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Untuk mengetahui versi distro yang sedang digunakan saat ini kita bisa melihat file /etc/redhat-release untuk distro Red Hat dan turunannya seperti CentOS atau Fedora. sedangkan untuk ubuntu kita bisa melihat isi file /etc/lsb-release. Untuk menyederhanakan kita menggunakan wildcard * karena kedua file tersebut toh sama-sama menggunakan kata release 🙂 ...

Kalau Sebelumnya kita sudah mencoba Melihat Daftar Module Yang di Load Kernel Linux. kita bisa melihat informasi lebih detail mengenai sebuah module dengan program modinfo. Sebagai contoh kita ingin melihat informasi mengenai module filesystem ext3 : ...

Untuk melihat module apa saja yang di load oleh kernel yang sedang berjalan, kita bisa menggunakan perintah lsmod ataupun melihat isi file /proc/modules. Sebagai contoh : $ less /proc/modules vmnet 54996 16 - Live 0xf8cd7000 (U) vsock 28992 0 - Live 0xf8ca2000 (FU) vmci 57952 1 vsock, Live 0xf8cc7000 (U) vmmon 74304 0 - Live 0xf8c46000 (U) autofs4 29253 3 - Live 0xf8cff000 hidp 23105 2 - Live 0xf8cc0000 l2cap 29633 5 hidp, Live 0xf8cf6000 bluetooth 53925 2 hidp,l2cap, Live 0xf8ce7000 ppdev 12613 0 - Live 0xf8cbb000 xfrm_nalgo 13381 0 - Live 0xf8cb6000 crypto_api 12609 1 xfrm_nalgo, Live 0xf8c94000 lockd 63337 0 - Live 0xf8c5a000 sunrpc 146685 2 lockd, Live 0xf8c6f000 cpufreq_ondemand 12493 1 - Live 0xf8c32000 acpi_cpufreq 13897 3 - Live 0xf8a79000 ipt_REJECT 9665 0 - Live 0xf8c26000 xt_tcpudp 7105 0 - Live 0xf8a91000 x_tables 17349 2 ipt_REJECT,xt_tcpudp, Live 0xf8c1a000 dm_multipath 25421 0 - Live 0xf8b11000 scsi_dh 12097 1 dm_multipath, Live 0xf8a82000 video 21193 0 - Live 0xf8a8a000 backlight 10049 1 video, Live 0xf8a7e000 sbs 18533 0 - Live 0xf8a58000 power_meter 16461 0 - Live 0xf8a73000 hwmon 7365 1 power_meter, Live 0xf8932000 i2c_ec 9025 1 sbs, Live 0xf8a6f000 dell_wmi 8401 0 - Live 0xf8a6b000 wmi 12137 1 dell_wmi, Live 0xf8a67000 button 10705 0 - Live 0xf8a63000 battery 13637 0 - Live 0xf8a5e000 asus_acpi 19289 0 - Live 0xf89c5000 ac 9157 0 - Live 0xf8a54000 lp 15849 0 - Live 0xf89cb000 via_rhine 27725 0 - Live 0xf8a4c000 snd_hda_intel 472337 0 - Live 0xf8a9c000 ... ext3 125513 3 - Live 0xf8894000 jbd 57321 1 ext3, Live 0xf8860000 uhci_hcd 25677 0 - Live 0xf8845000 ohci_hcd 25193 0 - Live 0xf883d000 ehci_hcd 34125 0 - Live 0xf8833000 Jika menggunakan lsmod : ...

Kenapa butuh kernel headers? kalau-kalau anda ingin mengkompilasi ulang kernel anda atau mungkin anda mau menginstall piranti lunak virtualisasi VMWare yang membutuhkan sedikit kompilasi module kernel. Sebelum melakukan instalasi header kernel, pastikan anda mendapatkan versi terbaru dengan menjalankan update : ...

Glenn Cady mengumumkan rilis Ultimate Edition 2.9, distribusi Live DVD berbasis Ubuntu yang menyajikan empat desktop pilihan(KDE, GNOME, Xfce dan Openbox), banyak aplikasi tambahan, driver hardware dan codec multimedia: Ultimate Edition 2.9 was built off Ultimate Edition 2.8 which is built off Ubuntu 10.10 ‘Maverick Meerkat’. All updates fully updated / upgraded, old kernels purged, new initrd and vmlinuz rebuilt. Ultimate Edition 2.9, as with all odd release numbers, was built with KDE users in mind. Ultimate Edition 2.9 has KDE, GNOME, Openbox and Xfce environments, user selectable at login. A crisp new theme (121 to choose from) and tons of new software. LXDE was broken at time of build on the 32-bit side, so it did not make the cut. ...

Anne Nicolas mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha kedua Mageia 1, sebuah distribusi baru yang dikembangkan oleh mantan pengembang dan kontributor Mandriva Linux: As outlined in the Mageia roadmap, here comes ‘Primavera’, the second alpha release. Again, this has been a very busy month: our build system is now running fully and the list of supported software has grown to over 6,100 source RPMS, including full integration of LibreOffice and Eclipse, RPM 4.8.1 and KDE 4.6.1. Now we need you for tests! Alpha 2 is available through two DVDs in 32-bit and 64-bit flavours. You can also find a dual CD ISO image, including both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture for minimal installation. ...

