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Alan Baghumian mengumumkan rilis build terbaru Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7, distribusi berorientasi desktop dalam bentuk Live DVD berbasis Debian testing branch dan menampilkan lingkungan desktop GNOME 2.32.1: The first updated version of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7, code name ‘Raul’, is available now. This version comes with updated GTK+, Grisbi, GNU Iceweasel and Chromium browser packages. It also merges all the published security updates into a new set of ISO images. You can easily update your existing systems using APT. Major components: Linux kernel 2.6.37.6, X.Org Server 1.7.7, GNU Iceweasel 7.0.1, Chromium 13.0.782.220, OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, glibc 2.11.2, GParted 0.8.1, GIMP 2.6.8, Grisbi 0.8.8, VirtualBox 4.0.4, VLC 1.1.3…. ...

Silvan Calarco mengumumkan ketersediaan pre-release keenam openmamba 2.0, sebuah distribusi Linux desktop generik: The ISO images and archives of the sixth openmamba milestone2 pre-release are available for download. This new release adds the following new features: Linux kernel 3.0.4; support for 4+ GB RAM system; new stable live CD based on the GNOME desktop environment, version 2.32, 3.x will be optionally available as an upgrade when ready; new stable live CD based on the LXDE environment; USB 3.0 support for the USB live edition of openmamba; KDE 4.6.5; Chromium is the new default and recommended browser; added support for the open-source nouveau video driver for system having an NVIDIA graphical chipset, as well as X.org updates with all other graphic drivers. ...

Red Hat mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2: Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of the beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. This beta includes a broad set of updates to the existing feature set and also provides rich new functionality particularly in the areas of performance and scaling, identity management, high availability, advanced storage, and networking. As always, this beta delivers new hardware enablement made possible by our strong relationships with our strategic hardware partners. This beta release has been designed for optimized performance, scalability and reliability to cater to the diverse workloads running in physical, virtual and cloud environments. ...

George Vlahavas mengumumkan rilis Salix OS 13.37 edisi “Ratpoison”, distribusi Linux berbasis Slackware yang menampilkan window manajer unik Ratpoison: Salix Ratpoison 13.37 is released. This is probably the first-ever Linux distribution release featuring Ratpoison as the main window manager. The aim of the Ratpoison edition is to create a system that is fully usable with the keyboard only, no mouse required! For everyone that is not familiar with Ratpoison, Ratpoison is a window manager for X ‘with no-fat library dependencies, no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no rodent dependence’. Ratpoison uses a workflow that is similar to that of GNU screen, which is very popular in the terminal world. All interaction with the window manager is done through keystrokes. ...

Dennis Gilmore mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta Fedora 16: We are proud to announce the availability of the beta release of Fedora 16. It includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include: system boot – Fedora 16 introduces GRUB 2, the long-awaited next-generation boot-loader for Linux; services management – this release features better integration of Systemd via conversion to native Systemd services from legacy init scripts in many software components; desktop updates – the two major desktop environments have been updated to the latest releases. ...

José Antonio Calvo mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis update Zentyal 2.2, distribusi untuk server yang mudah digunakan yang didesain untuk mengatur layanan jaringan. Distro ini berbasis Ubuntu : The Zentyal development team has published a new compilation of packages including all the bug fixes and system updates from Ubuntu since the release of the first 2.2 installer. There are also two changes in this new installer: the 64-bit edition now uses the server kernel by default instead of the generic one; adds the new secondary packages repository, allowing us to release important bug fixes without waiting until Launchpad builds and publishes them. ...

