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SystemRescueCd is a Gentoo-based Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM or USB drive, designed for repairing a system and data after a crash. It also aims to provide an easy way to carry out administration tasks on a computer, such as creating and editing hard disk partitions. It contains many useful system utilities (GNU Parted, PartImage, FSTools) and some basic ones (editors, Midnight Commander, network tools). It aims to be very easy to use. The kernel of the system supports all of today's most important file systems, including ext2, ext3, ext4, ReiserFS, Reiser4FS, btrfs, XFS, JFS, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660, as well as network file systems, such as Samba and NFS.
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| 2018-12-10 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 793 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: openSUSE Tumbleweed (2018)
- News: Debian struggles with usrmerge, Void provides technical tips, Hyperbola gets FSF approval
- Questions and answers: Finding and removing non-free packages
- Released last week: DragonFly BSD 5.4.0, Scientific Linux 7.6, CentOS 7-1810
- Torrent corner: Antergos, AUSTRUMI, CentOS, DragonFly BSD, ExTiX, FreeNAS, GuixSD, HardenedBSD, Kodachi, Omarine, Scientific, SmartOS, SwagArch
- Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 12.0, Tails 3.11
- Opinion poll: How many non-free packages are on your system?
- New distributions: Sculpt OS
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2018-12-08 |
NEW • Development Release: Mageia 7 Beta 1 |
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Donald Stewart has announced the availability of the initial beta release of Mageia 7, an upcoming major version from the project that forked the then defunct Mandriva Linux in late 2010: "Everyone at Mageia is very happy to get the first step towards Mageia 7. There is still a lot of work to come before Mageia 7 is ready - a big Qt and Plasma update, fixes for MATE and more checks on 32-bit hardware, as well as the artwork for Mageia 7. This release will see the return of the Classical installer as well as live images, with the standard lineup of architectures and desktop environments - 32-bit and 64-bit Classical Installers; 64-bit Plasma, GNOME and Xfce live DVDs and a 32-bit Xfce live DVD. Here are a few release highlights and package versions: Linux kernel 4.19.6, RPM 4.14.2, Plasma 5.14.2,GNOME 3.30, Xfce 4.13.4, Firefox 63, Chromium 70, LibreOffice 6.1.3." Read the rest of the release announcement for more details. Download links: Mageia-7-beta1-Live-Plasma-x86_64.iso (2,742MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-7-beta1-Live-GNOME-x86_64.iso (2,346MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), Mageia-7-beta1-Live-Xfce-x86_64.iso (2,232MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). A standard installation DVD is also available: Mageia-7-beta1-x86_64.iso (4,219MB, SHA512, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-12-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: UBports 16.04 OTA-6 |
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UBports is a community project which continues the development of Ubuntu Touch, a mobile operating system originally started by Canonical. The UBports team has announced the release of a new update, 16.04 OTA-6. The new version brings fixes and stability improvements, as well as several enhancements to the Morph web browser. "OTA-6 brings a number of fixes and improvements to Ubuntu Touch. In this release, we primarily focused on bug fixes and stability improvements. Half of the confirmed closed tickets for OTA-6 affected the Morph browser. This got to be so high, in fact, it swayed the decision to start the release process! A number of high-visibility issues were fixed: Unable to restore previous session at startup. No way to accept self-signed certificates. Webapps cannot access local content on device. ReCaptcha says "browser not supported". Media playback does not stop when a tab is closed. Scrollbar theme does not match the system theme." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download instructions for supported devices can be found on the project's Get UT page. |
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| 2018-12-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Guix System Distribution 0.16.0 |
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Guix System Distribution (GuixSD) is a Linux-based, stateless operating system that is built around the GNU Guix package manager. The operating system provides advanced package management features such as transactional upgrades and roll-backs, reproducible build environments, unprivileged package management, and per-user profiles. The project's latest release is GuixSD 0.16.0 which includes several new packages and improvements to the package manager. "On GuixSD, 'guix system reconfigure' will now always load replacements of system services. That way, when you deem appropriate, you can run 'herd restart service' to start the upgraded service. As usual, 985 packages were added and 1,945 were upgraded, notably the GNU C Library now at version 2.28 (which, incidentally, allowed us to get rid of our Hurd-specific glibc variant, at last!). Today Guix provides 8,715 packages. The manual is now partially translated into German. The French translation is now 90% complete. You can help translate the manual into your native language by joining the Translation Project." Further details are available in the release announcement. Download: guixsd-install-0.16.0.x86_64-linux.iso.xz (190MB, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2018-12-06 |
NEW • Development Release: Linux Mint 19.1 Beta |
