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Neat-GNU/Linux was going to be like any other GNU/Linux distribution with a couple of differences, the most notable was the installation procedure, but also by keeping the number of packages at a minimum, hence the name; Neat. The installation was not done by copying precompiled packages but by actually compiling packages from source and then install them to the system. By making the list of software as small as possible we hope to create a system that was easy to maintain, that requires little space on the hard drive(s) but at the same time was fully functional. We will also try to include configuration scripts for some administrative tasks, like setting up the network, to make it easier to administrate. Update: As of December 2002, the Neat GNU/Linux distribution was no longer available.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2024-07-20 |
NEW • Distribution Release: OpenMandriva 24.07 "ROME" |
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The OpenMandriva project has released a new snapshot of the project's rolling "ROME" branch. The new snapshot, version 24.07, migrates the Plasma desktop to version 6 and updates LXQt to version 2.0.0. "Switch to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop by default. Spins featuring LXQt (2.0.0 Qt 6) and GNOME (46.3). Also provided is a ROME Plasma 6 Wayland ISO, however we believe Wayland still not to be mature enough to replace X11 by default for most users. Please note the Wayland ISO in VirtualBox almost always will boot to a black screen and will not work. It works fine on most hardware and in QEMU with KVM. In addition to the normal wine Windows emulator, proton and proton-experimental - variants of wine that are typically used to run Windows games inside Steam - are now available as OpenMandriva packages. For the first time, this makes Proton available outside of Steam, without the need to install any non-free code." Additional information can be found in the release announcement and in the release notes. Download (MD5, pkglist): openmandriva.rome-24.07-plasma6.x11.x86_64.iso (2,927MB), openmandriva.rome-24.07-lxqt.x86_64.iso (2,050MB), openmandriva.rome-24.07-gnome.x86_64.iso (2,934MB). |
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| 2024-07-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Nobara Project 40 |
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Nobara Project is a modified version of Fedora Linux with user-friendly fixes added to it. The distribution's latest release, version 40, includes KDE Plasma 6.1.1, GNOME 45, and several updates to package management. "The 'Update System' app has been completely remade into a Python GUI application, no more monolithic Bash script. The 'Update System' app has been better integrated with Nobara package manager (yumex-ng) and now provides a service which runs as a system tray app for receiving update notifications. The system tray app is fully configurable within Nobara Package Manager's settings and includes options to hide the icon completely or change it’s update check interval timer. Nobara Package Manager can now fully search, install, and remove Flatpaks in a user-friendly way on the GUI, obsoleting the need for kde-discover or gnome-software. The PackageKit plugin for KDE discover has been removed so that it does not manage system packages. KDE Discover does not come with the Nobara Official release, however it is still provided on the KDE release. If users intend to used KDE Discover we want them to use it for Flatpaks only." Additional information is provided in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): Nobara-40-Official-2024-07-17.iso (3,946MB, SHA256), Nobara-40-GNOME-2024-07-17.iso (3,441MB, SHA256), Nobara-40-KDE-2024-07-17.iso (3,790MB, SHA256). |
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| 2024-07-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: RELIANOID 7.3 |
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The RELIANOID project develops a Debian-based load balancing platform. The project's latest release, version 7.3, is based on Debian 12.6 and introduces a number of fixes and improvements. The project's release notes read: "Improvements: Update to Debian 12.6. Angular libraries and components update. Translation improvements. Refactoring API to avoid source code duplication. Switch services to systemd. Advanced best QA practices applied. Seamless upgrade from CEv7 to EEv8. Improve memory usage downloading large backups. Bug fixes: Network stats not shown in the dashboard. Fix show real memory usage. The update to Debian 12.6 includes the latest security patches and critical fixes, providing a solid and secure foundation for the load balancer. Users will also benefit from an upgraded GUI, featuring the latest Angular libraries and components, which enhance the user interface’s responsiveness and modernity. Additionally, translation improvements have been made to better support our international user base." Download: relianoid_community_adc_installer_v7.3_amd64.iso (678MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2024-07-15 |
NEW • BSD Release: NomadBSD 141R |
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NomadBSD is a live desktop system for USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. The project has published a new update, NomadBSD 141R, which brings the base system up to date with FreeBSD 14.1. The release announcement shares the highlights: "NomadBSD 141R-20240711 is now available. Changes since 140R-20240126: the base system has been changed to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p2; a hard link creation bug concerning Unionfs has been fixed; a calculation bug which led to an overfull UFS root partition has been fixed; fhe Fusefs module has been changed to reduce (and hopefully eliminate) timeout errors on Unionfs; the NomadBSD tools have been ported from Qt 5 to Qt 6; several small improvements and bug fixes. The images for 64-bit and 32-bit computers fit on a larger than 5 GB USB flash drive. A system with a 1.2 GHz CPU and 1 GB of RAM (2 GB for the ZFS variant) should be able to run NomadBSD decently. Booting is possible via BIOS and UEFI." NomadBSD is available in UFS and ZFS flavours for multiple architectures. Download (pkglist): nomadbsd-141R-20240711.amd64.ufs.img.lzma (2,517MB, SHA256), nomadbsd-141R-20240711.amd64.zfs.img.lzma (2,636MB, SHA256). |
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| 2024-07-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Qubes OS 4.2.2 |
