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Clement Lefebvre mengumumkan ketersediaan build baru edisi “Debian” Linux Mint ,distribusi rolling-release distribution berbasis Debian cabang “Testing”: What a better time than Christmas to bring all the best from 2010 into an updated release of Linux Mint “Debian”. All Mint 10 features; 64-bit support; performance casino boost (using cgroup, the notorious “4 lines of code better than 200” in user-space); installer improvements (multiple HDDs, GRUB install on partitions, swap allocation, Btrfs support); better fonts (using Ubuntu”s libcairo, fontconfig and Ubuntu Font Family) and language support; better connectivity and hardware support; better sound support (addressing conflicts between Pulse Audio and Flash); updated software and packages. ...

Fabio Erculiani mengumumkan rilis Sabayon Linux 5.4 edisi “Gaming”. dari daftar fitur: Based on Sabayon Linux 5.4 GNOME; featuring Linux Kernel 2.6.36 and all the bells and whistles that are in our repositories as of today; remastered thanks to Sabayon’s little helper called ‘molecule’; filled with gazillions of games – the best free and open-source games of the Linux land, including 0ad, Alien Arena 2011, Battle of Wesnoth, FooBillard, Freeciv, Frozen Bubble, GNOME Games, M.A.R.S. a ridiculous shooter, Micropolis, NeverBall, Nexuiz, OpenArena, Pingus, PyChess, Scorched 3D, Simutrans, Spring, Stepmania, Torcs, Tremulous, Warsow, Warzone 2100 and Wormux. ...

Heidi Vilppola mengumumkan rilis Zentyal 2.0-3, versi update dari distribusi server berbasis Ubuntu untuk usaha kecil dan menengah: The development team of Zentyal, the Linux small business server previously known as eBox Platform, is glad to announce the availability of Zentyal 2.0-3 installer. This is a new compilation of all the latest Zentyal packages as well as the last system updates from Ubuntu. Please note that this installer comes with a new Zentyal Cloud-based feature – you can see a new ‘Disaster Recovery’ entry in the installer menu. This option allows users with a free Basic Server subscription to automatically install the modules from a previously stored configuration backup. Another mayor change in the installer is the switch from slim to LXDM as display manager. ...

Eugeni Dodonov mengumumkan rilis Mandriva Linux 2010.2: Welcome the Mandriva 2010.2 release which is coming to a mirror nearby you right now. As announced previously, Mandriva 2010.2 is an incremental update on top of Mandriva 2010.1, incorporating all the security and bug-fix updates since its release. Just to give you some statistics about what changes in 2010.2 when comparing to 2010.1, these are some of the numbers. Since the 2010.1 release, the security team has released a total of 5,055 RPMs via official updates, counting both security and bug-fix advisories, across 272 different packages. With such a big number of updated packages, we decided to release an updated version incorporating these packages. ...

Yann Le Doare merilis LinuxConsole Linux 1.0.2010, distribusi independen dengan tujuan membuat console game yang udah digunakan: Very fast boot – using Dash instead of Bash, using initramfs instead of initrd, modules management completely rewritten (no more cache, all modules mounted once), LXDE is started in 4 seconds when booting CD in VirtualBox; LXDE/PCManFM now default session; IceWM/Rox Filer can also be used; LXLauncher will be used for the game center; new module management with lcmtool; new tools – select time zone, wicd can be used to set up wireless connexions; install it on live CD or live USB; applications – latest Firefox, Thunderbird, Flash player, X.Org Server 1.9.2, Linux kernel 2.6.35.8, BusyBox 1.17.2, NVIDIA driver 260.19.29…. ...

Jos Poortvliet mengumumkan ketersediaan milestone kelima openSUSE 11.4: The openSUSE project released the fifth of six milestones in the development of openSUSE 11.4 some days ago. Milestone 5 (M5) brings a wide range of updates: Linux kernel 2.6.37-rc5 including the famous ‘200 line’ per tty task groups patch to improve desktop interactivity and featuring the almost-complete removal of the so-called ‘Big Kernel Lock’, which should improve scalability; on the desktop, KDE makes the leap to version 4.6 beta with many improvements in the UI and underlying infrastructure; GNOME 2.32.1; GNUCash 2.4 RC comes with a new complete dress-up; Pidgin updates fixes several MSN and ICQ issues. ...

