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Stefano Fratepietro mengumumkan kandidat rilis pertama DEFT Linux 7, distribusi spesialis yang dikembangkan dari Ubuntu dalam bentu Live DVD yang ditujukan untuk forensik digital dan testing penetrasi sistem: Finally we were able to realize a very stable DEFT Linux 7 release, solving all problems responsible for postponing the release date for RC1. We performed several tests on different computer platforms: laptops, servers and desktop PCs. Our main focus was on Lenovo, DELL, ASUS, Acer, Apple, IBM laptops, IBM and DELL servers as well as Acer, Lenovo and Dell desktop PCs. We tested everything, both booting as a live CD and installing the distro on the test machine: compatibility tests succeeded with excellent results. From this year DEFT 7 will also add more support to mobile forensics: we added several tools that allow you to analyze files and databases used in new generation smartphones (Android and iPhone). From the next release there will be a section completely dedicated to cyber intelligence. ...

Kris Moore mengumumkan rilis PC-BSD 9.0, sebuah distribusi beriorientasi dekstop yang dikembangkan dari FreeBSD rilis stabil terakhir yaitu FreeBSD 9.0 yang baru saja dirilis. Ini juga merupakan rilis PC-BSD pertama yang menawarkan pengguna untuk dapat memilih berbagai lingkungan desktop mulai dari KDE, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, dan masih banyak lagi. Juga disediakan image VirtualBox / VMware dengan tool integrasi guest untuk pemasangan sistem virtual yang cepat serta dukungan native untuk instalasi langsung ke partisi BootCamp OS X. Hal baru lainnya adalah Whenever editors want to impose their will on a newsroom — be they editors at newspapers, magazines, news wires, web construction-jobs.info s, or TV programs — they dictate a memo for distribution to their journalists noting that stories have gotten too long and instructing everybody to write shorter. sistem PBI yang lebih baik, memungkinkan untuk berbagi pustaka, update binary diff, repositori custom, penandaan digital, dukungan untuk freebsd-update lewat antar muka grafis System Update, serta control panel baru. Untuk informasi lebih detail, anda dapat membaca pengumuman rilis . ...

Anne Nicolas mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha ketiga Mageia 2, ini merupakan versi alpha terakhir sehingga sangat membutuhkan masukan dari pengguna. Beberapa fitur utama rilis ini diantaranya akan menggunakan kernel stabil terbaru yaitu Linux 3.2, selain perbaikan bug dan fitur-fitur baru kernel ini mendukung virtualisasi yang lebih baik dengan dukungan native untuk Xen, performa yang lebih baik dan subsistem baru seperti stack iSCSI dan NFC baru serta dukungan keamanan dengan framework Tomoyo. glibc 2.14.1 juga disertakan, systemd diadopsi untuk melakukan booting, KDE 4.7.97 dan GNOME 3.3.3 juga disertakan pada rilis ini. Detail lebih lanjut dapat anda baca di pengumuman rilis dan catatan rilis untuk isu yang sudah diketahui dan catatan bagian mana yang membutuhkan testing. ...

Tim FreeBSD Engineering mengumumkan rilis FreeBSD 9.0, rilis versi mayor terbaru sistem operasi BSD yang menampilkan installer sistem baru. Beberapa fitur baru pada rilis ini diantaranya adalah installer baru, bsdinstall(8) ditambahkan dan merupakan installer yang digunakan di image ISO pada rilis ini, file system Fast sekarang mendukung jurnal softupdates, ZFS diupdate ke versi 28, update driver ATA/SATA mendukung AHCI, berpindah ke framework CAM yang diupdate, framework Highly Available Storage (HAST), dukungan kernel untuk mode Capsicum Capability, kumpulan fitur eksperimental yang memberikan dukungan sandboxing, serta DTrace pada level user. Detail mengenai rilis ini dapat anda baca di pengumuman rilis untuk gambaran singkat dan anda bisa membaca catatan rilis untuk detail deskripsi dan fitur baru rilis ini. ...

Kai Hendry mengumumkan rilis Webconverger 11.0, distribusi spesialis yang hanya menyertakan peramban web yang didesain untuk kiosk internet. Versi baru ini hadir dengan kernel Linux 3.1.8 dan Firefox 9.0.1 serta beberapa tweak minor terkait keamanan. Rilis ini juga memungkinkan anda untuk memilih Chrome saat boot, detail keterangan boot disembunyikan, beberapa perbaikan pada ekstensi Webconverger untuk Firefox, tweak keamanan membuat skrip kontrol lebih sulit untuk ditembus. Logo dan desain situs baru juga dikenalkan. Bug penamaan antarmuka jaringan ditemukan dan diperbaiki. Anda bisa mengunjungi situs statistik publik untuk mleihat penggunaan Webconverger. Apabila anda membutuhkan distro khusus untuk internet kiosk, anda bisa mencoba distro yang satu ini tanpa harus melakukan banyak tweak untuk melakukan pembatasan. Detail lebih lanjut dapat anda baca di catatan rilis . ...