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The Qubes OS team have announced a new update to the project's security-focused operating system. One of the significant changes in Qubes OS 4.2.2 is an adjustment to how files are transferreed between isolated envirnonments, called qubes. "Qubes 4.2.2 includes a fix for #8332: File-copy qrexec service is overly restrictive. As explained in the issue comments, we introduced a change in Qubes 4.2.0 that caused inter-qube file-copy/move actions to reject filenames containing, e.g., non-Latin characters and certain symbols. The rationale for this change was to mitigate the security risks associated with unusual unicode characters and invalid encoding in filenames, which some software might handle in an unsafe manner and which might cause confusion for users. Such a change represents a trade-off between security and usability. After the change went live, we received several user reports indicating more severe usability problems than we had anticipated. Moreover, these problems were prompting users to resort to dangerous workarounds (such as packing files into an archive format prior to copying) that carry far more risk than the original risk posed by the unrestricted filenames. In addition, we realized that this was a backward-incompatible change that should not have been introduced in a minor release in the first place. Therefore, we have decided, for the time being, to restore the original (pre-4.2) behavior by introducing a new allow-all-names argument for the qubes.Filecopy service. By default, qvm-copy and similar tools will use this less restrictive service (qubes.Filecopy +allow-all-names) whenever they detect any files that would be have been blocked by the more restrictive service (qubes.Filecopy +). If no such files are detected, they will use the more restrictive service." Additional information is available in the release announcement. Download: Qubes-R4.2.2-x86_64.iso (6,577MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2024-07-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: TrueNAS 24.04.1.1 "SCALE" |
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TrueNAS is a project which develops network attached storage operating systems. SCALE is the Debian-based branch of the project. TrueNAS SCALE recently received an update which significantly improves input/output performance. "After a successful release and the fastest adoption of software in TrueNAS history, TrueNAS SCALE 24.04 'Dragonfish' has its first update today. The performance being achieved is significantly beyond TrueNAS 13.0 and Cobia. Dragonfish benefits from OpenZFS, Linux, SAMBA improvements, and some TrueNAS optimizations. The performance changes may not be obvious for smaller systems, but larger systems need software performance that scales with core and drive count. Dragonfish has significant improvements in IOPS (virtualization and databases), bandwidth (video and backup), and File Metadata (directory listings). 50% more IOPS: IOPS (Input/Outputs Per Second) is a classic storage metric for transactional workloads like virtual desktops and databases. On the same platform and pool configuration (a TrueNAS M50 with 20 SSDs in 4x 5wZ1) we see 50% higher IOPS with Dragonfish when compared to TrueNAS 13.0." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: TrueNAS-SCALE-24.04.1.1.iso (1,553MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2024-07-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 3.1.3-11 |
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Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based distribution used for disk and partition cloning. The project's latest release, version 3.1.3-11, introduces updated hardware support and brings Clonezilla Live more in line with Debian's Unstable (Sid) repositories. "This release of Clonezilla live, 3.1.3-11, includes major enhancements and bug fixes. Enhancements and changes from 3.1.2-22: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system has been upgraded, this release is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2024-06-28; Linux kernel has been updated to 6.9.7; Partclone has been updated to 0.3.31; removed the cpufrequtils package from lists of live system, it's not in the Debian repository any more; removed thin-provisioning-tools from packages list of Clonezilla Live due to it breaking a dependence; added the yq package and removed the deborphan package in the live system; merged pull request 31 from iamzhaohongxin/patch-1; update zh_CN.UTF-8; the ca_ES and de_DE language files have been updated; the live-boot package has been updated to 20240525; the live-config package has been updated to 11.0.5; set a bigger scrollback for screen in live system, it's easier to debug." Additional information can be found in the release announcement. Download (SHA512, signature, pkglist): clonezilla-live-3.1.3-11-amd64.iso (436MB), clonezilla-live-3.1.3-11-i686.iso (376MB), clonezilla-live-3.1.3-11-i686-pae.iso (377MB). |
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| 2024-07-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: NethSecurity 8.1 |
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NethSecurity is a fully-featured open source Linux firewall that streamlines network security deployment in just a few clicks. The project has published a new update to its 8.x series which introduces a connection tracking interface and a user account manager in the web-based interface. "New features: Connections management page: adds interface for managing active network connections tracked by conntrack. MultiWAN add sticky option in rules: introduces sticky option in MultiWAN rules for connection persistence. Great enhancements on LDAP remote database authentication: improves authentication flexibility for Active Directories and other LDAP configurations. DPI signatures for community subscriptions: provides updated DPI signatures for both community and enterprise subscriptions. Expose admin users: adds functionality to convert local users to admin and revoke admin access. Repository access add a subscription authentication proxy: enables access to subscription repository channel after system_key verification." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: nethsecurity-8-23.05.3-ns.1.1.0-x86-64-generic-squashfs-combined-efi.img.gz (52MB, SHA256). |
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| 2024-07-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Finnix 126 |
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Ryan Finnie has announced the release of Finnix 126, a new version of the project's small Debian-based live Linux distribution designed for system administrators: "Today marks the release of Finnix 126, the original utility live Linux distribution. Finnix 126 includes a number of fixes, new packages and new features: Linux kernel 6.8 (Debian 6.8.12); new packages - libc6-i386 (finnix/finnix#35; not directly usable but allows for running certain i386 binaries in Finnix's amd64 userland); added 0 kernel command line option which does the same as the 0 (locale-config) utility, but during early boot and before shell prompts; upstream Debian package updates; many minor fixes and improvements. This is the first Finnix release to contain additional 'supply chain' assurances. The release was built on a public CI platform (GitHub Actions), with the ISO (.disk/build_info) pointing to the URL of the build run which lists a SHA256 checksum of the ISO and links to the exact commit used to build it. Additionally, the build provides an attestation of the build artifacts through GitHub's new attestation functionality. Note that this release was made a few days after the OpenSSH CVE-2024-6387 vulnerability announcement, and to be clear, Finnix 126 does include a fixed version (Debian 9.7p1-7)." Read the release announcement for more information. Download (SHA256): finnix-126.iso (499MB, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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