Billy “Texstar” Reynolds mengumumkan rilis PCLinuxOS 2010.12: PCLinuxOS 2010.12 holiday CDs are now available for KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce and Enlightenment desktops featuring the latest updates from the PCLinuxOS software repository. All CDs feature Linux kernel 2.6.33.7bfs for maximum desktop performance, NVIDIA and ATI fglrx driver support, multimedia playback support for many popular formats, wireless support for many network devices, and printer support for many local and networked printer devices. ‘Addlocale’ allows you to convert PCLinuxOS into over 60 languages. ‘GetOpenOffice’ can install OpenOffice.org supporting over 100 languages. ‘MyLiveCD’ allows you to take a snapshot of your installation and burn it to a live CD or DVD. PCLinuxOS ‘liveusb’ allows you to install PCLinuxOS on a USB key disk. ...

Robert Shingledecker mengumumkan rilis Tiny Core Linux 3.4, distribusi grafikal minimalis dengan ukuran dibawah 11 megabytes: Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce the release of Tiny Core 3.4. Change log: updated appsaudit multi-select updates and md5 checking; updated fluff to 0.8.5 with integrated file type and associations as well as many UI improvements; updated mnttool to show all drives and mount launch filemgr via FILEMGR env; updated mnttool to support labels and 10+ partitions; updated wallpaper gradients and color preview; updated editor for named new file argument; updated wbarconf for control of text, zoom, and icon size; updated exittc ‘Exit to prompt’ to be PID driven; updated wbar for fluff startup via ‘’; updated fluff .desktop item for startup via ‘’; updated ab2tce.sh to terminate if appbrowser is aborted by killing X…. ...

Alexander Tratsevskiy mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta pertama Calculate Linux 11.0, sebuah distribusi berbasis Gentoo : After four months of development the first beta of Calculate Linux 11.0 has been released. Major changes: added binary repositories for Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD, CLDG and CLDX) and Calculate Directory Server (CDS) with rolling-release support; new minimalistic distro, Calculate Scratch Server (CSS), is now available; added new package – calculate-assemble; weekly builds are now available to public; better support for netbooks; more user-friendly interface; support for combined storage of user profiles for different versions of Calculate Linux Desktop (CLD, CLDG and CLDX); updated Portage to version 2.2; Calculate Directory Server now includes new installer. ...

Troy Dawson mengumumkan ketersediaan build alpha ketiga Scientific Linux 6: We have released the third alpha of Scientific Linux 6. Fixed/changes in alpha 3: SELinux – you no longer get an error about SELinux during the install and the default install has it turned on; NTP error – we believe the NTP error was because of the SELinux problems we were having – when we fixed SELinux, the NTP error went away; package check – we have compared our packages with the upstream vendor’s and found several differences; we have rebuilt around 240 packages, resulting in around 360 binary packages that have changed; revisor clean-up and documentation. Known issues: packages that haven’t been built and aren’t in the release include Ekiga, kdepim-runtime, perl-Sys-Virt. There are no specialized pictures shown during the install. ...

Albert Lee mengumumkan ketersediaan build pengembangan baru OpenIndiana , fork OpenSolaris milik Oracle oleh komunitas: Project OpenIndiana is pleased to announce the next development release – oi_148. This release has seen a lot of improvements in documentation and processes to enable more people to contribute releasing more development knowledge to the community instead of being locked in a small number of people’s heads. Outstanding issues to be aware of: globalisation across the OS is still broken; Brasero is broken due to an updated cdrecord. Fixes and improvements since oi_147: bump consolidation versions to 148 where available with bug and security fix backports; backports from Illumos; bump NVIDIA driver to 256.44; fixed l10n in Firefox and Thunderbird; added PostgreSQL packages; fixed man pages…. ...

Openwall GNU/*/Linux 3.0 merupakan distribusu Linux mini dengan keamanan lebih ketat yang ditujukan untuk servers, appliances, dan virtual appliances. Rilis versi 3.0 kali ini merayakan 10 tahun proyek ini berjalan: I am pleased to announce that we have made a new major release of Openwall GNU/*/Linux, version 3.0. The ISO images include a live system, installable packages, the installer program, as well as full source code and the build environment. This release marks roughly 10 years of our project – development started in mid-2000, and Owl 0.1-prerelease was made public in 2001. With the 3.0 release, the Owl 2.0-stable branch is formally discontinued. We intend to proceed with further development under Owl-current and to maintain the newly-created Owl 3.0-stable branch until the next release, as usual. ...