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Philip Newborough merilis build pengembangan baru CrunchBang Linux 10, distribusi ringan berbasis Debian : New CrunchBang ‘Statler’ images are available now. The new images were built on 5th December 2010 and feature all package updates available at that time from the Debian ‘Squeeze’ and CrunchBang ‘Statler’ repositories. The main focus behind this release was to incorporate the five months worth of package updates that have occurred since the alpha 2 images were created. Changes to the application line-up and system defaults have been kept to a minimum. The only changes of note are: the artwork has been updated to reflect the recent website redesign; the Xfce variant now uses Xfce’s native panel by default…. ...

Glenn Cady mengumumkan rilis Ultimate 2.8 “Lite”, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang menampilkan desktop LXDE dan didesain untuk dipasang pada komputer dengan sumberdaya rendah: As promised, have the latest and the last release in the 2.8 series of Ultimate Edition. Ultimate Edition 2.8 ‘Lite’ is dedicated to those with low system resources; it is also lightning-fast on machines that have the resources. There are no bells and whistles here, no office suite, no Compiz – just the pure essentials. It was built off Lubuntu 10.10, updated and upgraded, which is based on the LXDE desktop environment. Many applications were ripped from the operating system before I even started to build. This is the first time a light edition has been released from us; not that it has not been asked for by many for some time. Ultimate Edition 2.8 ‘Lite’ will fit on a CD. ...

Android sudah mulai menampakkan taringnya di ranah pasar smartphone. Sejak diluncurkan pada bulan Oktober 2008, sampai akhir tahun 2010, pangsa pasar yang dikuasai oleh operating system ini dalah sebesar 44%. Selain rilis dalam bentuk operating system, Android juga mempunyai Software Development Kit yang bisa digunakan untuk mengembangkan aplikasi untuk android . Berikut ini adalah tutorial bagi anda yang ingin menguji android di sistem operasi Ubuntu. ...

Jolicloud 1.1, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu untuk netbooks dengan antarmuka pengguna terkustomisasi dan integrasi ekstensif dengan layanan online dan jejaring sosial telah dirilis: With what we are releasing today, Jolicloud will bring all its users one step ahead of what Google, Apple and Microsoft are announcing. When everybody talks about HTML 5 as the future, we deliver it today, now and for everyone. We also hope that you will enjoy the brand new HTML 5 desktop that anyone on Chrome can use online at my.jolicloud.com. We have listened to your feedback and added some of the most requested features: Dashboard customization with beautiful background images; simplified access to the computer settings; ability to add any local application to your dashboard from a Jolicloud device; faster sign up and login using Facebook Connect; improved user interface design. ...

George Vlahavas mengumumkan rilis edisi “Fluxbox” yang baru saja dikembangkan untuk distribusi berbasis Slackware , Salix OS 13.1.2: After a lengthy development period, the Salix team is proud to announce the first official release of Salix ‘Fluxbox’ edition. Salix Fluxbox 13.1.2 is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and features the minimal Fluxbox window manager, customized with the Salix look and feel. The ‘Fluxbox’ edition provides the cleanest work environment compared to any other previous Salix editions and has been designed so that it stays out of the way, while providing a fast, versatile and powerful environment. The installation images allow the installation to be performed in three different modes – core, basic and full. ...

Matthew Dawkins mengumumkan rilis Unity Linux 2010.2, sistem operasi minimalis yang didesain sebagai basis untuk membuat distribusi terkustomisasi: The developers at the Unity Linux project are proud to announce a brand new snapshot of the 2010 release. The 2010.2 release provides many updates to core packages, much more stability, and refinements to the core tools of the project, like mklivecd and unity-installer. Since our 2010.1 release the changes include: updated toolchain, OpenSSL, X.Org, Python, Mono, Smart, Drak tools, Linux kernel 2.6.35.7; addition of more than 2,000 packages; Xfce 4.6.2, KDE 4.5.1, GNOME 2.32.0, Openbox 3.4.11.2, E17 0.16.999.52995 and EFL beta libraries, as well as several proprietary video drivers for NVIDIA and ATI. ...

Leszek Lesner merilis versi update ZevenOS 1.9 edisi “Neptune”, distribusi Linux yang berbasis cabang testing Debian : We are proud to announce the release of ZevenOS Neptune 1.9.1. This is the first minor release to ZevenOS Neptune 1.9 which brings an updated Linux kernel (2.6.35.9) and an upgraded KDE SC (4.5) as well as VLC 1.1.5. The base Debian online slots system was updated with security and bug fixes as well as our own applications such as ZevenOS hardware manager and Neptune installer. We are also proud to see that our effort in creating a good remastering tool, remaster-kit, has resulted in the first unofficial ZevenOS Neptune 1.9.1 release based on the GNOME desktop. Features: the newest, full-featured KDE SC 4.5 desktop with lots of animations and useful applications; the newest Chromium web browser including the newest Adobe Flash and full HTML 5 support. ...

