tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36795997910968385542011-11-27T16:47:34.453-08:00Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.comBlogger521100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-58635687596715671322007-09-30T23:37:00.000-07:002007-12-28T00:26:31.144-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">MEPIS has released Beta3 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos and beta2-beta3 iso deltas for 32 and 64 bit processors are available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors.</span> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The kernel in Beta3 is version 2.6.22.5 which contains minor patches from the Kernel Development Team. The ipw3945 driver was updated. The MEPIS System Assistant was repaired to fix a problem when formatting USB keys. Package updates include xine 1.1.7, kino 1.1.1, kmplayer 0.10.0, k3b 1.0.3, kipi-plugins 0.1.4, knetworkmanager 0.2, and dcraw 8.77. </p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Due to user requests for updated compiz and other important gtk related packages, gtk was updated to version 2.10.13 and in the MEPIS pool metacity was updated to gnome version 2.18.5 Mepis-looks was updated to be compatible with gtk 2.10. Other gtk app updates are planned for Beta4.</p></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/14013">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-5863568759671567132?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-5017721454682918762007-09-30T02:43:00.000-07:002007-12-28T02:45:18.916-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Anti and Warren announce the 7.0 RC 1 release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware. The antiX web site is at antix.mepis.org and an antiX forum is hosted at <a href="http://www.mepislovers.org/">www.mepislovers.org</a> <p>AntiX 7.0 RC 1 is like AntiX 7.0 Beta2 except that the look has been updated including the wallpaper and the packages have been updated to be in sync with MEPIS 7.0 Beta 4. Anti also reports that he has fixed the reported bugs that are unique to AntiX.</p></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/14107">her</a><a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/14107">e</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-501772145468291876?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-87258346679222895572007-09-30T02:34:00.000-07:002007-12-28T02:43:13.746-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><h2 id="head-93b3b355a9127ad971110da696406dfde907dda3"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></h2><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><h2 id="head-93b3b355a9127ad971110da696406dfde907dda3"><span style="font-size:100%;">New features<br /></span></h2> <h3 id="head-de4a89fa6d2abf86a42f36691abbb6e08c1be445"><span style="font-size:100%;">GNOME 2.20</span></h3> <p>Gutsy Gibbon Beta brings you the latest and greatest <a href="http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/" class="external">GNOME 2.20</a> with lots of new features and improvements. </p> <h3 id="head-b3754898496b07ceb51ec23d3704e753b7a2562f"><span style="font-size:100%;">Desktop 3D effects</span></h3> <p>Compiz Fusion is enabled by default and will bring 3D desktop visual effects that improve the usability and visual appeal of the system. Ubuntu 7.10 automatically detects whether the hardware is capable of running compiz; if not, it falls back to normal desktop. Additional effects can be enabled in "System/Preferences/Appearance" under the "Visual Effects" tab. There you can also disable the effects entirely. </p> <h3 id="head-7793aa0322d6c1730cfd1a968b0742ba4f3599f0"><span style="font-size:100%;">Desktop search</span></h3> <p>The deskbar applet is now included in the default configuration. It allows quick access to your common actions, including opening web bookmarks and searches, sending messages to your contacts, and more. </p> <p>The Tracker indexer has been added to the desktop, making it easier and faster to search for your documents, photos, music, videos, chat logs, and all other files. You can use Tracker in the search dialog, the file selector, nautilus, or the deskbar applet. </p> <h3 id="head-1a07c335dea39998da51e504da41805fa5e894e0"><span style="font-size:100%;">Fast user switching</span></h3> <p>It is now possible to easily switch between user sessions without the inconvenience of entering your username or password numerous times, a time-saver on computers shared by multiple users. </p> <h3 id="head-674174f9bdcc468916f6004951289a9938cf2258"><span style="font-size:100%;">Firefox plugins in Ubuntu</span></h3> <p>Firefox now comes with an improved plugin finder wizard that allows users to search and install packaged plugins easily, bringing users a richer web-browsing experience with the integrated security support of the rest of the Ubuntu system: </p> <p>In addition, users can now open the Ubuntu application installer with a list of packaged Firefox extensions available by clicking on a link in the Firefox Addons dialog: </p> <h3 id="head-c37ee1849c1c754f07736bf7d37acd0592a198c4"><span style="font-size:100%;">Dynamic screen configuration</span></h3> <p>Several drivers, including ones for ATI, nVidia, and Intel graphics chips now support the X Resize and Rotate Extension (xrandr). This enables dynamic monitor detection, and resizing and rotating of video output, for no-fuss support for projectors and external monitors. </p> <p>If you have this hardware and used MergedFB / Xinerama previously, you may need to update your X configuration to use this new feature. </p> <h3 id="head-e52f6217796602d81956abc8c950561bd0d42e5c"><span style="font-size:100%;">Graphical configuration tool for X</span></h3> <p>You can now configure what driver you want to use for your graphic card, change the default resolution for all users or change your monitor's refresh rate without having to turn to the terminal. A new GUI has been added making it easy to adjust your video and monitor settings. This tool can also set up dual screen capabilities for cards that use the Xinerama mode. </p> <h3 id="head-7e19615f4a427c9a20eb96c32dc31981240a5f54"><span style="font-size:100%;">Fully automatic printer installation</span></h3> <p>Printers are now automatically configured by merely plugging them in and turning them on. Printer setup cannot get any easier! </p> <h3 style="font-weight: bold;" id="head-791df83b741bd15d41024d14cb796866ac275731"><span style="font-size:100%;">Handling of non-free device drivers</span></h3> <p>Restricted-manager can now handle drivers which are free in themselves, but which require non-free firmware or other packages to operate. Only three clicks are needed to fetch and install firmware for wireless cards with Broadcom chipsets, and for a number of Winmodems commonly found in laptops, provided that you have an alternative Internet connection. </p> <p>When restricted-manager detects hardware for which a restricted driver is available, a notification window pops up: </p> <h3 id="head-cfd16f3029f2fc55199eefdc0ede604f4d4cf5da"><span style="font-size:100%;">NTFS writing</span></h3> <p>While previous Ubuntu releases only supported read access to Windows (NTFS) partitions, Gutsy Gibbon now fully supports reading and writing to them, by integrating the <a href="http://www.ntfs-3g.org/" class="external">NTFS-3g project</a>. This significantly eases file and document sharing with Windows. </p> <h3 id="head-6923a18d678bee2483d682ce3c02fe8790314953"><span style="font-size:100%;">Power consumption</span></h3> <p>Ubuntu includes the latest Linux kernel, featuring dynticks. It allows the processor to use less power and produce less heat. For laptops this means more battery life and burn-free laps and for desktops and media center PCs, a quieter, cooler environment. </p> <h3 id="head-8fd2a2bbf59d6fad3170e0d0f9d6908f48125339"><span style="font-size:100%;">AppArmor security framework</span></h3> <p>This easy-to-deploy kernel technology limits the resources an application is allowed to access and can be used to provide an added layer of protection against undiscovered security