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Kalango Linux
Kalango Linux was a Brazilian Linux distribution designed for desktop use. It was based on KANOTIX and uses the Debian package management tools.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2019-06-08 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 11.3-BETA3 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the third, and final, beta build of FreeBSD 11.3: "The third BETA build of the 11.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.3-BETA2 includes: support for the IPV6_NEXTHOP option has been restored; warnings for IPsec algorithms deprecated in RFC 8221 have been added; a fix for FC-Tape bugs; a fix in jail_getid(3) for jail(8) ID 0; warnings for weaker geli(4) algorithms have been added; various updates and fixes in libarchive(3); a fix in cxgbe(4) to address a connection hang when running iozone over an NFS-mounted share; a fix to the zfs(8) 'userspace' subcommand where all unresolved UIDs after the first were ignored; an apm(8) fix to correct battery life calculation; the default size of Vagrant images has been increased; reporting on deprecated features for all major FreeBSD versions has been merged. A list of changes since 11.2-RELEASE is available in the stable/11 release notes. Please note, the release notes page is not yet complete and will be updated on an ongoing basis as the 11.3-RELEASE cycle progresses." The release announcement has further information. Download: FreeBSD-11.3-BETA3-amd64-disc1.iso (696MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.3-BETA3-i386-disc1.iso (592MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-06-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Enso OS 0.3.1 |
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Enso OS is a Linux distribution based on Xubuntu. Enso features the Xfce desktop with Gala, imported from elementary OS, as the default window manager. The project's latest release, Enso OS 0.3.1, is based on packages from Ubuntu 18.04 and features improvements to the software manager. "Built on the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, version 18.04 Enso includes all the latest security and system packages from the main Ubuntu dev branch and these packages will be supported by Ubuntu for the next 3 years. The most notable changes for this minor release are within our application management tool (a fork of the elementary project’s brilliant AppCenter). The home page has been adapted have a cleaner look with the category selector moving to a list view on the left-hand side, a few colour changes to the view and the addition of the Games category. Starring of your favourite applications is now possible through the application view, this will allow us to determine which applications are deemed most helpful by our users and will in time be the driving factor of which applications are displayed on the home page, so start starring!" Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: Enso-0.3.1.iso (1,966MB, MD5, pkglist). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2019-06-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Zorin OS 15 |
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The Zorin team have announced a new version of Zorin OS, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a Windows-theme desktop environment. The project's new version, Zorin OS 15, ships with Zorin Connect (based on KDE Connect) for sharing information between devices, improved performance, and scheduled theme changes: "We've designed the desktop to better adapt to the environment around you, so using Zorin OS is more comfortable throughout the day. Zorin Auto Theme is a new feature which automatically switches the desktop theme into Dark mode at sunset and back to light mode after sunrise. You can enable Zorin Auto Theme by opening the Zorin Appearance app and clicking the middle Background option in the newly-redesigned Zorin theme switcher. A new adaptive desktop background option has also been introduced, which automatically changes to match the brightness and colors of the environment at every hour of the day. Night Light is also new to Zorin OS 15, which gradually reduces the amount of blue light emitted by the screen at night. It can be enabled from the Displays panel in the Settings app. Not only do these features reduce eye strain and make it more comfortable to use your computer, they also help maintain your body's natural circadian rhythm, helping you to sleep better and wake up refreshed the next day." Further details and screenshots can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download (MD5): Zorin-OS-15-Core-64-bit.iso (2,167MB, pkglist). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2019-06-05 |
NEW • BSD Release: NetBSD 8.1 |
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NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable UNIX-like open source operating system available for many CPU platforms. The project's latest release is NetBSD 8.1 which provides minor improvements and enhancements over NetBSD 8.0. The project's release announcement reports: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 8.1, the first update of the NetBSD 8 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements. Some highlights of the 8.1 release are: x86: Mitigation for INTEL-SA-00233 (MDS). Various local user kernel data leaks fixed. x86: new rc.conf(5) setting smtoff to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading. Various network driver fixes and improvements. Fixes for thread local storage (TLS) in position independent executables (PIE). Fixes to reproducible builds. Fixed a performance regression in tmpfs. DRM/KMS improvements. bwfm(4) wireless driver for Broadcom FullMAC PCI and USB devices added. Various sh(1) fixes. mfii(4) SAS driver added. dhcpcd(8) updated to 7.2.2. httpd(8) updated." A complete list of changes can be found in NetBSD's changes file. Download (pkglist): NetBSD-8.1-amd64.iso (722MB, SHA512, torrent), NetBSD-8.1-i386.iso (684MB, SHA512, torrent). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2019-06-05 |
