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| 2013-05-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.13 Core 68 |
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Michael Tremer has announced the release of IPFire 2.13 Core 68, a minor bug-fix update of the specialist distribution for firewalls and routers: "Today the IPFire development team released the 68th Core update for IPFire 2. This update brings various bug fixes and minor enhancements. The strongSwan team released version 5.0.4 which fixes an authentication bypass for certificates that use Elliptic Curves. As we don't use them in IPFire by default, this is not too serious an issue, but we still updated the strongSwan package. The update also contains some changes that fix unstable IPsec connections, a minority of users was experiencing. Since Core Update 65, disabling OpenVPN roadwarrior connections had no effect, so that users could still connect. This has also been fixed with this release. The web user interface comes with a new status bar which now has a cleaner design and provides more information." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download (SHA1): ipfire-2.13.i586-full-core68.iso (99.4MB), ipfire-2.13.1gb-ext4.armv5tel-full-core68.img.gz (163MB). |
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| 2013-05-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: BackBox Linux 3.05 |
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Raffaele Forte has announced the release of BackBox Linux 3.05, an updated version of the project's Ubuntu-based specialist distribution designed for penetration testing and security assessments: "The BackBox team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, version 3.05. This release includes features such as Linux kernel 3.2, compat-wireless 3.8 (with Aircrack-ng patch) and Xfce 4.8. What's new? System improvements; upstream components bug corrections; performance boost; improved Update menu; improved Wi-Fi dirvers (compat-wireless 3.8 with Aircrack-NG patch); full support for Linux kernel 3.5 and 3.8 (install it with apt-get or Synaptic); predisposition to ARM architecture (new armhf.iso coming soon); new and updated hacking tools (Automater, inundator, Ettercap, Wireshark, SE Toolkit, Metasploit, sqlmap, BeEF, Recon-ng, zaproxy, Weevely, THC-IPV6, truecrack, Hashcat)." Here is the full release announcement with system requirements. Download (MD5): backbox-3.05-amd64.iso (1,587MB, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: siduction 13.1.0 |
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Ferdinand Thommes has announced the release of siduction 13.1.0, a Linux distribution based on Debian's (once again unfrozen) "Unstable" branch. This is the project's first release that also includes an edition with GNOME 3. From the release notes: "We are very happy to present to you the final release of siduction 2013.1 'Firestarter'. Siduction is a distribution based on Debian's unstable branch and we try to release snapshots quarterly. Version 2013.1 ships with five desktop environments - KDE SC, Xfce, LXDE, GNOME, and Razor-qt, all in 32-bit and 64-bit variants. New in this release cycle is GNOME 3, that we are happy to officially present. Also officially shipped for the first time is 'noX', a variant without an X server." Download links: siduction-13.1.0-gnome-amd64.iso (1,004MB, SHA256, torrent), siduction-13.1.0-kde-amd64.iso (977MB, SHA256, torrent), siduction-13.1.0-lxde-amd64.iso (626MB, SHA256, torrent), siduction-13.1.0-rqt-amd64.iso (736MB, SHA256, torrent), siduction-13.1.0-xfce-amd64.iso (715MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-22 |
NEW • Development Release: SparkyLinux 3.0 Beta 1 |
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Paweł Pijanowski has announced that the first beta release of SparkyLinux 3.0, a lightweight distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch, is available for download and testing: "SparkyLinux 3.0 beta 1, code name 'Annagerman', is ready for testing. SparkyLinux 3 provides a few big changes, such as: over 20 pre-configured locales available at system startup; run SparkyLinux installer in text mode with no X server; from now, SparkyLinux live can use an existing swap partition; added a few new applications - LXMed, software center, xdg-user-dir, hardinfo, blueman, taskmanager, disk manager; SparkyCenter - a completely new application which gives you a quick access to the most important system settings. All packages have been synchronized with Debian 'Testing' repositories as of 2013-05-20." See the full release announcement for additional details and screenshots. Download: sparkylinux-3.0-beta1-x86_64.iso (1,850MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Puppy Linux 5.6 "Precise" |
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Bary Kauler has announced the release of Puppy Linux 5.6 "Precise" edition, a minimalist distribution and live CD featuring the JWM window manager and built from Ubuntu 12.04 binary packages: "It's out! Our latest and greatest Puppy. Relative to Precise Puppy 5.5, this latest pup brings some exciting new features, including a new X.Org video wizard (with forced-reboot recovery mechanism), new non-PAE 3.2.44 kernel with lots of analog modem drivers (making this an excellent pup for those still on dial-up Internet), many more applications internationalized, many applications upgraded, lots of bug fixes, and so on. Plus, a huge number of fixes and improvements at the infrastructure/system level. In all, a great new version of the Precise series." Read the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download the live CD image from the ibiblio.org repository: precise-5.6.iso (170MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-21 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ZevenOS 3.1 "Neptune" |