vulnerabilities in applications. Head to the <a href="http://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppArmor" class="external">AppArmor user guide</a> to learn about this new security feature. </p> <h3 id="head-1c6ad594a81565e59eda8258738fa84da0f8cc16"><span style="font-size:100%;">Additional installation profiles for Ubuntu Server</span></h3> <p>New pre-configured installation options have been added to the Ubuntu Server CD. Mail Server, File Server, Print Server, and Database Server options join existing LAMP and DNS options for pre-configured installations, easing the deployment of common server configurations. </p> <h3 id="head-0895aba9d8a3abfa0b8dcca1af139594a64eec7f"><span style="font-size:100%;">Profile-based Authentication Configuration</span></h3> <p>Deploying authentication configuration has become a lot easier with the addition of auth-client-config. Files may be added to the profiles database, allowing for an administrator to set up a single profile for site-wide network authentication roll-outs. Find out more about <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AuthClientConfig" class="external">AuthClientConfig</a>. </p> <h3 id="head-af5c5c91ba17abf23938eadbe9eb2009e2cd6f90"><span style="font-size:100%;">Improved thin-client support</span></h3> <p>The speed of LTSP thin clients has been greatly improved through the use of compressed images, and LDM, the thin-client login manager included in Edubuntu, also now has support for autologin, multiple servers, and unencrypted graphics transport as an additional speed boost. </p> <h2 style="font-weight: bold;" id="head-09942533e683a9d0224069978a37043a49572274"><span style="font-size:100%;">Download</span></h2> <p>Get it while it's hot. ISOs and torrents are available at: </p> <ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"> <p><a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10">http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10</a> (Ubuntu)<br /><a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/7.10">http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/7.10</a> (Kubuntu)<br /><a href="http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/7.10">http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edubuntu/7.10</a> (Edubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.10/beta">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.10/beta</a> (Xubuntu)</p></li></ul></blockquote><ul><li style="list-style-type: none;"><p> </p> </li></ul>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/gutsybeta">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-8725834667922289557?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-43256477731170392552007-09-30T02:29:00.000-07:002007-12-28T02:47:45.192-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Warren Woodford has decided to release a 5th Beta of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos and beta4-beta5 iso deltas for 32 and 64 bit processors are available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and public mirrors. <p>The big change that resulted in another Beta release is the availability of OpenOffice 2.3. In addition, ksynaptics and spamd were added to the iso images; and Firefox, 915resolution, and the ALSA Utilities were updated. And the latest version of Audacity was added to the MEPIS pool.</p> <p>Good news for MEPIS users! The MEPIS documentation team has released a new MEPIS User's manual under a Creative Commons License. With over 60 pages, the manual covers many questions from installation, to network configuration, to using applications. Upon reviewing the manual, Warren said "I am very grateful to the documentation team. I've wished for a long time, that MEPIS would have a manual like this. One that will help new and old users alike to get the most out of MEPIS Linux."</p></blockquote><p></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/14087">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-4325647773117039255?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-43454491874552612012007-09-30T02:25:00.000-07:002007-12-28T02:48:09.672-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">SabayonLinux x86/x86-64 miniEdition, commonly called the "mini", is the CD release of the latest SabayonLinux x86/x86-64 DVD. The creation of this special version, has been made with an automatic script that shrinks down the whole chroot jail by removing every duplicated, useless or server-oriented package. The multimedia features of these special editions are kept intact. So, enjoy that beautiful piece of software on a single CD!<br /><br /> Distribution updates 3.4:<br /> * Improved OpenGL configuration reliability<br /> * NVIDIA Drivers updated to 100.14.19<br /> * Compiz Fusion stability fixes (will be soon enabled by default on the supported hardware)<br /> * Boot time 15% faster</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&amp;t=10483">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mod/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-4345449187455261201?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-17918788926831307282007-09-30T02:23:00.000-07:002007-12-28T02:25:25.157-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Mandriva Linux 2008 RC2 ‘Kepler’ was released today. New features since the release of RC1 include the final release of GNOME 2.20, the inclusion of the new 8.41.7 version of ATI’s proprietary driver in the non-free repository to support Radeon HD cards, significant kernel updates that improve support for certain ATA controllers and many audio chipsets, some new features in the urpmi and rpmdrake package management tools, and over 500 bug fixes since RC1. Download information and more is available on the full release information page <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Development/RC2">here</a>, the overall Mandriva Linux 2008 release notes are <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes">here</a>, and a guide to the new features of Mandriva Linux 2008 is <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/What%27s_New">here</a>.</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/09/21/mandriva-linux-2008-rc2-released/">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Development/RC2#Availability">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1791878892683130728?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-85651636349255385662007-09-30T02:20:00.000-07:002007-12-28T02:22:56.885-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">After quite a few rebuilds and testing, the openSUSE team is happy to announce that RC1 looks brilliant and is now available for download. We consider this release to be feature complete, stable, and suitable for testing from any user. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/10.3" title="openSUSE Roadmap">Roadmap</a>.<br /><h2 style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Technical Changes</span></h2> <ul><li>libzypp 3.24</li><li>Virtualbox 1.5</li><li>OpenOffice.org 2.3</li><li>Countless bug fixes in every component: 535 bugs RESOLVED/FIXED</li><li>485 packages submitted</li></ul> <p>A more detailed list of changes is available via</p><p> <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" target="_blank">http://en.opensuse.org/Factory<wbr>/News</a>.</p></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://news.opensuse.org/?p=305">here</a>.<p></p><p>Download <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/developer">here</a>.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-8565163634925538566?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-42477241917746563822007-09-30T01:58:00.000-07:002007-12-28T02:19:42.084-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span id="postcolor"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">The fourth release candidate for DSL v4.0 is now available.