Distro

Andrew Wyatt mengumumkan rilis Fuduntu 14.12, versi update dari distribusi Linux desktop yang di fork dari Fedora : Today I would like to announce that we are officially forked. This means that we are now a self-contained, self-hosted distribution. Fuduntu is now built from Fuduntu repositories, and we only pull from Fuduntu repositories by default. I am also pleased to announce the early release of Fuduntu 14.12 to commemorate our anniversary. Fuduntu 14.12 is our first release media built from Fuduntu repositories without any external dependencies. Major changes in this release: Linux kernel 3.0.7, X.Org Server 1.11.1, Flash 11, Remmina is now the default remote access software replacing Vinagre. As always, Fuduntu 14.12 includes a roll-up of all package changes since 14.11. ...

Phil Miller mengumumkan rilis Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.11, distribusi Linux desktop yang menampilkan KDE 4.7.3 yang baru saja dirilis: The Chakra development team is proud to announce the second release of ‘Edn’, Chakra GNU/Linux featuring Linux kernel 3.0.8 and KDE 4.7.3. This is a regular scheduled release, approximately 7 – 10 days after a new version of KDE is announced. Besides the latest KDE, this release features an updated toolchain and a split of Qt and QtWebKit, thus enabling HTML 5 and WebGL support for Qt/KDE web-browsers. Chakra is now offering a DVD and CD edition; the CD edition is a minimal working KDE desktop with only a text editor, file manager, web browser and a simple media player installed, while the DVD version includes all the language packs, most of the standard KDE applications, LibreOffice, Clementine, XBMC, Calibre…. ...

Rafael Bonifaz mengumumkan rilis Elastix 2.2, distribusi Linux telepon berbasis CentOS yang mengintegrasikan tool terbaik yang tersedia untuk Private Branch Exchanges(PBX) berbasi Asterisk didalam antarmuka tunggal yang mudah digunakan : Now available Elastix 2.2 and the elastixWorld 2011 attendees were the first to witness the improvements in this new Elastix stable version. In this version you will enjoy a new and improved interface and the upgrading of Asterisk among other additions such as: Elastix Web Services module, MarketPlace module, Statistics module, Advanced Security Settings module; CentOS and kernel upgrades; Asterisk casino online 1.8.7.0 update; security and bug fixes; definition of the AMI and ARI credentials in Elastix”s first-boot process; support for the Operator Panel in Internet Explorer and Firefox; minor graphic and language bug fixes. ...

Kandidat rilis kedua dan terakhir untuk openSUSE 12.1 telah dirilis dan siap untuk dites sebelum rilis final yang dijadwalkan akan dirilis tanggal 16 November 2011. Kutipan dari pengumuman rilis : Following the openSUSE 12.1 roadmap, RC2 has been released upon this innocent world. This is your final chance to test openSUSE 12.1 before we move to the final version! The upcoming release of openSUSE is expected to bring a large number of improvements and changes. These include the latest Firefox, GNOME 3.2 and KDE’s Plasma Workspace 4.7. Under the hood, we have Linux kernel 3.1 and we expect to be the first to ship Google’s new programming language, Go. We also overhauled our boot procedure introducing systemd and GRUB 2. ...

Steven Shiau mengumumkan rilis GParted LiveCD 0.10.0-3, versi stabil terbaru dari utility live CD yang berisi koleksi aplikasi pemartisi disk dan penyelamatan data. Rilis ini hadir dengan GParted 0.10.0 yang jauh lebih baik dari versi sebelumnya, sementara window manager Fluxbox diupgrade ke versi 1.3.2. Dari pengumuman rilis: ...

Daniel Drake mengumumkan rilis OLPC OS 11.3.0, distribusi spesialis yang dibuat dibawah proyek inisiatif One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) yang bertujuan menyediakan laptop dengan harga murah bagi anak-anak dinegara miskin dan berkembang: ...

