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Red Hat baru-baru ini mengeluarkan pengumuman untuk mengingatkan bahwa seri-seri pada versi 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) akan mencapai akhir masa hidup regularnya pada akhir februari 2012. Pelanggan reguler distribusi yang februari nanti berumur 7 tahun ini tidak akan mendapat update setelah waktu tersebut. Red Hat Menyarankan untuk berpindah ke versi 5 atau 6 dari distribusi ini, RHEL 6 akan dimaintain sampai akhir November 2017. Apabila pengguna masih membutuhkan RHEL 4, anda bisa mendapat tambahan dukungan dari Red Hat selama tiga tahun dengan skema Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS). ...

Eugenio Paolantonio mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis pertama Semplice Linux 2.0, distribusi ringan berbasis Debian cabang unstable dan menampilkan window manager Openbox: The entire Semplice team is proud to announce the immediate release of the first release candidate of the upcoming 2.0 release. What’s new? As this is a release candidate, we focused on resolving bugs rather than adding new features. The Semplice live system contains Openbox 3.5.0, Linux kernel 3.1.4, Chromium 15.0.874.121, Exaile 0.3.2.2, GNOME MPlayer 1.0.4, AbiWord 2.9.1, Gnumeric 1.10.17, Pidgin 2.10.0, Guake terminal 0.4.2. Semplice Linux is a light, simple, fast and libre GNU/Linux distribution, based on Debian ‘Sid’, the ‘unstable’ branch of the Debian project. Because of its instability, Semplice Linux is not ideal for production systems. ...

KahelOS 111111 telah dirilis. Ini merupakan versi terbaru dari distribusi Linux desktop berbasis Arch Linux yang melakukan rilis berkelanjutan: Announcing the release of KahelOS 111111 live CD with GUI installer, desktop edition. The fast, simple and rolling-release Linux desktop OS is also 100% free. What is new? The Mabuhay welcome center introduces you to what is in store when one installs and uses KahelOS; hassle-free automatic installation; pre-installed Apache web server, MySQL database, PhpMyAdmin and Bluefish as your editor. These are some packages that you’ll enjoy when using KahelOS: Linux kernel 3.1.2, GNOME 3.2.1, Chromium 15.0.874.121, Firefox 8.0.1, LibreOffice 3.4.4, X.Org Server 1.11.2, GIMP 2.6.11, GnuCash 2.4.8, TweetDeck 0.37.5, Miro 4.0.3, Thunderbird 8.0, Bluefish 2.2.0. And finally, we are also introducing the new KahelOS mascot, MULAT. ...

Karanbir Singh mengumumkan rilis CentOS 6.1, versi baru distribusi mayor yang dikembangkan dari kode sumber Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1: We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 6.1 install media for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 6.1 is based on the upstream release EL 6.1 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. All machines running CentOS-Release-CR on 6.0 would already be running code that is included in the 6.1 install media. We highly recommend everyone use the CR repository in order to get all bug-fix and security updates as soon as possible. ...

Ken Smith mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis ketiga FreeBSD 9.0: The third and what should be final release candidate build for the 9.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. This should be the last of the test builds. We hope to begin the final release builds in about a week. The 9.0-RELEASE cycle will be tracked here . The location of the FTP install tree and ISO images is the same as it has been for BETA2, BETA3, RC1 and RC2. The layout to a large degree is being dictated by the new build infrastructure and installer. But it’s not particularly well-suited to humans so I’ve added a shorter pathway to the ISO images . Unless there are lots of complaints about the layout we’ll stick with this for the release. ...

Red Hat mengumumkan rilis Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, versi updae dari distribusi Linux enteprise yang paling banyak dipasang. Rilis ini merupakan bagian dari siklus hidup Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL) 6. RHEL 6.2 menyajikan perbaikan yang signifikan di virtualisasi, manajemen sumberdaya dan high availability, serta menawarkan fitur baru pada performa penyimpanan dan sistem file serta manajemen identitas. Efisiensi yang didapatkan oleh organisasi yang menggunakan RHEL 6.2 didapatkan dari manajemen sumberdaya dan optimisasi performa. Untuk informasi lebih detail, anda dapat membaca pengumuman rilis dan rilis pers untuk gambaran singkat rilis, dan ada dapat membaca catatan rilis untuk detail teknis mengenai rilis ini.Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 tersedia untuk diunduh dari Red Hat Network (untuk pelanggan); pelanggan baru bisa mendapatkan produk untuk dievaluasi dari halaman produk RHEL.

