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Webconverger is a live, Debian-based web kiosk. It is designed for deployments in places like offices or Internet cafés where only web applications are used. Webconverger maintains a proprietary fault tolerant configuration service with email support to help deploy Webconverger en masse. The service is optional.
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| 2021-05-10 |
NEW • BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 6.0.0 |
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Justin Sherrill has announced the release of a new version of DragonFly BSD. The latest version, DragonFly BSD 6.0.0, focuses on filesystem improvements, including work done to the advanced HAMMER2 filesystem. "DragonFly version 6.0 is the next step from the 5.8 release series in 2020. This version has a revamped VFS caching system, various filesystem updates including HAMMER2, and a long list of userland updates. The details of all commits between the 5.8 and 6.0 branches are available in the associated commit messages for 6.0.0rc1 and 6.0.0. Big-ticket items: Significant work on dsynth, for building packages. Many updates of contrib system software. HAMMER2 work continues, with updates from Tomohiro Kusumi. Major VM work for extent-based representation. Due to major changes to the VM system we had to remove the MAP_VPAGETABLE mmap() feature, and this also means that vkernels will not be supported in this release. Support may be re-added at a later time via HVM (but not in this release)." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: dfly-x86_64-6.0.0_REL.iso.bz2 (254MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2021-05-10 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 916 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: JingOS 0.8 and Tribblix
- News: Fedora introduces i3 spin, pfSense provides WireGuard packages, FreeBSD improves wireless support
- Questions and answers: Installing third-party software on distributions
- Released last week: GParted Live 1.3.0-1
- Torrent corner: Bluestar, GParted Live, IPFire, KDE neon, Mabox, Manjaro, Plamo, SalientOS, SparkyLinux, SystemRescue
- Opinion poll: Methods for installing third party software
- New distributions: VzLinux
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2021-05-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GParted Live 1.3.0-1 |
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GParted Live is a business card-size live CD distribution with a single purpose - to provide tools for partitioning hard disks in an intuitive, graphical environment. The project's latest release, GParted Live 1.3.0-1, improves exFAT filesystem support, makes it possible to resize LUKS2 encrypted volumes, and fixes a number of potential crashes. "This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates. Key changes include: Support resizing open LUKS2 encryption mappings; improve exFAT support such as read FS usage and set UUID; fix crash in Create New Partition dialog when changing type; avoid GParted hanging when non-named device is hung. Bug Fixes: Stop GParted hanging when non-named device is hung; avoid detecting exfat-utils commands as exfatprogs commands; Add support for reading exFAT usage and updating the UUID; fix minor typos in docs (!68) and comments; add Ukrainian translation of docs; fix test suite failing in test_PipeCapture." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: gparted-live-1.3.0-1-amd64.iso (390MB, SHA512, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2021-05-03 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 915 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Ubuntu 21.04
- News: Alpine considers own service manager, Fedora provides Silverblue upgrade instructions, Lubuntu 18.04 nears end of life, Mint changes Hypnotix provider and is included in Shells.com, Linus Torvalds discusses 30 years of Linux
- Questions and answers: The new Arch Linux system installer
- Released last week: Fedora 34, Calculate Linux 21, KaOS 2021.04
- Torrent corner: Artix, Calculate, Fedora, GhostBSD, KaOS, KDE neon, MakuluLinux, OpenBSD, OpenIndiana, Proxmox, Voyager Live
- Opinion poll: Have you tried Arch Linux's system installer?
