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Alan Baghumian merilis build development pertama Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, distribusi desktop dan live DVD berbasis Debian testing : The first set of Parsix 3.5 ‘Frankie’ testing ISO images are out. Although this is the first testing ISO, the system stability is very good and there shouldn’t be any strange errors or problems. This version is synchronized with Debian testing repositories as of March 7, 2010, bringing tons of updated packages. These ISO images are compiled using Squashfs 4.0 with LZMA compression and, for the first time, we are using GRUB 2 as the default bootloader. The kernel build system has been modified and improved vastly to produce better kernel packages. Our brand new 2.6.32.9 kernel with improved configuration is patched using the latest TuxOnIce and Con Kolivas’s BFS performance patches. ...

Warren Woodford mengumumkan kandidat rilis ketiga SimplyMEPIS 8.5 siap untuk diunduh dan dites : MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.5.00, RC3 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. We’ve updated the kernel to 2.6.32.10. The release notes from the Linux kernel team indicated that they have been hard at work making improvements. We have changed the live media to use isolinux. This gave us the opportunity to add a hardware exploration tool to the boot options. Also we’ve expended the number of languages that can be selected at live boot. Soon we expect to take advantage of this to build a larger international Live media release, that will have appropriate KDE localizations built-in. There have been a number of improvements to the MEPIS Assistants. ...

Rilis beta kedua dari PCLinuxOS 2010 tersedia untuk diunduh dan dites. Apa saja yang baru? Linux kernel updated to 2.6.32.10 – updates, bug fixes and suggestions based on community feedback over the past week were implemented on the live CD. In addition to the KDE 4.4.1 version, we now have GNOME, Phoenix Xfce, PCLXDE and GNOME Zen Mini ISO images available which showcase the various desktops available on PCLinuxOS. An Enlightenment desktop ISO image is also in the works and should be available sometime this week. PCLinuxOS 2010 was built from the ground up using the packages in our repository. This weeks changelog: fixed menu translations; dropped most of PulseAudio out of system, KDE now gets ALSA analog and digital devices by default; temporarily removed admin functions from system settings menu until I can package it in to an RPM…. ...

Yuichiro Nakada mengumumkan rilis Berry Linux 1.01, distribusi Linux berbasis Fedora yang menggunakan bahasa Jepang. Tersedia dalam Live CD (dengan dukungan bahasa inggris) untuk Desktop dengan menawarkan KDE 4 Desktop Environment. Ini merupakan rilis pertama berbasis Fedora 12. ...

Mandriva mengumumkan rilis Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1, distribusi Linux komersial dengan dukungan maintenance hingga 5 tahun : The first update of Mandriva Enterprise Server (MES) 5, the simple and innovative Linux server, is available today. Coming with plenty of technology enhancements, hardware support scope and software list have been increased. Mandriva Enterprise Server 5 aims to be innovative in order to make infrastructure management even easier. The main focus of MES 5.1 is on virtualization. MES 5.1 improves integration of KVM technology (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) together with an administration tool for a simple management. MES 5.1 also includes an installation wizard and Mandriva Directory Server (MDS). ...

Henne Vogelsang mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis milestone ketiga openSUSE 11.2: The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a great deal of the work in the hands of the openSUSE Build Service after a few issues (such as kernel panics) were resolved. Here’s what you may find interesting in the new release: a bug in Milestone 2 prevented mounting of encrypted home folders – this has been resolved; zypper can now interrupt PackageKit, via D-Bus, eliminating a major annoyance during updates and additional installs; a Milestone 1 issue with starting X.Org on i915 hardware has finally been resolved…. ...

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. ...