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Versi Alpha kedua dari GeeXboX 2.0, distribusi Linux minimalis untuk Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) dan media center, telah dirilis dan siap untuk dicoba : It has already been one month since 2.0-alpha1 release so here is alpha2. This release fixes many bugs that have been encountered by our users on this first 2.x series preview: normalize LIRC configuration by providing generic binding for each and every remote control; initial port to ARM architecture; restoration of UPnP/DLNA feature with a brand new stack; restoration of internationalization support; upgrade of NVIDIA drivers – proprietary, legacy one and addition of nouveau; add Kernel Mode Settings (KMS) for ATI, Intel and NVIDIA drivers; upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.33 kernel; fix live CD and win32 installers; fix OGG files playback issue…. ...

José Antonio Calvo Fernández mengumumkan rilis eBox Platform 1.4-1, distribusi Linux server berbasis Ubuntu untuk Usaha Kecil dan Menengah : eBox 1.4-1 installer released. I just wanted to let you know that we’ve done a lot of bug fixing and small improvements since the release of the first 1.4 release. Those all enhancements have now been included on a new installer. The installer itself contains some bug fixes and improvements, this is the changelog: X11 UI tweaks; added console-cyrillic package; install l7-protocols if traffic shaping is selected in advanced mode; quote passwords to avoid problems with strange characters; do not allow to enter ‘root’ or any other existing system user as admin user to avoid conflicts. Note that this installer include also the fixes and improvements from the 1.4-proposed repository. ...

Andrew Gillis mengumumkan rilis VortexBox 1.2, distribusi Linux berbasis Fedora yang memiliki visi mengubah komputer jadul menjadi server atau jukebox musik yang mudah digunakan: VortexBox 1.2 released. The VortexBox community has been working hard on this release. We have added a lot of new features to make VortexBox the best NAS for SqueezeBox. These include adding the new SquuezeBox Server 7.4.2 and fixing some critical bugs in VortexBox Player. VortexBox Player is now the highest resolutions (192/24) player available that is compatible with SqueezeBox Server (SBS). The new package manager allows new software packages to be installed from the GUI. The Sonos web GUI can now be installed from the GUI making VortexBox the best NAS for Sonos players. We have fixed the MP3 encoding with better support for genre and cover art that works well in all applications. ...

Matthew Dawkins mengumumkan ketersediaan release candidate pertama Unity Linux 2010, distribusi Linux LiveCD minimalis berbasis Mandriva Linux: The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to provide many needed fixes and continual updates to the core offering of our software. Changelog: updated X.Org to 1.7.5; new kernel version 2.6.31.12; filetriggers and other minor bugs were fixed for rpm5; Smart 1.3 and the addition of smart-utils for mirror automation. The repositories now contain many up-to-date desktop environments which can be installed with the use of the ‘task’ meta-packages. Recent additions include KDE 4.4.1, GNOME 2.28.1, Openbox 3.4.11, Xfce 4.6.1, Enlightenment 0.16.999.063. ...

Jesse Keating mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis Alpha Fedora 13: The Fedora 13 ‘Goddard’ alpha release is available. Among the top features for end users, we have: automatic print driver installation so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed; automatic installation of language packs; redesigned user management interface; color management to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners; NetworkManager improvements include CLI; experimental 3D extended to free Nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards. ...

MCNLive, distribusi Linux berbasis Mandriva, telah diselamatkan oleh Mandriva Club Belanda. Rilis beta pertama MCNLive Kris telah tersedia untuk diunduh dan dites: After a few years of silence around MCNLive, here we are again with a brand new MCNLive release, based on Mandriva 2010.0. It won’t have all the nice features you might remember from MCNLive, but the most important things are there. Copy2ram is present, remastering on-the-fly is possible again and even booting from USB is no problem at all. MCNLive Kris is based upon a fully updated Mandriva 2010.0 release, with KDE SC 4.3 as desktop environment. SMPlayer is added for your multimedia needs and since we do have a ‘remaster’ option, we added K3b to enable you to burn the remastered image directly. Firefox is the default web browser but you can use Konqueror from the menu if you wish. ...

