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Antoni Norman mengumumkan rilis edisi spesial dari Pinguy OS untuk netbooks, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu dengan antarmuka yang telah dikustomisasi, fitur hemat daya dan driver WiFi ekstra: Pinguy has released Ping-Eee OS 11.04, an Ubuntu-based remaster especially designed for netbooks. It comes with Jupiter (which has Super Hybrid Engine support) and Granola to help with the power consumption and most applications from Pinguy OS: Docky, Nautilus Elementary, Firefox, Thunderbird, Skype, LibreOffice, Dropbox, Deluge, Empathy, VLC, Déjà Dup backup tool, Linux Mint Update Manager, WINE and more. There’s also Clementine instead of Rhythmbox. Ping-Eee OS also comes with extra WiFi drivers for many devices which are not normally supported out of the box on other Linux distributions. ...

Urs Beyerle mengumumkan rilis varian Live CD dan Live DVD Scientific Linux 5.6: About two weeks after the official release of Scientific Linux 5.6, the Scientific Linux live CD/DVD 5.6 can now be downloaded for 32-bit and 64-bit processors. Features: can be installed to local hard disk; runs from USB key; changes can be stored persistently on an external device; can be mounted over NFS (diskless client). Software: Linux kernel 2.6.18, OpenAFS client 1.4.14, X.Org 7.1, ALSA libraries 1.0.17, GNOME 2.16.0 (standard desktop), GIMP 2.2.13, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Firefox 3.6.18, Thunderbird 2.0.0.24, KDE 3.5.4 (only on live DVD). Software added compared to standard Scientific Linux: FUSE NTFS-3G (read/write NTFS support), ntfsprogs, GParted…. ...

Tony Sales has announced the release of Vinux 3.2.1, an Ubuntu-based distribution for designed for visually impaired users: Vinux 3.2.1 is now available for download. The main difference between this and the recently released Vinux 3.2 is that by default it boots with PulseAudio running in ‘user’ mode rather than ‘system’ mode. This prevents PulseAudio from crashing at boot on a small number of sound cards, but it means that Speakup is not available from the live CD or immediately after installation. However, there are now two simple commands for switching PulseAudio from user to system mode in conjunction with a reboot of the machine. This version also includes an accessible Zenity front-end for UNetbootin which allows users to install Vinux to a USB pen drive with persistent storage. ...

Kate Stewart mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha kedua Ubuntu 11.10, dengan nama kode “Oneiric Ocelot”: Welcome to Oneiric Ocelot alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 11.10. Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the Oneiric development cycle. New packages showing up for the first time include: Linux Kernel 3.0-rc5, GCC 4.6.1 compiler, Firefox 5.0, Thunderbird 5.0, a Mesa 7.11 snapshot. Alpha 2 ships GNOME 3.0, with some parts already upgraded to the 3.1.2 alpha releases. Unity, the theme, and Ayatana scrollbars were updated for GTK+/GNOME 3. ...

Marco Ghirlanda mengumumkan rilis ArtistX 1.1, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu dengan koleksi besar aplikasi untuk artis: After many years of continuous development and ten versions, the ArtistX 1.1 multimedia studio on a DVD is finally here. It’s an Ubuntu 11.04-based live DVD that turns a common computer into a full multimedia production studio. ArtistX 1.1 is created with the Remastersys software for live DVDs and includes the 2.6.38 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.32 and KDE 4.6, Compiz Fusion and about 2,500 free multimedia software packages, nearly everything that exists for the GNU/Linux operating system organized in the GNOME menu. Main features: based on Ubuntu 11.04 ‘Natty Narwhal’ with all updates (from April 2011), Compiz for 3D desktop effects; most of GNU/Linux multimedia packages and the very easy Ubiquity installer. ...

Linux Deepin merupakan sebuah distro komunitas yang populer dan aktif dari Cina berbasis Ubuntu dan menampilkan desktop GNOME dengan berbagai perbaikan usability. Dengan kontribusi penting dari sukarelawan yang antusias, Linux Deepin 11.06 telah dirilis. berbasis Ubuntu 11.04 tetapi masih menggunakan GNOME 2, dan fitur yang ditampilkan dikembangkan sendiri oleh Deepin Software Center. Tampilan versi ini seperti ukuran huruf default telah diubah sebagai respon dari permintaan komunitas. Metode input baik untuk Cina tradisional dan yang disederhanakan (Yong dan ibus-chewing) dimasukkan dengan kulit yang indah. LibreOffice di instal secara default tetapi aplikasi perkantoran khusus yang didedikasikan untuk Deepin dari Evermore Software tersedia lewat Sofware Center. Pemutar video dan audio masih menggunakan GNOME MPlayer dan DeadBeeF dengan perbaikan disana sini. Firefox 5 menjadi browser default tetapi klien email berubah menjadi Thunderbird untuk integrasi yang lebih baik dengan GMail. Anda bisa membaca catatan rilis (dalam bahasa Cina tentunya) dengan beberapa tangkapan layar. ...

