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George Vlahavas mengumumkan rilis beta pertama Salix OS 13.1, distribusi berbasis Slackware yang dioptimisasi untuk penggunaan desktop, siap untuk diunduh dan dites: Here is Salix 13.1 beta 1, coming shortly after the announcement of Slackware 13.1 beta 1. It’s available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and it’s another step towards the final release of Salix 13.1. Most bugs should be fixed by now and the result should be really close to what the final release is going to be. Changes since 13.1 alpha 1: Simple Scan replaces XSane; Evince replaces ePDFView; cryptsetup and mdadm have been added, making it easier to setup LVM; installer does not auto-reboot after completion, but prompts the user to select between rebooting, or exiting the installation to the command line; upgraded Linux kernel to version 2.6.33.3; fixed the locale setup window during installation…. ...

José Antonio Calvo mengumumkan rilis eBox Platform 1.4-2, distribusi untuk server berbasis Ubuntu yang membidik pengguna bisnis kecil dan menengah: We’ve done a lot of bug-fixing and small improvements since the last 1.4-1 release. All those enhancements have now been included in a new installer. Here is a summary of the most relevant changes: DNS – added support for internal networks allowed to recourse the caching server; Ebackup – improvements on frequency and keep options, added backup and restore of logs, added restore configuration from backup action; Egroupware – now works properly in a master-slave scenario; firewall – new firewall table containing rules added by eBox services; network – failover test are more robust now; Samba – allow guest shares; Squid – new bandwidth throttling support with delay pools…. ...

Alan Baghumian mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis tes ketiga Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, distribusi desktop dan Live CD berbasis cabang testing Debian: The third and final set of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5 ‘Frankie’ testing ISO images are out. In this release efforts were centralized on fixing reported problems by the community and also finalizing needed updates and changes through the stable release. Repositories are synchronized with Debian testing repositories as of April 7, 2010. Continent repository is frozen and no more updates will be imported from Debian. ISO images will not fit on CD and a DVD is required to burn them. Frankie ISO images are compiled using Squashfs 4.0 with LZMA compression and for the first time GRUB 2 is used as default Live-DVD boot loader. ...

Tim Pengembang PCLinuxOS telah Merilis PCLinuxOS 2010 edisi “Openbox” yang menggunakan Openbox sebagai desktop environment alternatif dan melengkapi rilis dari seri PCLinuxOS 2010: PCLinuxOS 2010 Openbox edition provides a fully-featured desktop, showcasing the small, fast, and fully compliant Openbox window manager. Internet applications include Firefox web browser, Sylpheed email client, Pino twitter client and Pidgin for instant messaging. Office applications include AbiWord word processor, Gnumeric spreadsheet and Mozilla Sunbird calendar. Graphic casino online applications include GIMP, GQview, and MTPaint. Features: Linux kernel 2.6.32.11-bfs for maximum desktop performance; Openbox desktop with Tint2 panel; NVIDIA and ATI fglrx driver support; multimedia playback support for many popular formats; wireless support for many network devices…. ...

Robert Lange mengumumkan rilis VectorLinux 6.0 edisi “KDE-Classic-Live”, Live CD yang menampilkan desktop KDE 3: The VectorLinux team is happy to announce the release of VectorLinux 6.0 KDE-Classic-Live. KDE 3 veterans will appreciate that this release retains the solid KDE 3.5.10. There are many updates compared to the original, install-only release. The Live-installer has been improved. Live mode makes it simple to test compatibility with your hardware before committing to a permanent installation. KDE-Classic is configured with full web and multimedia capabilities out of the box. Firefox has all the plugins that VectorLinux users are used to – Flash 10, MPlayer and Java. Further functionality from VLC and Xine ensures that you will be able to handle all common audio and video formats. Amarok is ready for your music collection. The king of CD/DVD burning, K3b, is also included. ...

Pengembang Scientific Linux mengumumkan End Of Life Scientific Linux 3 pada tanggal 10 oktober 2010 (10/10/10). Hal ini berarti tidak ada errata keamanan, penambahan fitur dan perbaikan bug setelah tanggal tersebut. Seluruh distribusi Scientific Linux 3 akan dipindah ke area obsolete milik Scientific Linux 3. Hal ini sejalan dengan End of life Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 yang merupakan upstream dari Scientific Linux. CentOS 3 yang juga menggunakan RHEL 3 sebagai dasar pengembangan juga telah mengumumkan masa End of life

Tru Huynh mengumumkan end of life CentOS 3 pada tanggal 31 oktober 2010. hal ini sejalan dengan End-of-life Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 yang merupakan upstream CentOS. CentOS menggunakan kode sumber Red Hat Enterprise Linux (minus trademark Red Hat) dalam pengembangannya. Kalau anda masih menggunakan CentOS 3, disarankan untuk mengupgrade ke versi CentOS yang lebih baru agar tetap mendapatkan update perbaikan bug dan keamanan secara kontinu.

