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Oralux
Oralux was a GNU/Linux distribution for the blind or visually impaired people. It eases a fast access to GNU/Linux. This distribution doesn't require any installation since it runs from the CD-ROM. The audio desktop replaces a graphical user interface.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2020-10-19 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Trisquel GNU/Linux 9.0 |
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Trisquel GNU/Linux is a fully free operating system from the Ubuntu family. The project has, after a long development cycle, released version 9.0 with long-term support (LTS). "They say that good things come to those who wait, and for this release there has been a lot of waiting but also plenty of good things. Trisquel 9.0, codename "Etiona" is our most polished release yet, thanks to the contribution of a very committed team of volunteers. This release comes in several flavors: MATE desktop, the default. Based on the popular fork of GNOME 2.x, this edition provides a classic desktop environment matching the user experience of previous Trisquel releases. Trisquel Mini, a lightweight version for older machines and netbooks. Based on the LXDE desktop environment and a selection of resource-saving applications to bring new life to your hardware. Triskel, running the KDE environment. Excellent for customizing the design and look in fine detail. Trisquel netinstall image. To deploy with a command-line install interface, ideal for servers and advanced users. Trisquel TOAST, based on the Sugar learning platform. Comes with dozens of educational activities for children." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): trisquel_9.0_amd64.iso (2,509MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), trisquel-mini_9.0_amd64.iso (1,208MB, SHA256, signature, torrent) |
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| 2020-10-19 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 888 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Tails 4.11
- News: UBports improves installer, IPFire explains location lookups
- Questions and answers: Detecting and dealing with rootkits
- Released last week: Porteus Kiosk 5.1.0, Parted Magic 2020_10_12, OpenBSD 6.8
- Torrent corner: antiX, CloudReady, KDE neon, PCLinuxOS, Porteus Kiosk, Redo Rescue, Rescuezilla, Ultimate Edition, Untangle
- Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 20.10, Tails 4.12
- Opinion poll: Checking for rootkits
- New distributions: AllegianceOS
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2020-10-18 |
NEW • BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.8 |
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The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform UNIX-like operating system. Its efforts emphasize portability, standardisation, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project's latest release, OpenBSD 6.8, introduces support for the powerpc64 CPU architecture, improves the speed of time-related operations, and offers several fixes. "New/extended platforms: New powerpc64 platform, supporting PowerNV (non-virtualized) systems with POWER8 and POWER9 CPUs, such as Raptor Computing Systems Talos II and Blackbird systems. POWER8 support has not been tested on real hardware yet. Improvements to time measurements, mostly in the kernel: Added support in the kernel and libc for timecounting in userland, eliminating the need for a context switch everytime a process requests the current time, thereby improving speed and responsiveness in programs which make many gettimeofday(2) calls, especially browsers and office software. The userland timecounters are enabled on the amd64, arm64, macppc, octeon and sparc64 architectures." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): amd64/install68.iso (511MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install68.iso (399MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2020-10-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Linux Kodachi 7.3 |
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Warith Al Maawali has announced the release of Linux Kodachi 7.3, the latest stable build of the project's privacy-focused Linux distribution (with VPN, Tor and DNSCrypt) based on Xubuntu and featuring a highly customised Xfce desktop. Besides fixing some reported bugs, this release also upgrades the Linux kernel to version 5.8, upgrades the underlying system to Xubuntu 18.04.5 and updates Tor and LibreOffice (version 7.0.2rc2). From the changelog: "Linux kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.8; full system update from Xubuntu 18.04 to Xubuntu 18.04.5 LTS; added Demonsaw (an encrypted communications platform for chatting, messaging and transferring files without fear of data collection or surveillance); fixed Tor browser issue; fixed SSH key generation; Conky performance fixed; menu bug fixed; VPN configuration files updated; MyMonero, Electron, Wire, Xnview, Veracrypt, Session messenger and full system update done; replaced Nano with Ublock Origin on browsers; removed online installer as it caused issues when live image is too old." Download: kodachi-7.3-64.iso (3,111MB, SHA512, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2020-10-17 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 12.2-RC3 |
