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Parted Magic
Parted Magic is a small live CD/USB/PXE with its elemental purpose being to partition hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers other applications, such as Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, etc. In August 2013 the distribution became a commercial product and is no longer available as a free download.
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| 2018-09-25 |
NEW • Development Release: Fedora 29 Beta |
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The Fedora team has announced the availability of a new testing snapshot. The new beta release, Fedora 29 beta, includes GNOME 3.30, hides the boot loader menu when there is only one operating system installed and modularity is now available across all Fedora editions. "Fedora 28 introduced modular repositories for Fedora Server Edition. For Fedora 29 beta, modularity is available in all editions, spins and labs. Modularity makes multiple versions of important packages available in parallel and it will work with the same DNF you already know. Learn more about Modularity by reading the documentation, or listening to episode 003 of the Fedora Podcast. Fedora 29 Workstation beta provides GNOME 3.30. GNOME 3.30 streamlines performance, adds a new Podcasts app, and automatically updates Flatpaks in Software Center. Fedora 29 beta also includes many other updates: the Fedora Atomic Workstation was rebranded as Fedora Silverblue, the GRUB menu will be hidden on single OS installation." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download (pkglist): Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-29_Beta-1.5.iso (1,820MB, SHA256), Fedora-Server-dvd-x86_64-29_Beta-1.5.iso (2,863MB, SHA256). |
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| 2018-09-25 |
NEW • Development Release: Linux Lite 4.2 Beta |
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Jerry Bezencon has announced that the initial beta build of the upcoming Linux Lite 4.2, a beginner-friendly desktop distribution based on Ubuntu, is now ready for download and testing: "Linux Lite 4.2 beta is now available for testing. This release has a number of minor changes. Think of it as 'refinement' and not a 'major upgrade'. There are some new wallpapers thanks and some minor tweaks here and there. The Help Manual will be updated for 4.2 in the final release. Details: Linux kernel 4.15 (custom kernels also available via our repository for versions 3.13 - 4.18), Firefox 62.0.2 'Quantum', Thunderbird 52.9.1, LibreOffice 6.0.6, VLC 3.0.3, GIMP 2.10.6." There are also several known issues in this release: "Is the slow boot fixed on some computers? That has yet to be tested. I have done some 'under the hood' work on this, but of course, we need testing on real hardware on an array of different computer configurations to know for sure. There is no upgrade to or from beta releases. Beta releases are for testing only and it is not recommended to run them as your main or secondary operating system." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information and screenshots. Download (MD5) the live DVD image from SourceForge: linux-lite-4.2-beta-64bit.iso (1,342MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2018-09-24 |
NEW • BSD Release: pfSense 2.4.4 |
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Jim Pingle has announced the availability of pfSense 2.4.4. The new release of the pfSense operating system for routers and firewalls is based on FreeBSD 11.2 and offers several new features: "2.4.4 includes a number of significant new features: OS Upgrade - base Operating System upgraded to FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p3. As a part of moving to FreeBSD 11.2, support is included for C3000-based hardware. PHP 7.2 - PHP upgraded to version 7.2, which required numerous changes to syntax throughout the source code and packages. Routed IPsec (VTI) - routed IPsec is now possible using using FreeBSD if_ipsec(4) Virtual Tunnel Interfaces (VTI). IPsec Speed Improvements - the new Asynchronous Cryptography option under the IPsec Advanced Settings tab can dramatically improve IPsec performance on multi-core hardware. Default Gateway Group - the default gateway may now be configured using a Gateway Group setup for failover, which replaces Default Gateway Switching. Limiter AQM/Queue Schedulers - limiters now include support for several Active Queue Management (AQM) methods and Queue Scheduler configurations such as FQ_CODEL." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement and in the release notes. Download: pfSense-CE-2.4.4-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz (326MB, SHA256). |
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| 2018-09-24 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 782 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Bodhi Linux 5.0.0
- News: elementary OS developers answer questions, Solus publishes ISO update, UBports invites user feedback, Linux Torvalds plans temporary vacation from kernel development, pfSense 2.3.x nears its end of life
- Review: Elive 3.0.0
- Released last week: SparkyLinux 5.5, Quirky 8.7.1
- Torrent corner: Quirky, Solus, Sparky, SystemRescueCd, Thinstation
- Upcoming releases: Fedora 29 Beta, Ubuntu 18.10 Beta, FreeBSD 12.0-BETA2
- Opinion poll: Running operating systems that no longer receive security updates
- New additions: batocera.linux
- New distributions: FreedomBox, Project Trident
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2018-09-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Quirky 8.7.1 |
