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| 2015-11-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: openSUSE 42.1 |
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The openSUSE project has announced the launch of a new edition and new release for the openSUSE distribution. The new edition is called Leap and the initial release carries the version number 42.1. openSUSE 42.1 is a community project which also pulls in packages from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), making Leap a hybrid of sorts. "Version 42.1 is the first version of openSUSE Leap that uses source from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) providing a level of stability that will prove to be unmatched by other Linux distributions. Bonding community development and enterprise reliability provides more cohesion for the project and its contributor’s maintenance updates. openSUSE Leap will benefit from the enterprise maintenance effort and will have some of the same packages and updates as SLE, which is different from previous openSUSE versions that created separate maintenance streams. Community developers provide an equal level of contribution to Leap and upstream projects to the release, which bridges a gap between matured packages and newer packages found in openSUSE's other distribution, Tumbleweed." The release features a new version of the YaST system administration tool, KDE's Plasma 5.4 and GNOME 3.16. More information on openSUSE 42.1 "Leap" can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: openSUSE-Leap-42.1-DVD-x86_64.iso (4,433MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2015-11-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SME Server 8.2 |
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Terry Fage has announced the release of a new version of the SME Server distribution. SME Server is intended for use on servers in small and medium businesses and is based on CentOS. The latest release, SME Server 8.2, provides users with an update to the distribution's 8.x series and is based on CentOS 5.x. SME Server 8.2 introduces support for Windows 10 domains and includes OpenSSL packages from the project's upstream distribution. "CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 will not work on i586 hardware. i586 hardware means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, Athlon XP and later. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at here. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 (so also for SME 8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is March 31 2017." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: smeserver-8.2-x86_64.iso (759MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2015-11-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Tails 1.7 |
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The developers of Tails (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), a Debian-based live operating system for communicating securely, have announced the release of Tails 1.7. The new release fixes a number of bugs and introduces "offline mode" which disables all network activity. This release fixes numerous security issues. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. You can now start Tails in offline mode to disable all networking for additional security. Doing so can be useful when working on sensitive documents. We added Icedove, a re-branded version of the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Icedove is currently a technology preview. It is safe to use in the context of Tails but it will be better integrated in future versions until we remove Claws Mail. Users of Claws Mail should refer to our instructions to migrate their data from Claws Mail to Icedove." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. The project has also provided a list of known issues. Download (SHA256): tails-i386-1.7.iso (1,004MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2015-11-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Fedora 23 |
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The Fedora team has launched a new version of their Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution. The new release, Fedora 23, is available in multiple editions, including Workstation, Server and Cloud as well as multiple community spins. The latest version of Fedora ships with version 3.18 of the GNOME desktop, LibreOffice 5 and version 4.2 of the Linux kernel. This release sees core utilities, such as the system installer and package manager, ported to Python 3. In addition, software packages have been hardened with memory address randomization built in. "As with every Fedora release, almost every component has a new version, with improvements across the board. Of particular note, Fedora Workstation includes the GNOME 3.18 desktop environment and the LibreOffice 5.0 office suite. Fedora 23 also has important under-the-hood security improvements, with increased hardening for all compiled software and with insecure SSL3 and RC4 protocols disabled. We've also updated all of the software installed by default in Fedora Cloud Base Image and Fedora Workstation to use Python version 3, and the Mono .NET compatible framework is now at version 4. Perhaps most importantly, Unicode 8.0 support now enables the crucial U1F32D character." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the detailed release notes. Download (torrents): Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso (1,401MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist), Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-23.iso (2,050MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2015-11-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: OpenELEC 6.0 |