<br />Change Log for DSL v4.0rc4<br /></span><ul><li><span id="postcolor">* New dfmext.lua GUI tool for dfm associations</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* New automatic update of etc.ld.cache for uci .so files</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Updated torsmo v0.18</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Updated functions5.lua</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Updated DSLpanel Backgrounds calls dfm background option</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Update mydslDownload.lua</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Added emelfm to jwm taskbar</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Removed obsolete and unused files and directories</span></li></ul></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=36;t=19097">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-4247724191774656382?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-48087530815831767432007-09-30T01:24:00.000-07:002007-12-28T01:28:16.893-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<pre style="font-family: georgia;"><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">A veritable "sea" of choices await you in this release. First up is<br />the "Fedora" installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos<br />and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Next up we have a variety of<br />Live images:<br /><br />* Fedora Live (i686, x86_64, ppc) - A good general use Desktop live<br />image. i686 even fits on a CD!<br /><br />* Fedora KDE Live (i686, x86_64) - A Desktop based on the KDE software<br />suite. i686 even fits on a CD!<br /><br />* Fedora Developer Live (i686) - A Live image designed for software<br />developers.<br /><br />* Fedora Electronic Lab (FEL) Live (i686) - A live image designed for<br />engineers working on electronics. Fits on a CD!<br /><br />Remember that these Live images can be used on USB meida via the<br />'livecd-iso-to-disk' utility available in the livecd-tools package.<br /><br />Test 2 is for "beta" users. This is the time where we have more<br />features in a "testable" state where the more people using them and the<br />more feedback we get the better. So please help us make Fedora 8 as<br />good as we can!<br /><br />Release Notes<br />=============================<br />Work in progress release notes for this test release can be found in<br />the Fedora wiki: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes</a><a rel="nofollow" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F8Test2/ReleaseNotes"></a></blockquote></pre>Read the full release announcement <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-September/msg00291.html">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/7.91/">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-4808753081583176743?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-54437215586052218072007-09-30T01:23:00.000-07:002007-12-28T01:24:55.428-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The 4th Beta of SimplyMEPIS 7.0 has been released by Warren Woodford. The isos and beta3-beta4 iso deltas for 32 and 64 bit processors are available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and public mirrors. <p>The kernel in Beta4 is version 2.6.22.6 which contains more patches from the Kernel Development Team. The MEPIS kernel was tweaked to eliminate some boot time warning messages. The fglrx ATI video driver was updated to eliminate an annoying AMD watermark bug. </p> <p>Wireless-tools and wpasupplicant were updated. Configurations were adjusted to improve k3b, wireless networking, keyboard and language support, video defaults and boot options.</p> <p>In the MEPIS pools gnome-games, sylpheed-claws, evolution, and gtk-qt-engine were updated in response to user requests. The MEPIS OSX Assistant was recompiled and tested for OSX Leopard and to use the 0.10 version of rEFIt.</p></blockquote><p></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/14052">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-5443721558605221807?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-12248133589265532152007-09-30T01:20:00.000-07:002007-12-28T01:23:18.606-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><ul><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><li> Live boot is now 3 times faster thanks to our improved OpenGL configuration tool</li><li> Beagle only runs on-demand</li><li> Portage has been updated with performance patches</li><li> Entropy stack has been updated to the latest SVN (intended as technology preview)<br /> - Dependencies resolution code completed<br /> - Removal dependencies resolution code in testing (not completed)<br /> - etc-update alike tool needs to be written<br /> - Pre/post install/remove scripting functions need to be written<br /> - Branches support need a rewrite<br /> - Multi source download support completed<br /> - Query tools almost completed<br /> - Code split is on the way<br /> - Database API is almost complete (and will be extended with extra functionalities)<br /> - 3rd party interface structured<br /> - ETA? End of the year.</li><li> Installer updates:<br /> - Vim is on the Core Install along with groff (man pages issue fixed)<br /> - Better release handling<br /> - Initial Entropy integration</li><li> Bluetooth stack updated</li><li> Ext4 support improved (new e2fsprogs)</li><li> ATi video drivers updated to 8.40.4</li></blockquote></ul>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=60&amp;t=10130">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mod/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1224813358926553215?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-10384703397811812992007-09-30T01:18:00.000-07:002007-12-28T01:20:28.861-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">t's my pleasure to announce the availability of openSUSE 10.3 Beta3. This<br />is the last beta release before entering RC phase in two weeks. Many<br />thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release of openSUSE!<br /><br />Important Changes Since Beta2<br />=============================<br />* Kernel 2.6.22.5<br />* libzypp 3.22.1<br />* improved package lists of 1-CD GNOME and KDE<br />* countless bug fixes in every component<br />* reworked concept of language bundles (bundle-lang-* and -lang packages)<br /><br />A more detailed list of changes is available via<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News%C2%A0">http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News</a></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2007-09/msg00000.html">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/developer">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1038470339781181299?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-38889368565175598032007-09-30T01:16:00.000-07:002007-12-28T01:18:46.998-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Copernic, <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Development/RC1">is now available</a>. The release notes are available <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes">here</a>. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this release candidate) is available <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/What%27s_New">here</a>, and the detailed technical specifications are available <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Ideas/Technical_specs_2008">here</a>. This release candidate is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer, and as a mini-CD edition for both x86-32 and x86-64 architectures. A One combined live / install CD edition will be released in the near future (problems with unionfs prevented the One edition from being release at the same time as the other editions).</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://blog.mandriva.com/2007/09/05/mandriva-linux-2008-rc1-released/">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/CookerMirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-3888936856517559803?