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| 2005-08-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Trustix Enterprise Firewall 4.6 |
| Trustix has released a new version of Trustix Enterprise Firewall, now available under a free (gratis) one-year license: "Comodo owned Trustix, developers of the world's most secure Linux and inventors of the world's first WYSIWYG firewall, today announced that the latest version of Trustix Enterprise Firewall will be available at no charge. The decision enables administrators to protect their networks for free with a firewall developed and maintained by Trustix's highly skilled firewall. Released today, version 4.6 heralds a range a host of improvements and new features including enhanced multi-platform GUI interface, DHCP server and relay support, enhanced monitoring and alerts, advanced logging, stronger High Availability capabilities and numerous other improvements." See the press release and product page for more information. Download: trustix-fw-4.6.i586.iso (519MB MD5). |
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| 2005-08-18 |
NEW • Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.3 Pre 2 |
| The second preview of Frugalware Linux 0.3 has been released for testing: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.3pre2-i686, the second preview of the upcoming 0.3-i686 stable release. A short list of most important improvements and news since 0.3pre1-i686: ivman replaced submount, which is no longer installed by default; now Frugalware can be installed to a software RAID partition; added French language support to the installer; more than 180 new packages: AbiWord, Nvu, Ndiswrapper, Kaffeine, Chkrootkit and more!" Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download (MD5): frugalware-0.3pre2-i686-dvd.iso (2,614MB, MD5). CD images are also available. |
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| 2005-08-18 |
NEW • Development Release: Ubuntu Linux 5.10 Colony 3 |
| The third snapshot of Ubuntu Linux 5.10 "Breezy Badger" has been released: "Colony CD 3, the third milestone release of the Breezy Badger development branch, is now available. Our last milestone release was over a month ago, and there has been a lot of interest in testing Breezy, so we are pleased to provide this snapshot to the community for testing." Highlights include new hardware detection with initramfs, splash graphical boot feature, Bluetooth support, enhanced "Add/Remove Programs", Ubuntu language selector, and other improvements; for more details please refer to the release announcement. Download (MD5): breezy-install-i386.iso (592MB), breezy-live-i386.iso (653MB). ISO images for the x86_64 and PowerPC architectures, as well as BitTorrent trackers can be found in this download directory. |
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| 2005-08-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Onebase StudioGo 1.0 |
| The Onebase project has released StudioGo 1.0, a specialist live CD for graphics and multimedia enthusiasts: "StudioGo 1.0 released. The Onebase Linux Project is pleased to announce the release of a new special edition live CD called StudioGo (version 1.0). It is a pure entertainment CD consisting of multimedia and graphics software that includes audio players and editors, video players, video editors, TV software, multimedia utilities, graphics modelling, imaging, photo management, motion detector, streaming, presentation.... " Find more details in the release announcement and features page. StudioGo is available for download after a payment of US$10. |
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| 2005-08-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Linux+ Live 2005-08 |
| Linux+ Live is a Fedora-based live DVD, supplied as a cover DVD with the Linux+ magazine. The latest version is 08-2005, released earlier today: "After while (we have worked really hard) we have something new for you - Linux+ Live DVD 2005-08 from August 2005 Linux+. The most notable changes are: usage of Unionfs; saving data and configuration on external device; support for TV cards (Video4Linux) with KDETV, TVtime, xawtv, Zapping and MythTV; development version of Anjuta 2.x with Glade 3.0; printing software CUPS with Mting, Kover, Mptool, HP Device Manager; RSS readers (Liferea, Blam); binary editor (Bless)...." Read the full release announcement for further details. The 2GB DVD image is available for free download from this page. |
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| 2005-08-17 |
NEW • Distribution Release: KNOPPIX 4.0 Live DVD |
