specifically designed for complete Linux beginners, while remaining equally satisfying to the most advanced Linux user. System: Ubuntu 14.04.3 long-term stable release base supported until April 2019; Linux kernel 4.2; Xfce 4.12, X.Org Server 1.17; Mesa 10.5.9, LibreOffice 5. There are many, many new features and improvements, including latest versions of all core programs, additions to the UberStudent suite of administration tools, improved language support...." Continue to the release announcement for further information. Download: uberstudent-4.3-xfce-amd64.iso (2,778MB, MD5). |
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| 2015-12-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 1.0 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the release of Solus 1.0, the first stable release from the Linux distribution project that delivers a home-made desktop environment called "Budgie" and a custom package manager named "eopkg": "The Solus project is proud to announce the release of the first version of its operating system. Solus 1.0 is code-named 'Shannon' after the longest river in Ireland. Solus 1.0 is the result of over eight months of work, coalesced from over a dozen contributors, over 2,000 package builds, a rewrite of the premier desktop environment Budgie, and more. Solus is a Linux-based operating system built from scratch for the modern desktop and targeting the x86_64 architecture. The Solus project develops a GTK+-based desktop environment referred to as Budgie. Budgie ships with a multitude of features. Budgie has been tested and refined to ensure that high-contrast theming works out of the box, enabling usage by individuals with visual impairments. This Budgie menu enables quick access to your installed programs and offers category and compact views." Continue to the release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download (SHA256): Solus-1.0.iso (819MB, torrent). |
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| 2015-12-25 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SolydXK 201512 |
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Arjen Balfoort has announced the release of SolydXK 201512, the latest stable release of project's distribution that offers a choice of Xfce 4.10 or KDE 4.11 desktops, all based on the stable Debian GNU/Linux 8: "It's time for new releases again! The new ISO images come packed with changes. I'm not going to mention them all but here are a few: the live installer can now encrypt your partitions; the USB creator has been rebuilt and it does create bootable USB pen drives for several distributions; the update manager has new icons to indicate its status; you can right-click to show the legend for the meaning of the icons; left-click has been removed, So you will need to right-click to activate the update manager window. I hope you are going to enjoy these new releases!" Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (pkglist): solydx_8_64_201512.iso (1,421MB, MD5, torrent), solydk_8_64_201512.iso (1,509MB, MD5, torrent). Besides the official releases, the project's developers have also updated their "Community" editions, including the 32-bit flavours of SolydX and SolydK, as well as the "Enthusiasts" variant (based on Debian's "Testing" branch) and a special edition for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer. |
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| 2015-12-24 |
NEW • Distribution Release: openSUSE 42.1 "Edu Li-f-e" |
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The developers of the openSUSE educational edition, "Edu Li-f-e", have announced the launch of a new release, based on openSUSE 42.1 Leap. The new version, openSUSE 42.1 "Edu Li-f-e", ships with multiple desktop environments and multimedia support. "The best Linux distribution for education got a whole lot better, your Li-f-e (Linux for Education) takes a `Leap' to 42.1. openSUSE Education community is proud to present this latest edition based on openSUSE 42.1 with all the features, updates and bug fixes available on it to date. This effectively makes it the only enterprise grade long term supported (LTS) distribution for Education. As with previous releases, we have bundled a ton of software on this live DVD/USB specially packaged for education, along with the Plasma, GNOME and MATE desktop environments, full multimedia experience is also provided out of the box thanks to the Packman repositories." Further information and download links can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download: openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e.x86_64-42.1.1.iso (3,770MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-12-24 |
NEW • Distribution Release: antiX 15 "MX" |
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The antiX project has released a new version of the distribution's "MX" edition. The new release, antiX 15 "MX", is based on Debian's Stable (Jessie) branch and is designed to work on a variety of hardware, including low-resource computers. "We are extremely pleased to announce the release of MX-15 (code name Fusion) based on the reliable and stable Debian Jessie (8.2) with extra enhancements and up to date applications provided by our packaging team. Just like MX-14, this release defaults to sysVinit (though systemd is available once installed). Available in 32- and 64-bit. The 32-bit version ships with two stable 3.16 Debian kernels (PAE and non-PAE), while the 64-bit comes with the more recent 4.2 Debian backports kernel to cater for newer hardware." The new release offers users version 4.12 of the Xfce desktop environment, Firefox 43 and LibreOffice 4.3. Further information can be found on the antiX News page. Downloads (MD5) (pkglist): MX-15.01_386.iso (1,081MB), MX-15_x64.iso (985MB). |
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| 2015-12-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Manjaro Linux 15.12 |
