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| 2009-07-21 |
Development Release: CDlinux 0.9.3 |
| CDlinux is a compact live CD from China suitable for use as a mobile system or a rescue tool. Half a month after our CDlinux 0.9.2 review, the developer announced a new release, CDlinux 0.9.3: "This version added two missing blocks to CDlinux: devel and dri. The new devel module is an attempt to help users compile additional drivers and applications for CDlinux. It now supports compiling the official Linux kernel as well as some third-party kernel modules. And Mesa3D was added to the Community edition for those who may want to run 3D applications or games. This version also fixed several bugs found in previous versions: a possible race between amount and hal, a bug that prevents udev's persistent rules from working properly, and a bug that may make CDlinux fail to save persistent data. All major packages were upgrade to their latest versions." Visit the distribution's news page to read the release announcement. Download: CDlinux_CE-0.9.3.iso (231MB, MD5), CDlinux-0.9.3.iso.gz (69.6MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-02-28 |
Development Release: CDlinux 0.9.2 |
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| Ben Zhao has announced the release of CDlinux 0.9.2, a compact live CD suitable for use as a mobile system or rescue tool: "As the 3rd release of the 0.9 series, 0.9.2 puts emphasis on stability and usability. This is mainly a bug fix release with a few new features. Several bugs found in 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 were fixed: a bug in the installation wizard was fixed, now installation of CDlinux to Windows 2000, XP and 2003 C: drive works again; another bug in the installation wizard was fixed, now you can boot directly from the ISO image and install CDlinux without actually burning a CD; a bug in the rc.swap script that caused CDlinux fail to setup pagefile.sys as swap on some VFAT partition was fixed; a bug in CUPS was fixed, now printing works again; WINE was downgraded to stable 1.0.1." Visit the distribution's news page to read the release announcement. Download: CDlinux_CE-0.9.2.iso (204MB, MD5), CDlinux-0.9.2.iso.gz (64.8MB, MD5). |
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| 2009-02-13 |
Development Release: CDlinux 0.9.1 |
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| Ben Zhao has announced the release of CDlinux 0.9.1, a minimalist live CD with Xfce and support for several languages: "CDlinux 0.9.1 was released today. This is a yet another big leap towards CDlinux 1.0, integrating many new features and enhancements, including: a new GUI installation and upgrade wizard; rewrite the 'persistent mode' code and save persistent data as Squashfs; replace Fcitx with SCIM to support input method for more locales; add full support for German, French, Japanese and Russian; add support for 'Safe Graphics Mode' in case native X.Org driver fails; determine better whether to run in RAM or loop mode; some fine-tuning to improve performance on machines with low memory; many package upgrades, including Linux kernel 2.6.28.4, Firefox 3.0.6, Ghostscript 8.64, GIMP 2.6.4, JRE 6u12, Wine 1.1.14." Read the release announcement and release notes for more details. Download the "Community" or the "Standard" edition from here: CDlinux_CE-0.9.1.iso (203MB, MD5), CDlinux-0.9.1.iso.gz (68.5MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-12-20 |
Development Release: CDlinux 0.9.0 |
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| Ben Zhao has announced the release of CDlinux 0.9.0, a compact live CD with Xfce as the desktop environment: "CDlinux 0.9.0 has been released. This is a development release, considered a major step towards CDlinux 1.0. There are many changes and enhancements over the last release, including: support for 'persistent mode', auto save and restore user changes; support for printing; support for booting directly from ISO image; Samba client and printing support; support for Java; a new boot splash; a revised and more efficient package management system. And many package upgrades including: Linux kernel 2.6.27.10, glibc 2.8, X.Org 7.4 (xorg-server 1.5.3), Xfce 4.4.3, Firefox 3.0.5." Here is the complete release announcement. Download the larger Community edition or the smaller Standard edition from here: CDlinux_CE-0.9.0.iso (190MB, MD5), CDlinux-0.9.0.iso (59.0MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-10-10 |
Distribution Release: CDlinux 0.6.2 |
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| Ben Zhao has announced the release of CDlinux 0.6.2, a minimalist live CD combining the Xfce desktop with a careful selection of lightweight applications: "We are pleased to announce the release of CDlinux 0.6.2. This release features great enhancements over version 0.6.1: smart handling codepage (FAT/NTFS) of hotplugable media; power management support (ACPI/CPUfreq); auto guessing current time zone; multimedia keyboard support; booting from Linux RAID and ATA RAID; improved support for newer hardware (video, WLAN, Linux UVC), and several new GUI configuration tools (more details in the changelog). This release ships with Linux kernel 2.6.26.6, X.Org 7.3, Xfce 4.4.2, and a bundle of carefully selected popular applications." Visit the project's news page to read the full release announcement. Download: CDlinux-0.6.2.iso (58.9MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-04-29 |
Distribution Release: CDlinux 0.6.1 |
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| CDlinux 0.6.1, or Compact Distro Linux, is a 60 MB mini-distribution with the latest Linux kernel, X.Org, Xfce window manager, and a handful of desktop applications. A new version 0.6.1, together with a revamped project web site, was unveiled today: "The CDlinux team is proud to announce the release of CDlinux 0.6.1. This release is a minor bug fix and has some major feature enhancement. It ships with Linux kernel 2.6.24.5, X.Org 7.3, Xfce 4.4.2, Firefox 2.0.0.14, Pidgin 2.4.1, xine 1.1.12, and many other up-to-date popular applications. All these are packed in a 57 MB ISO image. This release fixes a quote bug in rc.modules. It has newly added support for touchpads, LZMA compression, PDF file, and improved support for desktop icons. It also features greatly improved font support for various languages and locales." Visit the distribution's news page to read the release announcement. Download (MD5): CDlinux-0.6.1.iso.gz (58.0MB). |
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| September 2009 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're a online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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