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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…. ...

Meric Mara telah mengumumkan rilis Kahel OS 01-01-2010, edisi “Light”, distribusi berbasis Arch Linux ini menyajikan desktop XFCE : Today let us introduce to you Kahel OS ‘Light’ edition 01-01-2010, designed for netbooks with limited storage capacity. Just like the Kahel OS ‘Desktop’ edition, the ‘Light’ edition has 32- bit and 64-bit installers. What describes Kahel OS ‘Light’ edition 01-01-2010? Lightweight – the light desktop operates on Linux 2.6.32 and uses Xfce 4.6 which is suitable for PCs with low memory and resources; power-packed – the installer is compressed and the standard install is just 1.8 GB; SSD-friendly – Kahel OS ‘Light’ includes Btrfs and NILFS file systems; bundled with lightweight applications – includes Claws email client, Midori web browser, gThumb image viewer and organizer, and Exaile music player. ...

Kris Moore mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta pertama PC-BSD 8.0, sistem operasi yang ditujukan untuk penggunaan desktop dengan KDE berbasis FreeBSD : The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-BETA, running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, and KDE 4.3.4. Version 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements. Some of the notable changes are: brand new system installer, allows the install of PC-BSD or FreeBSD; run in live mode directly from DVD; updated software manager, allows browsing and installing applications directly; support for 3D acceleration with NVIDIA drivers on amd64. Version 8.0-BETA of PC-BSD is available for download from our mirrors. Also, our Pootle translation page has been updated with the latest strings. ...

Tim Zorin OS mengumumkan rilis Zorin OS 2.0, distribusi berbasis ubuntu yang didesain khusus untuk pengguna baru linux: We are proud to announce that Zorin OS 2.0 has been released. Zorin OS 2.0 is available in five different flavours: Zorin OS ‘Core’ which is the regular desktop edition; Zorin OS ‘Gaming’ which includes over 40 of the best open-source games; Zorin OS ‘Multimedia’ which includes over 40 extra multimedia applications; Zorin OS ‘Educational’ which includes many educational programs; and Zorin OS ‘Ultimate’ which has some of the best open-source programs around. Zorin OS Core is available to download and the other releases are available for purchase from the Store page . ...

Charles Barcza mengumumkan rilis blackPanther OS 10.1, distribusi linux desktop berbahasa Hungaria yang dibangun dari komponen dan konsep yang dipinjam dari beberapa proyek distribusi utama. versi baru ini memaketkan kerel 2.6.32.2 didalamnya dan memasukkan X.org Server 1.7.3, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.6, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, GIMP 2.7.0, KDE 4.3.1 dan berbagai aplikasi poluler lainnya. Info lebih detail, dan tangkapan layar bisa anda baca di pengumuman rilis (dalam bahasa hungaria). Unduh Image Live CD dari : blackPantherOS_v10.1.1.iso (700MB, MD5 ).

Mulai 1 Maret 2010 Mark Shuttleworth mundur dari jabatannya sebagai CEO di Canonical, perusahaan yang ada dibalik proyek Ubuntu Linux. di posting blog nya mark menjelaskan bahwa dia tetap akan berada di canonical hanya kedepannya akan lebih fokus pada desain produk, kerjasama dan pelayanan pelanggan, area-area tersebut merupakan area favorit bagi mark untuk bekerja didalamnya. ...

Anil Gulecha mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha kedua Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, distribusi OpenSolaris untuk server 32 bit maupun 64 bit dengan kumpulan aplikasi yang saling terikat dengan baik. On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) 3.0 alpha 2. This is the second release in NCP3. The main changes over the Alpha1 release include: move from Opensolaris b124 to b129, this brings the long awaited ZFS deduplication support to the distribution; many additional network drivers; nexenta-on-source changes. From the release of NCP3 on, all sunw* packages are natively built on Nexenta. The complete sources are available in the repository, along with Sun Studio 12 and other tools to roll your own kernel. ...

Warren Woodford mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta kedua dari SimplyMEPIS 8.5, distribusi linux yang mengkhususkan diri untuk pengguna pemula berbasis debian tetapi dengan desktop KDE 4 The rapid response of the Debian KDE team made it possible for us to recompile KDE 4.3.4 in time for this beta. And we were able to fix the perpetually problematic Python toolchain well enough that system-config-printer finally works. Also there have been numerous suggestions from the community; some are included now, and some will be in the next beta. The MEPIS artistic team made some tweaks to the theme graphics. To also improve the look, mepis-init has been changed to default to 24-bit depth display for most modern graphics drivers. We’re being cautious about this change, since we don’t want to make things worse for users with older graphics chips. ...

Kai Hendry merilis Webconverger 5.8, distro khusus untuk web kiosk ini berbasis debian linux dan hanya memaketkan Firefox sebagai aplikasi desktop. Apa yang baru di rilis ini? The big difference with this release is using i686 builds instead of i486. This means that Webconverger will not boot on very old PCs and some cheap CPUs like Geode. If this is problem for you, let me know! For the rest of us with i686-compatible hardware, Webconverger should be a litter faster. In other news, the spelling from the previous release 5.7 with Firefox 3.5 should now be working for you. The CJK support might not quite work on these free images; however, if you purchase Webconverger with Chinese (or Korean or Japanese) support I will ensure all the relevant fonts and input tools are pre-installed. ...

Samuel Baggen mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis pengembangan terbaru Elive, version 1.9.52, sebuah distro berbasis debian yang menyajikan kompilasi terbaru desktop Enlightenment 17. Perbaikan sejak Elive 1.9.51: Enlightenment 17 modules – a new set of Enlightenment 17 modules for Elive, they are found in the features category of the Enlightenment 17 Preferences; Trayer moved to the system tray of Enlightenment 17; Bluetooth featured on the fly; power manager featured for laptops; MSN – aMSN replaced by emesene for now due to resources and stability reasons; Linux kernel version 2.6.30. Note that this is a development version. ...

Fabio Erculiani mengumumkan rilis Sabayon Linux 5.1, distribusi berbasis Gentoo dengan desktop GNOME dan KDE The best, refined blend of GNU/Linux, coming with bleeding edge edges, is eventually here. Features: based on the new GCC 4.4.1 and glibc 2.10; ships with a desktop-optimized Linux kernel 2.6.31; provides extra server-optimized and OpenVZ-enabled kernels in repositories; installer now available in multiple languages; complete ext4 file system support; features X.Org 7.5 and up-to-date FLOSS, NVIDIA, AMD video drivers; containing GNOME 2.28 (with GNOME Shell) and KDE 4.3.4; outstanding 3D desktop applications (Compiz, Compiz Fusion and KWin)…. ...