NEW • Development Release: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Beta |
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Red Hat has published a development snapshot of the company's updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x series. The new beta, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 Beta, includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, along with fixes for the MDS/ZombieLoad vulnerabilities. "RHEL 7.7 Beta includes a host of enhancements and bug fixes to help deliver a powerful, flexible platform for hybrid cloud computing. Key updates include support for the latest generation of enterprise hardware as well as remediation for the recently-disclosed Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)/ZombieLoad vulnerabilities. The beta release also includes performance enhancements for the network stack, along with the ability to offload virtual switching operations to network interface card (NIC) hardware. The value of these features also improve the operation of Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat OpenShift deployments, both built on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, that use virtual switching and network function virtualization (NFV)." Further details can be found in the company's release announcement and in the release notes. Downloads are available through Red Hat's Customer Portal. |
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| 2019-06-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 29.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 29.0, a new stable version of the project's independently-developed distribution for desktops (32-bit with JWM) and servers (64-bit with a complete LAMP stack). The new version comes with updated Linux kernel version 4.19.41, updated desktop and server packages (LibreOffice 6.2.4, GIMP 2.10.10, DropBox 73.4.118, Firefox 66.0.5, Chromium 74.0.3729.108, MESA 18.3.1, Apache 2.4.39, MariaDB 10.3.14, PHP 7.3.5 and Python 3.7.1), as well as several new features on both desktops and servers. From the release announcement: "The status of the 4MLinux 29.0 series has been changed to 'stable'. As always, the new major release has some new features: Audacious available out of the box, a new desktop sub-menu called 'Office' (with AbiWord, Gnumeric, LazPaint), spellcheck functionality added to Sylpheed and HexChat, improved LibreOffice installation script, better support for MINIX file system (via util-linux and GParted), much improved 3D acceleration in Quake2. And finally, the 4MServer now includes PHP 7.3 with NaCl cryptography support." Download (MD5, pkglist) 4MLinux 29.0 from SourceForge: 4MLinux-29.0-32bit.iso (720MB), 4MServer-29.0-64bit.iso (782MB). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2019-06-02 |
NEW • Development Release: Mageia 7 RC |
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Donald Stewart has announced the availability of the release candidate for Mageia 7, the last test build before the upcoming final release: "The Mageia community is very happy to announce what will hopefully be the last release before Mageia 7 is final. We all hope that this release builds on the quality of the previous beta releases. The release process so far has been smooth so we all hope that there are no new release critical bugs found here and that we can get Mageia 7 out into the wild shortly. Here are a few release highlights and package versions: Linux kernel 5.1.5, RPM 4.14.2, dnf 4.2.6, MESA 19.1, KDE Plasma 5.15.4, GNOME 3.32, Xfce 4.12, Firefox 67, Chromium 73, LibreOffice 6.2.3. Assuming that this release candidate doesn't have any critical bugs, the final release ISO images can be built, targeting final release in roughly a week or two. We hope that the release works well for you, but if there are issues please report them to our Bugzilla." Read the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download (mirrors, pkglist): Mageia-7-rc-Live-Plasma-x86_64.iso (2,886MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-7-rc-Live-GNOME-x86_64.iso (2,574MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-7-rc-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso (2,343MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-7-rc-x86_64.iso (4,239MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). |
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| 2019-06-01 |
NEW • Development Release: FreeBSD 11.3-BETA2 |
