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Akhirnya di rilis juga! Canonical mengumumkan ketersediaan versi final Ubuntu 9.10 yang dikenal dengan nama Karmic Koala, versi terbaru ubuntu ini dapat digunakan di desktop, laptop, maupun server : _ Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose – to make Ubuntu the most user-friendly operating system available. Ubuntu 9.10 features a redesigned, faster boot and login experience, a revamped audio framework, and improved 3G broadband connectivity, all of which contribute to a first-class user experience. Furthermore, the innovative ‘100 Paper Cuts’ initiative organised with the Ubuntu Community allowed users to nominate minor annoyances that impacted their enjoyment of the platform. So far over 50 fixes have been committed, removing minor irritants such as inconsistent naming or poorly organised application choices._ ...

Clear Foundation mengumumkan ketersediaan rilis beta kedua ClearOS 5.1, distribusi berbasis CentOS untuk firewall dan gateway yang sebelumnya dikenal sebagai Clark Connect: The second beta has arrived. Along with the usual bug fixes, the two significant changes from beta 1 are: updated base system to CentOS 5.4 (released just last week); updated Samba to prepare for improved Windows 7 support. Other changes: added new validation to make sure user, group and flexshare names do not overlap; fixed missing ‘allusers’ Samba group mapping; added missing file that broke some webconfig pages; exposed the Domain Admins group in the web interface; re-added most of the missing reports, still a work in progress; fixed logo on web server start page…. ...

Joern Lindau merilis Toorox 10.2009, distro Live DVD berbasis Gentoo yang menawarkan Desktop KDE 4 : A new version has been finished and now it’s ready for download. Content: Linux kernel 2.6.31, KDE 4.3.2, X.Org Server 1.6.5, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Amarok 2.2, VLC 1.0.2, IceCat 3.5.3; Portato has been added as the second software management tool (GUI for Portage) in Systemconfig, it does a good job even though it’s elementary; the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) has been added as a kernel module and will be loaded by default – if you own a graphics card with an Intel, ATI Radeon or SIS chip you can enjoy the cool desktop effects by using the free and default video driver; the LAN+WLAN script from Systemconfig has been improved; the missing Synaptics touchpad driver has been re-added and pre-configured for a handy left-click by tapping on the pad. ...

Ken Smith mengumumkan ketersediaan release candidate kedua FreeBSD 8.0: The second of the release candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. At this point we feel most of what has been discovered during public testing that is feasible to fix as part of the release process has been addressed. So the current plan is to have 8.0-RC3 in about two weeks. ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites, and a ‘memory stick’ image is available for amd64/i386 architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the CD-ROM and memory stick images include the documentation packages but no other packages. The DVD image includes the packages that will probably be available on the official release media. ...

Christian Graffer mengumumkan rilis Endian Firewall 2.3, distro khusus untuk firewall dan gateway berbasis CentOS: _ Today I am proud to announce the release of version 2.3 of Endian Firewall Community. This release includes many features that were previously available only to users of the Enterprise edition, as well as some completely new features. These new features are: backups can now be stored to and recovered from attached USB mass storage devices; the main page has been replaced by a dashboard with statistics about the system and its services; emails can be sent automatically for predefined events; it is possible to add time-based access control lists for the HTTP proxy; Snort rules can now be configured…._ ...

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann telah mengumumkan rilis tinjauan pertama sidux 2009.3, distribusi desktop berbasis cabang debian unstable telah tersedia untuk di tes : A little later than originally planned, we now have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of the first preview for sidux 2009-03 ‘Momos’, shipping with kernel 2.6.31 and KDE 4.3.2. For ‘Momos’, development had to take massive upstream changes for sysvinit/ insserv, X.org and device detection, as well as sidux infrastructure changes into account, but also concentrates on furthering the KDE 4 integration into sidux and upgrading to kernel 2.6.31. Subsequently it is the first sidux release to ship without KDE 3 or Qt 3 packages. ...

Bersamaan dengan rilis versi Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud , Solusi Cloud Computing mirip Amazon EC2 yang dapat dijalankan dibelakang firewall. UEC di Karmic Koala merupakan lanjutan dari dukungan cloud di Ubuntu 9.04 dengan dukungan untuk konfigurasi Eucalyptus pada saat melakukan instalasi dan melakukan publikasi images VM standard untuk UEC. ...

Steve Langasek mengumumkan rilis satu-satunya Release Candidate untuk Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala): _ The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server editions, Ubuntu 9.10 Server for UEC and EC2, and the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop edition improves on the work of 9.04 to get you going faster, with improved start-up times and a streamlined boot experience._ ...

Phil Miller merilis build pengembangan Chakra, Distribusi Linux berorientasi desktop yang dikembangkan dari Arch-Linux dalam bentuk Live CD/DVD dengan KDE 4 dan Installer mode grafis: Today we are pleased to announce the release of a development release named Fuzzy of our very own Chakra live media. It comes in two flavours, DVD and minimal, which contain a big amount of fixed bugs and polishing done all over the place. There is also a slew of new features like an improved hardware detection, an auto-updater called ‘chase’, updated Shaman and brand new hybrid images. Most noticeable changes and additions since Alpha 3: Linux kernel 2.6.31.4 + fglrx patch, KDE 4.3.2, updated Tribe, American locales fixed….” ...

Karanbir Singh mengumumkan Rilis CentOS 5.4, distro linux kelas enterprise yang dibangun dari source code Red Hat Enterprise Linux. _ “_We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.4 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. CentOS 5.4 is based on the upstream release EL 5.4.0, and includes packages from all variants including server and client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. And the option to further enable external repositories at install time is now available in the installer. For the first time, we are also releasing the i386 CentOS 5.4 live CD at the same time as the main distro.” ...

Barry Kauler mengumumkan rilis Puppy Linux 4.3.1, update perbaikan terhadap bug pada rilis 4.3. Beberapa perbaikan dan perubahan yang dilakukan termasuk : Driver modem baru dan peningkatan kemampuan deteksi modem dan dial-up Perbaikan skrip remaster CD Asunder CD ripper menggantikan Ripoff Cdparanoia di upgrade ke verst terakhir you2pup, perbaikan untuk spasi di path Klien chat multi-protokol, Ayttm, diupgrade ke versi 0.6.0-9 DidiWiki, wiki pribadi, diupgrade ke versi 0.8 JWM Window manager di upgrade ke revisi 457 NicoEdit di upgrade ke versi 2.4 Pburn di upgrade ke versi 3.1.1 Perbaikan untuk resolv.conf circular symlinks bug fix untuk Tool konfigurasi JWM man dan help diperbaiki untuk pencarian di linux.die.net Perbaikan frequency scaling untuk small ISO (sebelumnya modul hilang) Masalah shutdown ketika mengupgrade pupsave (sebelumnya skrip shutdown berada di tempat yang salah) Anda bisa membaca Pengumuman Rilis dengan changelog lengkap (perubahan dari 4.3 ke 4.3.1 ada dibagian bawah dokumen). Unduh : pup-431.iso (105MB, MD5 ).

Theo de Raadt mengumumkan rilis OpenBSD 4.6. rilis ini keluar lebih dini dari yang diperkirakan, setelah pelanggan bayar proyek OpenBSD mendapatkan CD mereka, tree 4.6 di server FTP OpenBSD dibuka penuh untuk umum untuk seluruh paket extra. Dari pengumuman : ...