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Pingo Linux
Pingo Linux was a Slovenian Linux distribution based on Fedora Core. The distribution includes Slovenian editions of KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, and Mozilla, an installation program fully translated into Slovenian, multimedia applications, and utilities for system administration.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2021-07-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: UBports 16.04 OTA-18 |
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The UBports team has announced a new version of the project's mobile-focused operating system. The project, which continues the work of Ubuntu Touch, has published a new update: UBports 16.04 OTA-18. The new update focuses on improved efficiency. "Despite the seeming will of the internet to always have the latest and most powerful technology, we still have a lot of people using devices with just 1GB of RAM. The BQ E4.5 and E5 HD are old devices, sure, but they still work and make a lot of people happy. OTA-18 almost always feels faster than OTA-17 on the same device. Unless you know what to look for, though, it's hard to say why. We've made Lomiri's wallpaper rendering far more efficient in this release. Without going into gorey details, we've managed to coax QML's image loader into only loading one copy of your wallpaper. We've also made it scale down the wallpaper to reduce the number of pixels in RAM at any time. The amount of RAM saved by these changes varies depending on your device and whether you've set a custom wallpaper or not. If you have a custom wallpaper, you save at least 30MB of RAM on any device by upgrading to OTA-18. A larger-resolution wallpaper will use far less RAM on OTA-18 than on OTA-17, but the savings are greater for devices with a low screen resolution, so on an older device like the E4.5 with the default wallpaper, expect to save about 60MB of RAM. You'll also see better performance across the board. With a smaller background image, it's easier for Qt to put together the scene that is displayed on your phone. Faster scene rendering means higher frame-rates no matter what is happening on screen." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. A list of compatible mobile devices and download options can be found on the project's Devices page. |
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| 2021-07-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Tails 4.20 |
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The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The project's latest release, Tails 4.20, introduces a new way to connect to the Internet using the Tor Connection Assistant. "Tails 4.20 completely changes how to connect to the Tor network from Tails. After connecting to a local network, a Tor Connection assistant helps you connect to the Tor network. This new assistant is most useful for users who are at high risk of physical surveillance, under heavy network censorship, or on a poor Internet connection: It protects better the users who need to go unnoticed if using Tor could look suspicious to someone who monitors their Internet connection (parental control, abusive partner, school or work network, etc.). It allows people who need to connect to Tor using bridges to configure them without having to change the default configuration in the Welcome Screen. It helps first-time users understand how to connect to a local Wi-Fi network. It provides feedback while connecting to Tor and helps troubleshoot network problems. We know that this assistant is still far from being perfect, even if we have been working on this assistant since February." Additional information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: tails-amd64-4.20.iso (1,129MB, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-07-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EuroLinux 8.3 |
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EuroLinux is a commercial clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's latest release, EuroLinux 8.3, introduces no-cost download options and more open access to information with regards to updates. "EuroLinux 8.3 introduces a number of significant improvements over version 7. We have added new, key functionalities (such as the module streams) and distinguishing features in the form of the possibility of rebuilding the system from sources, or 1 to 1 compatibility with the RPM packages of the RHEL system. EuroLinux technological advantages and distinguishing features. We have modernized our software sharing model. From version 8.3, EuroLinux is available both as a paid subscription and for free in the Open Core model. The advantage of such a solution is to deliver as much value as possible to users and communities. It is a modern, transparent and responsible business model. From version 8.3, every user of EuroLinux and EuroLinux containers receives full system with updates released at the same time for both, paid and free users. The paid version of the system additionally provides: direct manufacturer support, access to errata files, access to additional intermediate packages (if the support service so requires) impact on product development." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download (pkglist): EL-8.3-x86_64-20210624-appstream.iso (9,197MB, SHA1), EL-8.3-x86_64-20210624-minimal.iso (1,319MB, SHA1). |
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| 2021-07-12 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 925 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: siduction 21.1.1
- News: How DragonFly BSD handles filesystem errors, Nitrux revamps its installer, UBports works on efficiency and stability
- Tips and tricks: Navigating multiple shells
- Released last week: Linux Mint 20.2, VzLinux 8.4, Proxmox 7.0 "Virtual Environment"
- Torrent corner: ArcoLinux, Berry, Endless, ExTiX, KDE neon, Linux Mint, Proxmox, RDS, T2 SDK, VzLinux
- Upcoming releases: Tails 4.20
- Opinion poll: What's your favourite branch of Debian?