| The first public release of the KNOPPIX 4.0 Live DVD, with many updates over the LinuxTag edition, is now available for download. From the changelog: "V4.0DVD-2005-08-16. Project split into DVD and CD edition; OpenOffice.org 2.0 build 104 (English/German); lots and lots of package updates; bugfixes: floppyconf, knoppix-installer; kernel 2.6.12.4 update; KDE 3.4.1 from Debian experimental; added development packages: Eclipse, Mono; added most kde-i18n languages from unstable; added Knoppix books and Open Source Jahrbuch; added m23 software distribution system; added Knoppix menu item for setting root password; added alternative desktops: GNOME, Ratpoison, XFce, Openbox; replaced Mozilla with Firefox and Thunderbird...." Download: KNOPPIX_V4.0DVD-2005-08-16-DE.iso (3,170MB, SHA1), KNOPPIX_V4.0DVD-2005-08-16-EN.iso (3,170MB, SHA1); also available via BitTorrent. |
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| 2005-08-16 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Plamo Linux 4.03 |
| A new version of Plamo Linux, a Japanese distribution originally derived from Slackware Linux, has been released. The biggest change is the addition of GNOME 2.10.2, thus increasing the size of the distribution to three CDs (with KDE and GNOME on the second CD and 'contrib' packages on the third CD), the default kernel upgraded to 2.4.31 (an optional kernel 2.6.12.4 is also available), updates to XFree86 4.50, KDE 3.4.2, GCC 3.3.6, and usual bug fixes. See the release report and changelog (both links in Japanese) for further details. Download (MD5): plamo-4.03_01.iso (633MB), plamo-4.03_02.iso (413MB), plamo-4.03_03.iso (505MB). |
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| 2005-08-15 |
NEW • Development Release: GeeXboX 0.98.6 |
| The developers of GeeXboX, a multimedia distribution based around MPlayer, have released a new version - 0.98.6: "Today the GeeXboX team is proud to introduce you its new release: the 0.98.6 version. Changes: support for the PowerPC (MAC) architecture; Linux updated to 2.6.12.3 version; use of udev to automatically populate the /dev directory; use IDE CD driver instead of the old ide-scsi emulation layer; support for CPU frequency scaling for supported CPU (generally laptops) to minimize power consumption; use LZMA algorithm instead of gzip for compressing ISO; new hotplug script : hot autodiscovery and mount/removal of external devices; updated MPlayer to 1.0pre7 (support for H.264 video and AAC audio codecs)." See the rest of the changelog for a complete list of changes. Download (MD5): geexbox-0.98.6-en.i386.iso (5.74MB) or geexbox-0.98.6-en.ppc.iso (10.2MB). French language editions are also available. |
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| 2005-08-14 |
NEW • Development Release: Ark Linux 2005.2 RC1 |
| This is the first release candidate of Ark Linux 2005.2, an independently developed beginner-friendly distribution: "The first release candidate of Ark Linux 2005.2 is available for download. Highlights of this release include OpenOffice.org 2.0-m122, KDE 3.4.2, 3D acceleration support for ATI Radeon 9600, 9700 and 9800 based graphics cards (using 100% open source software), Krita being the new default picture editor (GIMP continues to be available on the Extra Software CD and in the apt repositories), and the addition of an expert partitioning mode in the installer. Please let us know quickly if you run into any problems with this release candidate." Here is the full release announcement. Download: arklinux-2005.2-rc1.iso (691MB, MD5). The usual set of extra, server and development CDs are also available. |
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| 2005-08-13 |
NEW • Distribution Release: BLAG Linux And GNU 30001 |
| BLAG Linux And GNU version 30001 has been released: "BLAG 30001 ('lederhosen') has been released. BLAG is a single-CD distribution with everything desktop users expect from a desktop, plus a collection of nice server applications. BLAG 30001 is the first update to the BLAG 30k series. Updates include a new kernel, Gaim, GIMP, OpenSSL, Perl, PHP, SpamAssassin, Thunderbird, Apache, OpenSSH, BitTorrent, MPlayer Xine, Firefox, Mozilla.... New packages are gtk-gnutella and nicotine. Overall, 139 packages were updated on the CD (16% of the total)." See the release announcement for more details. Download the latest BLAG release from here: BLAG-30001.iso (696MB, MD5); also available via BitTorrent. |
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| 2005-08-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Zenwalk Linux 1.2 |
| Zenwalk Linux is a new name of what used to be known as "Minislack". The change of name is accompanied by a new release - version 1.2: "We are happy to announce the first release: Zenwalk 1.2. New features are the hardware Discover service (v2.0.7), Gnome System Tools (v1.2) which provide a more user-friendly way to setup network, users, time, and Gnome CUPS Manager for easy printer setup. A large number of packages have been updated, most significant being the kernel (2.6.12.2), GCC, Firefox, Thunderbird, Gnome-libs, OpenOffice.org (1.9.122). Developers can also try the new Chai source code editor, which is available in the extra section." Read the release announcement for more information. Download: zenwalk-1.2.iso (399MB, MD5). |
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