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Samuel Baggen mengumkan rilis Elive 2.0, sebuah distribusi Linux berbasis Debian yang menyajikan window manager Enlightment 17 teroptimiasasi dengan desktop yang menarik : The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the Stable version 2.0 Codename Topaz. The new stable version of Elive has a huge list of improvements. Its ease of use makes it suitable for any kind of user along with a totally new Linux experience for those who have not tried Elive before. Changelog: autolaunchers – entirely rewritten with better stability and more features; user configurators – many user configurators added to configure anything; drivers – Linux kernel 2.6.30.9 with support for special hardware and other features like TuxOnIce (hibernation), Reiser4FS, ext4…. ...

Ken Smith mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis kedua untuk FreeBSD 7.3: The third and what should be last of the test builds for the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, 7.3-RC2, is available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. The target schedule, as well as the current status of the release is available here . The schedule has slipped by a bit over a week so the actual target for the release announcement is really about a week and a half from now. If you notice problems you can report them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-stable mailing list. There are known issues with the Radeon video driver that have caused some people problems. The problems have been nebulous enough that we have decided to not hold up the release due to that specific issue. ...

Roberto Dohnert mengumumkan rilis PC/OS 10.1 edisi “OpenWorkstation GNOME”, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu untuk desktop : The developers of PC/OS are excited to bring you this new installment in the PC/OS family. Users and customers have demanded it so we have now delivered it. This release is based on the GNOME desktop. We are targetting this release at a more high-performance crowd. What’s included? GNOME 2.28, Linux kernel 2.6.31, Empathy replaces Pidgin, OpenOffice.org 3.1, Exaile, Gambas 2, WideStudio, full multimedia codecs, Sun Java 6, Evolution groupware suite, GnomeBaker, Exaile, VLC, GIMP (with all plugins), Google Chrome, Nimbus GTK+ theme and Metacity. As we continue to improve this release we will continue to add software and tools for everyone. ...

Robert Shingledecker telah merilis Tiny Core Linux 2.9, distro Linux minmalis yang hanya berukuram 10 MB : Tiny Core Linux 2.9 is now posted. Change log: upgraded udev to 151 with several rule adjustments and new rules added; updated libstdc++ 6.0.9 to support exceptions; updated glibc 2.9 to support i486; updated wbar – eliminated background relics; updated appbrowser – added ‘Provides’ to search for ‘What provides’, also error handling and speed improvements; updated appsaudit – added ‘Display All Not Depends On’; updated tc-config – persistent home and/or opt; improved language support by auto-loading locale support extension(s); added functions checkroot and checknotroot for improved user handling; new ‘Set TCE Drive’ in control panel to setup TCE directory, optional and mydata.tgz from cloud mode…. ...

François Dupoux mengumumkan rilis SystemRescueCd 1.4.0, Update baru distro Live CD berbasis Gentoo yang didesain untuk kondisi darurat dan manajemen disk : SystemRescueCd 1.4.0 introduces two new options that allow you to boot from NFS v3 or NBD. Basically, if the computer on which you work had no CD-ROM drive, or if you just want to boot SystemRescueCd from the network for any other reason, you can install network services somewhere else on your network (DHCP server, TFTP server, HTTP/NFS/NDB server) and you will be able to boot SystemRescueCd from the network.” Other updates include: “Updated the standard kernels to version 2.6.32.9, the alternative kernels to version 2.6.27.45, updated Mozilla Firefox to version 3.6, added zfs-fuse 0.6.0 file system, updated FSArchiver to 0.6.8…. ...

Matthew Burgess mengumumkan rilis Linux From Scratch (LFS) 6.6, Buku elektronik bebas yang memberikan panduan langkah demi langkah mengenai bagaimana membuat Sistem Linux dasar dengan mengkompilasi kode sumper Kernel Linux, Utility GNU dan komponen dasar lainnya : ...

Silvan Calarco mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis tes pertama openmamba GNU/Linux 2.0, distribusi ini menyertakan KDE 4 dan menggunakan RPM package management : I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of openmamba milestone2 2.0pre1, the new version of the GNU/Linux operating system for laptop, desktop and server PCs. The second milestone of the openmamba development project has been reached thanks to the integration of the modern KDE 4 desktop environment, the most recent improvements to the Linux kernel and system software and the best open source applications. After months devoted to development and testing, this release is for the users who look for an optimal combination of innovation, reliability and stability. The use of stable repositories with few massive upgrades scheduled, give the user the needed reliability for most purposes. ...

Jon Ramvi mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta pertama EasyPeasy 1.6, Distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang telah dioptimisasi untuk netbooks: “The team has been working hard to bring you the best netbook experience. The 1.6 beta 1 is the first release of EasyPeasy 1.6, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of EasyPeasy. Features: new interface; social by default – we now feature built-in integration with Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, and other social networks with the MeMenu in the panel; all packages are upgraded; default search engine has been changed to Yahoo!; includes the 2.6.32 kernel based on 2.6.32.8; sports full removal of the HAL package, making EasyPeasy faster to boot and faster to resume from suspend; new default open-source driver for NVIDIA hardware; improved support for NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver….” ...

Iuri Stanchev mengumumkan rilis NetSecL 2.6, sebuah distribusi berbasis Slackware yang diperkuat dengan proteksi GCC Stack Smashing dan berbagai fitur keamanan lainnya: NetSecL 2.6 released. In the new release you will find QEMU, servers and new penetration tools. We took our time to separate the usual network utilities and penetration tools and add them in a new section. Also, you will find that now we have a section called ‘srv’ with some server packages in it. There are many updates to the libraries and additional bindings to Perl and Python that we hope will be useful for future programs included with the distribution. You will also find in the distribution ISO a VMX file created with VMmanager which you can use for creating a virtual machine – mount the ISO copy the VMX folder, unmount the ISO (that you just copied), move it to the VMX folder and start it with VMware Player. ...

Rilis beta keempat MOPSLinux 7.0, distribusi berbasis Slackware dalam bahasa rusia, siap untuk diunduh dan dites. Berdasar pengumuman rilis (dalam Bahasa Rusia), ini merupakan rilis beta terakhir sebelum kandidat rilis final dikeluarkan. Rilis ini tidak memasukkan banyak fitur utama, lebih fokus pada perbaikan bug dan bukan pada peningkatan fitur. Beberapa fitur menarik pada rilis ini: ...

Daisuke Suzuki mengumumkan rilis Vine Linux 5.1 (code name “Cheval Blanc”), distribusi komunitas yang menggunakan bahasa Jepang ini tersedia dalam arsitektur i386, x86_64 dan PowerPC. Ini merupakan update minor dalam seri Vine 5.x yang memasukkan seluruh seri yang mengintegrasikan seluruh perbaikan bug dan update keamanan yang diumumkan sejak rilis 5.0. Update ini merupakan bagian dari persiapan proyek Vine Linux untuk Open Source Conference 2010 yang berlangsung selama hari dan akan dimulai di Tokyo, Jepang. ...

Steve Langasek mengumumkan rilis alpha ketiga Ubuntu 10.04 yang dikenal dengan sebutan “Lucid Lynx”: Welcome to Lucid Lynx Alpha 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. New features: The default search engine has been changed to Yahoo! The default home page will use either Google or Yahoo! depending on user setting. Alpha 3 includes the 2.6.32 kernel based on 2.6.32.8. Alpha 3 of Kubuntu features the new KDE SC 4.4. The nouveau video driver is now the default for NVIDIA hardware, this driver provides kernel mode setting, which will give improved resolution detection. We now feature built-in integration with Twitter, identi.ca, Facebook, and other social networks with the MeMenu in the panel. ...