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The Linux Mint team has announced the availability a new development release, Linux Mint 19.1 Beta. The new snapshots - available in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce editions - improve the speed of the Nemo file manager, the Update Manager has been adjusted to show alternative mainline kernel versions and Mint-Y themes were given more contrast. Some new changes are coming to Cinnamon too: "As you go through the "First Steps" section of the Linux Mint 19.1 welcome screen, you'll be asked to choose your favourite desktop layout. Cinnamon 4.0 ships with a brand new panel layout and thus with a new workflow. With a click of a button you'll be able to switch back and forth between old and new and choose whichever default look pleases you the most. The new panel ships with a window list with app grouping and window preview, a feature which has become the norm in other major desktop operating systems, whether it's in the form of a dock (in macOS), a panel (in Windows) or a sidebar (in Ubuntu). The panel looks more modern but it's also much more configurable than before." Further information can be found in the release announcements and release notes for each edition. Download (pkglist): linuxmint-19.1-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso (1,880MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, release announcement, release notes), linuxmint-19.1-mate-64bit-beta.iso (1,934MB, SHA256, signature, torrent, release announcement, release notes), linuxmint-19.1-xfce-64bit-beta.iso (1,840MB, SHA256, signature, release announcement, release notes). |
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| 2018-12-06 |
NEW • BSD Release: FreeNAS 11.2 |
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Ladislav Sirovy has announced the release of FreeNAS 11.2, the latest stable version of the project's specialist FreeBSD-based operating system designed for computers providing Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services. The new release brings a completely redesigned web interface, among many other changes: "FreeNAS 11.2-RELEASE introduces a ton of new features, including a major revamp of the web interface, support for self-encrypting drives, and new, backwards-compatible REST and WebSocket APIs. This update also introduces iocage for improved Plugin and Jail management and simplified Plugin development. FreeNAS 11.2 introduces an updated web interface. Based on Angular and Javascript, the web interface has been modernized to be more user-friendly, snappier and aesthetically pleasing. The redundant top bar has been removed and most FreeNAS configuration menus can be accessed by clicking the appropriate item in the left column. The new design streamlines the layout with cleaner dropdown menus, while maintaining the same functionality and workflow you’ve grown familiar with while using FreeNAS." See the release announcement and release notes for further information and screenshots. Download: FreeNAS-11.2-RELEASE.iso (575MB, SHA256). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2018-12-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Proxmox 5.3 "Virtual Environment" |
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Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products based on Debian GNU/Linux. The company's latest release is Proxmox 5.3 "Virtual Environment" which includes several improvements for storage and containers. "Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH today unveiled Proxmox VE 5.3, its latest open-source server virtualization management platform. Proxmox VE is based on Debian Stretch 9.6 with a modified Linux Kernel 4.15. Ceph Storage has been updated to version 12.2.8 (Luminous LTS, stable). Proxmox VE 5.3 brings many improvements in storage management. Using the Disk management it is possible to easily add ZFS raid volumes, LVM and LVMthin pools as well as additional simple disks with a traditional file system. The existing ZFS over iSCSI storage plug-in can now access LIO target in the Linux kernel. Nesting is enabled for LXC containers making it possible to use LXC or LXD inside a container. Also, access to NFS or CIFS/Samba server can be configured inside containers. For the keen and adventurous user, Proxmox VE brings a simplified configuration of PCI passthrough and virtual GPUs (vGPUs such as Intel KVMGT) - now even possible via the web GUI." Further details can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download: proxmox-ve_5.3-1.iso (641MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2018-12-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: CentOS 7-1810 |
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Karanbir Singh has announced the release of CentOS 7-1810, the latest update in the CentOS 7 series, built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6: "We are pleased to announce the general availability of CentOS Linux 7 (1810) for the x86_64 architecture. Effective immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 7 and is tagged as 1810, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 source code. Updates released since the upstream release are all posted, across all architectures. We strongly recommend every user apply all updates, including the content released today, on your existing CentOS Linux 7 machine by just running 'yum update'. As with all CentOS Linux 7 components, this release was built from sources hosted at git.centos.org. In addition, SRPMs that are a byproduct of the build (and also considered critical in the code and buildsys process) are being published to match every binary RPM we release." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. Download links (SHA256, signature, pkglist): CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso (4,376MB, torrent), CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso (918MB, torrent), CentOS-7-x86_64-NetInstall-1810.iso (507MB, torrent), CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1810.iso (1,406MB, torrent), CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1804.iso (1,859MB, torrent). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2018-12-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 7.6 |
