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Alexander Tratsevskiy mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta pertamadari Calculate Linux 10.4 edisi “KDE”, distro desktop Linux berbasis Gentoo dengan bahasa Rusia: A new cycle of development of Calculate Linux – Calculate Linux Desktop 10.4 beta 1 KDE released. Features: KDE updated to version 4.4.1; added utility ‘cl-passwd’ to change passwords, authorized by CDS server; expanded support for HP, Epson and other printers; OpenOffice.org ‘Oxygen’ style, added support for KDE menu, open and save files; new parallel installation of packages; changed user profile template generation and added ability to customize application updates the $HOME/.calculate/ini.env. Package versions: KDE 4.4.1, Amarok 2.3.0, Firefox 3.6, GIMP 2.6.8, Linux kernel 2.6.32.9, OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, X.Org 7.4. ...

Matias Fonzo mengumumkan ketersediaan release candidate kedua dari Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0, distribusi independent, tanpa tujuan spesifik yang berisi hanya free software: I am pleased to announce the release candidate 2 of Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0. Dragora is a powerful and reliable GNU/Linux distribution created from scratch with the intention of providing a stable, multi-platform and multi-purpose operating system. Built with 100% free software. In this version many programs have been upgraded, including the Linux-libre kernel 2.6.32.10, GCC 4.4.3, Binutils 2.20.1, Bash 4.1.2 and more. The major changes are: the implementation of LVM2/RAID devices, added Python 2.6.5, git 1.7.0.3 + security updates, bug fixes with code correction for the init system and the package system. ...

Christophe Lincoln mengumumkan rilis SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0, distro minimalis (tetapi dapat dikembangkan) yang menyajikan desktop Linux cepat dengan menggunakan Openboxsebagai window manager default: The SliTaz team is proud to announce the release of the SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0 operating system. It’s simpler, faster, customizable, mightier and yet incredibly tiny. The new SliTaz stable version is now out after one year of development. The core desktop provides a full-featured desktop powered by X.Org 7.4, Openbox, LXDE components and home-made tools. It lets you easily connect to the Internet to surf the web with the Midori web browser, listen to music or manage your pictures. The default core system fits into a 30 MB ISO image and live CD flavors start at 8 MB. This stable version has been built by a new toolchain including GCC 4.4.1 and uses the Linux kernel 2.6.30.6. ...

Kevin Thompson has announced the release of Element 1.1, distro Linux berbasis Ubuntu untuk home theater atau media-center berbasis PC: We are pleased to announce the release of Element 1.1, which is available immediately for free download. This is the first service pack for the Element 1 series operating system; it includes several requested features, general package upgrades, upstream bug fixes, and visual enhancements to our themes. Notable additions in this release include: Element ‘Glassy’ default theme is a little quicker now and uses fewer pixmaps, it also includes new scrollbars; Jockey-Gtk ‘Hardware Driver’ utility has replaced EnvyNG as the default means for managing proprietary video and device drivers; over-scanning on NVIDIA cards is much easier; Gigolo remote file system browser has been added…. ...

Fabio Erculiani mengumumkan rilis Sabayon Linux 5.2, distribusi linux berbasis Gentoo dengan desktop GNOME/KDE dan manajer paket binary yang dibuat sendiri The best, refined blend of GNU/Linux, coming with bleeding edge edges, is eventually here. Say hello to Sabayon Five-point-Twoh, available in both GNOME and KDE editions. Dedicated to those who like cutting-edge stability, out-of-the-box experience, outstanding desktop performance and beauty. You will find outstanding amount of new applications and features, like XBMC 9.11, KDE 4.4.1, GNOME 2.28. Features: based on new GCC 4.4.1 and glibc 2.10; shipped with desktop-optimized Linux kernel 2.6.33; installable in 10 minutes; faster boot time and lightweight default system…. ...