Red Hat mempublikasikan pengumuman yang mengingatkan pengguna Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 bahwa RHEL 3 mendekati masa akhir produk / End Of Life (EOL) yang akan jatuh pada tanggal 31 oktober 2010. Notifikasi enam bulan ini sesuai dengan kebijakan dukungan perbaikan Red Hat terhadap RHEL 3 yang berarti setelah tanggal 31 oktober 2010 tidak ada update lagi, termasuk update keamanan dan perbaikan kritikal, dilakukan pada RHEL 3. Red Hat menyarankan pengguna untuk melakukan upgrade ke versi terbaru. Red Hat Enterprise Linux yang memiliki support selama 7 tahun. Jika pengguna melakukan migrasi ke RHEL 5 misalnya, maka mereka akan mendapat dukungan hingga 2014.

Dimitris Papadatos mengumumkan rilis Monomaxos 5.0, distribusi desktop berbasi Ubuntu yang ditujukan untuk pengguna bahasa Yunani, distro ini tersedia dalam bentuk DVD: This is the fifth release of the Monomaxos Linux operating system localized for the Greek language that comes as a live DVD. It supports playback of every kind of multimedia material (including HD video) and any kind of Internet content out of the box and can also be used for setting up a stand-alone Media Center (including XBMC Media Center). It contains OpenOffice.org 3.2 in Greek with enabled spelling check (also in English). A large variety of open-source software installed in this live DVD provides solutions for all needs of the modern user and makes a powerful operating system for use on desktop or laptop PCs. ...

Patrick Volkerding mengumumkan bahwa cabang pengembangan Slackware “Current”, telah mencapai status beta: Hi folks! We have some pretty big changes today, with an update to the latest KDE SC 4.4.3, and the addition of support for ConsoleKit and PolicyKit which have been enhanced to use shadow authentication. Thanks to Andrew Psaltis for doing some great work on polkit-1, and to Robby Workman for spending months following the sometimes random developments coming from the CK/PK camp. Thanks to Eric Hameleers for leading the KDE 4.4.x Slackware development and handling the out-of-tree testing . And with that, we’re calling this Slackware 13.1 BETA1. A stable release should be just around the corner. ...

Rilis tes pertama UHU-Linux 2.2, distribusi generik yang didesain untuk pasar hungaria telah dirilis. terdapat 8000 perubahan dilakukan terhadap distribusi ini sejak rilis versi 2.1 pada bulan Februari 2008. Beberapa diantaranya adalah pengenalan live system dengan installer grafikal ke harddisk yang bisa dijalankan di background ketika pengguna bekerja di sistem live. Perubahan yang dilakukan di sistem live akan ditransfer ke harddisk pada akhir instalasi. Rilis ini menggunakan kernel versi 2.6.33.2 dan memasukkan berbagai paket open source terbaru, GNOME 2.28, KDE SC 4.4, OpenOffice.org 3.2 dan Firefox 3.6 Anda bisa mengunjungi home page (dalam bahasa Hungaria) untuk membaca pengumuman rilis dan mempelajari opsi pelaporan bug. Ubuntu : ...

Quirky merupakan distribusi Linux baru yang dibuat oleh Barry Kauler, pembuat awal Puppy Linux sebagai jalan untuk mengeksplorasi ide baru. Inaugurasi rilis versi stabil diumumkan kemarin: This first release is quite straight, not very ‘quirky’. Some of the interesting ideas that I want to try are still to come. The focus for now is to test a lot of the new stuff in Woof, such as Rerwin’s analog and 3G modem detection/setup scripts. Here is a summary of features specific to Quirky 1.0: GRUB Legacy and Grub4dos; Flsynclient – synclient GUI configuration of touchpad; Openbox, Fbpanel, JWM window managers; numerous updated applications (AbiWord, Pmusic); 2.6.33.2 kernel, updated firmware, bug-fix patches; new tray applets – Traytemp, Powerapplet, Freememapplet, Retrovol…. ...