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| 2009-11-17 |
Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 6.1 |
| Takaaki Tabuchi has announced the release of Momonga Linux 6.1, a Japanese community distribution modelled on Fedora. This is a minor bug-fix and security update to Momonga Linux 6 (released in July), containing minor kernel and application updates, with most of the base system remaining unchanged. Among the updated packages are Linux kernel 2.6.30.9, X.Org Server 1.6.5, KDE 4.3.2, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Firefox 3.5.5, Apache 2.2.14, Postfix 2.6.5, and Emacs 23.1. Some additional packages and hardware devices, such as KDE devinfo, iwl1000 and iwl6000 firmware, LXDE desktop and x3f-tools, were added to the distribution. Users running Momonga 6 can update to the latest version with yum, but upgrades from earlier versions are not supported. See the release announcement and release notes (both links in Japanese) for more information. Download the installation DVD image from here: Momonga-6.1-i686-DVD.iso (4,243MB, SHA256, Momonga-6.1-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,248MB, SHA256). |
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| 2009-07-26 |
Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 6 |
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| Takaaki Tabuchi has announced the release of Momonga Linux 6, a Japanese general-purpose distribution loosely modelled on Fedora. Some of the new features in this release include: Linux kernel 2.6.29 with support for the ext4 file system, KVM virtualisation and improved hardware support; improved boot times due to init script optimisations and adoption of Fedora's Plymouth boot system; introduction of Bash 4.0; GCC 4.3 as the default compiler; RPM package manager version 4.7; adoption of Meguri as the default Japanese font; GNOME 2.26.3, KDE 4.3 RC2 with a compatibility layer for KDE 3 applications; 3D desktop effects with Compiz Fusion 0.8.2; new wide-screen wallpapers; miscellaneous improvements concerning Japanese character input.... Please read the release announcement and release notes (both links in Japanese) for further information. Download: Momonga-6-i686-DVD.iso (4,254MB, MD5), Momonga-6-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,265MB, MD5). |
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| 2008-10-10 |
Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 5 |
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| Masahiro Takahata has announced the release of Momonga Linux 5, a Japanese community distribution (with support for Japanese and English) loosely modelled on Fedora. Some of the main features and changes compared to the project's previous version include: reduced the size of the installation media to one DVD (additional packages can be installed via yum); Linux kernel 2.6.26 with extended hardware support, virtualisation and support for new file systems (btrfs and nilfs, reiser4fs); X.Org 7.4 and Mesa 7.1 with improved graphics card support and Compiz compatibility; replaced SysVInit with Canonical's Upstart for faster booting; switched to the GCC compiler 4.3 series; replaced Sun Java with OpenJDK 1.6; introduced support for virtualisation with OpenVZ and Xen. Read the release announcement and release notes (both links in Japanese) for a detailed introduction to the Momonga project's latest release. Download: Momonga-5-i686-DVD.iso (3,743MB, SHA1), Momonga-5-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,810MB, SHA1). |
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| 2008-10-03 |
Development Release: Momonga Linux 5 RC |
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| Masahiro Takahata has announced the availability of the release candidate for Momonga Linux 5, a Japanese community distribution loosely modelled on Fedora. Some of the main features and changes compared to the project's earlier release include: reduced the size of the installation media to one DVD (additional packages are available on download servers); Linux kernel 2.6.26 with expanded hardware support, virtualisation and support for new file systems (btrfs and nilfs, reiser4fs); X.Org 7.4 and Mesa 7.1 with improved graphics card support and Compiz compatibility; replaced SysVInit with Canonical's Upstart for faster booting; switched to the GCC compiler 4.3 series; replaced Sun Java with OpenJDK 1.6; introduced support for virtualisation with OpenVZ and Xen. For more information please see the release announcement and release notes (both links in Japanese). Download: Momonga-5-RC-i686-DVD.iso (3,743MB, SHA1), Momonga-5-RC-x86_64-DVD.iso (3,810MB, SHA1). |
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| 2008-02-29 |
Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 4.1 |