Anil Gulecha mengumumkan rilis NexentaStor 3.0, Sebuah distro berbasis OpenSolaris yang bertujuan untuk memudahkan pembuatan applicance storage dengan administrasi berbasis web : On behalf of the NexentaStor team, I’m happy to announce the release of NexentaStor Community edition 3.0. This release is the result of the community efforts of Nexenta partners and users. With the addition of many new features, NexentaStor CE is the most complete, and feature-rich gratis unified storage solution today. This is a major NexentaStor release, with many new features, improved hardware support, and many bug fixes. Quick summary of features: ZFS additions – deduplication (based on OpenSolaris b134); free for up to 12 TB of used storage; Community edition supports easy upgrades; many new features in the easy-to-use management interface; integrated search. ...

Andreas Jaeger mengumumkan ketersediaan Milestone keempat openSUSE 11.3: The fourth of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 4 focuses on switching to upstart as init daemon. Here’s what you may find interesting in the new release: OpenOffice.org has been updated to 3.2.1 Beta1 with new features; NetworkManager has been updated to version 0.8 with fixes to better support Bluetooth and GSM; CUPS has been updated to version 1.4.2, it adds over 67 changes and new features, including improved Bonjour/DNS-SD support; the conntrack network filtering system has been added; the Mono stack has been updated to the bug-fix release 2.6.3 together with MonoDevelop 2.2.2…. ...

Steven Shiau mengumumkan ketersediaan versi terbaru dari Clonezilla Live, distribusi Linux berbasis Debian yang berisi perangkat lunak kloning disk. This release of Clonezilla Live (1.2.4-28) includes major enhancements, bug fixes, and language translation updates: new file system support – UFS of FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, it has been tested successfully for imaging FreeBSD 8.0, OpenBSD 4.6 and NetBSD 5.0.2; new file system support – VMFS of VMware ESX; i686 kernel is available in this release, so multi-core CPUs are supported; xz/lzip compression, and parallel compression, pxz and plzip, were added, you can choose z5”, z5p”, z6” or z6p” in the expert mode; if your machine has multi-core CPU, please use the i686 version of Clonezilla live then the -z5p and -z6p options are available in the expert mode; now both syslinux and isolinux are included in Clonezilla Live ISO image and ZIP file. ...

Tim Rekayasa Rilis FreeBSD telah merilis FreeBSD 7.3, update terbaru dari seri lama FreeBSD. Berikut kutipan dari pengumuman rilis: The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release from the 7-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.2 and introduces a few new features. There will be one more release from this branch to allow future improvements to be made available in the 7-STABLE branch but at this point most developers are focused on 8-STABLE. Some of the highlights: ZFS updated to version 13; new boot loader gptzfsboot supports GPT and ZFS; hwpmc enhancements; new mfiutil and mptutil tools for widely-used RAID controllers; NULL pointer vulnerability mitigation; BIND updated to 9.4-ESV; GNOME updated to 2.28.2, KDE to 4.3.5 and Perl to 5.10. ...

Rubén Rodríguez Pérez mengumumkan rilis Trisquel GNU/Linux 3.5, distribusi linux yang sepenuhnya bebas (sesuai definisi Free Software Foundation) berbasis Ubuntu: Trisquel GNU/Linux 3.5, code name ‘Awen’, is ready. This release is a fully free Ubuntu 9.10 derivative that includes extra software, better multimedia support, more translations and faster configuration. For this release we used ext4 for the root file system and XFS for the home one, to have a balance between speed and usability. Some important features include a much faster boot process and the ability to encrypt the home directory. All packages were updated, including: Linux-libre kernel 2.6.31, X.Org 7.4, GNOME 2.28, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, a Mozilla-based web browser 3.5. ...

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Robert Shingledecker mengumumkan rilis Tiny Core Linux 2.10, distro grafikal minimalis yang berukuran hanya 10MB: Tiny Core v2.10 is now posted. Changelog: updated Appbrowser / tce-load – recursion now fully supported; updated Appbrowser, no pop-ups, GUI redesign, dropped menu for buttons, added status area; updated flwm_topside moved location and look of iconize button; updated appsaudit, added wait cursor during selective updates; updated cpanel cursor support and removed full paths; updated flwm ondemand, now fully automatic; updated tc-functions for additive home setup support; new hsetroot replaces Esetroot for logo PNG support; updated Backgrounds / wallpaper for hsetroot support; updated exittc to not call exitcheck, backup occurs within exittc; added missing rule for mmc support; added directory indicator for improved appsaudit ‘On Boot’ selection…. ...