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Onur Küçük mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta Pardus Linux: 2009.2, distribusi berorientasi desktop yang menyajikan manajemen paket kustom dan beberapa utility yang dikembangkan secara in-house: The first testing release of Pardus 2009.2 is ready. Pardus 2009.2 beta comes with the latest stable KDE release, enhanced hardware support and bigger software archive: KDE 4.4.3, Linux kernel 2.6.31.13,OpenOffice.org 3.2.1.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3, GIMP 2.6.8, X.Org Server 1.6.5 and Python 2.6.5. With this release, Pardus International ISO image has grown in size and won’t fit on a CD any more. With the addition of Turkish language and many packages, almost 1 GB image can be used by burning a DVD or by putting it on a USB stick. We remind you that this is the first testing release for Pardus 2009.2. As this release is within the fast development cycle, there will be lots of package updates towards the stable release. ...

Mandriva mengumumkan ketersediaan release candidate Mandriva Linux 2010.1, build test terakhir sebelum rilis final yang direncanakan akan keluar awal bulan depan: Here comes the last development release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1. A few days left now before final release planned for 3rd of June. These ISOs are available on all public mirrors: 32-bit and 64-bit DVD images and mini dual images (both 32-bit and 64-bit) for ‘Free’ release (100% open-source software); live ‘One’ images for KDE and GNOME environments. These images can be fully tested on your hardware but also on virtual machines (VirtualBox, QEMU, KVM). You can also dump them on USB keys as an installation media. ...

SystemRescueCd , distribusi Live CD berbasis Gentoo yang berisi aplikasi utility untuk manajemen harddisk dan penyelamatan data, telah diupdate ke versi 1.5.4. Kutipan dari changelog : Updated alternative kernels to 2.6.33.4 (altker32 altker64); updated standard kernels online casino nbso to 2.6.32.13 (rescuecd rescue64); updated FSArchiver to 0.6.10 (fixes several bugs); updated GNU parted to 2.2 with patches from Ubuntu 10.04; updated Memtest86 to 4.10; updated firmware package to 20100430; disable NetworkManager when PXE / network boot options are used; fixed problem with firmware files in initramfs; fixed the pxe-boot-server service (empty directory was missing); added NetworkManager to make network configuration easier (especially wireless); print name of kernel modules before they are loaded at start-up…. ...

Rubén Rodríguez mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta Trisquel GNU/Linux 4.0, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang dimodifikasi agar sesuai dengan definisi Free Software yang dikeluarkan oleh Free Software Foundation : This is the first development release of the 4.0 branch, based on Ubuntu 10.04. As it is a LTS release we are starting our development cycle earlier, in order have the final version ready for the 2nd quarter. By now, the desktop live CD and the ‘netinstall’ images are available, as well as the first Trisquel mini image. They are all available in 32-bit and 64-bit flavours. They all have the 3.5 artwork. The 4.0 branch will also feature the ‘Edu’ and ‘Pro’ editions, a server oriented environment, the Sugar TOAST system, and a ‘Gamer’ edition. You can help us by testing the beta images and reporting any bugs. ...

Troy Dawson mengumumkan ketersediaan Scientific Linux 5.5, varian Red Hat Enterprise linux yang dikompilasi dari source code RHEL dan diberi tambahan paket piranti lunak ekstra, driver hardware dan fitur khusus lainnya: ...

Bob Beck mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis OpenBSD 4.7: We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.7. This is our 27th release on CD-ROM (and 28th via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD’s record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.7 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system. Install and upgrade process changes: take more care to ensure all file systems are umounted when restarting an install or upgrade; if no possible root disk is found, keep checking until one appears; the default FTP directory for -stable is now the release directory instead of the snapshot directory. Some highlights: GNOME 2.28.2, KDE 3.5.10, Xfce 4.6.1, MySQL 5.1.42, PostgreSQL 8.4.2, Postfix 2.6.5…. ...

Cabang pengembangan Slackware Linux bergerak dengan cepat menuju rilis stabil, saat ini sudah mancapai status release candidate 2: Slackware 13.1 RC2. Expect a stable release when it’s ready.” Among several recent updates there are a security update to Pidgin and a bug-fix update to CUPS: “Upgraded to Pidgin 2.7.0 and Pidgin Encryption 3.1. The msn_emoticon_msg function in slp.c in the MSN protocol plugin in libpurple in Pidgin before 2.7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a custom emoticon in a malformed SLP message. … Merged Till Kamppeter’s patch to restore the ability to use usblp with the USB backend (in addition to the libusb method). This package will remove any cups.blacklist.usblp.conf from a previous installation. ...