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-60646113254365791632007-09-30T01:12:00.000-07:002007-12-28T01:14:27.941-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">MEPIS has announced the 7.0 beta 2 release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware. The antiX web site is at antix.mepis.org and an antiX forum is hosted at <a href="http://www.mepislovers.org/">www.mepislovers.org</a> <p>AntiX 7.0 beta 2 is very similar to AntiX 6.5 except that it is built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities, but mostly it has a different set of default user applications: fluxbox and ice window managers, Abiword, Gnumeric, Leafpad, Scite, Nano, mtpaint, xpdf, Firefox2, Sylpheed-claws, Dillo, Links2, Xchat, gftp, Pan, Irssi, Snownews RSS reader, Gtk-Gnutella, bittorrent, flash, mozilla-mplayer, xmms, mplayer, gmplayer, Midnight Commander, rox-filer, xarchive and brasero.</p> AntiX is designed to work on computers with as little as 64MB RAM and Pentuim II or equivalent AMD processors.</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/14026">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-6064611325436579163?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-17099707227316091582007-09-30T00:27:00.000-07:002007-12-28T00:34:15.337-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span id="postcolor"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The third release candidate for DSL v4.0 is now available.<br /><br />Change log for DSL v4.0rc3<br /><ul><li>* Added taskbar buttons &amp; click to focus in .jwmrc</li><li>* Corrected rdesktop icon to rdesktop.lua</li><li>* Added emelfm - dropped mc</li><li>* Updated association for *.gz</li><li>* Created new Standard Boot floppy &amp; PCMCIA modules floppy.</li><li>* Updated getman/man url</li><li>* Restored SCSI modules - corrected cdrecord</li><li>* Updated .torsmo_ip to fetch ethernet device from /proc</li><li>* Updated pendrive_usbhdd script to prompt for boot options.</li></ul></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=36;t=19017">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1709970722731609158?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-82210787452014331072007-08-31T22:29:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:22:37.201-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">SimplyMEPIS 6.9.51prebeta is a preview of upcoming SimplyMEPIS 7. It is available from the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors. <p>MEPIS has discontinued using Ubuntu binary packages in favor of a combination of MEPIS packaged binaries based on Debian and Ubuntu source code which is combined with a Debian Stable OS core and extra packages from Debian package pools.</p> <p>Warren Woodford of MEPIS explains the change "By using the latest Debian and Ubuntu source code for building user applications, we can provide the best latest versions of the applications users want the most. And by building on top of a Debian Stable core, we can provide a release that has the the stability and long life that users want."</p> <p>Warren continues "Most Linux users are tired of having to reinstall every 6 months in order to have up-to-date applications. We expect that with this approach MEPIS can offer a superior user experience that will be incrementally upgradeable for 2 years without reinstallation of the OS."</p> <p>The prebeta includes a 2.6.22 kernel, Debian Etch core, KDE 3.5.7, Firefox 2.0.0.5, Thunderbird 2.0.0.4, and OpenOffice 2.2.1. This is an early release with many rough edges. In particular the splashy boot splash does not run reliably, some extra kernel drivers are not yet compiled for the new kernel, some gui components are not themed for MEPIS, and the prebeta has had very limited testing.</p></blockquote><p></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/13894">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-8221078745201433107?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-78167814056412232862007-08-31T22:27:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:21:05.627-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"> Alpha7 is ready, after 5 rebuilds we're happy to say it looks good enough for<br />the public.<br /><br />Important Changes Since Alpha6<br />==============================<br /><br />* Linux 2.6.22.1<br />* gcc 4.2.1<br />* libzypp 3.12.1<br />* the package set of the CDs are heavily reshuffled and with it the patterns<br /> also affecting the DVD<br /><br />After Alpha6 was more about testing the first integration of libzypp, Alpha7<br />is already 10 steps further in regards to libzypp. But we'd like to have your<br />feedback on the refresh policy of yast/zypper.<br />See Duncan's explanation about the problem in the opensuse-factory archive:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-07/msg00169.html">http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-07/msg00169.html</a><br /><br />A more detailed list of changes is available via<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News%C2%A0">http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News</a></blockquote><a rel="nofollow" href="http://en.opensuse.org/Factory/News%C2%A0"></a>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2007-08/msg00001.html">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-7816781405641223286?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-71709737271469009112007-08-31T09:45:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:36:18.355-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor">The second release candidate of DSL v4.0 is now available for testing.<br />Change log:<br /></span><ul style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><li><span id="postcolor"> * New xtar.lua. A new GUI to view,extract or process as a MyDSL extension various tar files.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * New netcardconf.lua. A new GUI to configure netcards, relaces dialog version.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * New printing.lua, called from the printer icon, provides "intelligent icon" to handle all printing needs, from setup, start, stop, or print, double-click or drag-n-drop.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * New add2filetool.lua, add2Xfiletool.lua, add2bootlocal.lua provides smooth interface for these tasks, double-click or drag-n-drop</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * New switcher.lua GUI to switch WM, jwm, fluxbox, or swm</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Added sudo to myprism2, myndis, myiwconfig so they can be run from home by double clicking.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Updated minirt24.gz waitusb function.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Fixed cloop error on traditional hard drive installations.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Fixed background on several icons.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Updated "Getting Started" with more dfm information.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Fixed missing ext3 support.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Updated pendrive_usbhdd.sh with more warnings of its use of "sda"</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * New rootMenu.lua sets root menu based on selected WM.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor"> * Removed -zoom from .dfmext mplayer associations to better support older hardware.</span></li></ul></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=36;t=18970">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-7170973727146900911?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-10514555514896088832007-08-31T09:43:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:35:40.209-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"> The second beta of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Galilee, </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Development/Beta2">is now available</a></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">. The release notes are available </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes">here</a></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this beta) is available </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/What%27s_New">here</a></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">, and the detailed technical specifications are available </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Ideas/Technical_specs_2008">here</a></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">. This beta is available as a three CD or one DVD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures, with a traditional installer. Future betas will be available in One live / install CD hybrid editions with proprietary drivers.