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Arne Fitzenreiter mengumumkan rilis versi mayor baru IPFire, distribusi Linux spesialis untuk firewall: It has already been four years since IPFire 2 was released for the first time. There has been huge progress until today, the release of version 2.11. The biggest new feature in the released version 2.11 of IPFire is the option to create net-to-net VPNs with OpenVPN. Until now, it was only possible to use OpenVPN to create roadwarrior networks, but we kept the easiness of configuring VPN tunnels by just sending configuration archives in ZIP format. To learn how that works, see the reworked documentation on the Wiki. IPsec-VPNs do now support the IKEv2 protocol which allows a more secure, faster and easier connection of the tunnels. ...

Urs Beyerle mengumumkan rilis edisi “Live” Scientific Linux 5.7, Scientific Linux 5.7 merupakan distribusi Linux yang dikembangkan dari kode sumber Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 : With a little delay I can announce the release of Scientific Linux 5.7 live CD/DVD. Please note that the SL 5.7 live CD/DVD were built with the old build environment used for all SL 4.x SL 5.x live CD/DVD releases so far. The Scientific Linux live CD/DVD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing. It is based on Scientific Linux 5.7 (SL57), which is recompiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sources. Software: Linux kernel 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5, openAFS client 1.4.14, X.Org 7.1, ALSA sound libraries 1.0.17, GNOME 2.16.0 (standard desktop), OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Firefox 3.6.23, KDE 3.5.4 (only on live DVD)…. ...

François Dupoux telah merilis SystemRescueCd 2.4.0, versi udpdate dari live CD spesialis yang berisi utiliti bebas terbuka untuk mempartisi disk dan pekerjaan penyelamatan data. Rilis ini hadir dengan GParted versi 0.10.0 yang baru, X.Org server terbaru dan mozilla firefox, DHCP diupgrade ke seri 4.x. Kutipan dari changelog : ...

David Cortarello mengumumkan rilis Kwort Linux 3.2, distribusi linux desktop berbasis CRUX yang menampilkan desktop Openbox. Distro ini ditujukan untuk pengguna Linux menengah dan mahir: Almost a year has passed since Kwort’s last stable release, and today I’m rolling out a new release of our system. This is a major upgrade of almost every software package included in Kwort 3.14, except the toolchain. The most noticeable changes include: move from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice; a new kernel 3 series, Firefox 7.0.1 (not installed by default but you can install it from the CD image) and the latest version of Chromium. Other than what’s noticeable, there are tons of improvements under the hood, like the inclusion of LVM2 and mdadm for logical volume management and raid support, the ext4 file system supported in the installation and some nice improvements in kpkg. ...

Willensky Aristide mengumumkan rilis ArchBang Linux 2011.11, pengembagan update dari distribusi ringan berbasis Arch Linux dan menawarkan window manager ringan Openbox: ArchBang 2011.11 is out in the wild. You don’t need it if you already have ArchBang Linux installed on your system. Changelog: PCManFM over Thunar file manager; Xcompmgr-dana over Xcompmgr; recent files pipe menu added; new key bind to read the upgraded DOC; progress bar while copying files; better font rendering; new look; smaller ISO image. Notes: you can always build Arch with Openbox from scratch by following this guide ; if you don’t like the black and gray system tray icons, remove the following line in tint2rc – ‘systray_icon_asb = 100 -100 -25’. ...

Andrey Cherepanov mengumumkan rilis ALT Linux 6.0.0 edisi “Centaurus”, distribusi Linux generik dari Rusia untuk desktop dan server: ALT Linux proudly presents a new release of our key distribution, ALT Linux 6.0 ‘Centaurus’. This is a universal GNU/Linux distribution intended for use on servers, desktop systems and laptops. Features: selection of installed solutions such as web server or desktop environment during installation; support for manual system services setup and web-based configuration using the Alterator control center…. The distribution contains GNOME 2 and FVWM, Linux kernels 3.0.7 and 2.6.32. ...

