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| 2010-03-13 |
NEW • Development Release: GeeXboX 2.0 Alpha 2 |
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The second alpha build of GeeXboX 2.0, a Linux mini-distribution for Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) and media centres, is available for testing: "It has already been one month since 2.0-alpha1 release so here is alpha2. This release fixes many bugs that have been encountered by our users on this first 2.x series preview: normalize LIRC configuration by providing generic binding for each and every remote control; initial port to ARM architecture; restoration of UPnP/DLNA feature with a brand new stack; restoration of internationalization support; upgrade of NVIDIA drivers - proprietary, legacy one and addition of nouveau; add Kernel Mode Settings (KMS) for ATI, Intel and NVIDIA drivers; upgrade to Linux kernel 2.6.33 kernel; fix live CD and win32 installers; fix OGG files playback issue...." Read the rest of the release announcement for further information. Download (MD5): geexbox-2.0-alpha2-en.i386.eglibc.iso (43.0MB), geexbox-2.0-alpha2-en.x86_64.eglibc.iso (60.0MB). |
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| 2010-03-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: eBox Platform 1.4-1 |
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José Antonio Calvo Fernández has announced the release of eBox Platform 1.4-1, an Ubuntu-based server distribution for small and medium-size businesses: "eBox 1.4-1 installer released. I just wanted to let you know that we've done a lot of bug fixing and small improvements since the release of the first 1.4 release. Those all enhancements have now been included on a new installer. The installer itself contains some bug fixes and improvements, this is the changelog: X11 UI tweaks; added console-cyrillic package; install l7-protocols if traffic shaping is selected in advanced mode; quote passwords to avoid problems with strange characters; do not allow to enter 'root' or any other existing system user as admin user to avoid conflicts. Note that this installer include also the fixes and improvements from the 1.4-proposed repository." Here is the full release announcement. Download: ebox_installer-1.4-1.iso (622MB, MD5). |
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| 2010-03-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: PC/OS 10.1 |
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Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of PC/OS 10.1, a Xubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution: "We are very pleased to announce the delivery of PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 as well as PC/OS WebStation 10.1. With this release we bring many bug fixes and enhancements to the platform. This release is the last release before the LTS release of PC/OS 11. Some of the highlights of this release include: Linux kernel 2.6.31, OpenOffice.org 3.2, Firefox 3.5.8, Amazon MP3 downloader, Empathy for IM, GnomeBaker for burning CDs and DVDs, VLC as the default video player, WINE 1.2, Google Gears, new simplified menu structure, USB Creator can now be used to create a bootable USB drive, UI design is now unified with the GNOME release. With the last release we introduced the Developer Kit and Office Kit which proved popular and they are available for this release as well." Refer to the release announcement for further details. Download: pc-os-openworkstation10-1.iso (1,082MB, MD5). |
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| 2010-03-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: VortexBox 1.2 |
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Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox: "VortexBox 1.2 released. The VortexBox community has been working hard on this release. We have added a lot of new features to make VortexBox the best NAS for SqueezeBox. These include adding the new SqueezeBox Server 7.4.2 and fixing some critical bugs in VortexBox Player. VortexBox Player is now the highest resolutions (192/24) player available that is compatible with SqueezeBox Server (SBS). The new package manager allows new software packages to be installed from the GUI. The Sonos web GUI can now be installed from the GUI making VortexBox the best NAS for Sonos players. We have fixed the MP3 encoding with better support for genre and cover art that works well in all applications." Consult the complete release announcement for additional information. Download (MD5): vortexbox-1.2.iso (537MB). |
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| 2010-03-10 |
NEW • Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 RC1 |
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Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to provide many needed fixes and continual updates to the core offering of our software. Changelog: updated X.Org to 1.7.5; new kernel version 2.6.31.12; filetriggers and other minor bugs were fixed for rpm5; Smart 1.3 and the addition of smart-utils for mirror automation. The repositories now contain many up-to-date desktop environments which can be installed with the use of the 'task' meta-packages. Recent additions include KDE 4.4.1, GNOME 2.28.1, Openbox 3.4.11, Xfce 4.6.1, Enlightenment 0.16.999.063." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional notes. Download: Unity32-2010-RC1.iso (238MB, MD5), Unity64-2010-RC1.iso (238MB, MD5). |
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| 2010-03-09 |
NEW • Development Release: Fedora 13 Alpha |
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Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Fedora 13: "The Fedora 13 'Goddard' alpha release is available. Among the top features for end users, we have: automatic print driver installation so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to install drivers for it if needed; automatic installation of language packs; redesigned user management interface; color management to better set and control your colors for displays, printers, and scanners; NetworkManager improvements include CLI; experimental 3D extended to free Nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards." See the release announcement and release notes for further details. Download (torrents): F13-Alpha-i686-Live.iso (835MB, SHA256, torrent), F13-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.iso (714MB, SHA256, torrent), F13-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso (842MB, SHA256, torrent), F13-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (705MB, SHA256, torrent). |
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| 2010-03-09 |
NEW • Development Release: MCNLive Kris Beta 1 |
