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| 2006-03-28 |
Development Release: Hedinux 2006.1 Alpha 2 |
| A new alpha live CD of Hedinux GNU/Linux, an independently developed distribution optimised for i686 processors, has been released: "Hedinux GNOME live CD 2006.1 alpha2 is out! Major updates: GNOME 2.14; X.Org 6.9.0 with VESA driver by default; updated to kernel 2.6.15.6, Unionfs 1.1.3, SquashFS 3.0; select locale and keyboard at boot; GParted on the live CD; many other packages updates; fixed sshd startup; replaced GNOME icon by Hedinux icon for the GNOME menu; built dvd+rw-tools and added it to k3b dependencies...." Visit the project's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: hedinux-live-gnome-2006.1-alpha2.iso (553MB, MD5). |
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| 2006-02-19 |
Development Release: Hedinux GNU/Linux 2006.1 Alpha |
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| Hedinux (formerly known as Octoz) GNU/Linux is an i686-optimised desktop Linux distribution built from scratch. The first alpha of the new version 2006.1 has been released: "After more than six months of work, we're happy to announce Hedinux 2006.1-alpha. A lot of hard work have been done so far: the distribution was build with the 'Linux From Scratch' book and GCC 4.0.2; the latest stable kernel is available in version 2.6.15.4; performance improvements for the 'hed' package manager and bug fixes; faster boot up; new major packages: CUPS, SSH, Sane...; a simpler GNOME menu; latest versions of desktop environments: GNOME 2.12.3, KDE 3.5.1, XFCE 4.2.3.2, Enlightenment 0.17." More details can be found in the announcement on Hedinux.org. Download (MD5): hedinux-install-cd-2006.1-alpha.iso (603MB) or hedinux-live-2006.1-alpha.iso (621MB). |
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| 2005-09-26 |
Development Release: Hedinux GNU/Linux 0.1 RC1 |
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| Hedinux (formerly Octoz) GNU/Linux is an independently developed desktop distribution with ease-of-use as its prime objective. The project has released its first live and netinstall CD, version 0.1RC1. The release is fairly complete, but certain packages, such as Samba, OpenSSH, CVS and CUPS, have yet to be built. The distribution comes in two editions - a minimalist live CD with the XFce desktop, and a netinstall CD which provides a text-based installer for package installation from a remote FTP/HTTP server. See the release announcement on the distribution's home page (in French) for further details. Download: hedinux-netinstall-0.1rc1.iso (84.4MB, MD5) or hedinux-sweet-0.1rc1.iso (405MB, MD5). The netinstall CD supports English, French and German, while the live CD (user: guest, password: guest) has some support for a number of additional languages. |
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| 2005-02-22 |
Development Release: Octoz Linux 0.2 |
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| Octoz Linux is a French distribution built from scratch and designed to be easy-to-use, especially for Linux beginners and non-technical computer users. The project is still in heavy development, but a new unstable release, version 0.2, is now available for testing. There are no ISO images; to install Octoz Linux you will need to download and launch the Auto Octoz installer from within another Linux distribution. Compared to version 0.1, Octoz Linux now includes a graphical environment with X.Org 6.8.1 and XFce 4.0.6. You can find the release announcement on the distribution's home page (in French) and download links on the downloads page. The Auto Octoz installer can be downloaded from here: auto-octoz_0.2rc1.tgz (55.2kB).
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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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