Angelo Comazzetto mengumumkan rilis Astaro Security Gateway 8.3, sebuah distribusi spesialis untuk firewall dan gateway: I am pleased to announce that we have released Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) 8.300 via our Up2Date distribution network. The main features of this release are Amazon Machine Images of Astaro Security Gateway (along with Astaro Command Center), an integrated connector for the Amazon Private Cloud (VPC), ASG Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels using our RED protocol, support for our Wireless AP50 product, and BGP4 routing support. In addition, we have added numerous tweaks, dozens of stability improvements and increased the performance of many features. This release will solidify your ASG 8 installation and give you the best Astaro experience yet. ...

Ricardo López mengumumkan rilis Asturix 4, distribusi desktop berbasis Ubuntu dengan lingkungan desktop kustom dan banyak perbaikan usability: The team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Asturix 4. Some of its features: a new desktop experience, we have developed a new desktop environment to improve usability and productivity, and to help you stay focused; the biggest color palette in the world by default – we signed a partnership with GiveLifeCS so you can enjoy more than 5,000 colors while using GIMP, Inkscape or another design application; previews – now you don’t have to open LibreOffice to preview a document, hit space on any file, with any extension and preview it; integrated social and microblogging networks, such as Twitter, Facebook or Identi.ca; Asturix Bridge lets you add, remove and execute web applications as native applications; Chromium web browser, LibreOffice, GIMP, Clementine, VLC…. ...

Andrew Wyatt mengumumkan rilis Fuduntu 2012.1, sebuah update kuartalan untuk distribusi yang melakukan forking dari Fedora tahun lalu: The Fuduntu quarterly installation ISO image (2012.1) is now available for immediate download. This release marks a shift in release numbering. Going forward, Fuduntu releases will be numbered as follows: Year.Release. As we are a rolling release distribution with quarterly snapshots, you should expect four roll-up releases this year. We do not define a specific release date, we release when we believe it is ready which may happen at any time after the beginning of each quarter. Package updates in this release: Linux Kernel 3.1.6, Chromium 16, Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55. Many new packages are available in the repository including Xfce 4.8, LibreOffice 3.4.3, and Firefox and Thunderbird 9. ...

John Combs mengumumkan kandidat rilis ketiga untuk GhostBSD 2.5, sistem operasi BSD untuk Desktop berbasis FreeBSD yang memberikan pilihan desktop GNOME dan LXDE dan installer sistem grafis : The newest version of GhostBSD 2.5 – RC3 is now available for download. It is based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 and includes a number of changes and bug fixes: CUPS should now be working with most printers; LXDE USB image and CD image are ready to download and use; GDM now allows users to choose their language for the GNOME session, the log-in credentials for GNOME session are ‘ghostbsd’ with password ‘ghostbsd’; live session now has proper options to shut down and reboot via the menu; message about mounting problems during setup on GNOME no longer appears; used mkisofs instead of makefs to build images. ...

Jay Flood mengumumkan rilis Porteus 1.1, distribusi Live CD berbasis Slackware yang memberikan tiga pilihan desktop yaitu Trinity (fork KDE 3), KDE 4 dan LXDE: The Porteus community is pleased to announce the official and final release of Porteus version 1.1. This release is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit editions and includes several bug fixes and some new features. Chief among them are a new graphical installer and a completely overhauled Porteus package manager, which now allows users to download hundreds of software packages with automatic dependency resolution through a clean GUI interface. There have been vast improvements since our version 1.0 release, here are the main changes: upgraded to Linux kernel 3.1.8 with BFS scheduler and ASPM patch; upgraded NDISwrapper to latest stable version; dropped Broadcom driver as the kernel supports most devices…. ...

Michael Tremer mengumumkan rilis IPFire 2.11 Core 55, distribusi Linux spesialis untuk Firewall: Today, we are going to release two new core updates for the IPFire firewall distribution. Core Update 54 – minor feature enhancements and bug fixes. This core update comes with some updates for network hardware that will give more speed and reliability. The web proxy service has been updated as well and consumes less memory in some circumstances, among other improvements. The intrusion detection system rules download is working again for the latest rule set and the hardware status section in the web user interface recognizes more hard drives. Core Update 55 – six security updates in OpenSSL, OpenSSH has been updated to version 5.9p1. ...

Versi 0.10 dari Incognito Live System (yang juga dikenal dengan nama TAILS) telah dirilis. Fitur-fitur baru pada distribusi Live CD berbasis Debian yang menyajikan perlindungan privasi lebih dari distro biasa: Tor upgrade to 0.2.2.35; install Iceweasel 9.0 from the Debian Mozilla team’s APT repository; update Torbutton to 1.4.5.1; support viewing any YouTube video that is available in HTML 5 format; use Scroogle (any language) instead of Scroogle (English only) when booted in English; install the NoScript Firefox extension; disable third-party cookies, they can be used to track users, which is bad; do not transparently proxy outgoing Internet connections through Tor, instead drop all non-Torified Internet traffic; applications have to be explicitly configured to use Tor in order to reach the Internet; upgrade Vidalia to 0.2.15, this version will not warn about new Tor versions…. ...