- New additions: Kaisen Linux
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2021-07-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Solus 4.3 |
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Solus is an independent, rolling-release, desktop Linux distribution. The project is available in four desktop flavours, the primary one being the project's custom Budgie graphical user interface. Its latest release, Solus 4.3, features a number of improvements to multimedia and hardware support, as well as an update to Budgie. "Solus 4.3 ships with version 0.9.0 of the dav1d AV1 decoder, which should provide a large boost to high-bitdepth decoding on AVX2 supported CPUs. We also ship with PulseAudio 14.2, which fixes a bug related to unplug event handling. Solus ships with the latest release of our flagship desktop environment, Budgie 10.5.3. This features GNOME 40 stack support alongside all the fixes and quality-of-life improvements listed below. We welcome you to check out the full release notes listed above. Budgie 10.5.3 introduces fixes to Budgie panel applets, Raven, and various window state tracking. Drop use of Queue and Cancellable in Raven's NotificationView. Instead of using a Queue, just update a reference to a NotificationWindow since we only really cared about the head of the Queue to begin with." Additional information is provided in the distribution's release announcement. Download (pkglist): Solus-4.3-Budgie.iso (1,857MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-GNOME.iso (2,073MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-MATE.iso (1,838MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), Solus-4.3-Plasma.iso (2,042MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-07-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EasyNAS 1.0.0 |
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The first-ever stable build of EasyNAS, version 1.0.0, has been released. EasyNAS is a storage management system for home or small office, based on openSUSE Leap and using the Btrfs file system. It is managed through a web-based interface and it offers many advanced features, such as on-line growing of file systems, snapshots or copy-on-write. From the release announcement: "EasyNAS 1.0. It's finally here, the first version of EasyNAS, totally robust, based on OpenSUSE 15.3, with all the great features it had before, plus many others. It's now easier to update, more stable, can be customized to fit everybody's need, it has better performance, more NAS. The beta repository is now open to test new features before they go into the next stable release. There are two EasyNAS repositories - Stable and Beta. New updates will go to the Beta repository first. It will si there for two weeks before going to the Stable repository. Each EasyNAS system can install either the Beta or the Stable version." Here is the download link: EasyNAS.x86_64-1.0.0.install.iso (378MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2021-07-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ExTiX 21.7 |
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The ExTiX distribution is an Ubuntu-based project which features alternative desktop environments. The project's latest release is ExTiX 21.7 which includes the LXQt desktop running on an Ubuntu 20.04.2 base. "I’ve made a new updated “mini” version of ExTiX – The Ultimate Linux System. It is based on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Focal Fossa. The ISO file is of only 1000MB, which is good if you want to run the system super fast from RAM. It should be enough with 2GB RAM. When the boot process is ready you can eject the DVD or USB stick. Use Boot alternative 2. The best thing with ExTiX 21.7 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or from hard drive you can use Refracta Snapshot (pre-installed) to create your own live installable Ubuntu 20.04.2 system. So easy that a ten year child can do it! ExTiX 21.7 uses kernel 5.13.1-exton. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will be supported until April 2025." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (MD5): extix-21.7-64bit-non-efi-lxqt-mini-1000mb-210710.iso (1,027MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-07-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: T2 SDE 21.7 |
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René Rebe has announced the release of a new version of T2 SDE, an open-source system development environment that allows the creation of custom Linux distributions. It is available for 18 processor architectures, with integrated support for cross compilation. "T2 SDE Linux 21.7 was released today. This is an interim update that ships with full support for the new HiFive SiHive Unmatched 64-bit quad-core RISC-V 64 board, as well as a reference for further refined smart optimizations for 32-bit and 64-bit x86. Of course, all the other architectures, including alpha, arm, arm64, hppa, ia64, m68k, mips64, mipsel, ppc, ppc64-32, ppc64le, riscv, riscv64, s390x, sparc64, superh, x86 and x86-64 can be rolling0release upated via the scripted build system. The 21.7 release received updates across the board, with latest Linux kernel 5.13.1, as well as a fix for the GCC 11 C++ templated ctor bug. There were 305 changesets. This is also the first release where our 'Data' AI bot contributed more revisions than human developers - Data 164, humans 141." Visit the project's home page to further information and release announcement. Here is a download link to the minimal desktop installation image for the x86_64 architecture: t2-21.7-x86-64-minimal-desktop-gcc-glibc.iso (804MB, SHA1, pkglist). |
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| 2021-07-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Linux Mint 20.2 |
