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Valent Turkovic mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis Fusion Linux 14, distribusi berbasis Fedora untuk desktop: Fusion 14 release candidate is out in the wild and ready for you. This version should be quite stable, all major bugs from the beta version have been fixed. This is first release of Fusion Linux that includes TeamViewer and Skype out of the box. Some of the other new features: GIMP 2.7 development version with single-window mode; Firefox 4.0 beta; F-Spot instead of Shotwell; Xournal – a great application for drawing and PDF annotation; K3b for CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning; Thunderbird instead of Evolution; PlayOnLinux – easily install Windows games and applications; a better selection of games; Giver – easy file sharing on local network; Gwibber – Twitter and Identi.ca social network client; Tomboy instead of GNote for quick note taking…. ...

Jan Paul Tuecking mengumumkan rilis IPFire 2.7 Core 41, distribusi firewall berbasis Linux dengan fokus pada kemudahan instalasi dan keamanan yang tinggi: Today, on the third birthday of IPFire 2, we are going to release Core 41.This core update has important security fixes of glibc and bzip2. The core update implicates following changes: Webinterface – fixed CGI outgoing GRP display bug, fixed bandwidth usage display with IE8, added example for black/whitelist on Proxy page, VPN pre-shared key field is now a password field; hardware – updated Realtek r8169, r8168, r8101 drivers; security – bzip2: 1.0.6 security update, closed privilege escalation hole in glibc; VPN – enabled cURL for HTTP fetching revoking list in strongSwan, added OpenVPN pam.so; firewall – fixed the feature for deactivating outgoing firewall rules; others – disabled internal TFTP Server in Dnsmasq…. ...

Red Hat mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6: Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the latest beta update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, release 5.6 (with kernel 2.6.18-229.el5) for a family of products. The beta release notes are available on the media as well as online as part of the general documentation. The online version of the beta release notes will contain the latest data. The following list summarizes improvements to this release: BIND 9.7 – improved DNSsec support; PHP 5.3 – support for namespaces; ebtables – Ethernet layer firewall; dropwatch – network stack packet analysis; IPA fonts – Japan JIS X 0213:2004 support; sssd – offline credential caching. ...

George Vlahavas mengumumkan rilis Salix OS 13.1.2 edisi “Xfce”, sebuah distribusi berbasis Slackware : We are happy to announce the immediate availability of the collection of Salix Xfce 13.1.2 CD images. These include both 32-bit and 64-bit standard installation images, as well as a 32-bit live image that can be used with an optical disk or a USB drive. Both the standard and the live image can be used for installing Salix Xfce to your hard drive, using a text-mode or a graphical installer respectively. The live image includes, among others, a persistence wizard, that will let the user keep changes, including extra installed packages and personalization between different live sessions. LiveClone is another tool specific to the live image – using it users will be able to easily roll their own custom build of the Salix Xfce Live. ...

Flavio Pereira de Oliveira mengumumkan rilis ImagineOS 20101103, distribusi live CD berbasis Slackware yang sebelumnya dikenal dengan nama GoblinX: The second ImagineOS release is finally available. This live CD, created by using linux-live scripts with few modifications, uses KDE 4.5.1 as the desktop environment and its based on Slackware ‘Current’ with more applications and features. Some versions of major components of the system: Linux kernel 2.6.33 (with Zen kernel patch), glibc 2.12.1. Changelog: added some small modifications to the ImagineOS hard disk installer; added the possibility to load ATI, NVIDIA and Intel video card modules before Plymouth starts; added lines inside rc.imagineos boot script to force Intel video card modules to restart using kernel modeset…. ...

Steven Shiau mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis stabil terbaru Clonezilla Live, versi 1.2.6-40. Clonezilla Live merupakan distribusi Live CD berbasis Debian dan berisi Clonezilla, piranti lunak pengatur partisi dan kloning disk mirip Norton Ghost. beberapa perbaikan dan perubahan pada rilis ini diantaranya: ...

