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Red Hat mengumumkan ketersediaan Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4: “Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the latest update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, release 5.4. New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 is a reorganization of the release note material; now the release notes are a condensed set of major release highlights. The following list summarizes improvements in this release: hardware – 10 GigE drivers with GRO support, FCoE support on standard NICs, SR I/OV support; system – kernel tracepoints for systemtap use; per process I/O accounting, FIEMAP support; virtualization – hypervisor scalability to 192 CPUs, additional hypervisor – Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM).“. Anda bisa membaca pengumuman rilis dan catatan rilis untuk informasi lebih lanjut. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 tersedia baik lewat mekanisme update seperti biasa atau dari serangkaian image ISO untuk instalasi baru (Pelanggan Red Hat Networks). Edisi evaluasi 30 hari dapat diminta dari Red Hat Evaluation .

François Dupoux mengumumkan rilis SystemRescueCd 1.2.3, disk rescue sistem berbasis Gentoo Linux tersedia dalam CD maupun USB bootable untuk mengadministrasi atau memperbaiki sistem dan data setelah terjadi crash. Apa yang baru di rilis ini? “Updated the alternative kernels to Linux kernel 2.6.27.29; updated e2fsprogs to version 1.41.8 (ext2, ext3, ext4 file system tools); updated dump to 0.4b42 (better support for ext4); updated NTFS-3G to version 2009.4.4 AR16 (NTFS-3G advanced release); added missing firmware (package linux-firmware); initial support Partclone 0.1.1; updated GParted to version 0.4.6; updated Parted to version 1.9.0.”. Baca changelog untuk informasi lebih detil. unduh CD Bootable dari : systemrescuecd-x86-1.2.3.iso (236MB, MD5 ).

Ryan Finnie merilis Finnix 93.0, CD distribusi linux kecil yang diperuntukkan untuk administrator sistem dan diracik dari cabang Debian testing: “Finnix 93.0 released. It is a maintenance release, but due to the length of time between Finnix 92.1 and 93.0, the time between Debian upstream updates warranted a major version number bump. New features include Linux kernel 2.6.30, and updated upstream software. Vitals: Linux 2.6.30 (based on Debian 2.6.30-5), Debian testing (2009-08-08). Changes: dist-upgrade; upgraded Memtest86+ to 2.11; re-ordered main menu (x86); several fixes related to Debian and Linux kernel upgrades; removed: EVMS (unmaintained upstream, obsolete, low penetration), unionfs-tools (incompatible with current Unionfs), cramfsprogs (not used by Finnix, low need outside Finnix), ftp (use lftp instead).” Anda bisa membaca Pengumuman Rilis dan Catatan Rilis Untuk Informasi lebih lanjut. Unduh ( MD5 ): finnix-93.0.iso (121MB), finnix-ppc-93.0.iso (132MB).

Roberto J. Dohnert mengumumkan rilis PC/OS 2009.3, distribusi linux desktop berbasis xubuntu: “PC/OS 2009.3 has been released to the general public. This release fixes many of the hardware issues that users had with PC/OS 2009v2 series. With this release we went ahead and installed all updates so all security updates since PC/OS maintenance pack 3 have been applied. The changes to PC/OS 2009.3 application wise are common across all releases except that Xfce 4.6 was not included in WebStation due to some issues that are being explored right now on some models of netbooks. OpenOffice.org 3.1, Pidgin 2.5.8, Firefox 3.0.12, Mozilla Thunderbird and many more application updates have been applied.” Baca Pengumuman Rilis untuk informasi lebih lanjut. Unduh: pc-os-ow20093.iso (1,613MB, MD5 ).

SAM Linux distribusi berbasis PCLinuxOS berupa Live CD yang menyajikan Desktop XFCETelah dirilis : “The Sam Linux team announces the release of SAM Linux 2009. The distribution is based on PCLinuxOS 2009.1 but it will be the last release based on PCLinuxOS. The most important changes are the upgrade to kernel version 2.6.26.8, Xfce 4.6.1, support of a variety of WLAN hardware and support of the MSI Wind netbook architecture. Minor changes include the upgrade of all packages as of 18 July 2009 and the use of Opera as email client instead of Thunderbird. SAM Linux 2009 is made fully compatible with the PCLinuxOS repositories. In the process of changing from PCLinuxOS to a distribution still unannounced we will stop hosting our own PCLinuxOS repository but we will keep up the support for SAM Linux 2009 as long as it is in use by our community.“ Info lengkap bisa anda baca di Pengumuman Rilis . Unduh : SAM2009.iso (679MB, MD5 ).