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Leszek Lesner has announced the release of ZevenOS 3.1 "Neptune" edition, a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution for 64-bit computers featuring the latest version of the KDE desktop environment: "The Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 3.1. We worked hard and spend a lot of effort in creating this service release for Neptune 3.0. This release features the Linux kernel 3.9.2 and is exclusively meant to run on 64-bit CPUs. The Debian base system was updated to the released version 7.0 to provide a stable user experience. The KDE Plasma Desktop ships with version 4.10.3. Chromium was updated to version 26, Kdenlive 0.9.6, Amarok 2.7.1 and LibreOffice to version 4.0.3. We ship with the latest and greatest multimedia codecs pre-installed, as well as the Flash player." See the full release announcement for a full changelog and a video introduction. Download (MD5) from here: Neptune31.iso (1,920MB). |
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| 2013-05-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Wifislax 4.4 |
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Wifislax 4.4, a new version of the Slackware-based live CD with a good collection of useful security and forensic tools, has been released. This release represents five months of development work, not only on the live CD, but also on additional modules for various specialist purposes that can be downloaded and installed separately. The distribution comes with Linux kernel 3.7.10 (both "normal" and PAE variants), default KDE desktop version 4.10.3, and Xfce desktop as a lightweight alternative. Many programs and libraries have been updated to newer versions and a number of new tools have been added for the first time. Another useful new feature is the addition of an English boot menu, inclusive of second-level menus containing additional boot options. And last but not least, the default desktop wallpaper has also been updated. Please read the complete release announcement (in Spanish) for further information. Download the live CD image (with support for Spanish and English) from here: wifislax-4-4-final.iso (630MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-19 |
NEW • Development Release: gNewSense 3.0 Beta 1 |
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Sam Geeraerts has announced the availability of the initial beta release of gNewSense 3.0. gNewSense is a Debian-based distribution sponsored by Free Software Foundation and built strictly from free ("libre") software only. This version is based on Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" (with GNOME 2). From the release announcement: "The beta release of gNewSense 3.0 (code name 'Parkes') is available for download. There are netboot images for all 3 architectures and a live CD for i386. I'd like some feedback on that first before I spend time on creating a live CD for amd64. I also hope to resolve some of the following issues with the live CD shortly: the live installer (which can be started with the icon on the live desktop) fails at step 'Configure the package manager', the text and GUI install (started from the boot menu) do work; you get an i486 kernel by default, you can install the i686 kernel like any other package once you've booted the system; boot menu items Memtest86+ and Help fall off the bottom of the screen...." Download: gnewsense-livecd-parkes-i386-3.0beta1.iso (973MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Hybryde Linux 13.04 |
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Olivier Larrieu has announced the release of Hybryde Linux 13.04, a rather unusual distribution which ships with 11 desktop user interfaces (Enlightenment, GNOME 2, GNOME 3, KDE, LXDE, Openbox, Unity, FVWM, Xfce, MATE and Cinnamon) and which provides a way to seamlessly switch between them without a need to restart the X window system. This it does so via a default home-made desktop called HY-D-V1: "After more than five months, we have a new concept: HY-D-V1 which is a new paradigm for the desktop. It works with web technologies. This new version, Hybryde 'Fusion', includes HY-D-V1 which has been created for artists and users who want to transform their desktop into an artistic tool and for those who want to play with graphic effects. That's because Linux users are not merely professionals and because computers are not reserved to business use alone." Visit the project's home page to learn more about the ideas behind the Ubuntu-based Hybryde Linux. Download the live DVD image (with support for French and English) from here: Hybryde-Fusion-release-live-dvd-i386.iso (1,716MB). |
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| 2013-05-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Mageia 3 |
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Trish Fraser has announced the release of Mageia 3, the third official release of the community distribution that was created by former developers and contributors of the once highly popular Mandriva Linux in late 2010: "All grown up and ready to go dancing - Mageia 3 is out. We still can't believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we've been doing it for two and a half years. Major new features: updates to RPM (4.11) and urpmi, which has been given a good turnout and cleanup; Linux kernel 3.8; systemd 195; GRUB is the default boot loader; GRUB 2 is available; revamped package groupings for installation and rpmdrake; KDE 4.10.2, GNOME 3.6, Xfce 4.10; LibreOffice 4.0.3; Steam for Linux...." Read the release announcement and check out the detailed release notes for further information. Download (mirror list) the live or the installation DVD images from here: Mageia-3-LiveDVD-KDE4-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,491MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-LiveDVD-GNOME-x86_64-DVD.iso (1,450MB, MD5, torrent), Mageia-3-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,756MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Tails 0.18 |
