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Andrew Gillis mengumumkan rilis VortexBox 1.1, distrbusi berbasis Fedora yang bisa dengan mudah mengubah komputer yang sudah tidak digunakan menjadi server audio atau jukebox: VortexBox 1.1 released. I am very excited about this release of VortexBox. We are moving from being just a media server to a music player as well. This version of VortexBox includes VortexBox Player. You can use your internal sound card or external USB DAC to play your music. VortexBox Player supports music recorded at up to 24-bit / 192 kHz. This is higher then most players support including the Sonos and SqueezeBox line of hardware players. We have also added a lot of other great features requested by the VortexBox, SqueezeBox, and Sonos communities: VortexBox Player as the default software player; covers are added to all MP3 files for easy use in iTunes and XBMC; option to have MP3 or AAC mirror updated after ripping. ...

Rilis beta ketiga dari MOPSLinux 7.0, distribusi berbahasa Rusia yang berbasis Slackware telah dirilis. Fitur baru sejak beta 2 diantaranya: Mekanisme yang memungkinkan tersedianya beberapa versi yang berbeda dari suatu paket dan pengguna bisa menggunakan salah satu paket secara bergantian dengan mudah Kemampuan untuk memilih dari sebuah daftar paket yang mengalami konflik ketika mereka tidak bisa dipasang secara bersamaan Kemampuan untuk memilih paket alternatif ketika instalasi sistem Penambahan Memtest86+ ke menu boot DVD Update Paket GCC 4.4.3, Kernel Linux 2.6.32.6 (dua varian : kernel generik dan kernel yang telah dipatch dengan BFS dan BFQ) Kelas instalasi baru dengan Fluxbox, Openbox, atau sistem minimalis Komponen utama termasuk glibc 2.11.1, Qt 4.6.1, GTK+ 2.18.5, Mozilla FIrefox 3.6, dan X.Org Server 1.7.4 Anda bisa membaca pengumuman rilis (dalam bahasa Rusia) untuk informasi lebih lanjut. ...

Henne Vogelsang mengumumkan ketersediaan milestone pertama seri distro baru openSUSE 11.3: It’s here! The first openSUSE 11.3 milestone. The most important goal of this first milestone is to test the build interactions between newly added features in openSUSE Factory, also known as ‘get the snapshot to build’. It is in no way feature complete or ready for daily usage. There is no code freeze for any component yet, so many major changes are still to come. This 11.3 Milestone build will give you a first glimpse of the direction we are pushing the distribution. ...

Holger Levsen mengumumkan ketersediaan release candidate kedua Skolelinux 5.0, distribusi berbasis Debian untuk sekolah / edukasi yang juga dikenal dengan nama Debian-Edu: I’m very happy to announce the second release candidate (rc2) of the Lenny-based Skolelinux version. Please test these images as much as you can and report back. Except for documentation and translation updates, this is intended to become the Lenny release. Here are the most notable changes since the last test release (rc1): updated manual and updated translations to German, Italian and Norwegian; updated translations of the installer for German, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese, Chinese, Norwegian, French, Japanese and Czech; optimisations for running cfengine, resulting in a faster install; usplash is disabled on specific hardware where it is known to break…. ...

Anne Nicolas mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha pertama Mandriva Linux 2010.1: The Mandriva team is proud to announce the first alpha release of 2010.1. Many improvements and new functionalities are planned for this new version – your desktop will be smart and connected. You will also find easy home encryption so that your personal data are secure wherever you are. Also planned is work on our tools to manage software installation and updates to give more useful information and help user to choose the best software. Desktop environments are also part of our main focus. Finally, work is also in progress to add cloud functionalities in your favorite desktop. ...

Onur Küçük mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis kandidat pertama Pardus Linux 2009.1, sekarang juga tersedia dalam Live CD : A release candidate of Pardus Linux 2009.1 is ready. Starting with this release, Pardus Linux ISO files are generated as hybrid images. The same hybrid image can be burned to a CD, DVD or dumped to a hard disk-like media, such as a USB stick. Pardus Linux 2009.1 RC comes with the latest stable KDE release, enhanced hardware support, and bigger software archive with up to date packages such as KDE 4.3.4, Linux kernel 2.6.31.9, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.7, GIMP 2.6.7, X.Org Server 1.6.5, Python 2.6.4 and many more on just one CD. ...

