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Daisuke Suzuki mengumumkan Rilis Vine Linux 5.2, distribusi generik yang dimotori komunitas untuk pengguna berbahasa Jepang. Rilis ini sebagian besar merupakan update errata dan keamanan distribusi yang sepenuhnya bebas dan tidak menggunakan komponen proprietary ini, aplikasi non bebas atau huruf non bebas. Beberapa perbaikan menarik pada Rilis ini diantaranya update paket seperti Firefox 3.5.15, Pidgin 2.7.5, Sylpheed 3.0.2, dan Thunderbird 3.1.6; perbaikan dukungan kartu video untuk berbagai kartu video Intel, NVIDIA, dan ATI; perbaikan installer sistem trmasuk deteksi sistem file FAT, dukungan untuk SD card dan controller firewire, dan dukungan yang lebih baik untuk kartu jaringan nirkabel; daftar mirror APT telah diupdate, serta manual Vine Linux sudah dimasukkan ke Edisi DVD. Anda dapat membaca pengumuman Rilis (dalam bahasa Jepang) dan catatan Rilis untuk informasi detail mengenai Rilis ini. ...

Untuk menghapus baris kosong pada sebuah file dengan awk, kita bisa menggunakan salah satu dari perintah-perintah berikut : $ awk '$0!~/^$/ {print $0}' $ awk NF $ awk '/./' Sebagai contoh, buat file dengan nama test, dengan isi : ...

Selain partisi swap kita juga bisa membuat swap dalam sebuah file [root@clarisa sumodirjo]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapswap bs=1M count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 1.83954 seconds, 57.0 MB/s Perintah diatas akan membuat file dengan nama swapswap pada direktori / (root). dd akan membuat file dengan isi nol yang berukuran 1MB sebanyak 100 kali sehingga akan menghasilkan file berukuran 100MB ...

Barry Kauler mengumumkan rilis Quirky 1.4, distribusi mini yang dibuat oleh pendiri Puppy Linux tetapi dikembangkan dengan toolkit yang berbeda: Yes, this is an official public release. The main purpose of releasing Quirky 1.4 is to test my experimental simplified module loading and interface configuration boot scripts (codename ‘zzz’). This is supposed to improve the detection and setup of sound, analog modems and 3G modems, and maybe more peripherals. 1.4 differs from 1.3 in that it is built from the Wary 5 PET packages, of which the main feature is X.Org 7.3. Also an older kernel is used, 2.6.31.14 and the live CD includes the complete collection of analog modem drivers as used in Wary, plus SCSI drivers. There are some new features, in particular, a ‘heavy duty’ file downloader backend for the Puppy Package Manager and Video Upgrade Wizard. ...

Silvan Calarco mengumumkan bahwa build pra-rilis ketiga openmamba GNU/Linux 2.0, distribusi generik untuk netbooks, desktop, dan server siap untuk dicoba: The third pre-release of openmamba milestone 2 is out with over 1,000 software updates. The system is based on Linux kernel 2.6.33.7 and provides a modern desktop environment that includes, among others, KDE 4.5.3, OpenOffice.org 3.2, Firefox 3.6.12, Amarok 2.3.2. The openmamba distribution is available for PC (x86 compatible) in English, Italian and Spanish languages and it is distributed as ISO images in live CD, live DVD and live games flavours. The ISO image can be burned on a CD/DVD media or installed on a USB pen drive and used to boot a live system and install it. Users of the previous 2.0 pre-releases will receive a consistent upgrade from network to get aligned with the new release. ...

Phil Miller mengumumkan rilis Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.4, distribusi berbasis Arch yang menampilkan desktop KDE 4.4: The Chakra development team is proud to announce the availability of our fourth and last point-release of ‘Jaz’, the live CD using our stable repositories. During the last days our stable repositories got some new updates. This is done to prepare the KDE SC 4.5.4 build which goes directly into stable next weekend. Also we updated the toolchain to be even faster in compiling. Under the hood we still use the 2.6.33 kernel series. I’ll try to backport the autogroup-scheduler to give this kernel more speed. The image uses larch8 now, which is more advanced and simplified for our needs. Features: Linux kernel-2.6.33.7-2 with LZMA support, KDE SC 4.4.5, X.Org Server 1.7.7; ATI Catalyst 10.8, NVIDIA 256 and legacy. ...