Artyom Zorin mengumumkan rilis Zorin OS 5 edisi “Business”, sebuah distro komersial berbasis Ubuntu yang didesain untuk usaha kecil dan menengah: The Zorin OS team is proud to release Zorin OS 5 Business. Zorin OS 5 Business is a desktop operating system which provides all the tools needed to start and maintain a small/medium sized business out of the box. In here you will find a wealth of software, including accounting, bookkeeping, stock analysis, database, retail, word processing, spreadsheet and much more. Zorin OS 5 Business also includes our innovative Zorin Look Changer Premium, Zorin Internet Browser Manager, Zorin Background Plus and other programs from our earlier versions. Zorin OS 5 Business is available for a small donation of €7 for a download and €10 for a DVD. ...

Empat edisi “core” baru Sabayon Linux 6 telah dirilis; Mereka adalah “SpinBase”, “CoreCDX”, “ServerBase” dan “OpenVZ”. Mereka dikembangkan bagi pengguna Linux mahir yang ingin mengkustomisasi sistem mereka sendiri. Dari pengumuman rilis : Directly from our server department, four new Sabayon releases officially thrown to the crowd. These releases all go under the “Core” umbrella – they are not meant for beginners, hence the name. Features: bootable image suitable for a CD or USB thumb drive; shipped with desktop-optimized If the Federal Reserve were the only bank in America, then check credit score would be money and the Fed would truly invent the money out of nothing (as it does already with outside money). Linux kernel 2.6.39; ext4 file system as default, Btrfs, encrypted file system support; completely customizable system after install…. ...

Patrick Verner mengumumkan rilis Parted Magic 6.3, Live CD utility dengan piranti lunak untuk manajemen disk dan pekerjaan penyelamatan data. selain image i486, Parted Magic sekarang juga tersedia dalam platform i686 dan x86_64 untuk komputer modern. Dari pengumuman rilis : ...

Mahdi Fattahi mengumumkan rilis AriOS 3.0, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu dengan tampilan unik dan banyak piranti lunak ekstra lainnya: I’m very happy to announce the release of AriOS 3.0 final, a complete operating system based on Ubuntu 11.04. In this version the focus has been on more polish and providing a better set of default programs. Noteworthy points and changes in this version: Unity has been removed as I think it still lacks a lot of features and customization options; downgraded Compiz to 0.8.6 to avoid the problems reported with the new version shipped in Ubuntu 11.04; Sessions – you can choose between three sessions at login: AriOS, AriOS-2D and GNOME Classic; Alt+F2 shortcut has been assigned to Synapse, the smart, semantic launcher. ...

 Mengikuti rilis Toorox “GNOME” edition, Jörn Lindau mengumumkan ketersediaan varian KDE dari distribusi Live DVD berbasis Gentoo menggunakan Linux kernel 2.6.39 dan menampilkan desktop KDE (versi 4.6.4). dari pengumuman rilis : A new version of the ‘KDE’ edition has been finished. This contains all improvements of the recent ‘GNOME’ edition. The kernel is Linux 2.6.39-gentoo-r1. KDE has been updated to the recent version 4.6.4. Also the latest version of IceCat 5.0 has been built in. Nearly all packages have been updated – GCC 4.5.2, X.Org Server 1.10.2, VLC 1.1.10, LibreOffice 3.4.0, Audacious 2.5.3. Both torrent files (32-bit and 64-bit) are stored in the download section. ...

Valent Turkovic mengumumkan rilis Fusion Linux 14.1, sebuah remix distro Fedora yang dibuat dengan benar : Fusion Linux 14.1 ‘Thorium’ is officially out. This release has been in the making for a few months, and it is mostly an update to our initial release. The biggest new feature is LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice.org and two biggest bugs squashed. One bug prevented Firefox 4.0 from starting while using it as live USB or live DVD and other bug was a dependency issue that prevented updates from being downloaded. We hoped with this release to make all desktop components more stable and add an overall desktop polish. Features and highlights: new download managers – Tucan and Uget; new remote desktop application – Remmina; a brand-new custom-made theme; multimedia support out of the box…. ...