Andreas Heinlein mengumumkan rilis UPR (Ubuntu Privacy Remix) 10.04r2, versi terbaru dari live CD yang ditujukan untuk memberikan proteksi privasi pengguna dan menghindari pencurian data The UPR team has published the second stable release of Ubuntu Privacy Remix 10.04r2. UPR is a live system to protect from spying and data theft. Apart from the changes with UPR itself, we now offer a dual-boot ISO image for DVD or USB drive which includes the current version 0.9 of the TAILS live system, a live system focused on anonymous internet usage over the Tor network. This way, the user can choose to either work in an isolated, secure environment with UPR or use the Internet anonymously with TAILS, using the same media. Changes in UPR 10.04r2: based on Ubuntu 10.04.3; new program ‘tellico’, a small database; new program ‘Grsync’ for making backups; new program ‘X-Tile’ to arrange windows…. ...

Liraz Siri mengumumkan rilis Turnkey Linux 11.3, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu berupa peralatan virtualisasi(virtual appliances) yang sangat terspesialisasi yang mengintegrasikan piranti lunak bebas terbuka menjadi solusi yang siap untuk digunakan. Ini merupakan rilis maintenance final untuk yang berbasis Ubuntu 10.04, rilis selanjutnya akan menggunakan Ubuntu 12.04 sebagai basis pengembangan. Apabila anda sudah menggunakan TurnKey anda tidak perlu mengunduh image ISo karena TurnKey dikonfigurasi untuk melakukan instalasi update keamanan lewat jaringan secara otomatis. Rilis maintenance ini ditujukan terutama bagi pengguna baru dan pengguna lama yang melakukan pemasangan baru. Untuk informasi lebih detail, anda dapat membaca pengumuman rilis dan melihat halaman virtual appliances . ...

Kate Stewart mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis alpha pertama Ubuntu 12.04, yang diberi code name “Precise Pangolin”: We are pleased to bring you the first set of developer images that capture the current fleeting reality of our Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04 alpha 1) as it starts to emerge. Alpha 1 includes the 3.2.0-2.5 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the latest mainline 3.2-rc3 Linux kernel. This is an update from the 3.0 kernel in Oneiric. Another noticeable change is the consolidation of the amd64 server flavor into the generic flavor. This will help minimize the maintenance burden over the life of this LTS release. The alpha 1 kernel also adds support for additional ALPS touchpads, contains an updated seccomp patch set, and numerous configuration changes. ...

Steven Shiau mengumumkan rilis Clonezilla Live 1.2.11-23, versi stabil terbaru distribusi Live CD berbasis Debian yang didesain untuk pekerjaan kloning disk: This release of Clonezilla Live (1.2.11-23) includes major enhancements and bug fixes: the underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded, this release is based on the Debian ‘Sid’ repository as of 2011-11-28; Linux kernel was updated to version 3.1.1; Partclone was updated to version 0.2.38, gDisk to 0.8.1; a new mode ‘1-2-mdisks’ (one image to be restored to multiple disks) was added in Clonezilla main menu, this is useful for creating massive USB Flash drives; this release supports VMFS5 imaging and cloning; the option to fsck the source partition will be shown in beginner mode; GRUB 2 for EFI booting was improved, now it is able to boot a Mac OS X machine from a USB Flash drive with the MBR partition table…. ...

Eric Turgeon mengumumkan ketersediaan kandidat rilis pertama GhostBSD 2.5, sistem operasi desktop berbasis FreeBSD yang menampilkan desktop GNOME 2.32: GhostBSD 2.5 RC1 is out. List of bugs fixed: PiTiVi on i386; the free space output in the graphical and text-based installers; a third install option in the text-based installer. To install GhostBSD you have two options; a new option is by clicking on the GhostBSD Installer icon or Typing ‘gbi’ in a terminal for graphical installation. Type ‘ginstall’ in a terminal for the new text-based installer. Ginstall is a great tool for those who cannot get to the desktop or their keyboard and mouse don’t work on the desktop. You will see that both GhostBSD lite (CD) and GhostBSD (DVD) have the installers; the difference is that GhostBSD lite is a smaller edition that fits on a CD. ...

Robert Lange mengumumkan rilis final terbaru VectorLinux 7.0: VectorLinux 7.0 is now available. This release is the result of nearly two years of blood, sweat and tears since the very successful release of VectorLinux 6.0. With the enthusiasm of a small group of packagers, our repository now hosts over a thousand up-to-date packages. VectorLinux is the fastest Linux desktop in its class bar none. We have exceeded our original goals and produced a beautiful, full-featured stable desktop that is fun, fast and efficient. The main desktop is Xfce 4.8 with a custom theme and artwork. Fluxbox is installed as a secondary desktop option. Much work has been done on localization and we know users from all over the globe will find VectorLinux usable in their language of choice. The kernel is version 3.0.8. ...