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Alexey Rusakov mengumumkan rilis ALT Linux 5.0 Edisi “Ark” dan “School”: ALT Linux announces public availability of two products based on Platform Five: ALT Linux 5.0 Ark, a suite designed for making integrated solutions, and ALT Linux 5.0 School, a suite that is targeted at secondary and high schools. The most prominent features of the server distributions are: enterprise-class network organization; host-based authorization of users and services; connecting distributed systems together via VPN; host-based updates of servers and workstations throughout your LAN…. Desktop distributions sport the following features: Graphical desktops: GNOME (Ark Desktop, School Junior), Xfce (School Lite), KDE 4 (School Master); improved interaction with server distributions…. ...

Edubuntu yang beberapa versi sebelumnya dilabeli “discontinued” yang kemudian hanya menjadi add-on bagi ubuntu dan bukan sistem operasi individu yang dapat diinstall dari awal kemarin bangkit dari kubur alias aktif kembali. Jonathan Carter mengumumkan dalam sebuah posting blog mengenai aktifnya kembali proyek Edubuntu ...

Joe Brockmeier mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis kandidat kedua dan terakhir dari openSUSE 11.2 : This is it folks! We’re almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. This release includes an updated kernel, Samba, Firefox, and more. Release Candidate 2 includes a few new packages, and several of the ‘most annoying bugs’ in RC1 have been fixed. New packages include: Linux kernel 2.6.31.5, SeaMonkey 2.0, Firefox 3.5.4, Samba 3.4.2, X.Org Server 1.6.5. ...

Mythbuntu 9.10 telah dirilis, Mythbuntu adalah distribusi khusus untuk sistem home theater yang mengawinkan ubuntu dengan MythTV : Mythbuntu is built upon the base of Ubuntu and thus has all the features of Ubuntu. Features: Mythbuntu Control Centre – used to modify settings on a Mythbuntu system that are not necessarily MythTV specific; Mythbuntu Log Grabber – grabs specific log files into a single area and can upload them to pastebin for easy troubleshooting; partitioner creates one large partition (ext4); auto-builds are now easily enabled/disabled via an installable package; MythTV 0.22.0-zrc1 included; MythTV backend now uses upstart, this allows automatic restarting of the backend in the event of a failure. New features in MythTV 0.22: MythUI support allowing fancier themes; support for VDPAU; MythVideo storage groups…. ...

Ubuntu Studio 9.10, sub proyek Ubuntu yang menyajikan kernel real-time dan beragam aplikasi audio, video, dan editor gambar telah dirilis: _ The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sixth release: Ubuntu Studio 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’. With this release, which you can download in a 1.4 GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages, targeted at audio producers, video producers and graphic designers. Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the Linux-based multimedia workstation. Features: official upstream real-time kernel; font meta package added to the graphics meta, which installs hundreds of free fonts; Xwax and a2jmidid packaged and added to the audio meta-package; Xjadeo added to the video meta; Firewire libraries are now upgraded to 2.0…._ ...

Xubuntu 9.10, varian ubuntu yang menyajikan desktop XFCE versi terbaru telah tersedia untuk publik, mengikuti rilis Ubuntu dan kubuntu : _ Xubuntu 9.10, code-named the ‘Karmic Koala’, is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu. It integrates the latest Xfce desktop release with the high-quality and feature-rich core of Ubuntu, resulting in a light-weight and easy-to-use Linux distribution. New features: Xfce 4.6.1; includes the Exaile 0.3.0.x music player to make enjoying podcasts, streaming radio, audio books, and music library easier than ever before; Xfce power manager provides a more integrated power management experience; improved notify-osd integration with the Xfce desktop; faster application load times and reduced memory footprint for a number of your favorite Xfce applications…._ ...

Sejalan dengan rilis Ubuntu 9.10, Proyek Kubuntu mengumukan ketersediaan versi final Kubuntu 9.10 : Kubuntu 9.10: stable, social and beautiful. Kubuntu is built with the latest KDE desktop on top of a solid Ubuntu core. We believe this combination delivers a fantastic all-round home desktop experience. Our selection of tools and applications will provide you with all that you need for most of your tasks, with many more available just a few clicks away! Whether browsing the web, playing your music, composing an e-mail or connecting with your friends on social networks, Kubuntu 9.10 brings you an innovative and attractive platform for all your desktop needs. ...

Akhirnya di rilis juga! Canonical mengumumkan ketersediaan versi final Ubuntu 9.10 yang dikenal dengan nama Karmic Koala, versi terbaru ubuntu ini dapat digunakan di desktop, laptop, maupun server : _ Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose – to make Ubuntu the most user-friendly operating system available. Ubuntu 9.10 features a redesigned, faster boot and login experience, a revamped audio framework, and improved 3G broadband connectivity, all of which contribute to a first-class user experience. Furthermore, the innovative ‘100 Paper Cuts’ initiative organised with the Ubuntu Community allowed users to nominate minor annoyances that impacted their enjoyment of the platform. So far over 50 fixes have been committed, removing minor irritants such as inconsistent naming or poorly organised application choices._ ...

Clear Foundation mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta kedua ClearOS 5.1, distribusi berbasis CentOS untuk firewall dan gateway yang sebelumnya dikenal sebagai Clark Connect: The second beta has arrived. Along with the usual bug fixes, the two significant changes from beta 1 are: updated base system to CentOS 5.4 (released just last week); updated Samba to prepare for improved Windows 7 support. Other changes: added new validation to make sure user, group and flexshare names do not overlap; fixed missing ‘allusers’ Samba group mapping; added missing file that broke some webconfig pages; exposed the Domain Admins group in the web interface; re-added most of the missing reports, still a work in progress; fixed logo on web server start page…. ...

Joern Lindau merilis Toorox 10.2009, distro Live DVD berbasis Gentoo yang menawarkan Desktop KDE 4 : A new version has been finished and now it’s ready for download. Content: Linux kernel 2.6.31, KDE 4.3.2, X.Org Server 1.6.5, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Amarok 2.2, VLC 1.0.2, IceCat 3.5.3; Portato has been added as the second software management tool (GUI for Portage) in Systemconfig, it does a good job even though it’s elementary; the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) has been added as a kernel module and will be loaded by default – if you own a graphics card with an Intel, ATI Radeon or SIS chip you can enjoy the cool desktop effects by using the free and default video driver; the LAN+WLAN script from Systemconfig has been improved; the missing Synaptics touchpad driver has been re-added and pre-configured for a handy left-click by tapping on the pad. ...

Ken Smith mengumumkan ketersediaan release candidate kedua FreeBSD 8.0: The second of the release candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. At this point we feel most of what has been discovered during public testing that is feasible to fix as part of the release process has been addressed. So the current plan is to have 8.0-RC3 in about two weeks. ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites, and a ‘memory stick’ image is available for amd64/i386 architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the CD-ROM and memory stick images include the documentation packages but no other packages. The DVD image includes the packages that will probably be available on the official release media. ...

Christian Graffer mengumumkan rilis Endian Firewall 2.3, distro khusus untuk firewall dan gateway berbasis CentOS: _ Today I am proud to announce the release of version 2.3 of Endian Firewall Community. This release includes many features that were previously available only to users of the Enterprise edition, as well as some completely new features. These new features are: backups can now be stored to and recovered from attached USB mass storage devices; the main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about the system and its services; emails can be sent automatically for predefined events; it is possible to add time-based access control lists for the HTTP proxy; Snort rules can now be configured…._ ...