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| 2013-06-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Caixa Mágica 20 |
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Flavio Moringa has announced the release of Linux Caixa Mágica 12.12, a new version of the Portuguese project's Ubuntu-based distribution with GNOME 3 optimised for home and office deployment and enhanced with various tweaks and extra software for use in Portugal: "Linux Caixa Mágica 20 is now available for download. You can get it from our Linux Caixa Mágica download page by selecting the version from the drop-down menu. This new version brings updates to all packages, new installation options (like LVM support), latest hardware support, and global performance improvements among many other things. For the main software packages you have Linux kernel 3.8, GNOME 3.6.3, LibreOffice 4.0.2, Firefox 21, Chromium 25.0.1364.160, LibreOffice full manual (Portuguese only) and much more...." Read the release announcement (the Portuguese version is available here) for more information. Download: caixamagica-20-desktop-amd64-gnome-dvd.iso (1,819MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-06-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Linux Deepin 12.12 |
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Li Hong Wu has announced the release of Linux Deepin 12.12, an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution featuring the Deepin desktop environment (based on GNOME Shell) and available in English and Chinese (simplified and traditional) variants: "Yes, the long wait is finally over and a new stable and awesome release of Linux Deepin, version 12.12, is ready for you. After a year of hard work, we are happy to bring you a free operating system with the unique Deepin touch - stable, easy and elegant. Linux Deepin 12.12 features a brand-new desktop environment, called DDE or Deepin Desktop Environment, an enhanced Deepin Software Center, as well as DMusic, DPlayer and DSnapshot." Read the full release announcement to find out more about the Deepin desktop environment and other features, and to view screenshots. Download the English or Chinese (simplified "hans", traditional "hant") editions from here: deepin_12.12_en_amd64.iso (1,172MB, MD5), deepin_12.12_zh-hans_amd64.iso (1,180MB, MD5), deepin_12.12_zh-hant_amd64.iso (1,165MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-06-18 |
NEW • Development Release: SmoothWall Express 3.1 RC |
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Neal Murphy has announced the availability of the first release candidate for SmoothWall 3.1, a firewall distribution that includes its own security-hardened GNU/Linux kernel and an easy-to-use web interface: "Today we have released the Smoothwall Express 3.1 release candidate 1 installation CD image for widespread testing and bug squashing. This new CD contains Smoothwall Express 3.1, a refresh of version 3.0. Numerous latent and hard-to-reproduce bugs in 3.0 were eliminated during development. Updated runtime software includes Linux kernel 3.4, glibc 2.14.1, binutils 2.22, iptables 1.4.14 and xtables-addons 1.45, OpenSwan 2.6.38, Snort 2.9.4.6 and Squid 3.1.23. The user interface has been freshened with the new Smoothwall logo and a number of presentation improvements. There are two new features: Plug-n-Play Backup, and automatic translations for non-English-speaking users." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download (MD5): Express-3.1-rc1-x86_64.iso (216MB), Express-3.1-rc1-i686.iso (209MB). |
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| 2013-06-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Webconverger 20.0 |
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Kai Hendry has announced the release of Webconverger 20.0, a new version of the Debian-based distribution designed solely for Internet browsing and for using web-based applications (e.g. Google Docs): "Please download Webconverger 20, our stable update release, featuring: Firefox 21 updates and Flash security updates; a dist-upgrade, based on Progress Linux 2.0; an a bit of a diet, 441 MB to 357 MB, saving about 60 MB by removing files you won't need; wide scrollbars options for touch screen deployments; tweaks to force viewing PDFs inline; customer configurations are now fetched over SSL. If you are using the recommended Install version of Webconverger, you should seamlessly upgrade incrementally day by day as Webconverger is updated. In other words, an installed Webconverger is maintenance free." Read the full release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download: webc-20.0.iso (355MB). |
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| 2013-06-18 |
NEW • Development Release: OpenMandriva 2013.0 Alpha |
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João Patrício has announced the availability of the first public alpha build of OpenMandriva 2013.0, a Linux distribution that has its roots in Mandriva Linux, but is now developed by the OpenMandriva Association. This release is based on ROSA, a Russian Linux distribution project that forked Mandriva Linux in 2012. From the announcement: "A new version of OpenMandriva LX is ready for bug hunting. There is still a lot of work to do, some already identified bugs to fix and artwork to implement. Let us know if you find any bugs and help us get rid of them. You can communicate with the QA team and log bugs here. We expect to have a beta release ready for you by 30th of July, so let's begin the hunt. OpenMandriva LX alpha features: Linux kernel 3.8.12, KDE 4.10.4, LibreOffice 4.0.3, Firefox 21.0, Clementine 1.1.1, ROMP 1.6-1." Here is the full release announcement with screenshots. Download the live DVD image from here: OpenMandriva.alpha.20130612.x86_64.iso (1,122MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-06-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SolydXK 201306 |
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Arjen Balfoort has announced the release of SolydXK 201306, an updated version of the project's desktop Linux distribution with Xfce (SolydX) or KDE (SolydK) based on Debian's "testing" branch: "The new SolydXK ISO images include the latest updates from June's Update Pack. Changes: thanks to forum users the following applications are now localized into Spanish, Catalán, German and Dutch - Device Driver Manager (DDM), Debian Plymouth Manager, LightDM Manager, Software Manager, Welcome Screen; the Steam installer has been removed, and Steam installed, thus leaving out a step to install Steam before you can start playing; Blueman has been removed, it showed in the system stray even if you didn't have Bluetooth running; Java has been upgraded to the latest version...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more changes. Download links: solydx64_201306.iso (1,012MB, MD5, torrent), solydk64_201306.iso (1,454MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-06-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Bridge Linux 2013.06 |
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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) 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). |
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| 2013-06-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2013_06_14 |
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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). |
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| 2013-06-14 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 2 |
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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). |
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| 2013-06-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Window Maker Live 2013-06-05 |
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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). |
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| 2013-06-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Peppermint OS Four |
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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). |
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| 2013-06-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: UberStudent 3.0 |
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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). |
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| 2013-06-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Zorin OS 7 |
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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). |
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| 2013-06-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Point Linux 13.04.1 |
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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). |
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