Dieter Plaetinck mengumumkan rilis kumpulan image CD instalasi baru untuk Arch Linux versi 2009.08: “These images are built from a current snapshot of core, which includes Linux kernel 2.6.30.4, udev 141 and Pacman 3.3.0. Changes compared to 2009.02: more up-to-date software; usage of new AIF installer, which brings better disk editor with support for dm_crypt and LVM setups, support for automated installations using configuration files, a framework to build your own installation procedures, better date/time setting with NTP support, re-factored GRUB installation routines and usability improvements; Aufs instead of Unionfs; enhanced boot device detection on image start; bug fixes (XFS freeze, mirror setting, clock corrections, network settings).“ Baca Pengumuman Rilis dan Catatan Rilis untuk info detail. Unduh ( MD5 ): archlinux-2009.08-core-i686.iso (344MB, torrent ), archlinux-2009.08-core-x86_64.iso (664MB, torrent ).

Vanessa Wall mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha kedua Mandriva Linux 2010: Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 2 is now available on public mirrors. This alpha is available only through ‘Free’ editions, 32-bit and 64-bit DVDs. Despite our planning modification (if you haven’t heard it already, Mandriva Linux 2010 will be released on November 3rd, 2009), we were able to provide this alpha 2 release sooner than expected. Among many things, the following components have been updated in alpha 2: KDE 4.3 RC 3; GNOME 2.27.5, including new client-side window GTK+ feature (help to prevent flickering); Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc4, X.Org Server 1.6.3 with latest driver for Intel graphic chipset (should improve performance and stability). ...

Johnny Lee mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis pengembangan Macpup Opera, versi 061, distribusi Linux berbasis Puppy yang menampilkan desktop Enlightenment 17 terbaru: Macpup Opera 061 is based on Ttuuxxx’s 4.2v2 ‘Deeper thought’ (2.6.25.16), a ‘no Bling’ version of Puppy Linux 4.2 with all of the current updates. It has D-Bus 1.2.4 compiled and installed from source and the Enlightenment 17 desktop version 0.16.999.061 compiled and installed from source with the updated version of librsvg 2.26.0. Opera 061 includes lots of the e17 extra modules like Flame, Rain, Snow and Penguins, and lots of extra shelf modules like Net, Tclock, Moon. Some of the shelf modules like CPU and Weather are unstable and may crash. Also included is the Opera 9.64 browser. GIMP 2.4.6 Xvidcap and Avidemux are included as .pets. ...

Matthew Burgess mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis kedua Linux From Scratch ( LFS) 6.5, buku yang menampilkan panduan untuk mengembangkan distribusi Linux minimalis dari dasar: The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS version 6.5 release candidate 2. This release includes numerous changes from LFS 6.4 (including updates to Linux kernel 2.6.30.2, GCC 4.4.1 and glibc-2.10.1) and security fixes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text. It is our intention to release LFS 6.5 final within one week. Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev at linuxfromscratch.org. ...

SLAMPP merupakan distribusi Linux berbasis Zenwalk dalam bentuk live DVD yang didesain untuk digunakan sebagai server rumahan instan. Setelah lebih dari tiga tahun tanpa aktivitas proyek ini merilis versi 2.0 : Today I am glad to let you know that SLAMPP 2.0 is available for public download. There are a lot of enhancements in this new release, some of them are the following: Linux live kernel 2.6.28.7, provides pre-configured servers and related utilities to ease your work in setting up an instant home server; provides full web and Linux development environment: LAMPP and Ruby on Rails, IDEs, frameworks, compilers, interpreters, utilities; equips with fancy bootsplash and progress bar, nice desktop wallpaper, complete OpenOffice.org suite, multimedia, graphics, audio and video applications; maintains the Slax modularity; can be installed on hard disk or USB storage device; supports persistent partitions on USB devices…. ...

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Joe Brockmeier mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis milestone keempat openSUSE 11.2: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 is hot off the openSUSE Build Service and ready for your testing pleasure. This is a Milestone release, one of several that lead up to the 11.2 final release in November. It may not be suitable for production systems, but is ready for contributors who want to help with testing and development for 11.2. Changes since Milestone 3: the live CDs can now be deployed using USB sticks; the live CDs now contain mc and Yakuake; YaST has a new Qt-based control center. Other changes:Linux kernel 2.6.30.2, CUPS 1.3.10, NetworkManager 0.7.1, Samba 3.4.0, Firefox 3.5, KDE 4.3 RC1, Qt 4.5.2, Qt Creator 1.2, SeaMonkey 2.0a3, VirtualBox 3.0 beta 2. ...