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The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is on target for the October 27 release of FreeBSD 12.2, with the third (and likely final) release candidate now ready for testing: "The third RC build of the 12.2-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 12.2-RC2 includes: report what console the boot loader is telling the kernel to use and allow toggling between them; allow slow USB devices to be given more time to return their USB descriptors; allow using zstd and encryption in the loader." The release notes are also getting populated with the usual information, including the list of software upgrades: "The tcsh(1) utility has been updated to version 6.21.00; the less(1) utility has been updated to version v551; the libbsdxml(3) library has been updated to version 2.2.9; the resolvconf(8) utility has been updated to version 3.9.2; the pcap(3) library has been updated to version 1.9.1; the tcpdump(1) utility has been updated to version 4.9.3...." Here are the quick download links to the "disc1" images for amd64 and i383 architectures: Download links: FreeBSD-12.2-RC3-amd64-disc1.iso (920MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.2-RC3-i386-disc1.iso (762MB, SHA512). |
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| 2020-10-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: antiX 19.3 |
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antiX, a lightweight, desktop Linux distribution featuring IceWM as the default window manager, has been upgraded to version 19.3. It comes in the usual range of variants (net, core, base and full), supporting both SysV and Runit init systems: "All new ISO images are bug-fix and upgrade improvements of antiX 19 SysV and Runit series. antiX 19.3 'Manolis Glezos' is based on Debian 10 'Buster' and is fully systemd-free. The 32-bit editions use a non-pae kernel. This series has put on some weight mainly due to the kernel supporting old and new hardware and the inclusion of more firmware (full, base and core editions). Changes: antiX WiFi switch - tool to choose which WiFi manager to use, default is ConnMan, Ceni available; improved and updated localisation; mps-youtube includes another fix for apt_key bug; a newer 4.9.235 Linux kernel; Firefox 78.3.0esr; LibreOffice 7.0.2; IceWM upgraded to latest upstream version (1.8.3); latest firmware backported from Debian 'sid'...." See the release announcement for further information. Download (pkglist): antiX-19.3_x64-full.iso (1,192MB, SHA256, signature), antiX-19.3_386-full.iso (1,198MB, SHA256, signature), antiX-19.3-runit_x64-full.iso (1,192MB, SHA256, signature), antiX-19.3-runit_386-full.iso (1,196MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2020-10-16 |
NEW • Development Release: NuTyX 12 Beta 4 |
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NuTyX is a French Linux distribution (with multi-language support) built from Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch, with a custom package manager called "cards". The distribution has published a development release, NuTyX 12 Beta 4, which includes support for multiple init implementations. "With the up and coming release of the new NuTyX version. There has been a major development in the init system. RuNyX, SysV or systemd as init system: NuTyX now comes with 3 init systems rolled into 1. So what that means is, the user can choose which init they wish to use, SysV, SystemD, or RuNyX (runit fork). This makes for a wider User choice. The main base init will always be SysV. This means that RuNyX and systemd packages can always be removed. This also means that the Sysinit package must remain install in all cases, as it is used by all 3 inits modes. You have a choice at boot time on the conventional GRUB menu. In the newest release, base NuTyX comes with the Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel 4.19.151 and the latest stable 5.9." Additional information can be found on the project's news page. Download (MD5) (pkglist): NuTyX_x86_64-12-beta4.iso (516MB), NuTyX_x86_64-12-beta4-XFCE.iso (964MB), NuTyX_x86_64-12-beta4-MATE.iso (1,200MB). |
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| 2020-10-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Redo Rescue 3.0.0 |
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Zebradots Software has announced the release of Redo Rescue 3.0.0, a major new build of the project's specialist distribution designed for bare metal backups and system restoration tasks. This version upgrades the underlying operating system to Debian 10: "This release marks a major milestone as we upgrade to the Debian 10 base system for ISO images. This means expanded hardware support, UEFI images with Secure Boot, more recent binaries for Partclone and all other included tools. Non-free linux firmware is not enabled by default, but the option to add it can be changed in the make file. Changes in this release are limited only to upgrading the base operating system. As of this release, the application itself remains identical to the 2.0.7 release. The 2.0.x series based on Debian 9 will continue to exist as a stable release, but will not receive future updates (unless a major bug is discovered). Other changes: beautiful new GRUB-based bootloader theme with dynamic screen layout; language selection menu for future multiple language support; no application changes; release is strictly to upgrade base system. Here is the complete release announcement as published on the project's GitHub page. Download: redorescue-3.0.0.iso (474MB). |
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| 2020-10-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.0 |
