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Glen MacArthur mengumumkan rilis AV Linux 6.0.2, build baru dari proyek distribusi Linux berbasis Debian dengan banyak koleksi perangkat lunak produksi audio dan video. Versi 6.0.2 ini menyertakan banyak perubahan signifikan termasuk sebuah lingkungan dekstop Xfce 4.10 baru yang sudah dikustomisasi. Plugin peramban web “pipelight” memberikan akses ke konten DRM Silverlight (untuk Netflix) ke peramban web anda, banyak plugin audio keren dari LV2 juga disertakan, driver FFAD0 terlah diupdate ke versi terbaru. Skrip Nautilus yang memudahkan, dukungan exfat-fuse, dukungan smartphone MTP dan tablet, dokumentasi yang telah diupdate dan dilengkapi. LibreOffice 4.1 dan versi terbaruArdour, Mixbus (demo), linuxDSP (demos), Qtractor, Carla, DISTRHO plugins, X42 plugins dan lebih banyak lagi. Informasi lebih detail mengenai rilis ini bisa anda baca di pengumuman rilis yang juga menampilkan desktop default. ...

Rilis distro Linux pertama tahun ini dilakukan oleh Barry Kauler yang mengenalkan Quirky 6.1. Quirky adalah distribusi minimalis (dan form dari Puppy Linux) yang mencoba melakukan eksplorasi hal baru dan mengimplementasikan ide-ide yang tidak umum. Dari pengumuman rilis : ...

Selamat Tahun Baru 2014

Ira McDaniel mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis pertama Porteus 2.0, live image berbasis Slackware Linux dengan pilihan lingkungan desktop KDE 4, LXDE, Razor-qt dan Xfce. Porteus dioptimisasi untuk berjalan dari USB drives, flash cards, CD dan media penyimpanan lainnya. Edisi standard 32-bit sekarang menyertakan Razor-qt sebagai lingkungan desktop menggantikan Trinity/LXDE. Beberapa perubahan penting dari Porteus 1.2 termasuk Kernel Linux diupgrade ke 3.7.1 dan lingkungan user ke Slackware 14.0; perpindahan ke initramfs dan penambahan initramfs kedua untuk boot PXE. Anda bisa membaca detail lebih lanjut di pengumuman rilis . ...

Saya dan Linuxbox.web.id mengucapkan Selamat Tahun Baru 2013 untuk seluruh pengunjung Linuxbox.web.id. Awal tahun 2012 kemarin saya berusaha untuk menulis banyak berita di Linuxbox, tetapi mulai april karena beberapa kesibukan pribadi akhirnya semakin menurun dan belakangan karena kesibukan profesional sehari-hari semakin tidak terurus blog yang satu ini. target untuk menyeleseaikan 1001+ Linux tips sebelum tahun 2012 berakhir pun tidak tercapai 🙁 ...

Dimitris Tzemos mengumumkan rilis Slackel 14.0, sebuah distribusi berbasis Slackware yang menampilkan desktop KDE 4.8.5 dan koleksi aplikasi KDE: Slackel KDE 14.0 has been released. A collection of four KDE ISO images are immediately available, including 32-bit and 64-bit installation images as well as 32-bit and 64-bit live images that can be burned to a DVD or used with a USB drive. The software included in live images is exactly the same as that present in the standard Slackel KDE 14.0 installation DVDs. The Slackel live DVD images includes Linux kernel 3.2.29 and were built using SaLT (Salix Live Technology). Slackel KDE 14.0 includes the stable 14.0 tree of Slackware Linux and KDE 4.8.5 accompanied by a very rich collection of KDE-centric software. ...