Antoni Norman mengumumkan build tes awal Pinguy OS 11.10, yang menampilkan GNOME Shell alih-alih Unity Desktop milik ubuntu: Pinguy OS 11.10 pre-alpha released. This is nowhere near finished, but if you want to have a look at what I have so far you can. Many of the final applications are not included and a few of the installed applications might get removed/replaced in later releases. But what we have got so far is pretty stable, it’s just missing a few features that will be in the final. The desktop is using GNOME Shell. If you have problems with graphics you can login to GNOME fallback mode to install the needed drivers. There will be a MATE version but it isn’t anywhere near ready yet and is going to take some time before there is a release. ...

Arne Fitzenreiter mengumumkan rilis versi mayor baru IPFire , distribusi Linux spesialis untuk firewall: It has already been four years since IPFire 2 was released for the first time. There has been huge progress until today, the release of version 2.11. The biggest new feature in the released version 2.11 of IPFire is the option to create net-to-net VPNs with OpenVPN. Until now, it was only possible to use OpenVPN to create roadwarrior networks, but we kept the easiness of configuring VPN tunnels by just sending configuration archives in ZIP format. To learn how that works, see the reworked documentation on the Wiki. IPsec-VPNs do now support the IKEv2 protocol which allows a more secure, faster and easier connection of the tunnels. ...

Urs Beyerle mengumumkan rilis edisi “Live” Scientific Linux 5.7, Scientific Linux 5.7 merupakan distribusi Linux yang dikembangkan dari kode sumber Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 : With a little delay I can announce the release of Scientific Linux 5.7 live CD/DVD. Please note that the SL 5.7 live CD/DVD were built with the old build environment used for all SL 4.x SL 5.x live CD/DVD releases so far. The Scientific Linux live CD/DVD is a bootable CD/DVD that runs Linux directly from CD/DVD without installing. It is based on Scientific Linux 5.7 (SL57), which is recompiled from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 sources. Software: Linux kernel 2.6.18-274.3.1.el5, openAFS client 1.4.14, X.Org 7.1, ALSA sound libraries 1.0.17, GNOME 2.16.0 (standard desktop), OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Firefox 3.6.23, KDE 3.5.4 (only on live DVD)…. ...

François Dupoux telah merilis SystemRescueCd 2.4.0, versi udpdate dari live CD spesialis yang berisi utiliti bebas terbuka untuk mempartisi disk dan pekerjaan penyelamatan data. Rilis ini hadir dengan GParted versi 0.10.0 yang baru, X.Org server terbaru dan mozilla firefox, DHCP diupgrade ke seri 4.x. Kutipan dari changelog : ...

David Cortarello mengumumkan rilis Kwort Linux 3.2, distribusi linux desktop berbasis CRUX yang menampilkan desktop Openbox. Distro ini ditujukan untuk pengguna Linux menengah dan mahir: Almost a year has passed since Kwort’s last stable release, and today I’m rolling out a new release of our system. This is a major upgrade of almost every software package included in Kwort 3.14, except the toolchain. The most noticeable changes include: move from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice; a new kernel 3 series, Firefox 7.0.1 (not installed by default but you can install it from the CD image) and the latest version of Chromium. Other than what’s noticeable, there are tons of improvements under the hood, like the inclusion of LVM2 and mdadm for logical volume management and raid support, the ext4 file system supported in the installation and some nice improvements in kpkg. ...

Willensky Aristide mengumumkan rilis ArchBang Linux 2011.11, pengembagan update dari distribusi ringan berbasis Arch Linux dan menawarkan window manager ringan Openbox: ArchBang 2011.11 is out in the wild. You don’t need it if you already have ArchBang Linux installed on your system. Changelog: PCManFM over Thunar file manager; Xcompmgr-dana over Xcompmgr; recent files pipe menu added; new key bind to read the upgraded DOC; progress bar while copying files; better font rendering; new look; smaller ISO image. Notes: you can always build Arch with Openbox from scratch by following this guide ; if you don’t like the black and gray system tray icons, remove the following line in tint2rc – ‘systray_icon_asb = 100 -100 -25’. ...