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Ben Zhao mengumumkan rilis CDlinux 0.9.6, Live CD berukuran kecil yang menyajikan desktop Xfce, beberapa aplikasi desktop populer dan juga piranti administrasi sistem: CDlinux 0.9.6 released. This release is a major upgrade. Almost all components are upgraded to their latest stable versions, like Linux kernel 2.6.33.2, X.Org Server 1.8.0, Mesa 7.8.1. Thanks to the open source ATI and Intel drivers, we now have fairly good 2D/3D support on almost all ATI and Intel chip-based video cards. PAE is also enabled in this release. As a result, we can support up to 64 GB of RAM now. While the downside is that you can’t run CDlinux 0.9.6 on older CPUs (5×86, K6, Pentium, etc.) any more, not even the Mini edition. Package upgrades: GTK+ 2.18.9, Qt 4.6.2, JRE 6u19, Firefox 3.6.3, Midnight Commander 4.7.0.4…. ...

James Mason mengumumkan ketersediaan milestone kelima openSUSE 11.3: Milestone 5 (M5), a snapshot of the Factory ‘work in progress’ build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M5 was marked by significant contributions from both the openSUSE community, and the larger Linux community. We’ve added some interesting new packages, made some updates to core processes, and participated in a coordinated multi-distribution upgrade of a major multimedia component. Over 50 bugs were fixed and 8 new features were implemented. Release news: update to Perl 5.12; update to parted 2.2; KMS integration for Intel and NVIDIA (via nouveau driver) graphics…. ...

Oracle mengumumkan rilis Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Update 5, distribusi yang dibuat dari kode sumber Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 dengan penambahan dan perbaikan spesifik untuk Oracle: Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Enterprise Linux Release 5 Update 5 for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) architectures. This update includes the following kernel/driver changes: fix qla not to query hccr; update rds to 4.0-ora-1.4.2-10; revert return code check to avoid EIO; check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change; add entropy support to igb; convert ENETUNREACH to ENOTCONN; add Xen pv/bonding netconsole support; shrink zone patch; fix aacraid not to reset during kexec; fix failure of file creation from hpux client; FP register state is corrupted during the handling a SIGSEGV. ...

Warren Woodford mengumumkan rilis antiX MEPIS 8.5, distro ringan varian MEPIS yang didesain untuk digunakan di komputer tua: Nine months since the release of antiX M8.2, the antiX team announce that antiX MEPIS 8.5 – a fast, light, flexible and complete desktop and live CD based on SimplyMEPIS and Debian ‘testing’ – is now available in full and base versions. This release defaults to a fully customised IceWM desktop (Fluxbox, wmii and dwm are also installed) using a SimplyMEPIS 2.6.32 kernel, tweaked MEPIS Assistants for better compatibility in antiX and the usual range of applications for desktop use. Iceape for Internet needs, AbiWord and Gnumeric for office use, XMMS and Google’s music manager for audio, gxine, MPlayer and GNOME MPlayer for video…. antiX works on computers with as little as 64 MB RAM. ...

Jesse Keating mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta Fedora 13: The beta release is the last important milestone of Fedora 13. Only critical bug fixes will be pushed as updates leading up to the general release of Fedora 13, scheduled to be released in the middle of May. A universe of new features for end users: automatic print driver installation; desktop enhancements – the Shotwell photo manager, Deja-dup backup software, Pino Identi.ca / Twitter client, and Simple Scan scanning utility; NetworkManager improvements include better Mobile Broadband, Bluetooth, and new CLI abilities; color management; enhanced iPod functionality; experimental 3D graphics support extended to free Nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards…. ...

Matias Fonzo mengumumkan rilis Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0, distro linux umum yang menggunakan 100% piranti lunak bebas terbuka yang dikembangkan dari dasar: I am pleased to announce the final version of Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0. Dragora is a powerful and reliable GNU/Linux distribution created from scratch with the intention of providing a stable, multi-platform and multi-purpose operating system. Highlights since RC2: the installer includes a better detection method for the CD-ROM, the option to install GRUB in a root partition is back again. The installation of the packages is slightly faster with clzip 1.0 and lzip 1.10. This release comes with Runit as default init scheme, Linux-libre kernel 2.6.32.11, OpenSSL 1.0.0, GCC 4.4.3, and more. Added cURL and Expat to complement Git. ...