Daniel Olivera mengumumkan rilis UTUTO 2011, versi baru distribusi berbasis Gentoo dalam bentuk live yang menyajikan empat lingkungan desktop. Rilis ini hadir dengan berbagai perbaikan termasuk “super kernel” baru dengan ratusan patch dan module, boot sistem yang cepat, dukungan dua metode instalasi (DVD dan USB), Live system yang dapat diinstal, dukungan piranti keras yang dikembangkan, konfigurasi system otomatis yang cerdas, dukungan kartu jaringan lebih baik dengan 100% kesuksesan koneksi untuk Ethernet, 3G, Bluetoooth dan nirkabel, dukungan Java dengan OpenJDK, virtualizasi akselerasi video terintegrasi dengan desktop, 3D Desktop secara default tanpa akselerasi hardware, empat lingkungan desktop yang dapat dipilih (GNOME, KDE, LXDE dan Xfce). Anda dapat membaca pengumuman rilis (dalam bahasa Spanyol) untuk detail tambahan mengenai rilis ini. ...

Darin VanCoevering mengumumkan rilis SuperGamer Supreme 2.5, Linux Live DVD dual-layer pertama did unia yang menyajikan berbagai macam games: The Supreme SuperGamer 2.5 is a update to the Supreme SuperGamer 2. This release is a 7.9 GB live DVD and can only run on dual-layer DVD drives or 16 GB Flash drives so please be sure you have a compatible drive. It includes: Firefox 4 beta; Flash 10.2; VLC and all of the additional updated packages; Linux kernel 2.6.27.57 with wireless support; NDISwrapper updated and additional Intel wireless modules; wicked updated; LimeWire removed and FrostWire put in its place, Soldier of Fortune was taken off as it didn’t work with the new NVIDIA driver; IconquerU game added along with the updated NVIDIA and ATI drivers, FUSE and NTFS-3G updated; addition of Gogo encoder which is faster than LAME; Java updated to 6u23. ...

Josh Paetzel mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis ketiga untuk FreeNAS 8.0, sistem operasi berbasis FreeBSD yang menyajikan layanan Network-Attached Storage (NAS): Release candidate 3 contains both bug fixes and new functionality over previous release candidates and betas. New in 8.0-RC3: there is a volume importer in the storage application, this has been tested in scenarios that are limited to what can be devised in our labs; since the ZFS upgrade procedure is non-reversable, this must be run manually, please do not upgrade your pools unless you are absolutely sure you’ll never want to go back to other systems; support for 3ware 6 Gbps RAID controllers has been added, as has the CLI utility tw_cli for managing 3ware RAID controllers; the GUI supports access via HTTP or HTTPS protocols; link aggregations can be created and configured from the CLI interface. ...

Tom McCafferty mengumumkan rilis Vyatta 6.2, sebuah versi update dari distribusi berbasis Debian untuk firewall dan router: I’m pleased to announce that Vyatta version 6.2 has completed verification and is now available for download. Vyatta 6.2 features package updates and major improvements to usability, quality and stability, including improved configuration management, OpenVPN enhancements, IPv6 DNS resolver and re-base to Debian 6.0 ‘Squeeze’. Significant branch maintenance was done by the Vyatta engineering team, including the following package updates: iptables 1.4.9, ipset 4.3, pmacct 0.12.3, Net-SNMP 5.6, ntpd, 4.2.6p2, BusyBox 1.18.0, Open VM Tools, 8.4.2, vbash 4.1. ...

John Combs mengumumkan rilis GhostBSD 2.0, distribusi live CD berbasis FreeBSD dengan desktop GNOME, manajer paket dan instaler sistem sederhana: GhostBSD 2.0 is released. Great news for this release of GhostBSD as it now supports auto-mounting USB devices. Some of the changes in the release: new logo, bug fixes, new live file system, more improvements to GDM (no more white screens during boot). GhostBSD 2.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.2; it includes GNOME 2.32, Rhythmbox 0.12.8_3, Pidgin 2.7.7, Firefox 3.6 and Thunderbird 3.0.11. GhostBSD 2.0 can be installed to hard disk with a simple terminal installer written in Python. You can now also install and delete application with a package manager call Bxpkg. ...

Alexander Tratsevskiy mengumumkan rilis Calculate Linux 11.3, distribusi berbasis Gentoo untuk desktop dan server: The new version of the Calculate Linux 11.3 distribution has been released. All editions of distribution are available for download: Calculate Linux Desktop with desktop KDE (CLD), GNOME (CLDG) and Xfce (CLDX), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS), Calculate Directory Server (CDS) and Calculate Scratch Server (CSS). Major changes: updated KDE 4.6.1 and GNOME 2.32 desktop environments; includes LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.org; improved integration of GTK+ applications in KDE; full removal of the HAL package; support for installation on /dev/cciss device (HP servers); added support for Samsung printers; fixed installation on USB hard disks. ...