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Miklós Vajna mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis preview pertama Frugalware Linux 1.2. Distro umum berbasis komunitas yang membidik pengguna linux menengah The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 1.2pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1: KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards; PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system; package updates – Linux kernel 2.6.31 + fixes, GNOME 2.28, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.4, more than 900 other package updates, More than 70 new packages. ...

Volker Theile mengumumkan rilis FreeNAS 0.7. Sistem Operasi untuk Server NAS (Network-Attached Storage) berbasis FreeBSD ini mendukung protokol CIFS (samba/ windows), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, dan iSCSI. Today I am proud to announce the release of FreeNAS 0.7. Majors changes: add ability to configure the login shell for a user; upgrade Samba to 3.0.37; upgrade Transmission to 1.72; local users must join the ‘ftp’ group to be able to login via FTP if ‘Local users only’ in ‘Services, FTP’ is enabled; upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.23; add a user portal, this allows a local user to login and change the password; upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2a; upgrade iSCSI initiator to 2.2.3; Upgrade NTFS-3G to 2009.4.4; upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.8; add Adaptec AACRAID 32/64-bit driver to 5.2.0 Build 17517; upgrade inadyn-mt to 02.14.10; upgrade fuppes to SVN-0.640. ...

Robert Shingledecker mengumumkan rilis Tiny Core Linux 2.5, distribusi linux (sangat) minimalis yang hanya berukuran 10MB ini menyajikan kernel 2.6, busybox, Tiny X, dan FLTK toolkit. Tiny Core continues to get smaller and faster. Change log for 2.5: updated rebuildfstab for speed improvement; updated tc-config and tc-functions for NFS-PXE support; updated tce-load and tc-config with cp construct replaces tar pipe and rsync, speed improvement; updated tc-config for Microcore + no wbar = no X bug; updated exittc now norestore will uncheck the default backup option; re-implemented /opt/tce boot-time support; updated flwm system menu with transparent shell options; added home/tc/.wmx to /opt/.xfiletool.lst to protect basic system menu…. ...

Warren Woodford mengumumkan rilis SimplyMEPIS 8.0.12, update maintenance dari edisi komunitas SimplyMEPIS 8.0. SimplyMEPIS merupakan distribusi linux desktop yang ramah kepada pengguna linux baru alias mudah digunakan oleh pemula. SimplyMEPIS dikembangkan berbasis pada distro linux debian. ...

Stephan Rickauer mengumumkan rilis BSDanywhere 4.6, Live CD berbasis OpenBSD yang menggunakan IceWM window manager: We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of BSDanywhere 4.6 – OpenBSD at your fingertips. Here’s a quick summary of the changes since 4.5: upgrade base system to OpenBSD 4.6 and packages accordingly; replace Enlightenment desktop (E17) with IceWM, for which we use a slightly adjusted ‘icedesert’ theme including BSDanywhere wallpapers – it starts quicker, is easy to customize and very stable; space we gained by swapping the window manager has been spent on adding the XMMS music player, the Irssi chat client, the XFE file manager, the Mutt email client and the OpenNX client; ddb, the kernel debugger, may now be invoked from the console using CTRL-ALT-ESC….. ...

Build Alpha ketiga TinyMe 2009 ‘Acorn’, distro desktop minimalis yang dikembangkan dari unity linux (fork dari PCLinuxOS) yang membidik pengguna dengan komputer tua dan yang menginginkan lingkungan desktop yang ringan dan cepat. ...

Rafael Bonifaz mengumumkan rilis Elastix 1.6.0, distribusi linux berbasis CentOS yang mengintegrasikan tool terbaik untuk Private Branch Exchanges (PBX) berbasis Asterisk dalam satu antarmuka terpadu yang mudah digunakan : We are proud to announce the release of Elastix 1.6 stable. It can be downloaded in 32-bit or 64-bit ISOs. This release has several improvements from Elastix 1.5 that fix bugs from Elastix and CentOS. Here are some of the more important changes: Asterisk updated to 1.4.26.1; Dahdi updated to 2.2.0.2; Asterisk now supports Huawei modems as trunks; Elastix 32-bit and 64-bit synchronization, now both editions have the same packages; Elastix package now provides elastix-additionals for easier updates…. ...

Christophe Lincoln mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis pengembangan SliTaz GNU/Linux 5.4, distro minimalis dengan openbox yang didesain untuk komputer tua, untuk dites : SliTaz contributors are proud to announce the availability of a new Cooking ISO image based on over 2,100 packages available in the SliTaz repository. The full system has been rebuilt with a new toolchain using glibc 2.10.1 and GCC 4.4.1. This new Cooking uses the Linux kernel 2.6.30.6 with better hardware support and more built-in modules. The boot process has been further improved and the boot time is now faster than ever. Major packages found on the live CD, such as Firefox, have been updated to the current stable version. The tazpkg package manager supports new features, including the conversion of DEB, RPM, Arch, Slackware and IPK packages to SliTaz’s native format. ...

FOSSCASTS merupakan proyek dari John Yerhot yang menyediakan Screencast mengenai Linux, Unix, dan aplikasi Open Source secara umum. Tiap Episode berdurasi kurang lebih 10 menit. Screencast ini dipublikasikan tiap Jumat. Selamat Menonton!

Troy Dawson mengumumkan rilis Scientific Linux 5.4, distribusi turunan yang dikompilasi dari kode sumber distro Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 ditambah paket-paket ekstra saintifik, file systems dan software lainnya: Scientific Linux 5.4 has been released for both i386 and x86_64 architecture. There are packages that we used to have to add to Scientific Linux, that are now in Enterprise 5, and so we do not have to add them ourselves. FUSE, and its kernel modules, are now provided by the upstream vendor. The Atheros wireless chipset is now supported by the upstream vendor. We have added the iwlwifi 5150 ucode (firmware), as well as updated the 3945, 4945, and 5000 ucode. Lua has been also been added to the release. Scientific Linux release 5.4 is based on the rebuilding of RPMs out of SRPMs from Enterprise 5 Server and Client, it also has all errata and bug fixes up until November 1, 2009. ...

Imad Sousou mengumumkan rilis Moblin 2.1 , distribusi linux yang mengkhususkan diri untuk netbooks berbasis Intel Atom: The Moblin project steering committee today announces the project release of Moblin 2.1 for Intel Atom processor-based netbooks and nettops. This project release includes the broadest feature additions, customer requested improvements, and overall polish to date. With this community release you will see significant feature additions and improvements including enhanced browser functionality and plug-in support, UI enhancements, support for 3G data connections, Bluetooth device management, input method support for localized languages, integrated application installer for the Moblin Garage, performance and stability improvements, and additional overall help and documentation. In addition to the various new features, this new version of Moblin includes several hundred bug fixes and incorporates feedback from users and the developer community. ...

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