</span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span><br />Read the full release announcement <a href="http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux20080Beta2">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/CookerMirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1051455551489608883?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-30611674456375447522007-08-31T09:42:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:34:56.392-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Warren Woodford of MEPIS has announced Beta2 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The isos and beta1-beta2 iso deltas for 32 and 64 bit processors are available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors.</span> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The kernel in Beta2 is version 2.6.22.4 which is a security update from the Kernel Development Team. All of the MEPIS Assistants and the Installer were updated to fix minor problems reported by testers. Amarok was updated to version 1.4.7. There were minor updates to some KDE 3.5.7 packages. Security updates to a few Debian Etch packages brought the MEPIS Debian Etch core in sync with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1, the Debian Etch update which was released last week.</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The open source rtl8187 wireless driver was added to the kernel. For ndiswrapper, the Broadcom wireless drivers were updated and rtl8180 and rtl8185 drivers were added. Knetworkmanager was updated which resulted in more reliable automatic network startup for some users.</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">When asked about the release schedule, Warren said "At this point 7.0 is on schedule. I'll be speaking at the Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus on September 29th about the process used to create a MEPIS release, with an emphasis on the decisions and tradeoffs that have to be made when recompiling and integrating from upstream sources. I'd like to have 7.0 final at that time."</p></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/13980">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-3061167445637544752?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-69436361758460566222007-08-31T09:39:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:34:09.613-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><pre style="font-family: georgia;">The Ubuntu release team is pleased to announce Tribe 5, the fifth alpha release in the Gutsy cycle. Images are now available for Ubuntu<br />Desktop, Ubuntu Server, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu. Tribe releases are for developers and testers only, do not use them if you need a<br />stable system.<br /><br />Download the images from<br /><br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/</a> (Ubuntu Desktop and Server)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/</a> (Kubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/</a> (Edubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-5/</a> (Xubuntu)<br /><br />See <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors</a> for a list of mirrors.<br /><br />For details of the new features since Tribe 5 see<br /><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe5">http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe5</a><br /><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe5/Kubuntu">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe5/Kubuntu</a><br /><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe5/Xubuntu">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe5/Xubuntu</a></pre><br />Read the full release announcement <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-August/000334.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-6943636175846056622?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-38510134047211160582007-08-31T09:27:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:33:39.991-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><p></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><p>The openSUSE Team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3 Beta 2. Though this release should not be used on any production machines, everyone can help shape this release by testing out installations and much more. For more information on the release schedule, take a look at the <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/10.3" title="openSUSE Roadmap">Roadmap</a>.</p> <p><span id="more-155"></span></p> <h3 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:georgia;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Technical Changes</span></h3> <ul><li> Linux 2.6.22.3</li><li>glibc 2.6.1</li><li>YaST infrastructure improved to allow writing complete YaST modules without using YCP (e.g. exclusively in Perl, Python or Ruby)</li><li>Bootloader-related improvements: openSUSE 10.3 will use “chainloader” if it detects additional installations’ bootloader code in other partitions, otherwise “configfile” sections will be used (see Call for Testing below!)</li><li>Improved package lists of 1-CD GNOME and KDE</li><li>Countless bug fixes, all over the place</li></ul> <p>A more detailed list of the changes is available on the <a href="http://opensuse.org/Factory/News" title="Factory News" target="_blank">Factory/News</a> wiki page.</p></blockquote><p></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://news.opensuse.org/?p=155">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/developer">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-3851013404721116058?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-18557829857854316202007-08-31T09:25:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:33:14.185-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">MEPIS has announced the upload of the first official Beta of the upcoming 7.0 release of SimplyMEPIS. Version 6.9.60beta1 for 32 and 64 bit processors is available from the testing directory at the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors. <p>Since the prebeta of 2 weeks ago, there have been several changes which are included in Beta 1, a 2.6.22.3 kernel, kernel drivers for the ralink family of wireless cards, other updated drivers, KDE 3.5.7 updates, better appearance of splashy, and the latest Debian Etch security updates. The LiveCD now offers an option to boot with the aufs rw filesystem but this is not yet well tested.</p> <p>MEPIS 7.0 is based on a Debian Etch core combined with up-to-date user applications that are recompiled by MEPIS from upstream Debian and Ubuntu common source code. Debian Etch users are welcome to get their updated applications from the MEPIS pools. Warren Woodford says "If you want the stability of Debian Etch and also the latest user applications, 7.0 was made for you. And if you are a Debian Etch user, you don't have to upgrade to MEPIS, in order to use the applications we recompile."</p></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/13953">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1855782985785431620?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-22100266019483458232007-08-31T09:23:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:32:35.765-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><p></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><p>The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename Etch). This update adds security updates to the stable release, together with a few corrections to serious problems. As always, the first point release also corrects a few issues that have been noticed too late in the release process to stop the release, but still should be fixed.