AgiliaLinux , sebelumnya dikenal dengan nama MOPSLinux, merupakan distribusi yang dikembangkan dari Slackware Linux, tetapi dilengkapi dengan installer dan manajer paket kustom. Rilis AgiliaLinux 8.0.0 menampilkan Kernel Linux 3.0.4, glibc 2.12.2, GCC 4.5.2, X.Org server 1.10.2 dan Mesa 7.10.3, sementara lingkungan desktop yang didukung dan window manajer yang disertakan termasuk KDE 4.7.1, GNOME 2.32.1, Xfce 4.8.3, LXDE 0.5.0, Opebox 3.5.0 dan Fluxbox 1.3.1 dengan rilis ini, proyek AgiliaLinux juga mengumumkan bahwa gaya pengembangan diubah menjadi rolling-release model dengan rilis stabil periodik. Update piranti lunak sepenuhnya diotomatisasi tanpa membutuhkan intervensi manual. Tiap tiga bulan akan dirilis ISO Image untuk anda yang membutuhkan fresh instal. Catatan tambahan, proyek ini juga telah memiliki maskot, seorang cewek dengan nickname Sammy. Anda bisa membaca informasi lebih detail di pengumuman rilis (dalam bahasa rusia). ...

Patrick Verner mengumumkan rilis Parted Magic 6.7, versi stabil baru distro spesialis penyelamatan data dan manajemen disk dalam bentuk live CD: Major enhancement release with many updates. Most notable updates include Linux 3.0.4 and GParted 0.9.1. We have dropped the legacy PCManFM for PCMan-Mod, and man is it nice! Lots a If you have a best-data-recovery.com 8 DVD and need that on the flash drive, start with Step 1. little PCManFM bugs that have existed for years are now quashed. Xfburn replaces SimpleBurn for burning CD/DVD media. Chntwd was added to the boot menu. Adding Luxi fonts improved international language support. Although it”s not the newest release, Firefox is updated to version 6.0.2 and is compiled for i486 (official branding included) with permission from the Mozilla Foundation. OpenSSH is updated to 5.9p1 with the ECDSA key created by default. People have been complaining about Parted Magic being hard on laptop batteries, so CPU frequency scaling on anything with a battery is now set to “on-demand” at boot. ...

Dru Lavigne mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta ketiga PC-BSD 9.0, distribusi desktop ramah pengguna berbasis FreeBSD : The third BETA release of the upcoming PC-BSD 9.0 is now available. This release includes the latest FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 base, along with numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Changelog: fix issue enabling Flash plugin after installation; fix bug with handbook not launching in LXDE; fix issue performing updates on ZFS systems with separate /boot UFS partition; add lxmenu-data port which provides nicer LXDE menu framework; fix enabling iBus from GDM; include ‘mga’ driver in base; add option to install only Openbox as a window manager; fix bug doing PBI patching and checking the FreeBSD version…. ...

Bryen Yunashko mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta openSUSE 12.1: The much-awaited beta release of openSUSE 12.1 is here. If you’ve been following us, you know this release was originally called Milestone 6. However, the release team and its testers agreed that this round of testing showed milestone 6 to be so stable and ready for general testing, they decided to call it beta. And that means that if you’ve been thinking about taking a pre-release of 12.1 for a spin before our final release in November, there’s no time like the present. ...

Willensky Aristide mengumumkan rilis ArchBang Linux 2011.10, distribusi Linux desktop berbasis Arch Linux yang menampilkan window manager ringan openBox: ArchBang 2011.10 is out in the wild. You don’t need it if you already have ArchBang running smoothly on your system. It’s basically 2011.10 RC2 with the following changes: updated DOC; urxvt scrollbar color adjusted; Jumanji replaced by Firefox Nightly; icons in the applications menu; clarity icon theme instead of GNOME; 2 pixels top desktop margin so you can right-click on the desktop even when a window is maximized; you can edit keyboard layout configuration while installing ArchBang. Note: NetworkManager was updated today so you can remove it from ‘autostart’ once you update it since it will launch the applet automatically. ...

Alexander Tratsevskiy mengumumkan rilis Calculate Linux 11.9, distribusi Linux berbasis Gentoo yang didesain sebagai distri generik: Calculate Linux 11.9 has been released. Major changes: Calculate Linux now has a new flavor – Calculate Media Center; local user profiles will be updated in a new way – changes will be made only when programs are installed; installation on a soft RAID partition and LVM partition supported; support added for Btrfs and NILFS2 and we’ve fixed the problem with installing on JFS; ext4 comes as the default file system at install; single-user installation mode added to allow login without entering the password…. ...