Jean-Philippe Guillemin mengumumkan rilis Zenwalk Linux 7.2, distribusi Linux desktop berbasis Slackware dengan Xfce sebagai lingkungan desktop pilihan: We are happy to release Zenwalk Linux 7.2. After several months of rescheduling we think it’s time to let this new jet fly. Zenwalk 7.2 is loyal to its design – providing 1 application per task, everything needed to work, play, code and create, in a single 700 MB CD image, through a 10 minutes automatic install process on any recent computer. Zenwalk 7.2 runs on kernel 3.4.8 with BFS scheduler. The Zenwalk desktop is based on the Xfce 4.10, GTK+ 2.24.10 and 3.4.4, with unique look and feel and perfect ergonomic integration of the application set – LibreOffice 3.6.2, Firefox and Thunderbird 15.0.1, GIMP 2.8.2 and much more. The Netpkg package manager has been improved with multiple mirrors support and better performance. ...

Curtis Gedak mengumumkan rilis GParted Live 0.14.0-1, sebuah versi stabil baru distribusi Live CD yang berisi tool untuk manajemen disk dan penyelamatan data The GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted Live. The big news with this release is the added ability to move, resize, check, create, and delete physical volumes under Logical Volume Management – LVM2 PV. This major addition to GParted 0.14.0 is thanks to work by Mike Fleetwood. Other bugs fixed in this release include: fix crash when ESCape key pressed in dialogs containing number entry spin buttons; fix mounted file system size and usage determination for ext2/3/4; Fix ReiserFS UUID reading issues on Fedora and CentOS. The GParted Live 0.14.0-1 image is based on the Debian ‘Sid’ repository as of 2012-10-11. ...

Patrick Verner mengumumkan rilis Parted Magic 2012_10_10, distribusi Live CD spesialist untuk manajemen disk dan pekerjaan penyelamatan data: Parted Magic 2012_10_10. This version of Parted Magic includes GParted 0.14.0 with LVM support and X.Org Server 1.13.0 with the latest drivers. I noticed some Reiser4 patches for the 3.5 kernel so it was included again. The reiser4progs package was patched to work with GParted and the 3.x kernels. Rdesktop was removed in favor of FreeRDP and its GUI Remmina. Two plugins were added to SpaceFM so you can mount Samba shares and use ClamAV directly from the file manager. Several minor bugs have been addressed. A large number of programs have been updated: Python 2.7.3, Mesa 9.0, Firefox 16.0, Linux kernel 3.5.6…. ...

Joshua Smith mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis kedua PC-BSD 9.1: The RC2 images for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 are now available for i386 and amd64 architectures. This release candidate provides both users and developers a means to test out new features in the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 release. This snapshot may contain buggy code and features, so users are encouraged to run it only on non-critical systems. Changes since the previous release: fixed multiple bugs where mice freeze or behave incorrectly; fixed language selection to be displayed as native language; compatibility improvements for PS2 mice; fixed time-out issues with external DVD / USB drives; updated system proxy paths and functionality; updated sound detection functionality; added MP3 and OGG encoders to CD rippers; added detection for NVIDIA Optimus systems…. ...

Lars Torben Kremer mengumumkan rilis Snowlinux 3.1, update perbaikan bug di distribusi berbasis Debian untuk desktop yang menyediakan edisi GNOME 2, Xfce, dan E17. Banyak fitur baru disertakan di rilis ini. CTRL+ALT+Backspace dapat anda gunakan untuk merestart X Server jika hang. Anda dapat membaca pengumuman rilis untuk daftar lengkap fitur-fitur baru dan beberapa tangkapan layar. Download Snowlinux 3.1 ( MD5 ): ...

Ken Smith mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis kedua FreeBSD 9.1: The second release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and powerpc64. A third RC build has been decided on, currently scheduled for a week from now. The release builds themselves will begin about a week after RC3. There was enough ‘community push-back’ from the decision to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS that the decision has been reversed. A firm decision has been made that 10.X release activity will not be exported to CVS. It hasn’t been decided yet if the upcoming 8.X and/or 9.X (past 9.1) release activity will be exported. More information about that will get posted as decisions get made. ...