</p> <p>This point release for Etch also includes an updated release of the installer, which includes the following changes:</p> <ul class="simple"><li>kernels used in the installer have been updated to ABI 2.6.18-5; as a result, some "small" images (for example netboot and floppy images) included with the original Etch release will no longer work (but the new images included with the point release will work, as well as the full CD/DVD images from both the original release as well as from this point release)</li><li>updated mirror list</li><li>support added for certain USB CD drives that were not being detected</li><li>incorrect setup of gksu fixed when user chooses to install with the root account disabled; this prevented the execution of administrative tasks in GNOME</li><li>important translation fixes in partman for Catalan and Romanian</li></ul> <p>Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 but only updates some of the packages included. There is no need to throw away 4.0 DVDs/CDs. Instead you only need to update against ftp.debian.org or a mirror after an installation, in order to incorporate those changes. New CD and DVD images will be available within the next week at the regular locations.</p> <p>Upgrading to this revision online is usually done by pointing the aptitude package tool (see the sources.list(5) manual page) to one of Debian's many FTP or HTTP mirrors. A comprehensive list of mirrors is available at:</p> <a class="reference" href="http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist">http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist</a></blockquote><a class="reference" href="http://www.debian.org/distrib/ftplist"></a>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://times.debian.net/1161-etch-r1">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.debian.org/mirror/list">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-2210026601948345823?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-29371579240598050382007-08-31T09:20:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:32:13.579-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span id="postcolor"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"></span></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">Change Log for DSL v4.0 Release Candidate 1<br /></span><ul><li><span id="postcolor">* New pendrive usbhdd installation script now uses grub with DSL on 2nd small partition.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Removed pendrive usbzip install script, syslinux and mtools.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Changed default root menu from dfm to chosen WM menu.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Updated "Getting Started" to reflect changed defaults.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Changed kernel from 2.4.34.1 to 2.4.31 to gain user contributed modules, e.g., ipw2* and nvidia.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Created new support modules: cloop, unionfs, ndiswrapper, fuse, and madwifi in support of kernel change.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Updated nano-tiny to v2.0.6.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Fixed non-critical bug in dsl-config concerning hard drive installations.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Added dsl 3 runlevel for multiple user dsl consoles.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Fixed bug in iwconfig-setup</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Updated functions5.lua</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Updated fluxbox menus to use system default (helvetica).</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Added vim link</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">* Patched knoppix-autoconfig to correct language issues.</span></li></ul></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=36;t=18902">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-2937157924059805038?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-7058334078354249882007-08-31T09:15:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:31:48.633-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Warren Woodford of MEPIS has built KDE4-Beta1 Live DVDs to verify the compatibility of KDE 4 with SimplyMEPIS 7.x. The 32 and 64 bit DVD isos are available from the testing directory of the MEPIS subscriber site and the MEPIS public mirrors. <p>Warren said "I decided to share my KDE 4 Beta 1 isos, so others could take a first look at KDE 4 and also to demonstrate that I'm serious about the commitment that MEPIS 7.x will be incrementally upgradable. We plan to do another KDE 4 integration every few weeks. We expect that KDE 4 will not be final in time for the MEPIS 7.0 release, but by integrating KDE 4 now, we can insure that 7.0 will be "KDE 4 ready."</p> <p>Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available. They are about 1 GB each and include all of the KDE 4 applications that are working at this time. </p> <p>KDE 4 Beta 1 is a very early release and is meant for developers, testers, and reviewers. Warren recommends "The release is sluggish, be patient when clicking to launch something. If you look past the rough edges, you will see the beginnings of a world-class desktop experience. If something doesn't work, you could consider reporting a bug at the KDE project, but I would recommend holding off until the next Beta release before submitting a lot of bug reports." For more information about KDE 4.0 Beta 1 see: <a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta1.php">http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-beta1.php</a></p> <p>Jos Poortvliet of the KDE Project said: "The KDE project is happy to see MEPIS Linux leading the way in bringing the next generation desktop technology to their users. This decision of early adoption of KDE 4 by the MEPIS developers will ensure a premier KDE experience for the users. We hope KDE 4 will be appreciated, and we look forward to the constructive comments from the Mepis community."</p> <p>The Live DVDs were built using a MEPIS 7.0 Etch core and include the usual MEPIS kernel and hardware compatibility features. Since KDE 4 is functionally different than KDE 3 and also in an early Beta state, a minimal KDE 3 installation remains on the disk to facilitate exploration by the user. </p> <p>The KDE4 packages were compiled from the Deb-untu developer upstream source. Experimental packages from Debian svn and from Ubuntu universe were tested. Both built and ran, but the ubuntu packages were more functional.</p></blockquote><p></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/13929">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-705833407835424988?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-34909242291663034802007-08-31T09:09:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:31:20.805-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 10.3. There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these are a whole new and greatly improved package management stack (libzypp), significantly faster boot time, parts of KDE 4, a 1-CD KDE Install and a 1-CD GNOME install, beautiful green artwork, a new One-Click Install technology that integrates with the openSUSE Build Service and much more.</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://news.opensuse.org/2007/08/09/announcing-opensuse-103-beta-1/">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-3490924229166303480?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-13513819130839269652007-08-31T06:43:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:30:55.033-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 4, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10.<br /><br />Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.<br /><br />Tribe 4 is the fourth in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Gutsy development cycle. The Tribe images are known to be reasonably free of show-stopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Gutsy. You can download it here:<br /><br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/</a> (Ubuntu desktop and Server)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/</a> (Kubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/</a> (Edubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-4/</a> (Xubuntu)<br /><br />See <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors</a> for a list of mirrors.