Tim Pengembang PCLinuxOS telah merilis versi beta pertama distro PCLinuxOS 2010 : PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing up to 64 GB of memory support. In addition, ext4 support is also available. A nicely customized KDE 4.4.1 desktop that is both beautiful and very fast with the latest KDE applications. A unified KDE/GTK+ theme included to provide a consistent look and feel between KDE and GTK+ applications. Firefox also uses KDE dialogs. Reworked menu system with less subcategories to make it easy and fast to find your applications. Plymouth bootsplash available on installed system for cool graphic effects. Additional themes available from the software repository. ...

Ian Wells mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta ke lima SME Server 8.0, distribusi server berbasis CentOS : The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next major release of SME Server. Major changes in beta 5. The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they want because of the Samba and PHP versions constituted a compelling reason. Samba 3.4.3 – has been updated from sources provided by ClearOS. This version of Samba provides support for Windows 7 domain logins. PHP 5.2.10 – is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2. 5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce. ...

Miklós Vajna telah mengumumkan rilis Frugalware Linux 1.2, distro generik yang dikembangkan oleh komunitas dan menargetkan pengguna Linux menengah : The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn’t follow the changes during the pre-releases, here are the most important changes since 1.1: up to date packages – Linux kernel 2.6.32.8, GNU C library 2.11.1, X.Org 7.5, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5; 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; introduced devtmpfs – you can now exclude /dev from backups, along with /proc and /sys; upgraded KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch…. ...

Thierry Nuttens mengumumkan rilis NuTyX 2009.3, distribusi Linux berbahasa Perancis dengan manajemen paket yang dibuat sendiri. Ini merupakan update keempat di seri 2009. Sementara basis sistem, library C, dan kompiler tidak berubah sepanjang rilis 2009.x, beberapa masalah kecil telah diselesaikan. Sebagai contoh Mozilla browser sekarang dalam bahasa Perancis. Desktop XFCE, GNOME (2.28.2) dan KDE (4.4.1) telah diupdate ke versi terbaru. Update paket penting lainnya termasuk OpenOffice 3.2.0, KOffice 2.1.1, Pidgin 2.6.6 dan CUPS 1.4.2. Kernel Linux yang disertakan diupgrade menjadi versi 2.6.33. Anda bisa membaca pengumuman rilis (dalam bahasa Perancis tentunya) untuk informasi lebih detail. Unduh Edisi Desktop : ...

Anil Gulecha mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta pertama Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, sistem operasi free dan open source yang mengkombinasikan kernel OpenSolaris dengan aplikasi GNU, Utility Debian dan paket software Ubuntu: On behalf of the Nexenta project, I’d like to announce the availability of Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) 3.0 Beta 1, the sixth release in the NCP 3 cycle. The main changes over the alpha 5 release include: move from OpenSolaris b133 to b134; nexenta-on-source changes; bug-fix list (libm.a is missing; libusb, libuuid missing a pkg-config file; profile.dpkg-dist leftover after installation; rsync daemon enabled by default; problem with libgcc1 version mismatch; libsunw-perl short description typo; keyboard layout not set; user created during install is member of group ‘staff’; Squid fails to install; 3.0a4 – installation fails on unpartitioned USB stick; cupsys init script tries to load Linux kernel module ‘lp’….). ...

Release Candidate kedua untuk SimplyMEPIS 8.5, distribusi yang menargetkan pengguna pemula berbasis Debian ini siap untuk di unduh dan dites : Warren Woodford has released SimplyMEPIS 8.4.99, RC2 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. Warren reported: ‘In the past week, we’ve fixed some bugs reported by the community and updated the MEPIS assistants. And we’ve updated some packages containing bug fixes – Digikam 1.1.0, ghostscript 8.71, kdebase-workspace 4.3.4-5 and wl-modules 5.60.48.36. The community is hard at work on translations, updated manual, and a couple of new utilities. I expect RC3 to be ready in a week or so. It should be the last RC before we go final with 8.5.’ ISO images of MEPIS community releases are published to the ‘released’ subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber’s Site and at MEPIS public mirrors. ...