Glen MacArthur mengumumkan rilis AVLinux 5.0.2, versi update dari distribusi berbasis Debianyang menampilkan koleksi piranti lunak audio dan video: An updated ISO (5.0.2) for the AV Linux 5.0 series has been released with a new kernel, a few bug fixes, updated applications and enhancements. Trulan Martin has worked very hard to provide a 3.0.6 kernel with an important SMP -rt scheduling patch, M-Audio Fast Track Pro support, ATI mode setting switched on and some extra security features. On the application side the Audio menu has grown to include Mixxx 1.9.0 for DJs, MuseScore 1.1 for sheet music scoring and XCFA for audio conversions. The Video menu has been heavily re-worked to provide the best possible out-of-the-box experience with Cinelerra 2.1.5CV, OpenShot 1.4.0, Kdenlive 0.8.1svn and LiVES 1.4.7. ...

Jeff Bilyk mengumumkan rilis Alpine Linux 2.3.0, distribusi ringan berorientasi keamanan yang berbasis uClibc dan BusyBox: The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce immediate availability of version 2.3 of its Alpine Linux operating system. This release introduces several new features: a new Linux kernel based on 3.0; GCC 4.6; improved setup scripts with tools for helping configure local configuration backup location and package manager cache; preliminary support for booting from encrypted LVM partitions; BusyBox has been upgraded to version 1.19.2 with shell history search (with ctrl-r); unbound DNS resolver with DNSSEC support; better multi-ISP support in Pingu with support for PPP and DHCP; PostgreSQL has been upgraded to 9.1; Kamailio has been upgraded to 3.2…. ...

Theo de Raadt mengumumkan rilis OpenBSD 5.0, sistem operasi berbasis BSD yang dikenal karena standard keamanannya yang tinggi karena review kode mendalam. Beberapa fitur baru pada rilis ini diantaranya : Dukungan perangkat keras yang lebih baik termasuk interrupt MSI untuk banyak divais, tentu pada arsitektur yang mendukungnya (saat ini hanya amd64, i386, dan sparc64), API baru dma_alloc(9) yang memudahkan bagi kode kernel untuk mengalokasikan memory yang aman secara dma. dukungan big-memory diaktifkan secara default untuk arsitektur yang mendukung fitur tersebut. Driver unik bce(4) sekarang mengkopi mbufs setiap waktu untuk menyesuaikan dengan perangkat keras yang memiliki batasan 1GB. Perangkat lunak yang disertakan pada rilis ini diantaranya GNOME 2.32.2, KDE 3.5.10, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.19, 3.6.18 dan 5.0, LibreOffice 3.4.1, PHP 5.2.17 dan 5.3.6, serta Chromium 12.0.742.122. Informasi lebih detail dapat anda baca di catatan rilis . ...

Tim pengembang Ruby mengumumkan rilis versi 1.9.3 bahasa pemrograman open source ini yang dideskripsikan sebagai implementasi yang diperbaharui dari Ruby versi 1.9.2. Ini merupakan rilis pertama seri stabil baru yang menawarkan performa pemuatan pustaka yang lebih baik dan perubahan ke lisensi Ruby. ...

14 tahun menggunakan nama Freshmeat, direktori piranti lunak bebas ini berganti nama menjadi Freecode. Hal ini dilakukan karena nama yang kurang umum ini menyulitkan ketika pengelola direktori berusaha menjual space iklan yang ada. “Freshmeat” memiliki beberapa arti konotatif dan yang lebih bermasalah lagi bahwa orang tidak mengasosiasikan nama ini dengan direktori piranti lunak bebas merdeka atau setidaknya direktori piranti lunak. ...

Eric Turgeon mengumumkan rilis beta ketiga GhostBSD 2.5, distribusi BSD ramah pengguna berbasis FreeBSD yang menampilkan desktop GNOME dan sekarang hadir dengan installer grafis: The GhostBSD release is late following the FreeBSD 9.0 release status. We have only released beta 3 on October 30, 2011. List of bugs fixed: auto-mount on amd64 and PiTiVi on amd64; free space output on the GUI and text installer; second install option on text installer; Linux base system compatibility on DVD; Linux Flash player on DVD. To install GhostBSD you have two options. A new option is by clicking on the GhostBSD Installer icon or typing ‘gbi’ on terminal for GUI installation. Typing ginstall in a terminal is for the new text-mode installer. Ginstall is a great tool for those can get to GUI or their keyboard and mouse don’t work on the GUI. ...