<br /><br />Some new exciting features have landed which cannot wait to be tried and tested. Please refer to the following web pages for details:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe4">http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe4</a> (Ubuntu)<br /><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe4/Kubuntu">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe4/Kubuntu</a> (Kubuntu)</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-August/000324.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1351381913083926965?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-12576068507978916592007-08-31T02:03:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:29:05.741-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"> The first beta of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Cassini, <span class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Development/Beta1">is now available</a></span>. The release notes are available <span class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/Notes">here</a></span>. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in this beta) is available <span class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2008.0/What%27s_New">here</a></span>, and the detailed technical specifications are available <span class="wikiexternallink"><a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Ideas/Technical_specs_2008">here</a></span>. This beta is available only as a three CD Free edition (containing no non-free software or drivers) for the x86-32 architecture, with a traditional installer. Future betas will be available in One live / install CD hybrid editions with proprietary drivers, and in x86-64 versions.<br /></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux20080Beta1">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/CookerMirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1257606850797891659?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-70105725563612501582007-08-31T01:54:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:26:40.107-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Fedora 8 Test one has been loosed upon the world today. Included in this release is a "Fedora" installable 'choose your own adventure' style set of isos and trees for i386, x86_64, and ppc(64). Also included are Live images of both the Fedora Desktop and the Fedora KDE desktop. These are available for both i686 and x86_64 (x86_64 is DVD size only). Remember these can be used on USB media via the livecd-iso-to-disk utility available in the livecd-tools package.<br /><br />Test 1 is for "alpha" users. This is the time when we would like to have full community participation. Without this participation both hardware and software functionality suffers. We need your help. Join us!</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2007-August/msg00116.html">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-7010572556361250158?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-65629686074632700192007-08-31T01:51:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:24:24.436-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><ul><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Distribution updates:<br /><li> Introduced a (teaser) pre-alpha release of the Entropy stack (Equo application)</li><li> Updated Portato to 0.8.0</li><li> Updated Compiz Fusion to work with XGL and AMD/ATI cards</li><li> Updated WINE to 0.9.42 and fixed Wine Doors</li><li> Reintroduced sudo after Install</li><li> Updated Second Life to 1.18.0.6</li><li> Fixed Partitioning issues on some system caused by dmraid stack (disabled by default now)</li><li> Reintroduced old and stable ipw3945 driver (keeping ipw4965 one)</li><li> Updated pommed to 1.7 (better MacBook support)</li><li> Reintroduced old bcm43xx wireless driver (disabling mac80211 one)</li></blockquote></ul>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9281">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mod/mirrors">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-6562968607463270019?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-42176153747418108122007-07-31T06:44:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:20:25.595-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span id="postcolor"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Change log for DSL v4.0 Alpha2</span><br /></span><ul><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Fixed bug reported upon shutdown - cleanup now working.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Added more associations for dfm.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Updated exit.lua to support swm "exit to prompt".</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Fixed bug with dfm when booted "legacy".</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Added .mtoolsrc mtools_skip_check=1</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Cut rarely used modules (will be available as a separate download).</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Restored netfilter modules for rc.firewall.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Fixed bug in cpanel concerning start of cron (MyCron).</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Fixed bug in dsl-config for hard drive installations.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Fixed wrong cloop in core affecting hard drive installations.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Improved hard drive installation for new MyDSL system.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Fixed bug in flux2jwm affecting menu items doubling up.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Updated many icons for better appearance.</span></li><li style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span id="postcolor">* Red folder now opens with root privileges.</span></li><li><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor">* Commented out xload monitor in jwm since torsmo provides this.</span><br /></li></ul></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=36;t=18816">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-4217615374741810812?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-81273317904993048012007-07-31T06:37:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:19:05.649-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the *beta* release of 5.1 (kernel-2.6.18-36.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products including:<br /><br /> - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform for x86, AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, and IBM POWER<br /> - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server for x86, AMD64/Intel(r) 64, Itanium Processor Family, IBM POWER, S/390 and System z<br /> - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop for x86, and AMD64/Intel(r) 64<br /><br />Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 is still in development and therefore the contents of the media kit, the implemented features, and the supported configurations are subject to change<br />before the release of the final product. The supplied beta packages and CD images are intended for testing purposes only.<br />Remember that this early access software is not supported and is not intended for production environments. Do not publish any benchmark or performance results based on this beta release.<br />Upgrading from beta releases to the GA product will not be supported. The beta testing period is scheduled to continue through September 4, 2007.