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| The Momonga Project has announced the release of Momonga Linux 4.1, a Fedora-based distribution made in Japan. This release represents a revision, or a security and bug-fix update, with most of the base system remaining unchanged from version 4. However, the kernel has been updated to version 2.6.23 and so were a few more visible desktop and server applications. Other changes include the addition of Fastladder (an open source edition of the Livedoor RSS Reader), FALF Player (a music player for KDE), Tasty Menu for KDE, Drupal, LZMA compression support and other features. Please read the release announcement (in Japanese) for more details. A variety of CD and DVD images are available for download, including installation and live DVDs with either GNOME or KDE, minimal installation CDs, rescue CDs and VMware images for both the i386 and x86_64 architectures. Quick links to the installation DVDs with GNOME: Momonga-4.1-GNOME-i686.iso (3,361MB, SHA1), Momonga-4.1-GNOME-x86_64.iso (3,364MB, SHA1). |
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| 2007-08-19 |
Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 4 |
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| The Momonga Linux development team has announced the release of Momonga Linux 4, a Japanese community distribution loosely modelled after the Fedora project. Code named "Izumi", the new version is the first Momonga release to introduce DVD spins with either the GNOME or the KDE desktop, as well as a minimal installation CD and a 2-DVD "Everything" set. New features of Momonga Linux 4 include: ability to create custom live and installation CDs with livecd-tool and Pungi; OpenVZ kernel for server virtualisation; Linux kernel 2.6.21, X.Org 7.3, GNOME 2.18.3, KDE 3.5.7, Compiz-Fusion 0.5.2; up-to-date Japanese language support and software localisation. Please read the release announcement and release notes (both links in Japanese) for further details. Download: Momonga-4-everything-i686-disc1.iso (3,961MB, SHA1), Momonga-4-everything-x86_64-disc1.iso (3,964MB, SHA1). |
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| 2007-08-11 |
Development Release: Momonga Linux 4 RC1 |
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| Momonga Linux is a Japanese community distribution loosely derived from Fedora. The developers have just announced the first release candidate of the upcoming version 4; some of the changes since beta 2 include: bug-fix updates to the RPM package management software and the Anaconda installer; security fixes to Firefox and Thunderbird; updates to release notes; bug-fix updates to a number of packages and/or their configuration files, including X.Org drivers, SELinux policy and Compiz plugin. The release is built on top of kernel 2.6.21 with X.Org 7.2, GNOME 2.18, KDE 3.5.7, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 and the usual range of open source software. Please read the full release announcement (in Japanese) for further details. Momonga 4 RC1 is available (SHA1) either as a minimal installation CD or a range of installation DVDs (with GNOME, KDE or "everything") : Momonga-4-rc1-everything-i686-disc1.iso (3,952MB), Momonga-4-rc1-everything-x86_64-disc1.iso (3,962MB). |
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| 2006-08-14 |
Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 3 |
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| Masaru Sanuki has announced the release of Momonga Linux 3, a complete Japanese community distribution loosely modelled on Fedora Core. Code named "Mikuru", the project's newest release is now available for both the i386 and x86_64 architectures. The most important new features include: kernel 2.6.17; GCC 4.1.1 with Stack Smashing Protector; glibc 2.4 with NPTL; GNOME 2.14.2 and KDE 3.5.4; introduction of yum; increased compatibility with Fedora Core 5; adoption of OpenPrinting standards; Sun Java 1.5; Xen virtualisation; SATA support; Ruby on Rails. Please see the release announcement (in Japanese) for a detailed list of new features. Download: MomongaLinux3-i686-dvd.iso (3,664MB, SHA1) or MomongaLinux3-x86_64-dvd.iso (3,743MB, SHA1). |
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| 2005-04-24 |
Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 2 |
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| The second release of Momonga Linux is out: "We are pleased to release 'Asuna', Momonga Linux 2." Some of the more interesting features include the following: "Architecture: i686. 'Asuna' supports Reiser4 experimentally, in addition to ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS; please note that a separate partition for /boot is needed to have Reiser4 for your root filesystem. Integrated package management systems: supports yum and mph. Desktop environments: GNOME 2.8.2, KDE 3.4.0, and XFce 4.2.1.1. CUPS printing system, Apache 2.0.54, security considerations, SELinux, kernel 2.6.10, installation from CD/DVD or FTP/HTTP...." More details can be found in the release announcement. Download the DVD ISO image from here: MomongaLinux2-i686-dvd.iso (2,640MB). |
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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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