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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…. ...

Larry Short mengumumkan rilis Puppy Linux 5.0: Puppy Linux 5.0, code name ‘Lupu’ and also referred to as ‘Lucid Puppy’ as it is built from Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’ binary packages, is now available. It is a typical Puppy, lean and fast, friendly and fun, with some new features. Puppy 5.0 features Quickpet, with some of the best Linux productivity and entertainment programs, configured and tested, available with one-click. It also introduces choice in browsers – pick one or all and choose the default. Lupu boots directly to the desktop and has tools easily at hand to personalize Puppy, if they are needed. Language and locale are easy to set. Barry Kauler’s Simple Network Setup is another of those easy configuration tools. Updating to keep up with bug fixes is another one-click wonder. ...

Artyom Zorin mengumumkan ketersediaan Release Candidate untuk Zorin OS 3.0, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang didesain secara spesifik untuk: Welcome to Zorin OS 3. What’s new? Zorin OS look changer; installer slideshow; new themes (Shine Mac and Shine Dark) and better-looking splash screen; integrated social networking solutions; Rhythmbox music player updates (iPod and iPhone compatibility and Ubuntu One music store integration); OpenShot movie editor replaces Kino; VLC media player with better multimedia playback compatibility; open-source nouveau graphics card driver with accelerated 2D graphics performance; better wireless card support; performance improvements. ...

Joern Lindau mengumumkan rilis Toorox 05.2010, distribusi Live DVD berbasis Gentoo yang menampilkan desktop KDE 4 dan installer sistem grafis: Toorox 05.2010. A new version has been finished; it contains the Linux kernel 2.6.33. The KDE desktop environment has been updated to the recent version 4.4.3. All KDE 3 applications and dependencies have been removed. KlamAV has been replaced by ClamTk and K3b has been updated to the latest Qt 4 RC version. Guarddog and kdetv have been removed. Also umtsmon has been removed, but now the complete network configuration and Internet connection is handled by NetworkManager and you can establish a mobile connection via nm-applet. Nearly all packages have been updated to the latest version. The binary ATI driver (fglrx) still doesn’t support the latest X.Org Server 1.8 so this release contains version 1.7.6. ...

Sejalan dengan berbagai macam perbaikan yang dilakukan, maka tree Slackware “current” menjadi release candidate 1 (RC1) untuk rilis Slackware Linux 13.1. Beberapa fitur baru pada rilis ini diantaranya : ...

Robert Gabriel mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha pertama Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3, distribusi Live CD berbasis Slackware dengan KDE 4, installer sistem grafis dan manajemen paket kustom: After several months of work, Kongoni 1.12.3, code name Cicero, is here. At the moment it is still in alpha stage, as there wasn’t any proper testing done to this new release, but with your help, I hope in a couple of months this new release will enter into the stable stage. This release was fully synchronized with Slackware ‘current’, which is actually Slackware 13.1-beta. All the package are updated to the latest possible version, there is a new system installer, called Kongoni System Installer (KSI), new kernel, 2.6.32.12, Squashfs 4 with LZMA support, Aufs 2, default kernel scheduler moved to BFS scheduler for a faster desktop, custom Linux-Live scripts to support Squashfs 4…. ...

George Vlahavas mengumumkan rilis beta pertama Salix OS 13.1, distribusi berbasis Slackware yang dioptimisasi untuk penggunaan desktop, siap untuk diunduh dan dites: Here is Salix 13.1 beta 1, coming shortly after the announcement of Slackware 13.1 beta 1. It’s available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and it’s another step towards the final release of Salix 13.1. Most bugs should be fixed by now and the result should be really close to what the final release is going to be. Changes since 13.1 alpha 1: Simple Scan replaces XSane; Evince replaces ePDFView; cryptsetup and mdadm have been added, making it easier to setup LVM; installer does not auto-reboot after completion, but prompts the user to select between rebooting, or exiting the installation to the command line; upgraded Linux kernel to version 2.6.33.3; fixed the locale setup window during installation…. ...

Muhammad Subair mengumukan rilis aplikasi Keuangan Guyub . Ini merupakan aplikasi keuangan buatan anak bangsa untuk UKM Jasa. Berikut kutipan pengumuman Subair di milis id-ubuntu : _Teman-teman, kami baru saja merilis ‘Keuangan Guyub-Aplikasi Keuangan Open Source untuk UKM Jasa’. ...

Materi presentasi pada acara Lucid Release Party Ubuntu Solo bisa dilihat di https://ubuntusolo.web.id/?p=144

José Antonio Calvo mengumumkan rilis eBox Platform 1.4-2, distribusi untuk server berbasis Ubuntu yang membidik pengguna bisnis kecil dan menengah: We’ve done a lot of bug-fixing and small improvements since the last 1.4-1 release. All those enhancements have now been included in a new installer. Here is a summary of the most relevant changes: DNS – added support for internal networks allowed to recourse the caching server; Ebackup – improvements on frequency and keep options, added backup and restore of logs, added restore configuration from backup action; Egroupware – now works properly in a master-slave scenario; firewall – new firewall table containing rules added by eBox services; network – failover test are more robust now; Samba – allow guest shares; Squid – new bandwidth throttling support with delay pools…. ...

Alan Baghumian mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis tes ketiga Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, distribusi desktop dan Live CD berbasis cabang testing Debian : The third and final set of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5 ‘Frankie’ testing ISO images are out. In this release efforts were centralized on fixing reported problems by the community and also finalizing needed updates and changes through the stable release. Repositories are synchronized with Debian testing repositories as of April 7, 2010. Continent repository is frozen and no more updates will be imported from Debian. ISO images will not fit on CD and a DVD is required to burn them. Frankie ISO 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. ...