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| 2007-11-19 |
Distribution Release: Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U6 |
| Nigel Jewell has announced the release of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U6, a UK-based commercial distribution built from source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "Update 6 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements: new kernel features including ability to disable out-of-memory killer; driver updates and additions; Samba upgrade to 3.0.25; updates to LVM, NFS performance metrics, diskdump support, GDM, ALSA, WPA Supplicant driver, PAM module, Microcode, automounter; technology previes including Autofs, Evolution 2.8, Frysk, GCC 4. Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 is aimed at people who need a stable OS with a long lifespan but don't want an expensive bundled support contract. Features of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 include the Linux 2.6 kernel, SELinux, GNOME 2.8...." Find more information in the release announcement. Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U6 is available for purchase and immediate download from the distribution's online store (£20). |
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| 2007-05-20 |
Distribution Release: Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U5 |
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| PixExcel Limited has announced the release of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5, a UK-based commercial distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: "Update 5 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements: new kernel features including paravirtualised kernel for i686, updated kernel support for Infiniband, NFS performance metrics, EDAC for Opteron, diskdump support for sata_nv & ibmvscsi drivers; additional platform support for Intel ICH9 chipset, PCIe power management quirk, AMD quad-core systems; security updates, bug fixes and feature enhancements to numerous system packages; technology preview release of OpenOffice.org 2.0...." Read the full release announcement for further information. Pie Box Enterprise Linux is available for immediate purchase and download; please consult the project's home page for details. |
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| 2006-08-15 |
Distribution Release: Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U4 |
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| The UK-based Pie Box Enterprise Linux has released a new update to their Red Hat-based commercial distribution: "Update 4 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements: new kernel features including Device Mapper mirroring support, IDE disk dump support and Vmalloc support >64MB; enhanced kernel features including multi-core scheduler support and performance and power enhancements for Intel's Core2 Duo and Xeon 5100 series processors; source re-base to Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5, OpenOffice.org 1.1.5...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. The latest version of Pie Box Enterprise Linux is available from the company's online store. |
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| 2006-03-10 |
Distribution Release: Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U3 |
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| The third update of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 has been released: "Update 3 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements: enhanced security including execshield updates, use of GCC FORTIFY_SOURCE build option in some package updates, SELinux policy updates, updated kernel key management support; enhanced system tools including SystemTap dynamic system instrumentation tool...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. The latest release of Pie Box Enterprise Linux, a distribution created by recompiling source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is available from the distribution's online store (from £19.99). |
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| 2005-10-13 |
Distribution Releases: Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 AS U6, 4 AS U2 |
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| Pie Box Enterprise Linux is a distribution rebuilt from Red Hat's source packages. Following recent upstream updates, the Piebox developers have also released updated versions of their two supported products. Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 AS U6: "Update 6 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements: improved support for dual-core processors; kernel and user support for 2 TB partitions on block devices...." Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U2: "Update 2 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements: improved support for dual-core processors; improved Logical Volume Management administration tool...." Both products are available for purchase from the company's online store. |
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| 2005-06-14 |
Distribution Release: Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS U1 |
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| Update 1 of Pie Box Enterprise 4 AS has been released: "Update 1 of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 was made available today. This update includes the following enhancements: improved disk dump capability (including SATA and megaraid support); updated Intel Centrino ipw2100/ipw2200 wireless drivers and firmware; driver updates; many platform hardware support updates and bug fixes; security updates, bug fixes, and feature enhancements to numerous system packages. Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 is aimed at people who need a stable OS with a long lifespan but don't want an expensive bundled support contract. It is built from the source RPMs of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS with only four packages modified in order to remove Red Hat's trademarks." Here is the full release announcement. Pie Box Enterprise Linux can be purchased from the company's online store (from £19.99). |
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| 2005-02-28 |
Distribution Release: Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS |
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| Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS has been released: "PixExcel today released version 4 of its Pie Box Enterprise Linux product. Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS is built from the source RPMs of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS. The only packages modified are 'redhat-logos', 'redhat-artwork', 'anaconda-product' and 'firstboot'. These packages are changed in order to remove Red Hat's trademarks from all artwork and to skip the RHN registration step immediately after installation. All other packages remain unchanged from those released by Red Hat and there are no packages added or removed. This results in a product that is fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Features of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 4 AS include the Linux 2.6 kernel, SELinux, GNOME 2.8, Samba 3.0, Logical Volume Manager 2, PCI Express support and NFSv.4." The press release. Pie Box Enterprise Linux can be purchased from the distribution's online store (starting at £19.99).
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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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