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Barry Kauler has announced the availability of a new version of Quirky, a lightweight Linux distribution and sister project to Puppy Linux. The new version changes the base packages of the distribution from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04. "The transition has been made to building with Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04.1 DEBs, and now codenamed 'Quirky Beaver', first release is version 8.7.1, for x86_64 PCs. Some announcement blurb: Quirky Linux 8.7.1 is the first in the 'Beaver' series, binary-compatible with x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS, though built with woofQ and architecturally very different from Ubuntu. Quirky is an experimental distribution, that forked from Puppy Linux a few years ago, and has followed a different path, exploring some new ideas. Continuing the Puppy tradition, Quirky has a 'complete' suite of applications, drivers and utilities, in a very small size. Version 8.7.1 is very similar to 8.6, but with a complete upgrade of package versions. The kernel is now 4.18.9." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Download: beaver64-8.7.1.iso (461MB, MD5, pkglist). |
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| 2018-09-21 |
NEW • Development Release: Q4OS 3.4 Testing |
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The Q4OS team has published a new development snapshot of the distribution's Testing branch, code name Centaurus. The new release is based on Debian Testing and features the Trinity desktop environment and the Calamares system installer. The release announcement states: "This release brings quite significant changes and improvements, the most important one is that Q4OS switched to the Calamares installer. That offers nice new installation features, for example fully encrypt target system, easy disk drive partitioning and many others. Another important change is move to the new Trinity 14.0.6 development version. All dependencies from the current stable Q4OS Scorpion has been removed, so the Centaurus now becomes fully independent getting its own repositories and dependencies. Secure Boot support has been improved too. The Calamares installer detects, if Secure Boot is active and adjusts the target system accordingly. If Secure Boot is switched off in the firmware, no Secure Boot stuff is installed. Q4OS Centaurus 3.4 is based on the current Debian 'Buster' and Trinity desktop 14.0.6 development branches. Q4OS Centaurus will be in development until Debian Buster becomes stable, and will be supported at least five years from the official release date." Download (MD5): q4os-3.4-x64.r2.iso (664MB, pkglist). |
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| 2018-09-21 |
NEW • Development Release: elementary OS 5.0 Beta 2 |
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Cody Garver has announced the availability of the second beta release of elementary OS 5.0, a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and featuring a custom desktop environment called Pantheon: "It's that time again: another beta release. Since beta 1, we've fixed over 200 issues and got back up to over 50 apps in AppCenter built specifically for 'Juno'. We fixed a few issues around Gala, the Greeter, HiDPI and related refinements during the beta 2 cycle. A new Gala daemon provides better native GTK+ context menus for apps. This means that context menus scale properly on HiDPI, plus non-native apps with title bars now also get a menu. Picture-in-picture mode also scales better on HiDPI now. The login and lockscreen greeter is now more crisp on HiDPI. This is because we now have a simple compositor, which also provides things like shadows beneath the shutdown window and indicators. We also now use the same panel on the greeter as in the logged-in session, meaning indicators work more consistently, and you can scrub between them. We fixed an issue in AppCenter where new apps were not properly being displayed on the home page due to a package ID format deprecation." Read the detailed release announcement for more information and screenshots. Download: elementaryos-5.0-beta2.20180920.iso (1,406MB, pkglist). |
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| 2018-09-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SparkyLinux 5.5 |
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SparkyLinux is a lightweight, fast and simple Linux distribution based on Debian. The project's latest release, SparkyLinux 5.5 "Rolling", is based on Debian's Testing branch. The new version includes mostly minor package updates, and makes the leap from using GCC 7 to GCC 8 for the default compiler. "There are new live/install ISO images of SparkyLinux 5.5 Nibiru available to download. Sparky 5 follows a rolling release model and is based on Debian testing Buster. Changes: system updated from Debian Testing repos as of September 17, 2018; Linux kernel 4.18.6 (4.18.8- & 4.19-rc4-sparky are available at Sparky unstable repos); the Calamares installer updated up to version 3.2.1; Thunar daemon is deactivated in the MinimalGUI Live (Openbox), due to problem of automounting new partitions created by Calamares; GCC 7 compiler has been removed, the system uses GCC 8 as default; removed packages: libpam-gnome-keyring, vim, imagemagick, systemd-ui, sparky-gexec, xterm (Openbox); also removed from LXQt media: lxtask, leafpad, notepqdqq." Further details can be found in the project's release announcement. Download (pkglist): sparkylinux-5.5-x86_64-lxqt.iso (1,440MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), sparkylinux-5.5-x86_64-minimalgui.iso (927MB, SHA512, signature, torrent), sparkylinux-5.5-x86_64-minimalcli.iso (520MB, SHA512, signature, torrent). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2018-09-17 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 781 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: Linux Mint 3 Debian Edition (LMDE 3)