Stanislav Hoferek mengumumkan rilis Greenie Linux 8M, distribusi desktop berbasis Ubuntu yang dioptimisasi untuk pengguna bahasa Slovakia dan Ceko: One month after the release of Ubuntu 10.10, a new release of Greenie has arrived. What is new? From this point on, Greenie Linux is primarily a DVD, as it is no longer possible to fit it onto a CD. Among the more interesting programs included in the release are Google Chromium, GIMP, Pidgin, VLC, Moovida, Pingus, WINE, OpenTTD and many other applications and games. Greenie Center was re-built, new theme (Deepin) is used. Work from inside VirtualBox is much better, documentation was updated a bit and there is also better support for languages other than Slovak and Czech. ...

Kai Hendry mengumumkan rilis Webconverger 7.0, distribusi live berbasis Debian yang ditujukan untuk “kiosk” yang langsung melakukan boot ke perambah web Firefox. Perubahan terbesar pada rilis ini adalah sistem dasar diupdate dari Debian “Lenny” ke Debian “Squeeze”: ...

Antonio Carlos Velez Baez mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta pertama VLOS 2.2, distribusi berbasis Gentoo untuk desktop: After more than two months of constant hard work, the first beta of VLOS 2.2 is officially released. This release includes many improvements, among which we can find the following: live DVD – install it or just use it as rescue DVD; shipped with Tweetdeck, social networking framework; Blender, 3D modeling software; the latest Thunderbird email client; new Anaconda installer based on Sabayon Linux; desktop-optimized Sabayon Linux kernel 2.6.35; GParted with support for many file systems; Eclipse developer IDE; support for new iPod and iPhone through libmobile and gtkpod; graphics editing tools including Inkspace, GIMP, Shotwell and Dia; Boxee media center and Hulu desktop; VirtuaBox virtual machine software and guest additions…. ...

Christophe Lincoln mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis pengembangan pertama SliTaz GNU/Linux, distribusi minimalis cepat yang menampilkan window manager Openbox dan tool manajemen paket kustom: The SliTaz team is pleased to announce the release of a new ‘Cooking’ CD image featuring over 2,600 packages. It contains Linux kernel 2.6.34 and was rebuilt using a new toolchain with glibc 2.11.2 and GCC 4.5.1. X.Org Server has been fully updated to 1.9.2. The live CD includes Midori, the DeaDBeeF audio player and many applications for daily use. Tazpkg and Tazctrlbox now support gettext translations and more UTF locales have been added. Many bug fixes, updates and improvements can also be found, a lot of work have been done these last 6 month. ...

Fabio Erculiani mengumumkan rilis lima “spins” baru Sabayon Linux 5.4: Our crew, is happy to announce the immediate availability of E17, Xfce, LXDE, SpinBase/OpenVZ, ServerBase Sabayon 5.4 ‘spins’ built on top of Sabayon ‘SpinBase’ ISO images. Under the ‘experimental spins’ umbrella, the Sabayon developers are going to experiment with new stable releases with different package compositions. The E17 Spin contains the Enlightenment 17 desktop environment. Xfce and LXDE contain the respective desktop environments, while SpinBase/OpenVZ contains an OpenVZ template ready to go. ...

Jeff Bilyk mengumumkan rilis Alpine Linux 2.1.0, distribusi yang didesain untuk router, firewall, VPNs, box VOIP dan server berbasis x86: Alpine Linux 2.1.x brings several new features: Linux kernel 2.6.35.x kernel, GCC 4.5, Perl 5.12, Asterisk 1.8, PostgreSQL 9.0, Dovecot 2.0; PHP/Apache 2 support; initial support for udev as alternative to BusyBox mdev; X.Org Server 1.9 (with udev and hotplug support); GTK+ 2.22; Kamailio 3.1. Some of the minor fixes include: ping as normal user works; the package alpine-base ships /etc/alpine-release; ‘lbu package -‘ should work even if there are pre/post scripts to lbu; less verbose Alpine init, only show error if any; no info message about not starting mounting modloop; encrypted apkovls should work again. ...