Andrew Gillis mengumumkan rilis VortexBox 1.3, distribusi berbasis Fedora yang berfungsi untuk digunakan sebagai server musik dan jukebox : VortexBox 1.3 released today. This release includes lots of new features and bug fixes. We have the latest version of SqueezeBox Server and all the latest versions of the 3rd party projects that make up VortexBox. We have also added Subsonic, a new GUI that allows you to manage your music collection and stream it to iPods and Android players. New features include: Logitech SqueezeBox Server 7.5.0 pre installed and configured; Subsonic music interface for remote playing; edit your tags and cover art using the Subsonic web GUI; latest version of TwonkeyMedia Server; many bug fixes including USB backup manager; file sharing fix for OS X 10.6.3; auto re-index after rip for Sonos players. To upgrade your existing system you can use the updater in the VortexBox GUI. ...

Daisuke Aoyama mengumumkan rilis FreeNAS 0.7.1, sistem operasi berbasis FreeBSD yang memberikan layanan Network-Attached Storage (NAS) bebas dan gratis: The FreeNAS Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 0.7.1. This is a maintenance release of FreeNAS 0.7. It improves the functions and the translations of WebGUI. Also it introduces a few new features. New features: AIO (asynchronous I/O) support in CIFS/SMB – Samba; ATAPI CAM with iSCSI target (device pass-through); custom script in Email Report; serial console support for headless servers/devices; a raw device, ZFS volume for the extent of iSCSI target; iSCSI removable device and control (DVD/tape emulation). Upgrade notes: before upgrade you must always backup your configuration file, your system disk and all your data. ...

Patrick Verner mengumumkan rilis Parted Magic 4.10, Live CD yang berisi utility untuk penyelamatan data dan manajemen disk: Parted Magic 4.10 updates grep to 2.6.3, BusyBox to 1.16.1, SimpleBurn to 1.5.0, sshfs-fuse to 2.2, Linux kernel to 2.6.32.11. There are a few new programs as well: EncFS 1.5.2, GEncFS 1.0.0, GSSHFS 1.0.0, RLog 1.4, UNetbootin 429 and emelFM 0.6.0. Parted is patched with updates from Ubuntu to reverse a decision to use a BLKRRPART instead of the BLKPG ioctls that worked. GPicView doesn’t segfault any more. FAT32 file system now mounted as UTF8 by default. Many enhancements were made to the handling of SCSI device at boot. Creating bookmarks with Chromium no longer crashes the program. ...

Julien Lavergne mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta kedua Lubuntu 10.04, distribusi berbasis Ubuntu yang mengintegrasikan desktop LXDE: Lubuntu ‘Lucid’ beta 2 is now available. We passed feature freeze – that means that most of the features should now be available. It’s now time for testing and fixing bugs. New stuff since beta 1: auto-login at install time; support for encrypted home directory; up-to-date LXDM, libfm and PCManFM2. Lubuntu still contains modifications not available in the official repository: new PCManFM2 and libfm; lubuntu-default-settings with PCmanFM2 support; fix for blurry shutdown icon from elementary icons; auto-login support in Ubiquity; new LXDM. I’ll appreciate some feedback about the followings recent additions: PCManFM2 – the new file manager is still in beta state; the new LXDM may have fixed some issue regarding keyring and PAM support, but it needs more tests. ...

François Dupoux telah mengumumkan rilis SystemRescueCd 1.5.2, distro Live CD berbasis Gentoo yang berisi tool untuk penyelamatan data dan manajemen disk. Apa saja yang baru pada rilis ini ? Penggunaan framebuffer console untuk memperbaiki mode VGA extended Memindahkan module ke initramfs kernel untuk mengurangi kebutuhan memory Menggunaan Kompresi LZMA alih-alih gzip untuk initramfs.igz untuk menghemat tempat Kernel alternative diupdate ke 2.6.33.02 (altker32 + altker64) Kernel standard diupdate ke versi 2.6.32.11 (rescuecd + rescue64) Perbaikan atas opsi dostartx yang menjalankan X.org secara otomatis Perbaikan skrip auto konfigurasi X.org yang digunakan oleh “wizard” Layar boot isolinux sekarang berbasis sebuah menu Squashfs diupdate ke versi 4.0 dengan kompresi LZMA Untuk informasih lebih detail anda bisa membaca Halaman Perubahan . ...