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| 2011-11-05 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Elastix 2.2 |
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Rafael Bonifaz has announced the release of Elastix 2.2, a CentOS-based telephony distribution whose goal is to integrate the best tools available for Asterisk-based Private Branch Exchanges (PBX) into a single, easy-to-use interface: "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 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." Here is the brief release announcement. Download: Elastix-2.2.0-i386-bin.iso (679MB, MD5), Elastix-2.2.0-x86_64-bin.iso (689MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-11-03 |
NEW • Development Release: openSUSE 12.1 RC2 |
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The second and final release candidate for openSUSE 12.1 is out and ready for last-minute testing: "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." Read the release announcement for more information. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0025-i686.iso (666MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0025-i686.iso (667MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0025-x86_64.iso (679MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0025-x86_64.iso (679MB, MD5, torrent). The final release of openSUSE 12.1 is scheduled for 16 November, 2011. |
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| 2011-11-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: GParted LiveCD 0.10.0-3 |
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Steven Shiau has announced the release of GParted LiveCD 0.10.0-3, a new stable version of the useful utility live CD containing a collection of utilities designed for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks. This release comes with the much-improved GParted 0.10.0 while the Fluxbox window manager has been upgraded to version 1.3.2. From the release announcement: "GParted team is proud to announce a new stable release of GParted LiveCD, version 0.10.0-3. This release includes the new GParted 0.10.0 application which adds Btrfs resizing, exfat detection, and the intelligence to merge overlapping operations. The deprecated 'info' icon is removed and the underlying GNU/Linux operating system is based on the Debian 'Sid' repository as of 2011-11-02." Visit the project's news page to read the brief information summary about the new version. Download the live CD image from SourceForge: gparted-live-0.10.0-3.iso (110MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-11-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: OLPC OS 11.3.0 |
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Daniel Drake has announced the release of OLPC OS 11.3.0, a specialist distribution created under the initiative of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project to provide children in developing countries with low-cost laptops: "We are pleased to announce the release of OLPC OS 11.3.0. This new OLPC software release adds several new features and significant bug fixes. XO-1 and XO-1.5 are fully supported as usual; additionally, this release adds support for the new XO-1.75 laptop. Sugar 0.94 is included in the release; this updated version includes various improvements such as more powerful View Source functionality, and easier file exchange between the Journal and the regular file system. One notable change is that the Keep button has been removed from activities. Many users mistook this with Save, but actually Sugar saves all your work for you - you do not have to tell it do so." See the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Download the live USB image from here: os883.img (649MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-11-03 |
NEW • Development Release: Pinguy OS 11.10 Pre-Alpha |
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Antoni Norman has announced that an initial testing build of Pinguy OS 11.10, featuring the GNOME Shell rather than Ubuntu's Unity desktop, is ready for testing: "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." Continue reading the release announcement to find out more. Interested testers can download the live DVD image from SourceForge: Pinguy_OS_11.10-shell-pre-alpha1_i686.iso (1,287MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-11-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: IPFire 2.11 |
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Arne Fitzenreiter has announced the release of a major new version of IPFire, a specialist Linux-based distribution for firewalls: "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." See the release announcement for additional details. Download (SHA1): ipfire-2.11.i586-full-core53.iso (73.3MB, torrent). |
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| 2011-11-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 5.7 "Live" |
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Urs Beyerle has announced the release of the "Live" edition of Scientific Linux 5.7, a set of installable live CD, live DVD and mini live CD images based on 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)...." Here is the release announcement. Download the GNOME live CD images from here: livecd_SL57_gnome.iso (697MB, MD5), livecd64_SL57_gnome.iso (698MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-11-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 2.4.0 |
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François Dupoux has released SystemRescueCd 2.4.0, an updated version of the specialist live CD containing a large collection of open-source utilities for disk partitioning and data rescue tasks. The new release comes with the brand-new GParted 0.10.0, the latest X.Org Server and Mozilla Firefox, while DHCP has been upgraded to the 4.x series. From the changelog: "Updated standard kernels to Linux 3.0.8 (rescuecd + rescue64); updated alternative kernels to Linux 3.1.0 (altker32 + altker64); dropped Reiser4 patch from all kernels (no patch for Linux 3.x); updated X.Org Server to 1.10.4 (graphical server and drivers); updated Mozilla Firefox to 7.0.1; updated GParted to 0.10.0; patched Parted 2.4 with fixes from Fedora." Download the live CD image from the SourceForge repository: systemrescuecd-x86-2.4.0.iso (350MB, SHA256). |
