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TurnKey Linux is a Debian-based virtual appliance library that integrates some of the best open-source software into ready-to-use solutions. Each virtual appliance is optimised for ease of use and can be deployed in just a few minutes on bare metal, a virtual machine and in the cloud. The growing list of virtual appliances, each of which is available as a CD image or virtual machine image, include Bugzilla, Django, Drupal, File Server, Joomla, LAMP, Magento, Mantis, MediaWiki, MoinMoin, Moodle, MovableType, MySQL, Openbravo, phpBB, PostgreSQL, ProjectPier, Rails, Revision Control, StatusNet, Apache Tomcat, Torrent Server, Trac, TWiki, vtiger, WordPress, Zimra and others.
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| 2021-06-18 |
NEW • Development Release: Linux Mint 20.2 Beta |
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The Linux Mint team has announced the availability of a new development snapshot, Linux Mint 20.2 Beta. The new beta offers a number of new changes, including the ability to update Cinnamon Spice (desktop extension) updates through the update manager. This release also keeps track of how long new security updates have been waiting and can notify the user if their system is becoming out of date. "In the past, available updates were simply indicated by a little orange dot on the Update Manager's icon in the system tray and could go unnoticed for long periods of time. In Linux Mint 20.2 the Update Manager is now able to remember how long each update has been available for, how many days the computer was ON during that time and assess whether or not a notification would be welcome to remind you of available updates. This new notification feature was designed to add comfort to the user experience, not remove any, so making sure it was a nice addition and not an annoying distraction was key. The way this is handled in other operating systems such as Windows or Mac for instance was an example Linux Mint did not want to follow. For the notification to be welcomed and welcomed again it needs to happen for a reason, to be easy to dismiss if your are busy, to not come back constantly and to not come back at all for a long while after you apply the updates. When a notification is dismissed it is snoozed for 2 days. When updates are applied it goes away for a long time. The conditions for the notification to be shown in the first place are configurable." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement for each edition (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce). Download (pkglist): linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso (2,055MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), linuxmint-20.2-mate-64bit-beta.iso (2,040MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), linuxmint-20.2-xfce-64bit-beta.iso (1,938MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-06-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Network Security Toolkit 34-12743 |
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Ron Henderson has announced the release of Network Security Toolkit (NST) 34-12743, a new version of the project's Fedora-based live ISO image and USB Flash drive designed to provide an easy access to best-of-breed, open-source network security applications: "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release - NST 34 SVN:12743. This release is based on Fedora 34 using Linux kernel 5.12.10. This release brings the NST distribution on par with Fedora 34. This is mostly a maintenance release with improved NST WUI functionality. Below is a summary of new tools and feature improvements included in this release: the lft (Layer-4 Traceroute) utility has been integrated into the NST WUI; the NST WUI Ntopng implementation now supports the Ntopng REST API; the results from using the fast directory scanner - dirble can now be displayed in tabular format on its corresponding NST WUI page; added a new NST script, etherapedump, that dumps network resources from an Etherape XML export; automatic NST WUI page refresh to the NST Start Page if the NST system is rebooted from the NST WUI...." Visit the distribution's home page to read the full release announcement. Download (MD5): nst-34-12743.x86_64.iso (4,594MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-06-16 |
NEW • Development Release: elementary OS 6.0 Beta 2 |
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elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution. Some of its more interesting features include a custom desktop environment called Pantheon and many custom apps. The project has launched a new beta snapshot which previews features coming in elementary OS 6.0. The installer's appearance has been polished, work has gone into integrating Flatpak packages, and desktop notifications can now include action buttons for the user to respond with to the pop-up. "We've continued our efforts to ship first-party apps packaged as flatpaks in beta 2. elementary OS 6 now comes with Calculator, Camera, Document Viewer, Screenshot, Tasks and Web from the AppCenter Flatpak repository. As a user, it's entirely transparent - apps launch and behave just as before; they just happen to be packaged in a different way under the hood. As the beta process progresses and we solve sandboxing issues in our apps, we plan to transition even more apps over from Debian packages to flatpaks provided by the AppCenter Flatpak repository. We have also begun testing the third-party process for building Flatpak apps into AppCenter, as teased in the AppCenter Dashboard sprint blog post." Additional information can be found in the release announcement. Download: elementaryos-6.0-daily.20210615.iso (2,541MB, SHA256, torrent (magnet), pkglist). |
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| 2021-06-15 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SME Server 10.0 |
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Terry Fage has announced the release of SME Server 10.0, a major new update of the project's specialist distribution designed for home servers. This version is based on CentOS 7: "The Koozali SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 10.0 which will be the next major release of SME Server. This release is based on CentOS 7. CentOS 7.# has an en of life on 30 June 2024. Koozali SME Server users are encouraged to update to the 10.0 release. In-place upgrades are not supported. It is necessary to backup and then restore. The spare handling for RAID arrays is now fully implemented. Single disk install no longer creates a degraded Raid1 array. Two or more disks will be created as a Raid1-6 array. Support for further Raid configurations on install is now implemented. USB installs are now supported. Netinstall is now fully supported, install to a UEFI system is now fully supported. Handling of USB drives for backup and restore from the console is now resolved. Backup to workstation using removable storages is now fully supported." Read the full release announcement for further details. Download (pkglist): smeserver-10.0-x86_64.iso (1,511MB, MD5), smeserver-10.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso (635MB, MD5). |
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| 2021-06-14 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 921 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Bodhi Linux 6.0.0
- News: FreeBSD from a NetBSD developer's perspective, Slackware updating to a newer kernel, UBports installs on more devices, Mageia 7 nearing its end of life, Matthew Miller answers community questions
- Questions and answers: Combining the storage space of multiple disks
- Released last week: GeckoLinux 153.210608, Redcore Linux 2101
- Torrent corner: Absolute, CloudReady, GeckoLinux, Mabox, MakuluLinux, Manjaro, PakOS, Redcore, SalientOS, Venom
- Opinion poll: Do you have a multi-device filesystem?
