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Andrew Gillis mengumumkan rilis VortexBox 1.4, distribusi Linux berbasis Fedora yang ditujukan untuk server musik dan jukebox: We are pleased to announce the release of VortexBox 1.4. Continuing with our goal to make VortexBox the universal server for any media player we have added full DLNA support to VortexBox. DLNA is the future of media sharing and many players such as PS3, Windows 7 Media Player, and Samsung televisions support DLNA. Now you can easily serve your music and video files to all these devices. We have also added Bliss to the VortexBox web GUI. Bliss can find cover art for even the most obscure albums. As usual there are also many other fixes and updates requested by the VortexBox community. ...

George Vlahavas mengumumkan Salix OS 13.1, distribusi Linux berbasis Slackware dengan Xfce sebagai dekstop pilihan: Salix 13.1 has been released. Available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, Salix 13.1 is fully backwards compatible with Slackware 13.1. Salix 13.1 is built on top of a Slackware 13.1 base and offers a streamlined Xfce desktop environment with selected applications following the ‘one application per task’ philosophy. Salix 13.1, can be installed using three different installation modes: ‘core’, ‘basic’ and ‘full’. The ‘full’ installation mode installs all software that is included in the ISO images. Mozilla Firefox and Claws-Mail are the applications chosen for your web browsing and email needs, accompanied by the Pidgin instant messaging client, the Transmission torrent client and the wicd wired and wireless network manager. A complete OpenOffice.org suite is provided for all your office work. ...

Onur Küçük mengumumkan rilis Pardus Linux 2009.2: The second update release of the Pardus 2009 family, Pardus Linux 2009.2 is released. The newest member of the Pardus 2009 series comes with advanced driver support, enhanced desktop environment and updated versions of packages in our repositories, providing enhanced stability, performance and easily installable environment with thousands of open-source software. One of the highlights of the new release is the latest stable KDE, version 4.4.4, and Qt 4.6.2, coming with many bug fixes, new netbook mode and new features of the Plasma system. Firefox 3.6.3 to safely browse the Internet, GIMP 2.6.8 for graphical work, the OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 office suite and programming systems like Python 2.6.5 are only a few of the updated packages of the new release. ...

Untangle , distribusi gateway jaringan berbasis Debian dengan modul pluggable untuk aplikasi jaringan telah diupdate ke versi 7.3: We are pleased to announce general availability of Untangle 7.3. Our latest version has many feature enhancements and fixes. It also includes the capability to completely ‘white-label’ Untangle for OEM purposes. Enhanced download and upgrade UI progress meter – when Untangle applications are downloaded or when future upgrades occur, Untangle server will now display more details about the download / upgrade as it happens. Platform enhancements – our commitment to support different kinds of hardware and network interface cards (NICs) continues unabated, we now have much broader support for practically all Intel NICs and select Broadcomm cards. With this release we have also made performance improvements in Untangle to consume less memory. ...

Colin Watson mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha pertama Ubuntu 10.10, dengan code name “Maverick Meerkat”: Welcome to Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.10. New features: The GNOME base platform has been updated to the current 2.31 versions, this includes the new dconf and gsettings API; Evolution was updated to the 2.30 version, which operates much faster compared to the version in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; KDE was updated to the current 4.5 beta 1 release; Qt was updated to the current 4.7 beta release; Linux kernel 2.6.34. ...

Nelson Silveria mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta kelima Dreamlinux 4.0, distribusi ramah pengguna berbasis Debian dengan Xfce tampilan desktop seperti Mac OS X: Team Dreamlinux is proud to announce that the next beta of Dreamlinux is now available. This brings Dreamlinux 4.0 to beta 5, along with some interesting features: based on Debian testing; Xfce 4.6.1; Java and Mono runtime since several applications rely on these two platforms; Linux kernel 2.6.32.10; complete framework for compiling sources; C, C++, Objective-C, Ruby, Python, Perl, Vala and Lua programming languages; Firefox 3.6.3; Brasero for CD/DVD burning; SMPlayer media player; ePDFViewer; Geany text editor, good for everything, including programming; GIMP 2.6.8, Inkscape 0.47; Smart package manager with several utilities. The installer is text-based at the moment as the developers work on a revamped GUI for the final. ...

