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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 |
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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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| 2013-05-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Linux Mint 15 RC |
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Clement Lefebvre has announced that the release candidate for Linux Mint 15 is ready for download and testing: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' RC. Linux Mint 15 is the most ambitious release since the start of the project. MATE 1.6 is greatly improved and Cinnamon 1.8 offers a ton of new features, including a screensaver and a unified control center. The login screen can now be themed in HTML 5 and two new tools, 'Software Sources' and 'Driver Manager', make their first appearance in Linux Mint. MDM now features 3 greeters: a GTK+ greeter; a themeable GDM greeter for which hundreds of themes are available; a brand new HTML greeter, also themeable which supports a new generation of animated and interactive themes." See the release announcement, release notes and what's new page for more details, known issues and screenshots. Download (SHA256): linuxmint-15-cinnamon-dvd-64bit-rc.iso (906MB, torrent), linuxmint-15-mate-dvd-64bit-rc.iso (985MB, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-16 |
NEW • Development Release: Canaima GNU/Linux 4.0 Alpha 1 |
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Canaima GNU/Linux is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution sponsored by the government of Venezuela and widely deployed in the country's schools and public offices. Following the recent stable release of Debian GNU/Linux 7.0, the Canaima developers have launched a first development build of their distribution. Canaima 4.0 promises to revolutionise the computing by providing an operating system for the variety of devices on the market, including tablets and other touch-screen devices. This initial alpha release includes the GNOME 3.4.2 desktop, Linux kernel 3.2, X.Org 7.7, LibreOffice 4.0.1, the Cunaguaro 22.0 web browser (a fork of Iceweasel), GIMP 2.8, and Inkscape 0.48. The release announcement (in Spanish) concludes with the usual warning about the dangers of using this development build in production environments. Interested alpha testers can download the installable live DVD image from here: canaima-popular-4.0~a1_amd64.iso (820MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Zorin OS 6.3 "Core" |
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Artyom Zorin has announced the release of Zorin OS 6.3 "Core" edition, an easy-to-use desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's latest LTS (long-term support) release and enhanced with a custom start menu and other user-friendly utilities: "The Zorin OS team is pleased to announce the release of Zorin OS 6.3 Core, our operating system designed for Windows users. Zorin OS 6.3 builds on top of our popular previous release of Zorin OS 6.2 with newly updated software and a newer kernel out of the box. As Zorin OS 6.3 is based on Ubuntu 12.04, it is an LTS (long-term support) release, provided with software updates until April 2017. Users who already have Zorin OS 6, 6.1 or 6.2 Core installed can update their system using the Update Manager to avail of the aforementioned updates and improvements in 6.3." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5) link: zorin-os-6.3-core-64.iso (1,584MB). |
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| 2013-05-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Sophos UTM 9.1 |
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Angelo Comazzetto has announced the release of Sophos UTM 9.1, a Linux-based operating system for firewalls formerly known as Astaro Security Gateway: "I am pleased to inform you that today, after months of research, development (and public testing), we have released Sophos UTM 9.1. This major update to our UTM line introduces dozens of new features, offers vastly increased performance in throughput and reporting which makes UTM an even more formidable solution. You will find an amazing new system for enforcing your web security settings on clients anywhere they are in the world using our UTM endpoint offering, wireless repeating and bridging using a mesh network option for our wireless AP50, and SSL VPN for iOS and Android mobiles." Read the full release announcement for a long list of new features and bug fixes. Download the new version from here: asg-9.100-14.1.iso (546MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Manjaro Linux 0.8.5.2 "KDE", "Cinnamon", "MATE" |
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Yusuf Faruk Doğan has announced the release of three community editions of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux 0.8.5.2 - with KDE, Cinnamon and MATE desktops: "We are happy to announce three new Manjaro Community Editions featuring Mate 1.6, Cinnamon 1.7, Gnome 3.8 and KDE 4.10.2. “Community Editions” of Manjaro Linux are released as bonus flavours in addition to those officially supported and maintained by the Manjaro Team, provided that the time and resources necessary are available to do so. We hope you like these releases." The release announcement includes a detailed list of changes and new features for each of the three editions, as well as screenshots and notes on the graphical system installer and the distribution's unique package management utility. Quick download links: manjaro-kde-0.8.5.2-x86_64.iso (2,128MB, SHA1), manjaro-cinnamon-0.8.5.2-x86_64.iso (1,524MB, SHA1), manjaro-mate-0.8.5.2-x86_64.iso (1,216MB, SHA1). |
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| 2013-05-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: OS4 4.1 "Enterprise" |
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Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of OS4 4.1 "Enterprise" edition, an Ubuntu-based commercial distribution for small and medium-size enterprises: "Today we are pleased to announce the release of OS4 Enterprise 4.1. With this release we bring many advancements to the world's premier enterprise Linux platform. We learned a lot from our release of Enterprise 4.0 and this release is based on customer feedback. Starting with the user interface. Many of our Enterprise customers coming from Red Hat and Oracle Linux wanted a consistent user interface that they had become accustomed to with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux and we believe we have achieved that and with some of the flare that OS4 is famous for. Some of these features include: Linux kernel 3.2; Jakarta Tomcat, ZFS 0.6.2 for Linux, support for Microsoft Hyper-V, Webmin...." Read the release announcement for more information. The pricing starts at US$100 per copy, but a live-only demo is available for download from SourceForge: os4-ent-41-demo.iso (1,473MB, MD5). |
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| 2013-05-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Antergos 2013.05.12 |
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Antergos is a new name for Cinnarch, a project that used to combine the Cinnamon desktop and Arch Linux into a complete desktop Linux distribution. As Cinnamon tends to be behind the times and not always compatible with the latest version of GNOME, the project's developers have taken a decision to switch to GNOME 3 as their default desktop and rename the project to Antergos. The first stable release of Antergos was announced today: "After a month since our last release under the name 'Cinnarch', we're glad to announce the new name of our project and our first release being out of beta. We're stable enough to make this step. We've chosen 'Antergos', a Galician word to link the past with the present. Moving forward, all our services are now working with the new name." See the release announcement for instructions on how to switch from Cinnarch to Antergos. Download (MD5): antergos-2013.05.12-x86_64.iso (766MB, torrent). |
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| 2013-05-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Zentyal 3.1 (Beta) |
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José Antonio Calvo has announced the availability of the first development build of the upcoming Zentyal 3.2 stable release, a Linux distribution for small business servers. Like the project's 3.0 release, the new version is still based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support (LTS) release. From the release announcement: "We're glad to announce the availability of the first Zentyal 3.1 packages and installer. Zentyal 3.1 is a development version and it will become Zentyal 3.2 (next stable release) in September 2013. Until then we are going to frequently release new versions so you can help us testing the new features and improvements. The highlights of this first beta are: New IPS module; L2TP support in the IPsec module; faster Zentyal administration interface; new headless (remote administration only) installation in the expert mode; faster boot due to better management of daemons." Download: zentyal-3.1-amd64.iso (651MB, MD5). |
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