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Pat Riehecky has announced the release of Scientific Linux 7.6, a new update of the entereprise-class Linux distribution rebuilt from source packages provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and sponsored by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, USA. The new release comes with several minor updates and a known issue affecting the Cinnamon desktop users: "Scientific Linux 7.6 x86_64. These are the notes for the 'release candidate' of Scientific Linux 7.6. Please also review the upstream vendor's 7.6 release notes for major upstream changes. Scientific Linux 7.x users should run 'yum clean expire-cache' at this time. Major differences from upstream 7.6: Scientific Linux features the X.Org fix listed in Bugzilla 1650634. Major differences from Scientific Linux 7.5: sl-release is updated to use the 7.6 repos; PackageKit has initial support for notification of SL7 minor release upgrades, to use this feature you must install sl7-upgrade. Known issues: Cinnamon desktop from EPEL7 prevents upgrades due to Caribou and GNOME Shell." Here is the brief release announcement, with further information provided in the detailed release notes. Download (SHA256, signature, pkglist): Scientific-7.6-Install-Dual-Layer-DVD-x86_64.iso (7,994MB), SL-7.6-x86_64-netinst.iso (549MB). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2018-12-03 |
NEW • Development Release: MX Linux 18 Beta 1 |
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MX Linux is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution based on Debian's Stable branch and is a cooperative venture between the antiX and former MEPIS Linux communities. The project has released a new development snapshot, MX Linux 18 beta 1. "We are pleased to offer MX Linux 18 beta 1 for testing. The latest updates from Debian 9.6, antiX and MX repositories: GIMP 2.10, MESA 18.2.6, updated firmware, 4.19.5 Linux kernel, Firefox 63.0.3, VLC 3.0.3, Clementine 1.3.1, Thunderbird 52.9.1, LibreOffice 6.0.1. New and updated mx-apps: system-keyboard and system-locale options allow easy access to configuration of system default keyboard and locales management; updates to MX package Installer, including faster performance, Flatpaks, and popular application entries.; mx-installer (based on gazelle-installer) now includes LUKS encrypted root, home and swap partition options; mx-codecs updated to install updated S3 texture packs (important for Valve/Steam games in particular); improved localization: almost all mx-apps received translation updates; new Conky configurations; the login screen has locale selection options now; Thunar custom actions updates...." The release announcement has further details and a list of known issues. Download: MX-18b1_x64.iso (1,303MB, SHA256, signature, pkglist). |
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| 2018-12-03 |
NEW • BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 5.4.0 |
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The DragonFly BSD project has announced a new version of their operating system. The new version, DragonFly BSD 5.4.0,includes a number of performance improvements, ships with version 8.0 of the GNU Compiler Collection, and HAMMER2 file system bug fixes. "Big-ticket items: Better support for asymmetric NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access) configurations. In particular, both the memory subsystem and the scheduler now understand the Threadripper 2990WX's architecture. The scheduler will prioritize CPU nodes with direct-attached memory and the memory subsystem will normalize memory queues for CPU nodes without direct-attached memory (which improves cache locality on those CPUs). Incremental performance work. DragonFly as a whole is very SMP friendly. The type of performance work we are doing now mostly revolves around improving fairness for shared-vs-exclusive lock clashes, reducing cache ping-ponging due to non-contending SMP locks (i.e. massive use of shared locks on shared resources), and so forth. Major updates to dports brings us to within a week or two of FreeBSD's ports as of this writing, in particular major updates to chromium, and making the whole mess work with gcc-8. DragonFly now ships with GCC 8.0, and runs as the default compiler. It is also now used for building dports." Further information can be found in the release announcement. Download: dfly-x86_64-5.4.0_REL.iso (989MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2018-12-03 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 792 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: GhostBSD 18.10 - Changing the base
- News: DragonFly BSD improves wireless support, Fedora plans temporary pause in development, Fedora 27 reaches EOL, Redcore changes ports management tools, interview with GhostBSD founder
- Questions and answers: When to use swap space
- Released last week: Calculate Linux 18 "LXQt", BlackArch 2018.12.01, 4MLinux 27.0
- Torrent corner: 4MLinux, BunsenLabs, Calculate, Clonezilla, HardenedBSD, KDE neon, Robolinux, Slax, Ultimate Edition
- Opinion poll: How much swap space do you use?
- New distributions: Avouch 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 form the distribution. Download the installation ISO image from here: debian-9.2.1-amd64-netinst-3cx.iso (324MB). |
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