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Philip Muller has announced the release of a new version of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution. The new release, Manjaro Linux 15.12, ships with Xfce 4.12 and KDE's Plasma 5.5 desktop along with a freshly polished system installer. "Notable changes in our tools: kcm module of Manjaro-Settings got reworked; several enhancements to Pamac and Octopi; optimizations and fixes to Manjaro-Tools; a LVM issue was fixed within Thus. Package-wise we have following changes: KDE Apps got updated to 15.12, VirtualBox is now at 5.0.12, mesa is at 11.0.8, WINE at 1.8 and the kernel at 4.4-rc6. Bumblebee is now also fixed for OpenRC and small fixes went into our Samba share Thunar plugin. To round-up this update, you find here some additional packages. Some Linux 3xx kernels got updated, last-minute fixes for Plasma 5, haskell updates, renewed Deepin desktop 2015 and fixes to Firefox complete Manjaro 15.12." Further information on the latest release of Manjaro Linux can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): manjaro-xfce-15.12-x86_64.iso (1,466MB, SHA256), manjaro-kde-15.12-x86_64.iso (1,856MB, SHA256), manjaro-net-15.12-x86_64.iso (562MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-12-23 |
NEW • Development Release: Tails 2.0 Beta 1 |
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The Tails project, which produces a live DVD designed for private and anonymous web browsing through pre-configured Tor network, has released the first development build of the upcoming version 2.0. This the distribution's first version based on Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 and it comes with the GNOME Shell desktop in "Fallback" mode. From the release announcement: Tails 2.0 will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 8 'Jessie'. As such, it upgrades essentially all included software. The most noticeable change is probably the move to GNOME Shell, configured in Classic mode. This desktop environment provides a modern and actively developed replacement for the aging GNOME 'Flashback'. GNOME Shell also paves the way for better supporting touchscreens in the future. Under the hood, an amazing amount of code was ported to more modern technologies. This, in turn, allowed us to do lots of small changes all around the place, that will make the Tails experience both safer, and more pleasant. For example, all custom system services are harder to exploit thanks to the use of Linux namespaces, set up by systemd. And the way Tails tells the user that 'Tor is ready' is now more accurate." Interested beta testers can download the live DVD image from here: tails-i386-1.8.iso (1,059MB, pkglist). |
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| 2015-12-22 |
NEW • BSD Release: pfSense 2.2.6 |
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Chris Buechler has announced the release of pfSense 2.2.6, an updated build of the project's FreeBSD-based operating system made for firewalls and routers. This release is largely a security update to fix issues with the software's browser-based user interface and several recent OpenSSL vulnerabilities, while it also upgrades the base system to the latest FreeBSD version: "pfSense software version 2.2.6 is now available. This release includes a few bug fixes and security updates. Security fixes and errata: webgui - local file inclusion vulnerability in the pfSense WebGUI; captiveportal - SQL injection vulnerability in the pfSense captive portal logout; webgui - multiple XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities in the pfSense WebGUI; updated to FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p25; openssl - multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL; updated strongSwan to 5.3.5; includes fix for CVE-2015-8023 authentication bypass vulnerability in the eap-mschapv2 plugin. As always, you can upgrade from any previous version straight to 2.2.6. For those already running any 2.2.x version, this is a low-risk upgrade. For those on 2.1.x or earlier versions, there are a number of significant changes which may impact you. Pay close attention to the 2.2 upgrade notes for the details." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: pfSense-LiveCD-2.2.6-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz (99.2MB, SHA256). |
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| 2015-12-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 |
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The SUSE team has announced the availability of the first service pack for SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. The new release, SUSE Linux Enterprise SP1, features rollback functionality through Btrfs, the GNOME 3.10 desktop environment and the ability to download software updates during the installation process. The new release is available in Desktop and Server editions. The Desktop offering includes seven years of support while the Server edition features a thirteen year life cycle. "SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 introduces a number of innovative changes. Here are some of the highlights: Robustness on administrative errors and improved management capabilities with full system rollback based on Btrfs as the default file system for the operating system partition and SUSE's snapper technology. An overhaul of the installer introduces a new workflow that allows you to register your system and receive all available maintenance updates as part of the installation." Further information can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes for the Desktop and Server product lines. SUSE Linux Enterprise is a commercial product with the company offering free 60-day trials which can be acquired from the company's Download page. |
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