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Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second beta build of FreeBSD 11.3: "The second BETA build of the 11.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available. A summary of changes since 11.3-BETA1 includes: the fsck_readdir() and dircheck() functions have been rewritten for clarity and correctness; contrib/zlib has been moved to sys/contrib/zlib so that it can be used in the kernel; the bhyve SMBIOS table has been made topology-aware; accessor function for vm->maxcpus have been added; the bectl(8) jail with numeric boot environment (BE) names has been fixed; OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.0.2s; an update to prevent calling hw_mds_recalculate() from initializecpu(); an upstream LLVM fix has been merged to fix an assertion when building the graphics/mesa-dri port for PowerPC64; a fix to the NDIS driver printing '(null)' when uninitialized when using the '-h' (help) flag; an uart emulation bug has been fixed; increase the VirtIO segment count to support modern Windows guests...." Continue to the release announcement for a full changelog. Download (mirrors): FreeBSD-11.3-BETA2-amd64-dvd1.iso (3,526MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-11.3-BETA2-i386-dvd1.iso (3,214MB, SHA512). |
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| 2019-05-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GParted Live 1.0.0-1 |
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Curtis Gedak has announced the release of GParted Live 1.0.0-1, a milestone release from the project that develops the GParted partition management tool as well as this bootable CD/USB image that also contains various disk management and data rescue utilities. From the release announcement: "The GParted team is pleased to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. This release includes GParted 1.0.0, updated packages and other improvements. Items of note include: includes GParted 1.0.0; port to Gtkmm 3; port to GNOME 3 yelp-tools documentation infrastructure; enable online resizing of extended partitions; add F2FS support for read disk usage, grow and check; fix slow refreshing of NTFS file systems; based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2019-05-30; Linux kernel updated to 4.19.37; the boot menu has been sorted; a menu using large font for console has been added; the menu about local OS booting has been improved; a menu about entering UEFI firmware setup has been added; he info about GParted live has been added to the boot menu; bug fixed - PXE booting with FQDN tftp server name is now working. This release of GParted Live has been successfully tested on VirtualBox, VMware, BIOS, UEFI and physical computers with AMD/ATI, NVIDIA and Intel graphics." Download links (SHA512, signature, pkglist): gparted-live-1.0.0-1-amd64.iso (332MB), gparted-live-1.0.0-1-i686-pae.iso (317MB), gparted-live-1.0.0-1-i686.iso (317MB). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2019-05-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: MX Linux 18.3 |
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An updated build of MX Linux, version 18.3, is out. MX Linux is desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian 9.9 and featuring a customised Xfce desktop. The new version is a minor release, bringing updated MX applications and an improved MX manual: "We are pleased to offer MX Linux 18.3 ISO image for your use. MX 18.3 is a refresh of our MX 18 release, consisting of bug fixes and application updates. Updated packages - the latest updates from Debian 9.9 'Stretch', antiX and MX repositories. New and updated mx-apps: mx-installer (based on gazelle-installer) - the installer workflow has been reworked to allow the user to enter system configuration selections while the major system copy is proceeding, speeding up the actual installation time for the user. This is in addition to the encryption cipher options and select-able ESP install location that were previously added. Improvements to the UEFI boot installation routines have been added as well, along with a ton of of other bug fixes. The kernel has been updated to 4.19.37. So-called 'zombieload' patches are included." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (pkglist): MX-18.3_x64.iso (1,392MB, SHA256, signature), MX-18.3_386.iso (1,405MB, SHA256, signature). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2019-05-27 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 816 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
- News: Void discusses security, Guix publishes path fix, Antergos closes doors, Matthew Miller answers questions about Fedora
- Questions and answers: Setting up a firewall and finding service ports
- Released last week: openSUSE 15.1, Tails 3.14, Kali Linux 2019.2
- Torrent corner: ArchBang, BlackArch, Clonezilla, DragonFly BSD, Guix, Kali, Obarun, openSUSE, OSMC, Septor, SmartOS, Tails, Trident
- Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 11.3-BETA2
- Opinion poll: Do you enable a firewall on your computer?
- New distributions: Adelie Linux, EducatuX, TSURUGI Linux
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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3CX Phone System is a specialist, Debian-based Linux distribution designed to run a complete unified communications platform. The 3CX client, included in the distribution, can also be installed separately on most hardware as well as the cloud. It provides a complete open standards-based IP PBX and phone system that works with popular SIP trunks and IP phones. It will automatically configure all supported peripherals and it also comes with clients for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The ISO image includes a free license for the 3CX PBX edition. The ISO image contains the standard Debian installer which installs a minimal system with the nginx web server, PostgreSQL database, iptables firewall and Secure Shell. Options not relevant to 3CX have been removed from the distribution. Download the installation ISO image from here: debian-9.2.1-amd64-netinst-3cx.iso (324MB). |
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