- News: Arch developers answer questions, a tutorial for getting around keyring password prompts, MX makes installing Flatpaks easier, next Mageia release to have fewer download options
- Questions and answers: File systems for solid state drives (SSDs)
- Released last week: Elive 3.0.0, Parrot 4.2.2, OSGeoLive 12.0
- Torrent corner: Alpine, ArcoLinux, LinHES, Live Raizo, MiniNo, OSGeoLive, Parrot
- Upcoming releases: Fedora 29 Beta, FreeBSD 12.0-BETA1
- Opinion poll: Solid state drives
- DistroWatch.com news: Update to Turkish translation
- New distributions: Drauger OS
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2018-09-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: OSGeoLive 12.0 |
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Cameron Shorter has announced the release of OSGeoLive 12.0, a major new update of the project's specialist Lubuntu-based distribution featuring a large collection of open-source geospatial software and free world maps. This version updates the underlying operating system to Lubuntu 18.04: "Version 12.0 of the OSGeoLive GIS software collection has been released. It was distributed at the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Highlights for this release include: updated to Lubuntu 18.04 long-term support (LTS) release; adopted Transifex Translation tool and made our documentation generation process more efficient; version updates to many of the included packages. OSGeoLive 12.0 includes: includes: close to 50 quality geospatial open-source applications installed and pre-configured; free world maps and sample datasets; project overview and step-by-step quick-start for each application; Lightning presentation of all applications, along with speaker’s script...." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and related links. Download: osgeolive-12.0-amd64.iso (4,074MB, MD5, pkglist). Also available from OSDisc. |
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| 2018-09-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Parrot 4.2.2 |
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Lorenzo "Palinuro" Faletra has announced the release of Parrot 4.2.2, the latest stable version of the project's a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch and focused on penetration testing, digital forensics, programming and privacy protection: "We are proud to announce the release of Parrot 4.2. It was a very problematic release for our team because of the many important updates under the hood of a system that looks almost identical to its previous release, except for a new background designed by Federica Marasà and a new graphic theme. Parrot 4.2 is powered by the latest Linux 4.18 Debianized kernel with all the usual wireless patches. A new version of the Debian installer now powers our 'netinstall' images and the standard Parrot images. Firmware packages were updated to add broader hardware support, including wireless devices and AMD vega graphics AppArmor and Firejail profiles were adjusted to offer a good compromise of security and usability for most of the desktop and CLI applications and services." Read the release announcement for more information and screenshots. The distribution is available in "Security" and "Home" editions; download links (SHA512, pkglist): Parrot-security-4.2.2_amd64.iso (3,689MB), Parrot-home-4.2.2_amd64.iso (1,752MB). A network installation image is also available: Parrot-netinst-4.2.2_amd64.iso (44.0MB). |
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| 2018-09-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elive 3.0.0 |
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Samuel F. Baggen has announced the release of Elive 3.0.0, a major update of the project's Debian-based distribution with a customised Enlightenment 17 desktop user interface. This version is based on the 32-bit variant of Debian 7 "Wheezy" and, unlike the previous stable version (2.0, released more than eight years ago), Elive 3 is free of charge and unlimited in any way: "After 8 years of silent development, the third stable version of Elive is out. The result is simply amazing and the integration is gorgeous; it is not even possible to describe every inside feature. The new website only contains a small portion of its characteristics. Unfortunately not everything is rainbows and perfection and the lack of resources delayed the release being too much. This has lead to old packages and drivers, but despite that, the final result is really worth it. Elive 3.0 is the most useful system ever made, perfect for the daily use, rock solid, beautiful and full of hidden features, with every effort to make it usable for any user level. This version is most powerful, maintaining its lightness in resources and a blazing fast responsiveness. And even better, the final stable version is entirely cost-free and limitless, with all its features." See the release announcement for further information. Download (MD5, pkglist): elive_3.0.0_stable_hybrid.iso (3,133MB), elive_3.0.0_stable_usb.img (3,271MB). |
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