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| 2011-11-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Kwort Linux 3.2 |
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David Cortarello has announced the release of Kwort Linux 3.2, a CRUX-based desktop distribution (with Openbox) designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users: "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." Visit the distribution's home page to read the release announcement. Download the installation CD image from here: kwort-3.2.iso (393MB, MD5). |
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| 2011-11-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ArchBang Linux 2011.11 |
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Willensky Aristide has announced the release of ArchBang Linux 2011.11, an updated build of the project's lightweight distribution with Openbox, based on Arch Linux: "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'." See the release announcement for a few more details and a couple of screenshots. Download (MD5) links: archbang-2011.11-i686.iso (423MB), archbang-2011.11-x86_64.iso (426MB). |
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| 2011-11-02 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ALT Linux 6.0.0 "Centaurus" |
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Andrey Cherepanov has announced the release of ALT Linux 6.0.0 "Centaurus" edition, a Russian general-purpose distribution for desktops and servers: "ALT Linux proudly presents a new release of our key distribution, ALT Linux 6.0 'Centaurus'. This is a universal GNU/Linux distribution intended for use on servers, desktop systems and laptops. Features: selection of installed solutions such as web server or desktop environment during installation; support for manual system services setup and web-based configuration using the Alterator control center.... The distribution contains GNOME 2 and FVWM, Linux kernels 3.0.7 and 2.6.32." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5) the installation DVDs or the live CDs: altlinux-6.0.0-centaurus-i586-ru-install-dvd5.iso (3,629MB, torrent), altlinux-6.0.0-centaurus-i586-ru-live-cd.iso (634MB, torrent), altlinux-6.0.0-centaurus-x86_64-ru-install-dvd5.iso (3,762MB, torrent), altlinux-6.0.0-centaurus-x86_64-ru-live-cd.iso (6660MB, torrent). |
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| 2011-11-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: AVLinux 5.0.2 |
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Glen MacArthur has announced the release of AVLinux 5.0.2, an updated version of the project's Debian-based distribution featuring a large collection of audio and video production software: "An updated ISO (5.0.2) for the AV Linux 5.0 series has been released with a new kernel, a few bug fixes, updated applications and enhancements. Trulan Martin has worked very hard to provide a 3.0.6 kernel with an important SMP -rt scheduling patch, M-Audio Fast Track Pro support, ATI mode setting switched on and some extra security features. On the application side the Audio menu has grown to include Mixxx 1.9.0 for DJs, MuseScore 1.1 for sheet music scoring and XCFA for audio conversions. The Video menu has been heavily re-worked to provide the best possible out-of-the-box experience with Cinelerra 2.1.5CV, OpenShot 1.4.0, Kdenlive 0.8.1svn and LiVES 1.4.7." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: avlinux5.0.2-lxde-i386-en.iso (2,014MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2011-11-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Alpine Linux 2.3.0 |
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Jeff Bilyk has announced the release of Alpine Linux 2.3.0, a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on uClibc and BusyBox: "The Alpine Linux project is pleased to announce immediate availability of version 2.3 of its Alpine Linux operating system. This release introduces several new features: a new Linux kernel based on 3.0; GCC 4.6; improved setup scripts with tools for helping configure local configuration backup location and package manager cache; preliminary support for booting from encrypted LVM partitions; BusyBox has been upgraded to version 1.19.2 with shell history search (with ctrl-r); unbound DNS resolver with DNSSEC support; better multi-ISP support in Pingu with support for PPP and DHCP; PostgreSQL has been upgraded to 9.1; Kamailio has been upgraded to 3.2...." Here is the full release announcement. Download: alpine-2.3.0-x86.iso (230MB, SHA1), alpine-2.3.0-x86_64.iso (240MB, SHA1). |
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| November 2011 |
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At one point or another gamers can hit the wall when using other OS systems such as Linux and Mac, as Windows has always been renowned as the OS of choice for the gaming community. In a lot of cases this has changed somewhat over the last few years with the use of virtualization software that helps to bridge that gap, and it can be quite successful to a point. Of course, when you virtualize another OS you can lose some of the performance, than say running a game natively, and with slowdowns and bugs comes frustration. We have listed a few resources that we think are worth a mention for different types of gamers, both online multiplayer and single player, see what you think:
- World of Goo. This is a great puzzle game that will keep you busy for hours, there's also a free playable demo version.
- If you're an online poker enthusiast we can recommend you check out the pokerlistings.com Linux poker page, it has a list of poker apps that are compatible with your OS.
- For the MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) crowds you could always take a look at Vendetta online, "thousands of people can play together, at the same time, in a single, persistent universe", sounds great!
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