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Stephan Raue has announced the release of OpenELEC 6.0, a major new version of the specialist Linux distribution designed for media centres and featuring the brand-new Kodi 15.2 media centre software: "The OpenELEC team is proud to announce OpenELEC 6.0 (6.0.0) The most visible change is Kodi 15.2 (Isengard). Beginning with Kodi 15.0, most audio encoder, audio decoder, PVR and visualisation add-ons are no longer pre-bundled into OpenELEC but can be downloaded from the Kodi add-on repository if required. PVR backends, such as VDR and TVHeadend, will install needed dependencies automatically. We now officially support WeTek's WeTek_Play device with a build that installs to internal NAND and dual-boots with Android on an SD card. The iMX6 build extends support to all Solidrun CuBox-i/TV, Solidrun Hummingboard devices and the OSMC Vero. We recommend CuBox-i2eX / Hummingboard-i2eX or better devices. Under the hood there are updates to FFmpeg 2.6, MESA 10.6, X.Org Server 1.17, libva 1.6, systemd 219, Binutils 2.25, glibc 2.22, LibreSSL 2.1.7, LLVM 3.6 and Linux kernel 4.1 (except for iMX6 and WeTek_Play)." Continue to the release announcement for more details. Download the installation USB image from here: OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-6.0.0.img.gz (158MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2015-11-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 14.0 |
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The 4MLinux project has released version 14.0 of the independent utility distribution. 4MLinux 14.0 ships with version 5.2.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection. Several additional multimedia applications are available as separate downloads. "The status of the 4MLinux 14.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Major change in the core of the system, which now uses GNU Compiler Collection 5.2.0 to compile programs designed for the i686 architecture. Audacious (audio player), Opera (web browser), SMTube (YouTube browser) and VLC (media player) are now available as downloadable extensions. The way in which 4MLinux handles audio and video files has been greatly improved." The project's full release announcement can be found on the project's blog. Information on adding multimedia support and additional applications can be found in this blog post. Downloads (MD5): 4MLinux-14.0.iso (384MB, pkglist). |
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| 2015-10-30 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Sabayon 15.11 |
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The developers of Sabayon, a Gentoo-based rolling release distribution, have announced the launch of Sabayon 15.11. The new version ships with a number of interesting new features, one of which is a server edition. "This release will introduce the Sabayon server edition, which is just perfect for those who want to run this distro as a pure server. The installer is still Calamares (just GUI install as for now), but running on a ad hoc instance of X, that consequentially bloats the ISO size, but after install all the additional components requested by Calamares are removed from the system. We now also service you with Vagrant images." This release also includes Docker images and the KDE edition of Sabayon 15.11 now ships with LightDM as the default login manager. This release is available for 64-bit x86 machines only. Further information on Sabayon 15.11 can be found in the project's release announcement). Download (pkglist): Sabayon_Linux_15.11_amd64_GNOME.iso (1,752MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_15.11_amd64_KDE.iso (1,989MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_15.11_amd64_MATE.iso (1,470MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_15.11_amd64_Server.iso (871MB, MD5, torrent), Sabayon_Linux_15.11_amd64_Xfce.iso (1,557MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2015-10-30 |
NEW • Development Release: Solus 1.0 RC1 |
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Ikey Doherty has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Solus 1.0, a Linux distribution featuring a custom desktop environment called "Budgie" and a package manager named "eopkg" (forked from Pardus Linux): "The Solus project is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the Solus operating system. Budgie has been updated to improve stability and is a stability and maintenance update prior to the landing of the new Budgie rewrite and Raven (our notification center), landing in a future update. DoFlicky, the new driver management tool of Solus, is now available for testing as of this release candidate. DoFlicky will be accompanied by installable drivers for broadcom-sta, NVIDIA 304, 340xx, 352. With our driver management software landing, we will integrate 32-bit 'multilib' support after ensuring there are no further issues with DoFlicky. Due to the quality of the proprietary AMD drivers (fglrx), we will not be providing them at this moment in time. We will provide them as an update after RC1." See the release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download (SHA256) the live DVD image from here: Solus-RC1.iso (739MB, torrent). |
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| 2015-10-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GParted Live 0.24.0-2 |