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Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 20.2, the latest update of the popular desktop-oriented distribution with a choice of Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktops. The new version, based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, brings various improvements to Update Manager and Notification Centre, as well as new applications, such as Bulk File Renamer and Sticky Notes: "The Update Manager now supports Cinnamon spice updates (i.e. updates for applets, desklets, themes and extensions). Although they're technically different than APT updates, they are presented to you in a very similar manner. You can see the same kind of information for them, and enjoy the same features as you did already, such as the ability to blacklist a particular spice or a version of a spice. You can also automate spice updates. In automatic mode spices are upgraded shortly after you log in and the desktop environment then gets refreshed." See the release announcement (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce), release notes (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce) and what's new pages (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce) for more information. Also, read the How to upgrade to Linux Mint 20.2 blog post for upgrade instructions. Download (pkglist): linuxmint-20.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso (2,062MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), linuxmint-20.2-mate-64bit.iso (2,044MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), linuxmint-20.2-xfce-64bit.iso (1,942MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-07-08 |
NEW • Development Release: Porteus 5.0 RC3 |
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A new development build of Porteus, a set of stripped-down Slackware-based live CDs with a choice of seven desktop environments, is now available for testing: "On behalf of the Porteus development team, I'm happy to announce the release of Porteus version 5.0-RC3. Almost a year after RC2, both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the 7 flavors are now available. You can download the releases at any of our mirrors in the Porteus-v5.0 folder of your desired arch(x86_64 or i586). To bring us up to date with Slackware's current development, some under-the-hood changes include: the implementation of PAM, the replacement of ConsoleKit with elogind, and Python upgrade to 3.9.6. Certain packages have increased in size (e.g. MESA, LLVM) so the ISO images are now ranging between 335MB and 425MB (slightly less for 32-bit images). All desktop environments are updated to their latest versions, with the stable kernel 5.12.14." Here is the brief release announcement. Download links (MD5, pkglist): Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso (356MB), Porteus-KDE-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso (428MB), Porteus-LXDE-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso (339MB), Porteus-LXQT-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso (354MB), Porteus-MATE-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso (348MB), Porteus-OPENBOX-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso (335MB), Porteus-XFCE-v5.0rc3-x86_64.iso (342MB). |
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| 2021-07-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Proxmox 7.0 "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 7.0 "Virtual Environment" which is based on Debian 11 and includes support for the Btrfs and ZFS advanced filesystems. "Here is a selection of the highlights: Debian 11 Bullseye, but using a newer Linux kernel 5.11. LXC 4.0, QEMU 6.0, OpenZFS 2.0.4. Ceph Pacific 16.2 as new default; Ceph Octopus 15.2 remains supported. Btrfs storage technology with subvolume snapshots, built-in RAID, and self-healing via checksumming for data and metadata. New Repositories Panel for easy management of the package repositories with the GUI. Single Sign-On (SSO) with OpenID Connect QEMU 6.0 with io_uring, a clean-up option for un-referenced VM disks. LXC 4.0 has full support for cgroups2. Reworked Proxmox installer environment, ACME standalone plugin with improved support for dual-stacked (IPv4 and IPv6) environments. ifupdown2 as default for new installations. chrony as the default NTP daemon." Additional information can be found in the distribution's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: proxmox-ve_7.0-1.iso (1,015MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2021-07-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: VzLinux 8.4 |
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VzLinux, a product of Virtuozzo International GmbH, is a free and open-source distribution built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The distribution's latest release is VzLinux 8.4. The release announcement outlines what is new: "New features: Libreswan IPsec VPN now supports TCP encapsulation and security labels for IKEv2. The nmstate network API for hosts is fully supported in version 8.4. Ansible modules are available for automated management of role-based access control (RBAC) in Identity Management (IdM), an Ansible role for backing up and restoring IdM servers, and an Ansible module for location management. Newer module streams are now available: Python 3.9, SWIG 4.0, Subversion 1.14, Redis 6, PostgreSQL 13, MariaDB 10.5. Compilers have been updated: GCC Toolset 10, LLVM Toolset 11.0.0, Rust Toolset 1.49.0, Go Toolset 1.15.7. Bug fix: if subscription-manager was installed, any dnf command could produce warnings about the system not being registered to Red Hat Subscription Management; now subscription-manager is no longer a dependency of a number of packages and its plugins are disabled by default." The release notes offer additional information. Download (SHA256): vzlinux-iso-8.4-7.iso (4,239MB), vzlinux-iso-min-8.4-13.iso (1,641MB). |
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