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Shasheen Ediriweera has announced the release of Rescuezilla 2.0, a major new version of the fork of the "Redo Backup & Restore" distribution. This is the first 64-bit only release: "Rescuezilla 2.0 is a major upgrade. Key changes: switched to creating backups in Clonezilla format for full interoperability with Clonezilla - Rescuezilla is now a drop-in replacement to Clonezilla; backups created using Clonezilla can be restored using Rescuezilla and vice versa; warning - backups created with Rescuezilla 2.0 cannot be restored using earlier versions of Rescuezilla; backups created with older versions of Rescuezilla can still of course be restored with 2.0; added ability to restore individual partitions and optionally to not overwrite partition table; rewrote the Rescuezilla frontend in the Python 3 programming language; added backup/restore confirmation and summary pages, back button; improved exit code handling and error messages, image selection; disabled Linux time sync to prevent hardware clock modification; Added the ability to backup and restore software RAID (md) devices.... Read the full changelog for further information. Download: rescuezilla-2.0-64bit.iso (771MB). |
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| 2020-10-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Untangle NG Firewall 16.0.1 |
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Untangle, Inc. has announced the release of Untangle NG Firewall 16.0.1, a major new update of the company's Debian-based firewall and network gateway designed for small to medium-sized enterprises. Besides an upgrade of the base system to Debian 10, the main new feature of the release is the addition of WireGuard VPN: "Untangle, Inc., today announced the latest release of its award-winning flagship product, NG Firewall. NG Firewall 16.0 includes significant updates including the addition of WireGuard VPN which allows for VPN options to fit any type of networking deployment and administrative preferences, better addressing any organization's critical VPN connectivity needs. In today's world of increased remote work, VPN technology is being heavily relied upon to help users and businesses connect safely to a network. In fact, a recent SMB security survey reveals that SMBs rank firewalls (82%) and VPN technologies (47%) as the most important features when considering which IT security solutions to purchase." See the company's full press release for further details. Download (pkglist): ngfw-untangle-16.0.1-amd64.iso (764MB). |
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| 2020-10-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parted Magic 2020_10_12 |
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Parted Magic, a live disc utility for managing disks and partitions as well as rescuing data has released a new version which introduces two major changes. The first is the graphical interface has migrated from Openbox to Xfce and the second is Parted Magic is now a 64-bit distribution. "Desktop is now Xfce and you can configure the crap of it now with GUIs and use the save session. The NVIDIA drivers are used by default. This was a big gain moving to 64-bit. Lots of program requests that were not possible or problematic because of the 32-bit system are now included. LibreOffice, Wireshark, Keepassxc, VLC, etc. This should put a smile on a lot of faces: international language support and man pages have returned. All languages supported by Linux should be available. Not a cherry picking of a few European countries. Ibus is also included. You'll see the new entry in the boot menu to get this going. The downside: the ISO is now 1.5GB. I found some old laptops and tested the bigger Parted Magic. The one with 2GB of RAM worked just fine in live mode. Another one with 4GB ran just fine from RAM. Even the cheapest computers made in the last 10 years can still run this." Further information can be found on the project's news page. The new version of Parted Magic can be purchased and downloaded from the distribution's online store. |
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| 2020-10-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Porteus Kiosk 5.1.0 |
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Tomasz Jokiel has announced the release of Porteus Kiosk 5.1.0, a single-purpose, Gentoo-based Linux distribution designed for web kiosks and limited to web browsing with Firefox or Google Chrome: "I am pleased to announce that Porteus Kiosk 5.1.0 is now available for download. Major software upgrades in this release include: Linux kernel 5.4.70, Google Chrome 85.1.4183.121 and Mozilla Firefox 78.3.1 ESR. Packages from the userland are upgraded to portage snapshot tagged on 20201004. Short changelog for 5.1.0 release: silent printing feature is available again for the Firefox browser after Mozilla developers fixed the bug which we have reported to them; it's possible to wipe the guest's home folder from the persistent partition using the 'persistence=wipe' parameter in remote kiosk config; enabled microphone and webcam redirection for the Citrix Workspace sessions by default; disabled 'irc://' and 'ircs://' handlers for the Firefox browser which in certain circumstances could allow an attacker to unlock default browser profile and run other applications in kiosk...." Continue to the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5, pkglist): Porteus-Kiosk-5.1.0-x86_64.iso (111MB), Porteus-Kiosk-Cloud-5.1.0-x86_64.iso (111MB), Porteus-Kiosk-ThinClient-5.1.0-x86_64.iso (135MB), Porteus-Kiosk-Server-5.1.0-x86_64.iso (112MB). |
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