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2021-06-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 |
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Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest version is a release candidate for Rocky Linux 8.4. A focus has been placed on kernel improvements, networking, and security. "The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is pleased to announce the availability of the Rocky Linux 8.4 release candidate for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64). Please note that a release candidate is not suitable for production use. The upgrade from Rocky Linux 8.3 RC1 to Rocky Linux 8.4 RC1 is not supported, meaning it will not be tested nor documented. Major changes: IPsec VPN provided by Libreswan now supports TCP encapsulation and security labels for IKEv2; the scap-security-guide packages have been rebased to version 0.1.54 and OpenSCAP has been rebased to version 1.3.4; these updates provide substantial improvements, including improved memory management; the fapolicyd framework now provides integrity checking, and the RPM plugin now registers any system update that is handled by either the YUM or the RPM package manager." Further information can be found in the distribution's release announcement and release notes. Download (SHA256, pkglist): Rocky-8.4-x86_64-minimal.iso (1,889MB), Rocky-8.4-x86_64-dvd1.iso (9,506MB, torrent), Rocky-8.4-x86_64-boot.iso (720MB). |
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| 2021-06-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Redcore Linux 2101 |
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Ghiunhan Mamut has announced the release of Redcore Linux 2101, the latest stable release of the project's Gentoo-based distribution whose goal is to "bring the power of Gentoo Linux to the masses": "More than a year after our previous stable release, I'm happy to announce that Redcore Linux Hardened 2101 ('Orion') has reached the stable milestone. Changelog: rsync with Gentoo's testing tree as of 2021-05-31; built using Gentoo's new profiles, for details read here; Linux kernel 5.11.22 as the default, 5.10.40 LTS and 5.4.122 LTS Legacy in repositories; glibc 2.32, GCC 10.2.0, Binutils 2.35 and&& LLVM 12.0.0 toolchain; Mesa 21.1.1, libdrm 2.4.106, X.Org Server 1.20.11 graphics stack; ALSA 1.2.5, PulseAudio 13.0, GStreamer 1.16.3 audio stack (no pipewire, as per our testing it breaks audio or bluetooth or both); KDE Plasma 5.21.5, KDE Frameworks 5.82, KDE Applications 21.04.1 desktop stack; rich web browser selection with Firefox 89.0, Chromium 91.0.4472.77, Google Chrome 91.0.4472.77, Opera 76.0.4017.154, Vivaldi 3.8.2259.42, Microsoft Edge 91.0.864.37, Falkon-3.1.0; Flatpak is supported out of the box, just enable Flathub in Discover (do not follow any 'flatpak on Gentoo' guides you find online, Flatpak support is built-in in Redcore); no more passwords for the live environment, the ISO image will boot straight into Plasma...." Continue to the release announcement for a full changelog and errata. Download: Redcore.Linux.Hardened.2101.KDE.amd64.BETA.iso (3,656MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2021-06-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GeckoLinux 153.210608 |
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GeckoLinux is a Linux spin based on the openSUSE distribution, with a focus on polish and out-of-the-box usability on the desktop. The project's latest release is based on openSUSE 15.3 which offers binary compatibility with SUSE Linux Enterprise. "GeckoLinux is pleased to announce the 153.210608 update to its full range of STATIC and NEXT editions. These updated editions are now based on the new openSUSE Leap 15.3 release, which in turn is built from SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) packages. The Linux kernel is still at version 5.3.18, but additional backports are included for better compatibility with newer hardware. GeckoLinux in turn continues to refine its package selection and unique configuration to provide a simple, clean system that works out of the box. For this GeckoLinux STATIC release, the Calamares installer is now at version 3.2.36, and has been configured to use the Btrfs filesystem with LZO transparent compression by default for the guided partitioning options, although of course all other modern Linux filesystems are also available with the custom partitioning option." Additional information can be found in the distribution's release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): GeckoLinux_STATIC_Cinnamon.x86_64-153.210608.0.iso (1,412MB), GeckoLinux_STATIC_XFCE.x86_64-153.210608.0.iso (1,409MB), GeckoLinux_STATIC_Gnome.x86_64-153.210608.0.iso (1,426MB). |
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| 2021-06-07 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 920 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: openSUSE 15.3