- New additions: Rocky Linux
- New distributions: Archcraft, Neurolinux
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2021-05-01 |
NEW • OS Release: OpenIndiana 2021.04 |
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OpenIndiana is a continuation of the OpenSolaris operating system. The project's latest release is 2021.04 which includes updates for key desktop applications, development tools, and hardware drivers. "We have updated firefox and Thunderbird to newer ESR versions (78.10.0 resp. 78.9.1). This was overdue and has been requested by many users. Finally we have more than one NVIDIA driver version available with nvidia-390.141 being the default. Changing the driver to another version is documented. At the moment we have the following versions in our repository: nvidia-460.67, nvidia-390.141, nvidia-340.108. Our gcc-7, gcc-8, gcc-9, and gcc-10 compilers have been patched to use the illumos libc SSP implementation for -fstack-protector. We have added openssl-1.1.1 and many packages have been updated to make use of the newer and supported version of openssl. Alas this process isn't finished yet as many packages don't use it out-of-the box and a few even don't work with its new interface. Work has been started to update our Python versions and the related packages. As a consequence we now have python-37 and python-39 packages. This is also an ongoing process that hasn't been finished yet." Further information is provided in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): OI-hipster-gui-20210430.iso (1,801MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-text-20210430.iso (802MB, SHA256, signature), OI-hipster-minimal-20210430.iso (479MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-05-01 |
NEW • Development Release: elementary OS 6.0 Beta |
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elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution. Some of its more interesting features include a custom desktop environment called Pantheon and many custom applications. The developers have published a new beta snapshot which previews features coming to elementary OS 6.0. There are many changes in the works, including an updated installer, dark theme, development tools, and additional support for Flatpak. "A major shift for elementary OS 6 is the inclusion of Flatpak apps out of the box, as well as an entirely Flatpak-based AppCenter ecosystem. We’ve created and are shipping a Flatpak platform and SDK that include all of the FreeDesktop, GNOME, and elementary libraries and technologies your apps will need to be built as a Flatpak - think of the platform as the elementary OS base in Flatpak form. We’ve updated the relevant developer docs to include information about packaging your app as a Flatpak. If you already have an app on AppCenter or are developing one for elementary OS 6, we highly encourage you to familiarize yourself with writing a Flatpak manifest and testing your app as a Flatpak, as all AppCenter apps in elementary OS 6 and beyond will be built as Flatpaks." The release announcement has further information. Download link: elementaryos-6.0-daily.20210430.iso (2,429MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-05-01 |
NEW • Development Release: Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 |
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Rocky Linux, a new Linux distribution built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is the latest option available to all the disenchanted CentOS users whose preferred distribution was abruptly terminated in December 2020. Lead by CentOS founder Gregory Kurtzer, the project has announced its first release candidate for the upcoming version 8.3: "The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is pleased to announce the general availability of the Rocky Linux 8.3 release candidate 1 for x86_64 and AArch64 architectures. This release is the culmination of months of hard work from every corner of the community. What started in a comment thread on a Red Hat blog in December of 2020 grew to a community over ten thousand strong in a Slack channel in a matter of days. From there you pulled together to build teams around infrastructure, branding, website, development, special interest groups and more. By February of 2021, over 80 million hits had been recorded across various social media platforms and news sites." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information. Download (SHA256, signature, pkglist): Rocky-8.3-x86_64-dvd1.iso (8,921MB), Rocky-8.3-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,777MB), Rocky-8.3-x86_64-boot.iso (681MB). |
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| 2021-05-01 |
NEW • BSD Release: OpenBSD 6.9 |
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Theo de Raadt has announced the release of OpenBSD 6.9, the latest of the regular bi-annual releases from the project that develops a multi-platform, security-oriented UNIX-like operating system. This is OpenBSD's 50th official release: "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.9. This is our 50th release. We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than twenty years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 6.9 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Support for the powerpc64 platform was improved: added astfb(4), a driver for the framebuffer of the Aspeed BMC found on many POWER8 and POWER9 systems; added bsd.mp to powerpc64's installXX.{img,iso}; added RETGUARD implementation for powerpc and powerpc64; added a workaround for PCIO devices that cannot address the full 64-bit PCI address space to powerpc64; added limited emulation of unaligned access in the powerpc64 kernel." See the detailed release notes for a full list of changes and improvements. Download (pkglist): amd64/install68.iso (520MB, SHA256, signature), i386/install68.iso (384MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-04-30 |