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The developers of GParted Live, a Debian-based live distribution for managing disk partitions, have announced the launch of a new version of their distribution. The new version, GParted Live 0.24.0-2, is based on the latest Debian Unstable packages and includes the ability to detect ZFS storage pools. "The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 0.24.0 which detects ZFS file systems, recognizes NVMe devices, prevents a hang when labelling fat16/32 file systems if illegal characters in label, and prevents a core dump if invalid or non-existent device paths are passed on the command line. Items of note include: Based on the Debian Sid repository (as of 2015/Oct/28); Linux kernel updated to 4.2.0-1; Fixed vi entry in right-click Editors menu (bug 755602); Added zerofree (bug 753446), efibootmgr (bug 754587), and ddrescue (bug 750240) to live image." The full release announcement can be found on the distribution's website. Download: gparted-live-0.24.0-2-i586.iso (248MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2015-10-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rockstor 3.8-9 |
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Suman Chakravartula has announced the release of Rockstor 3.8-9, an updated build of the project's CentOS-based Linux distribution designed for Network Attached Storage (NAS) and private cloud storage solutions: "Rockstor 3.8-9 update is now available. This is our first update released under the stable update channel. Current users running prior versions can update to 3.8-9 after activating the Stable channel subscription. New users can just install from the 3.8-9 ISO. We closed 20 issues in this release. We have a development log in our forum detailing the ongoing work and some of you may already be aware of the coming changes. Detailed list: improved service orchestration by leveraging systemd more; fixed Web-UI to dynamically refresh management interface IP; fixed a Web-UI issue with network interface management; clarify password reset instructions; refresh Pool state automatically after delete; improved logic to update /etc/issue with Web-UI link; improved certificate labeling on the Web-UI; fixed and improved Active Directory integration support....." Continue to the release announcement for a complete changelog. Download (MD5): Rockstor-3.8-9.iso (3,532MB, pkglist). |
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| 2015-10-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.17 Core 94 |
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The development team behind IPFire, a independent Linux distribution for firewalls, has released a new update. The new release, IPFire 2.17 Core Update 94, includes a number of package upgrades, including OpenSSH 7.1p1. This release also cleans up the web interface and includes a mail agent in the base system. "OpenSSH was updated to version 7.1p1. With that we added support for elliptic curves (ECDSA and ED25519) and removed support for DSA which is considered broken. Too small RSA keys are removed as well and regenerated. These changes may require to import the keys of the IPFire system on your admin computer again. An internal mail agent was added that is used by internal services to send out reports or alerts. So far only a few services use this (like the squid accounting add-on), but we expect to add more things in the future. This is a very simple and lightweight mail agent that can be configured on the web user interface and will usually require an upstream mail server." Further details on the release of IPFire 2.17 Core Update 94 can be found in the project's release announcement. Downloads (SHA1): (157MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2015-10-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Simplicity Linux 15.10 |
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Simplicity Linux is a Puppy-based distribution which ships with the LXDE desktop environment. The developers of Simplicity have launched a new version of their distribution, Simplicity Linux 15.10. This version offers users version 4.1.1 of the Linux kernel and is offered exclusively in a 32-bit x86 build. "We are very pleased to announce the release of Simplicity Linux 15.10. Due to some issues users were finding with the 64-bit edition of Simplicity 15.7, we've decided to put our 64-bit releases on hiatus until we can resolve the issue. The two 32-bit editions of Simplicity 15.10 both feature the 4.1.1 Linux kernel and are based on the excellent LXPup. LXDE is used as the desktop, and wbar is used as a dock for pre-installed software and features." The distribution's two editions are Netbook, which is designed to be lighter and use more cloud-based technology, and Desktop, which offers more locally installed applications such as LibreOffice. Further information is available in the release announcement. Downloads (MD5): Desktop1510Final2.iso (619MB), Netbook1510Final-2.iso (387MB). |
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| 2015-10-24 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Plamo Linux 6.0 |
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Plamo Linux 6.0 has been released. Plamo Linux, one of the oldest Japanese distributions, is loosely modelled on Slackware Linux and is designed for more experienced Linux users. The version number upgrade reflects the distribution's move to the new Linux kernel 4.x series, but in all other respects it's a routine release made available for the occasion of this weekend's OpenStack Summit in Tokyo. Some of the more interesting package upgrades in Plamo's latest version include: a switch to Linux kernel 4.2.3; upgrade to MATE 1.10 desktop environment; updated Mozilla packages - Firefox 41.0.2 and Thunderbird 38.3.0; move to X.Org Server 1.17.2 and MESA 10.6.7; upgrade to LibreOffice 5.0.2 office suite. Plamo Linux 6.0 also includes a new "get_pkginfo" command which compares any locally installed packages with the official ones available on Plamo's FTP servers. The installation DVD, which is a hybrid DVD/USB image, comes with improved UEFI/GPT support. Read the complete release announcement (in Japanese) for further details. Download the installation DVD image from here: plamo-6.0_x86_64_dvd.iso (3,532MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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