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Tails 0.18, a new version of the specialist live CD whose goal is to preserve the user's privacy and anonymity while surfing the world wide web, has been released: "Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.18, is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Notable user-visible changes include: Support obfs3 bridges; automatically install a custom list of additional packages chosen by the user at the beginning of every working session, and upgrade them once a network connection is established; upgrade to Iceweasel 17.0.5esr; update Torbrowser patches to current maint-2.4 branch; Torbutton 1.5.2, and various prefs hacks to fix breakage; HTTPS Everywhere 3.2; NoScript 2.6.6.1; isolate DOM storage to first party URI and enable DOM storage; isolate the image cache per url bar domain; update preferences to match the TBBs, fix bugs, and take advantage of the latest Torbrowser patches...." See the release announcement for a complete changelog and a known issue. Download: tails-i386-0.18.iso (861MB, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-18 |
NEW • BSD Release: NetBSD 6.1, 6.0.2 |
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the release of NetBSD 6.1, a new stable version of the highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for a wide range of platforms: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Major changes between 6.0 and 6.1: posix_spawn() - fix processes with attributes; resolve races between vget() and vrele() resulting in vget() returning dead vnodes; prevent crash when unsupported fd's are used with kevent; fix a bug where kmem_alloc() could be called from interrupt context; WAPBL - coalesce writes to the journal to speed up wapbl_flush() on raid5 by a factor of 3 to 4...." Read the rest of the release notes for a detailed list of changes and related links. Download (MD5): NetBSD-6.1-amd64.iso (335MB, torrent), NetBSD-6.1-i386.iso (314MB, torrent). Besides version 6.1, the project also released NetBSD 6.0.2, the second security and bug-fix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch. |
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| 2013-05-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Slackel 3.1 "Live Openbox" |
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Dimitris Tzemos has announced the release of Slackel 3.1 "Live Openbox" edition, a lightweight Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and Salix: "Slackel Live 3.1 Openbox has been released. Includes the live kernel 3.8.8 and lots of updates from Slackware's 'Current' tree. Slackel Live 3.1 Openbox includes the Midori 0.4.9 web browser, Claws-Mail 3.8.1, Transmission, SpaceFM, OpenJRE 7u9, Rhino, IcedTea-Web, Pidgin, gFTP, wicd. AbiWord, Gnumeric and ePDFviewer office applications are included. Whaaw! Media Player is the default movie player, Exaile 3.3.0 is the application to use for managing your music collection, Asunder CD ripper, Bracero for writing CD/DVDs and more. In the graphics section Viewnior 1.3, GIMP 2.8.4 and Scrot the snapshot utility. It is very easy to put Slackel Live 3.1 Openbox in a USB thumb drive." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download: slackellive-openbox-3.1-64.iso (728MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 2.6.0 |
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Natanael Copa has announced the release of Alpine Linux 2.6.0, a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution for servers, based on uClibc and BusyBox: "We are pleased to announce Alpine Linux 2.6.0. Since 2.5, among the various bug fixes, several packages have been upgraded: Linux kernel upgraded to 3.9.2 with the grsecurity patch; Ruby 2.0; PHP 5.4.5; Kamailio 4.0; QEMU 1.4; Squid 3.3. Other things that might be worth noting: LXC support; support for NFS with Kerberos; the initramfs script has initial support for PXE; VServer kernel got reverted to the 3.4.y LTS and slimmed down configuration; Quagga got multi-path support. Known issue: DMVPN does not work. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release." Here is the brief release announcement with a link to a complete changelog. Download link: alpine-2.6.0-x86_64.iso (279MB, SHA256). |
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| 2013-05-17 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 13.1 Milestone 1 |
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The development of openSUSE 13.1, the distribution's next stable release whose availability is tentatively scheduled for early November 2013, has commenced with the initial milestone build: "openSUSE is pleased to announce that the newest milestone of the upcoming version of openSUSE 13.1 is available for testing. As an early version, it is expected that this milestone is not fully functional or very stable and we welcome bug reports and fixes for the issues. This is the first in a series of upcoming updates to the distribution that will end with the final release of 13.1 projected by November of 2013. As usual with an alpha release, the most prominent changes in openSUSE 13.1 milestone 1 come from the upgrades that packages are going through, e.g. GNOME 3.8.1, Apache HTTP server 2.4.3, Linux kernel 3.9, LibreOffice 4.0.2, X.Org Server 1.14.1." Here is the full release announcement. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-Factory-KDE-Live-Build0466-x86_64.iso (951MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-Factory-GNOME-Live-Build0466-x86_64.iso (927MB, MD5, torrent). |
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