NEW • BSD Release: GhostBSD 21.04.27 |
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Eric Turgeon has announced the release of GhostBSD 21.04.27, the latest version of the project's desktop operating system based on FreeBSD, with MATE as the default desktop. This release updates the base system to FreeBSD 13.0: "I am happy to announce the availability of the new ISO image, 21.04.27. When we started to port all the GhostBSD code from 12.2-STABLE to 13.0-STABLE, several problems arose with OpenRC, devd and drivers not loading at boot. We discovered that OpenRC devd and devmatch services implementations were not working properly. We had to create rc.devmatch to replace the OpenRC service implementation of devmatch.conf for devd. With devmatch now starting properly, all drivers get loaded at boot and when a new device is inserted. In addition, we were able to remove all changes we made in the GENERIC kernel, making the default kernel a bit smaller. I fixed ntpd and WireGuard services. Automatic configuration for network cards has been removed from NetworkMgr and added to the script started by devd." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and upgrade instructions. Download (SHA256): GhostBSD-21.04.27.iso (2,521MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-04-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Calculate Linux 21 |
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Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based distribution which provides customized editions for a variety of tasks. There are several desktop flavours, a server edition, and there is now reportedly an edition for running Steam games in containers. The new Calculate Linux 21 version ships with the Btr filesystem as the default for fresh installs. "We are pleased to announce the release of Calculate Linux 21. It includes a new Calculate Container Games flavor, allowing you to run Steam games on your computer. All packages in the binary repository were recompiled with GCC 10.2 and packed with Zstd. Calculate Linux Desktop user profiles now synchronize much faster. Are available for download: Calculate Linux Desktop featuring the KDE (CLD), Cinnamon (CLDC), LXQt (CLDL), Mate (CLDM) or else Xfce (CLDX and CLDXS) scientific, Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) and Calculate Scratch Server (CSS)." Additional information on version 21 of Calculate Linux can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): cld-21-x86_64.iso (3,006MB, MD5, torrent), cds-21-x86_64.iso (813MB, MD5, torrent) |
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| 2021-04-28 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 15.3 RC |
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The openSUSE team have announced the availability of a release candidate for openSUSE 15.3 "Leap". The project's new development snapshot includes KDE Plasma 5.18, GNOME 3.34, and Xfce 4.16. "Desktop environments for the release include KDE's Long-Term-Support version of Plasma 5.18, GNOME 3.34 and Xfce 4.16. Packages for artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are available for data scientists who use the release. A list of some of the packages in openSUSE Leap 15.3 can be found on the Wiki. Leap release manager Lubos Kocman recommends Beta and RC testers use the 'zypper dup' command in the terminal when upgrading to the General Availability (GA) once it's released." openSUSE 15.3 will offer 18 months of support once the stable version is released. Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): openSUSE-Leap-15.3-DVD-x86_64-Current.iso (4,467MB, SHA256), openSUSE-Leap-15.3-KDE-Live-x86_64-Media.iso (922MB, SHA256). |
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| 2021-04-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: KaOS 2021.04 |
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KaOS is a rolling release distribution which is focused on providing one polished desktop (KDE Plasma) on one CPU architecture (x86_64). The distribution has published a new snapshot, 2021.04, which revamps the KaOS Community Packages utility (kcp). The Calamares system installer has been updated along with some changes to the distribution's package mirrors: "The installer Calamares has picked up the transition to QML again. All navigation is now done in QML for KaOS. The Finished module was also ported to QML, this gives a simpler end page, with clear buttons showing two options. It also opened the way to give users a clear message regarding installation logs once the install is completed. Usersq is another module being ported to QML, a preview is included in this release, but is not the default users module yet. The default mirror used for all KaOS installs is provided by Fosshost. Big change with Fosshost is that with just one mirror users will have access to a worldwide network of mirrors through Fastly CDN. No longer is there a need to adjust a mirrorlist, you will always be connected to the fastest mirror in your area. As always with this rolling distribution, you will find the very latest packages for the Plasma Desktop, this includes Frameworks 5.81.0, Plasma 5.21.3, and KDE Applications 21.04.0. All built on Qt 5.15.2+." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): KaOS-2021.04-x86_64.iso (2,507MB, pkglist). |
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