- News: Nemo gets new search capabilities, Rocky publishes status update and seeks volunteers, tips for protecting against out of memory termination
- Questions and answers: Writing an ISO directly from the web to a thumb drive
- Released last week: CentOS 8.4.2105, openSUSE 15.3, Kali 2021.2
- Torrent corner: 4MLinux, Arch, CentOS, Clonezilla, Kali, Lakka, NixOS, MakuluLinux, openSUSE, OviOS, Rescuezilla, Septor, Tails
- Opinion poll: Writing an ISO/IMG file to a thumb drive
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2021-06-04 |
NEW • Distribution Release: CentOS 8.4.2105 |
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Johnny Hughes has announced the availability of an updated release of CentOS, a Linux distribution compiled from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The new version is labelled as CentOS 8.4.2105 and is derived from RHEL 8.4: "We are pleased to announce the general availability of the latest version of CentOS Linux 8. Effectively immediately, this is the current release for CentOS Linux 8 and is tagged as 2105, derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 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 8 machine by just running 'dnf update'. Of particular note, this release adds the following new versions of software in optional module streams: Python 3.9, SWIG 4.0, Subversion 1.14, Redis 6, PostgreSQL 13, MariaDB 10.5. Several rolling AppStream have been rebased to newer versions: LLVM Toolset 11.0.0, Rust Toolset 1.49.0, Go Toolset 1.15.7." See the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download (mirrors, SHA256, signature): CentOS-8.4.2105-x86_64-dvd1.iso (9,469MB, torrent, pkglist), CentOS-8.4.2105-x86_64-boot.iso (723MB, torrent). |
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| 2021-06-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Rescuezilla 2.2 |
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Rescuezilla is a specialist Ubuntu-based distribution designed for system rescue tasks, including backups and system restoration. The project's latest version is Rescuezilla 2.2 which introduces, among other features, support for working with virtual machine disks. "Flash the Rescuezilla image to a USB stick using balenaEtcher (this will erase all data on your USB stick). Reboot your PC and boot from USB. Rescuezilla v2.2 adds the highly-requested 'cloning' feature, support for virtual machine images and more. Here is a partial list of what's changed: Implemented cloning (direct 'device-to-device' mode). Added ability to restore and explore all virtual machine image formats supported by qemu-nbd. (VirtualBox's VDI, VMWare's VMDK, Qemu's QCOW2, HyperV's VHDx, raw .dd/.img and many more). Added ability to restore and explore images created by all remaining open-source imaging frontends. (Redo Rescue, Foxclone, FSArchiver, Redo v0.9.2 and very-early handling of FOG Project images). Added ability to customize compression format (gzip, zstandard, uncompressed) and compression level. Implemented remaining Clonezilla image restore logic to improve handling of many corner cases." Additional details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): rescuezilla-2.2-64bit.hirsute.iso (903MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-06-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: NixOS 21.05 |
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NixOS is an independently developed GNU/Linux distribution that aims to improve the state of the art in system configuration management. In NixOS, the entire operating system, including the kernel, applications, system packages and configuration files, are built by the Nix package manager. The distribution's latest release is NixOS 21.05 "Okapi" features significant upgrades to the Linux kernel and GNU Compiler Collection, along with the GNOME, Cinnamon and KDE Plasma desktops. "Support is planned until the end of December 2021, handing over to 21.11. In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the following highlights: Core version changes: GCC 10.3.0, glibc 2.32, default Linux kernel 5.10 - all supported kernels available, MESA 20.1.7 21.0.1; desktop environments - GNOME 3.40, Plasma 5.21.3, KDE Applications 20.12.3, Cinnamon: 4.8.1; programming languages and frameworks - Python optimizations were disabled again; builds with optimizations enabled are not reproducible; optimizations can now be enabled with an option; the 'linux_latest' kernel has been updated to the 5.12 series - it currently is not officially supported for use with the ZFS filesystem" The release announcement and release notes provide more details. Download (pkglist): latest-nixos-plasma5-x86_64-linux.iso (1,401MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-gnome-x86_64-linux.iso (1,890MB, SHA256), latest-nixos-minimal-x86_64-linux.iso (665MB, SHA256). |
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