Proyek MoLinux mengumumkan dimulainya proses pengembangan MoLinux 6.0 (code name “Zoraida”), distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang disponsori pemerintahan daerah Castilla la Mancha, Spanyol dan dioptimisasi untuk digunakan di institusi pendidikan lokal dan kantor pemerintahan. berdasarkan pengumuman rilis (dalam bahasa spanyol), fitur utama pada rilis baru ini adalah dukungan piranti keras yang lebih baik dan penambahan program baru diantaranya : ...

Jay Klepacs mengumumkan rilis aLinux 14.0, distribusi desktop dan Live CD yang menampilkan desktop KDE 3. Apa yang baru di rilis ini? aLinux now uses a graphical installer; tons of bug fixes and many system init script updates to make the boot process quicker; RPM Manager now defaults to LZMA compressed archives aka XZ; while we fully transition to LZMA which is fully supported as of aLinux 14.0 there are still a few GZIP remnants that might not work as they once did, like in earlier Midnight Commanders; system – X.Org 7.5, KDE 3.5.10, KOffice 1.6.3, Linux kernel 2.6.34, GNOME 2.14.3, Perl 5.10.0, glibc 2.5, GCC 4.1.2, PHP 5.2.0 and MySQL 5.0.33; by default aLinux on X Window / KDE can view most common and not so common Unicode, UTF-8, ISO-10646 font/glyph locales in applications such as Konqueror, Firefox, SeaMonkey, GVim, Kedit, Konsole. ...

Anne Nicolas mengumumkan ketersediaan release candidate kedua dan terakhir Mandriva Linux 2010.1: As announced previously, here comes the last development release for Mandriva Linux 2010.1. This is essentially a bug-fix release. Again ISO images are available on all public mirrors: 32-bit and 64-bit DVD images and mini dual-architecture ISO images for ‘Free’ release (100% open-source software); ‘One’ live CD images for KDE and GNOME environments. These ISO images can be fully tested on your hardware but also on virtual machines (VirtualBox, QEMU, KVM). You can also dump it on USB key as an installation media. ...

Tony Sales mengumumkan rilis Vinux 3.0, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang didesain untuk tuna netra dan pengguna komputer yang bermasalah secara visual: _ On behalf of the whole Vinux community I am happy to announce the 3rd release of Vinux – Linux for the visually impaired, based on Ubuntu 10.04. This version of Vinux provides three screen-readers, two full-screen magnifiers, dynamic font-size and colour-theme changing as well as support for USB Braille displays. Vinux is now available both as an installable live CD and as a DEB package which will automatically convert an existing Ubuntu installation into an accessible Vinux system. In addition, we now have our own Vinux package repository (from which you can install our customised packages with APT or Synaptic) and a dedicated Vinux IRC channel._ ...

François Dupoux mengumumkan rilis SystemRescueCd 1.5.5, distribusi Live CD berbasis Gentoo Linux dengan tool untuk recovery data dan mempartisi disk, salah satu fitur terbaru pada rilis ini adalah installer baru untuk menjalankan systemrescuecd dari Flash Disk : ...

Alan Baghumian mengumumkan rilis Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, distribusi Linux berorientasi desktop berbais Debian testing: We are proud to announce that the final Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5r0 ISO images are available for immediate download. This release provides a stable computing platform for your daily uses and tasks. Package repositories are synchronized with Debian testing repositories as of April 7, 2010. Frankie ISO images will not fit on CD and a DVD is required to burn them. These images are compiled using Squashfs 4.0 with LZMA compression and for the first time GRUB 2 is used as default live DVD boot loader. The kernel build system has been modified and improved vastly to produce better kernel packages. Our brand new Linux 2.6.32.14 kernel with improved configuration is patched using the latest TuxOnIce suspension / hibernation and Kon Kolivas’s BFS patches. ...