Linux Mint 9, yang memiliki code name “Isadora“, telah dirilis: The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 ‘Isadora’. New features at a glance: new Software Manager – 30,000 packages, review applications straight from Software Manager, APT daemon, visual improvements; new backup tool – incremental backups, compression, integrity checks, backup and restoration of the software selection; Menu improvements – editable items, transparent menu, always start with favorites, ‘Add to’ shortcuts; desktop settings – changes apply immediately, additional options; better look and feel – backgrounds, welcome screen, update manager; system improvements – Windows installer, Husse quotes, USB Creator, default software selection, local repository and Gnome-PPP, APT hold/unhold/held commands…. ...

Magic Linux, salah satu distribusi Linux komunitas tertua yang berasal dari cina merilis versi 2.5 setelah melalui 7 build pengembangan. Beberapa fitur baru pada rilis ini diantaranya : Menyertakan kernel 2.6.30.10 X.org Server 1.6.5 GCC 4.4.0 KDE 4.4.3 (juga disediakan KDE 3.5.10) Installer magic_win sekarang memungkinkan pengguna windows untuk dengan mudah menginstall Magic Linux tanpa konfigurasi Manual Metode Input ringan tapi nyaman fcitx juga disertakan WINE emulator dioptimisasi untuk pengguna bahasa cina Player Video SMPlayer dengan dukungan yang baik untuk subtitles dan kanal suara Aplikasi Kamus StarDict Berbagai macam aplikasi Downlolader (aMule, KTorrent, MultiGet) Aplikasi instant messaging (Konversation, Pidgin) Dan piranti konfigurasi jaringan khusus Untuk informasi lebih detail, anda bisa membaca pengumuman rilis (dalam bahasa Cina tentunya 😀 ). ...

Dieter Plaetinck mengumumkan ketersediaan update untuk CD Instalasi Arch Linux version 2010.05: New installation media are available. There are fewer of them and they are smaller. But they can do more. Notable changes: all ISO files can now be burned onto CDs as well as written to media like USB sticks; more than half of the packages in core are now xz compressed; next to the single architecture images we provide dual images which can be used as 32-bit or 64-bit medium; use isolinux bootloader exclusively for booting the live media; snapshot of current core, including Linux kernel 2.6.33.4, Pacman 3.3.3 and glibc 2.11.1; updated Memtest86+; support for PXE booting; provide wpa_supplicant; support virtio…. ...

Katie McCarley mengumumkan rilis Element 1.2, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang ditujukan untuk digunakan sebagai home theatre atau PC media center: The Element team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Element version 1.2. This version includes general package upgrades and upstream bug fixes to the application stack in addition to introducing three new utilities: E-Bar Editor – a minimal and to-the-point configuration editor for the central launcher bar; NVIDIA HDMI Audio Switch – a simple on/off switch that channels audio through the HDMI port on ION and 8X00 series cards; Update Manager – a fork of the standard Update Manager from Ubuntu and GNOME, packaged and configured for use on Element with distribution upgrade options omitted. Other important features and requests include the addition of Thunar file sharing plugins, easier Bluetooth setup, removal of Compiz window effects, and an optimized package list. ...

Barry Kauler mengumumkan rilis Quirky 1.1, update perbaiakn bug untuk distro Quirky 1.0 yang baru saja dirilis: I am pleased to announce the released of Quirky 1.1. Briefly, the main focus was to fix bugs in 1.0, but I also upgraded many applications. Most importantly, SeaMonkey has migrated from the 1.x series, after we solved some bugs with the 2.x series. JWM is now the default window manager and tray, as it is noticeably faster (and looks nicer) than Openbox/Fbpanel. Two show-stoppers were Ayttm and You2pup which did not work, both fixed. Release notes: The ‘xfontsel’ utility was missing although had a menu entry; upgrading (and rollbacks) of the X.Org drivers; Partview utility (to view free space in partitions) fixed for more than 11 partitions; Ayttm chat client did not work, upgraded and fixed…. ...