Samuel Baggen telah merilis build pengembangan baru Elive , sebuah live CD yang menawarkan window manager Enlightenment 17 yang telah dikustomisasi berbasi Debian stable : The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.56. Changes: 3G phones – more than 300 new operators added; Internet module – if you connect with a 3G phone, the configuration will be saved and you can set it to automatically connect at boot; Icedove – when installing Icedove, it contains by default a very nice-looking Elive-style template; Flash updated to version 10.0.42.34; installer – some fixes regarding the boot of Windows systems; Linux kernel version 2.6.30. Note that this is a development version. ...

Rilis beta pertama VLOS 2.0, distribusi Linux desktop berbasis Gentoo tersedia untuk diunduh dan dicoba: We are proud to announce the first beta release of the upcoming VLOS 2.0 live DVD. Changelog: NVIDIA and ATI drivers now automatically detected and configured; VLOS now mounts NTFS drives automatically; Compiz enabled when 3D card is available; updated to Linux kernel 2.6.32; Flash and Java plugins now installed by default; Gwibber Twitter client, Pitivi video editor, OpenOffice.org, WINE, Hulu desktop, Inkscape and GIMP now installed by default; synchronize your iPod Touch and iPod 3G with latest gtkpod + iFuse; instant messengers – Skype, Emesene, Empathy or Pidgin; manage your photos with F-spot. ...

Anil Gulecha telah mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha ketiga Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, distribusi OpenSolaris untuk server x86/x64, dengan rilis reguler yang cepat dan mudah diinstall serta dilengkapi dengan aplikasi yang dipilih dengan seksama didalamnya ...

Joern Lindau telah merilis Toorox 01.2010, distribusi Live DVD berbasis Gentoo yang memaketkan KDE 4, installer grafis dan kemampuan networking lanjutan With the beginning of this new year it’s time for a new release. With the release of Toorox 01.2010 you can get a 64-bit edition, too. It contains the 2.6.32 kernel and the KDE was updated to version 4.3.4. The Toorox installer is now able to set up your /home folder on another partition and you can install the bootloader into a single partition or a floppy disk. There’s a new entry in Systemconfig – Mobile Broadband, where you can configure your mobile UMTS connection and bring it up. All packages for a PPTP VPN connection were included and you can configure it via NetworkManager and the nm applet. KFTPgrabber was replaced with gFTP and there is a new audio mixer – mixxx. ...

Warren Woodford mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta keempat dari SimplyMEPIS 8.5, distribusi ramah pengguna baru berbasis debian stable yang memaketkan desktop KDE 4 terbaru SimplyMEPIS 8.4.96, the beta4 of MEPIS 8.5, is available from MEPIS and public mirrors. Warren said: ‘Even though the past two weeks were a holiday time, we have been busy. In this beta I did a lot work on the look and feel of the KDE 4 desktop. There have been many suggestions and contributions from the community, but in the end, someone had to make some decisions and integrate it all together. This took a lot of time. It isn’t final, but I think it’s very close. Otherwise, Firefox was updated to version 3.5.6.’ ...

Matthew Dawkins mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta kedua Unity Linux 2010, sebuah distro minimalis yang memaketkan openbox dan smart package management, berbasis Mandriva Linux The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its second beta release, 2010 Beta 2. We have taken the last four weeks to provide many needed fixes and continual updates to the core offering of our software. Changelog: updated X.Org Server to 1.7.3; fixed Aufs for GVFS support; new kernel version 2.6.31.9; additional firmware; NDISwrapper module is fixed and working with kernels 2.6.30 and higher; overall there are about 200 updates since beta 1. Known issues: RPM 5 filetriggers feature is not fixed yet; X.Org Server 1.7.3 is not yet supported by the ATI proprietary driver…. ...