Glenn Cady mengumumkan rilis Ultimate Edition 2.8 “Gamers”, distribusi Live DVD berbasis Ubuntu yang menampilkan lebih dari 48 games: Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers is unlike any other gamer’s edition built in the past. Besides the updates, many tools have been ripped out of Ultimate Edition 2.8, prior to the build to maximize room for additional games. In Ultimate Edition 2.8 Gamers you will not find OpenOffice.org, we are here to play games right? This does not mean you will not have a media player, just the very basics and a vast quantity of high-quality games. The newest PlayOnLinux is also included to allow installation of Windows games. What games have been pre-installed? Urban Terror, Armagetron Advanced, Gunroar, Hedgewars, Kobo Deluxe, Pingus, BZFlag, Chromium B.S.U., Grid Wars 2… A new repository filled to the hilt with games has also been pre-added to allow the end user to install additional games. ...

Offensive Security mengumumkan rilis respin kedua BackTrack 4, sebuah distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang menampilkan koleksi tool keamanan untuk forensik digital dan testing penetrasi jaringan atau sistem: Yes, the time has come again — for a new kernel, and a new release of BackTrack. Code-named ‘Nemesis’, this release is our finest as yet, with faster desktop responsiveness, better hardware support, broader wireless card support, and streamlined work environment. The run down: Linux kernel 2.6.35.8 with a much improved mac80211 stack; USB 3.0 support; all wireless injection patches applied, maximum support for wireless attacks; a revamped Fluxbox environment for the KDE challenged; Metasploit rebuilt from scratch, MySQL db_drivers working out of the box; updated old packages, added new ones; new BackTrack Wiki with better documentation and support…. ...

Robert Shingledecker mengumumkan rilis Tiny Core Linux 3.3, distribusi desktop minimalis berukuran 10 MB: Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce that Tiny Core 3.3 is now available. Change log: new FLTK integrated file manager, fluff, file associations; new FLTK minimal editor, on System Tools menu, and called via File Manager, configurable file associations; updated AppBrowser – integrated setdrive; new wbarconf replaces wbar_exclude – manage all icons (system and ondemand), as well as bar placement; new wbar_mv_icon for support of wbarconf; updated ondemand, appsaudit, and wbar_setup for single ondemand dir; updated flwm_initmenu – to support combined single ondemand directory; updated cpanel WbarConf replaces TCE Update; updated and reorganized boot help screens; updated Control Panel reorganization, moved more frequently used items to the System Tools menu…. ...

Andrew Gillis mengumumkan rilis VortexBox 1.6, distribusi berbasis Fedora yang membuat komputer tidak terpakai menjadi server musik atau jukebox: We are pleased to announce the release of VortexBox 1.6. This release has Fedora 14, 4K sector driver support, and support for USB 2 and 192/24 USB DACs. The main goal of this release was to get VortexBox on a more current release of Fedora. This has many benefits including faster boot time, faster files transfers, and better hardware compatibility. The ability to support USB 2 is huge for users of high-definition USB DACs and USB s/pdif converters. Until now VortexBox could only support 96/24 playback. As always our goal is to create the easiest-to-use auto ripping CD and NAS solution. Thanks to the many VortexBox and SqueezeBox community members that helped with testing and features on this release. ...

Zafer Aydogan mengumumkan rilis Jibbed 5.1, distribusi live CD berbasis NetBSD yang menampilkan deteksi piranti keras otomatis dan desktop Xfce: And again it’s NetBSD time. A new version of the Jibbed live CD has finally arrived. It is freshly built from the NetBSD 5.1 sources, which is the first feature update of the NetBSD 5.0 branch. It includes many bug fixes and contains the latest packages from pkgsrc. As always, it uses X.Org from base and the Xfce desktop. Jibbed is a bootable live CD based on the NetBSD operating system that works directly from a CD without need for a hard drive. Automatic hardware detection provides support for a wide variety of graphics cards, sound cards, network interfaces, and USB devices. This live CD showcases a complete NetBSD environment, including compiler sets, and provides features like tmpfs to simulate read-write access on read-only media. ...

Warner Losh mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta pertama FreeNAS 8.0, sistem operasi berbasis FreeBSD yang menyajikan layanan Network-Attached Storage (NAS): iXsystems is pleased to announce FreeNAS 8.0 beta. FreeNAS 8.0 has undergone a complete rewrite. We’ve redesigned the GUI to be easier to use and extend. We’ve upgraded many technologies in the system for improved hardware support, faster I/O, better modularity, and easier upgrades. We trust that you’ll find the system easier to use and, in time, much more feature rich than the current FreeNAS offering. The base system has migrated from FreeBSD 7.x and the m0m0wall build system to FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE and NanoBSD. The system start-up has migrated from the older PHP scripts to the standard FreeBSD rc.d boot system. ...