Thierry Nuttens mengumumkan rilis versi terupdate NuTyX , distribusi Linux desktop berbahasa perancis yang dikembangkan dari Linux From Scratch dan menggunakan manajemen paket khusus yang diambil dari CRUX .Perubahan sejak Attapu: media live sekarang dapat melakukan instalasi ke hard disk lewat installer grafis; KDE telah di upgrade ke versi 4.5.5 dan sekarang memungkinkan untuk mengenerate image live CD / DVD dari sistem terinstall; juga diperkenalkan ulang edisi “MINI”, yang mengizinkan instalasi aplikasi ekstra lewat internet; saat instalasi terdapat tujuh kernel yang dapat dipilih, memberikan opsi kombinasi perangkat keras yang lebih banyak; antarmuka maintenance telah diperbaiki dan disederhanakan, sekarang menggunakan window manager JWM secara default; partisi swap yang tersedia sekarang dideteksi secara otomatis dan telah dikonfigurasi. Anda dapat mengunjungi home page proyek (dalam bahasa Perancis) untuk membaca pengumuman rilis. ...

Troy Dawson mengumumkan ketersediaan build alpha pertama Scientific Linux 6, distribusi yang dikompilasi dari kode sumber Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 yang beru saja dirilis dan diberi tambahan aplikasi ekstra: We have released the first alpha release of Scientific Linux 6. This first release installs and works. Packages that haven’t been built, and aren’t in the release include Ruby, Ekiga, Foomatic, Guile, Hivex, TurboGears2… We do not have all of the updates that Red Hat has released. Currently the installer says there is only a ‘minimal’ install available at the package selection, but if you go into ‘Customize now’ shows that a normal desktop install is selected – we plan on fixing this. There are no specialized pictures shown during the install, just the one that you see through the whole time – we are attempting to get this fixed. We are planning on SL6 alpha 2 to be released next Friday. ...

Superb Mini Server ( SMS) versi 1.5.4 telah dirlis, distribusi mini berbasis Slackware yang ditujukan untuk penggunaan server skala kecil: Superb Mini Server version 1.5.4 released (Linux kernel 2.6.35.7). This release brings new kernel and glibc so you need to put your machine in single-user mode in order to upgrade from previous versions of SMS. New packages include gdk-pixbuf2, ca-certificates, slacktrack, libmpc, libnl, libelf and mcelog. In SMS.Native.CD-Extra added httpd_vm, a version of httpd compiled for virtualmin with –with-suexec-docroot=/home and Ruby 1.8.7 for compatibility issues with many Ruby on Rails applications. Also on SMS64 added 64-bit packages for Asterisk, util-linux-ng with full PAM support and Postfix with vda patch which already existed in SMS. ...

Stefano Fratepietro mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis DEFT Linux 6, sebuah distribusi berbasis Ubuntu dalam bentuk live CD yang berisi toolkit foreksik dan pencarian bukti digital: I’m happy to announce that DEFT 6 release candidate is out. Here are the main new features of DEFT 6: LXDE desktop, Linux kernel 2.6.35, DEFT Extra 3 (Windows side), Sleuth Kit 3.2.0, Autopsy 2.24, Digital Forensic Framework (DFF) 0.8, Xplico 0.6.1, DHash 2.0.1, Guymager 0.5.7, Hunchbacked 4most 0.6, Log2timeline 0.50, Foremost, Scalpel and Photorec file carver; USB 3 ready; full integration using Wine for running Windows forensic tools under linux; full support for Intel Mac OS X systems; full support for most common file systems; full support for logical volume manager; full support for afflib and ewflib. ...

Kate Stewart mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha pertama Ubuntu 11.04, code name “Natty Narwhal”: Natty Narwhal is doing a first bit of spy hopping, also known as alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 11.04. New features include Unity as the default user interface: Unity is now the default in the Ubuntu desktop session. The Unity Launcher is now available; it can be used to launch applications that are pinned to the launcher and switch between running applications. It supports quick lists on context menu. It can be set to auto-hide. Places is not yet available in alpha 1. Clicking the Ubuntu logo in the upper left of the screen will open the applications directory. ...