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MCNLive, a Mandriva-based distribution and live CD, has been resurrected by the members of the Dutch Mandriva Club. The first beta of the brand-new MCNLive Kris, is now available for download: "After a few years of silence around MCNLive, here we are again with a brand new MCNLive release, based on Mandriva 2010.0. It won't have all the nice features you might remember from MCNLive, but the most important things are there. Copy2ram is present, remastering on-the-fly is possible again and even booting from USB is no problem at all. MCNLive Kris is based upon a fully updated Mandriva 2010.0 release, with KDE SC 4.3 as desktop environment. SMPlayer is added for your multimedia needs and since we do have a 'remaster' option, we added K3b to enable you to burn the remastered image directly. Firefox is the default web browser but you can use Konqueror from the menu if you wish." Here is the full release announcement with a screenshot. Download: mcnlive-kris-beta1.iso (377MB, MD5). |
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| 2010-03-09 |
NEW • Development Release: PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 |
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The first beta build of PCLinuxOS 2010 has been released: "PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing up to 64 GB of memory support. In addition, ext4 support is also available. A nicely customized KDE 4.4.1 desktop that is both beautiful and very fast with the latest KDE applications. A unified KDE/GTK+ theme included to provide a consistent look and feel between KDE and GTK+ applications. Firefox also uses KDE dialogs. Reworked menu system with less subcategories to make it easy and fast to find your applications. Plymouth bootsplash available on installed system for cool graphic effects. Additional themes available from the software repository." Read the rest of the release announcement for a complete list of new features and download links. Get the installable live CD image from here: pclinuxos-2010-beta1.iso (694MB, MD5). |
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| 2010-03-08 |
NEW • Development Release: SME Server 8.0 Beta 5 |
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Ian Wells has announced the availability of the fifth beta release of SME Server 8.0, a CentOS-based server distribution: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next major release of SME Server. Major changes in beta 5. The policy is to stick with upstream updates unless there are compelling reasons not to. The number of customers unable to run the software they want because of the Samba and PHP versions constituted a compelling reason. Samba 3.4.3 - has been updated from sources provided by ClearOS. This version of Samba provides support for Windows 7 domain logins. PHP 5.2.10 - is provided by the Red Hat Application Stack v2. 5.2 is needed by recent web applications such as OScommerce." Read the complete release announcement for a detailed list of changes. Download: smeserver-8.0beta5-i386.iso (643MB, MD5). Also released today was the first release candidate for SME Server 7.5. |
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| 2010-03-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.2 |
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Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose, community-built distribution for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre-releases, here are the most important changes since 1.1: up to date packages - Linux kernel 2.6.32.8, GNU C library 2.11.1, X.Org 7.5, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5; KMS (Kernel Mode-Setting) is now enabled by default for Intel and Radeon cards; PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is now part of the base system; introduced devtmpfs - you can now exclude /dev from backups, along with /proc and /sys; upgraded KDE (and related) packages to the 4.x branch...." See the full release announcement for further information. Download (SHA1): frugalware-1.2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,283MB, torrent), frugalware-1.2-x86_64-dvd1.iso (4,290MB, torrent). |
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| 2010-03-07 |
NEW • Distribution Release: NuTyX 2009.3 |
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Thierry Nuttens has announced the release of NuTyX 2009.3, a French desktop Linux distribution with custom package management. This is the fourth update in the 2009 series; while the base system, the C library and the compiler remains unchanged throughout the 2009.x releases, a number of small problems have been corrected. For example the Mozilla browser is now in French and the Xfce, GNOME (2.28.2) and KDE (4.4.1) desktops have all been updated to their latest versions. Other important package updates include OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, KOffice 2.1.1, Pidgin 2.6.6 and CUPS 1.4.2. The default Linux kernel has also been upgraded to version 2.6.33. Read the rest of the release announcement (in French) for further details. Quick download links to the four desktop-oriented editions: NuTyX_i686-2009.3-LXDE.iso (336MB, MD5), NuTyX_i686-2009.3-XFCE.iso (483MB, MD5), NuTyX_i686-2009.3-GNOME.iso (592MB, MD5), NuTyX_i686-2009.3-KDE.iso (631MB, MD5). |
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| 2010-03-06 |
NEW • Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta 1 |
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Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the first beta release of Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, a free and open-source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland, Debian utilities and Ubuntu software packages: "On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) 3.0 Beta 1, the sixth release in the NCP 3 cycle. The main changes over the alpha 5 release include: move from OpenSolaris b133 to b134; nexenta-on-source changes; bug-fix list (libm.a is missing; libusb, libuuid missing a pkg-config file; profile.dpkg-dist leftover after installation; rsync daemon enabled by default; problem with libgcc1 version mismatch; libsunw-perl short description typo; keyboard layout not set; user created during install is member of group 'staff'; Squid fails to install; 3.0a4 - installation fails on unpartitioned USB stick; cupsys init script tries to load Linux kernel module 'lp'....)." Here is the complete release announcement. Download (MD5): nexenta_3.0-b134-beta1_x86.iso.zip (526MB). |
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| March 2010 |
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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 a 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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