<br /><br /><br />Features<br />---------<br /><br />This beta release includes the following improvements:<br /><br />* Virtualization improvements<br />+ Completion of virtualization support on Itanium2 platforms<br /> - PV (para-virtualized) and HV (fully-virtualized) Itanium2 guests are now fully supported on Itanium2 hardware (HV requires hardware support)<br />+ Support for 32-bit PV guests on 64-bit AMD64/Intel(r) 64 hosts<br />+ Improved support for HV guests<br /> - Hot-migration support for HV guests<br /> - General performance improvements<br /> - Host infrastructure for PV drivers (the actual drivers will be delivered separately in the context of the individual supported guest operating systems)<br />+ Update of the libvirt management layer<br /><br />* Laptop and Desktop improvements<br />+ Improved ACPI power management support including support for S3 suspend to RAM and S4 hibernate<br />+ Technology Preview of a Firewire stack which will be fully supported in a subsequent minor release<br /><br />* Storage improvements<br />+ Improved support for autofs load balancing with replicated servers<br />+ Added replication and migration support for NFSv4 referrals<br />+ Support for installation to and boot from dm-multipath<br />+ Update of the Sata sub-system<br />+ Significant stability improvements to the GFS2 file system<br />+ Ext3 filesystem now fully supports filesystem sizes of up to 16TB<br />+ Updated CIFS to version 1.48aRH<br />+ Technology Preview of the iSCSI target device (iSCSI server)<br /><br />* Serviceability improvements<br />+ Improvements to the "crash"-analysis tool<br />+ IPMI and HPI updates<br />+ Added Kexec/Kdump support for the host in a virtualized environment<br /><br />* Networking<br />+ Update of the Infiniband support and addition of RDMA over Ethernet<br />+ Technology Preview of the new Devicescape wireless network stack<br />+ Expand in-kernel socket api<br />+ IPv6 improvements<br />+ Technology Preview of new mac80211 wireless stack (ipw 4965 wireless adapter) support. Note the iwl4965-firmware package is not in Beta ISOs but is available on RHN<br /><br />* Windows Interoperability<br />+ Samba update for improved interoperability<br />+ PAM/Kerberos and NSS-LDAP updates for improved integration in Active Directory environments<br /><br />* Security<br />+ Improved auditing<br />+ Smartcard support for SSH<br />+ Integration of LSPP certification related changes<br /><br />* Other Kernel Improvements<br />+ Add support for shared page table for hugetlb pages<br /><br />* General bug fixing and driver updates</blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2007-July/msg00000.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-8127331790499304801?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-61300923371126105712007-07-31T06:24:00.000-07:002007-12-27T23:16:43.107-08:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Distribution Features:</span><br /><ul><li>The most advanced: Linux Kernel 2.6.22 with extra Power Management (PowerTop), Wireless (mac80211), Ext4 Filesystem, Scheduler (CFS) and Virtualization (KVM,Virt-Manager,VirtualBox) support</li><li>Gaming oriented: featuring,</li></ul><ol><li> Savage 2</li><li> FlightGear</li><li> DangerDeep</li><li> Warsow</li><li> Nexuiz</li><li> Torcs</li><li> Battle of Wesnoth</li><li> Second Life</li></ol><ul><li> Latest NVIDIA (100.14.11) and AMD (8.38.6) GPU drivers</li><li> The most Windows-aware: supporting NTFS in read/write and Wine Doors utility, that let you install Windows applications as easy as 1-2-3 (using Wine 0.9.40).</li><li> The first to support Ext4 File System: for the braves, Sabayon Linux Installer can easily handle it.</li><li> The most Stable Cutting Edge DVD: featuring Compiz Fusion and Metisse (Technology Preview) integration</li><li> Much more flexible: the Installer now features a really improved execution speed, RAID10 support, Ext4 Support, UUID device naming support, a Packages Selector, a Boot Services Selector and also a Core/Minimal Install Method (Server deployments)</li><li> The Most Laptop Aware: tested and optimized also for Laptop usage</li><li> X.Org 7.3 with automatic Monitor configuration</li><li> KDE 3.5.7</li><li> GNOME 2.18.2</li><li> Strong identity: no Server applications installed (you will find them in the Business Edition)</li><li> Less Duplicated Packages: removed about 140 duplicated applications</li><li> Better Mactel support: added support for Intel ICH8M, Atheros Wireless cards, Backlight management and new Synaptics touchpads</li><li> Better Out of the Box hardware support: Agere et131x,</li><li> VMware Guest Installation Support</li><li> Media Center capabilities: featuring GeeXbox 1.1 and Elisa Media Center (Technology Preview)</li><li> Incredible set of installed and preconfigured Applications (see Packages List below)</li><li> The most tested Stable Release: in the last 4 months, our Core Beta Team have done a great work to accomply our always growing QA standards. This transformed Sabayon Linux 3.4 in the most reliable version ever released.</li></ul></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=51308">here</a>(Download links on the same page).<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-6130092337112610571?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-14095975065113507012007-07-21T22:50:00.000-07:002007-07-21T22:54:20.833-07:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Hello Ubuntu developers,<br /><br />Welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10.<br /><br />Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, or even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.<br /><br />Tribe 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Gutsy development cycle. The Tribe images are known to be reasonably free of show-stopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Gutsy. You can<br />download it here:<br /><br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/</a> (Ubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/</a> (Kubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/</a> (Edubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-3/</a> (Xubuntu)<br /><br />See <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors</a> for a list of mirrors.<br /><br />Another set of new features landed in Tribe 3, and are ready for large-scale testing. Please refer to the following web pages for details:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe3">http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe3</a> (Ubuntu)<br /><a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe3/Kubuntu">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe3/Kubuntu</a> (Kubuntu)<br /><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/Tribe3/Xubuntu">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/Tribe3/Xubuntu</a> (Xubuntu)<br /><br />This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. Among these are the following (so you don't need to bother reporting these if you encounter them):<br /><br />* The desktop CD hangs on a lot of systems, especially slower ones with little RAM. Sometimes it is just slow, sometimes it will hang eternally. If you experience this and waiting a bit longer does not help, try to restart the computer and the live CD. If that still does not help, please use the alternate CD.<br /> (<a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/126964">https://launchpad.net/bugs/126964</a>)<br /><br />* On Edubuntu server installs, the "Building LTSP root" step takes a very long time (in the order of 15 minutes) without visible progress. It will eventually finish, though.<br /> (<a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/121547">https://launchpad.net/bugs/121547</a>)<br /><br />If the graphical system does not come up or is very slow, please file a bug against compiz:<br /><br /><a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+filebug">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+filebug</a><br /><br />Please include a copy of the files ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the output of glxinfo and xdpyinfo.<br /><br />If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Gutsy, have a look at the gutsy-changes mailing list:<br /><br /><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/gutsy-changes">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/gutsy-changes</a><br /><br />Please be aware that this list usually has several dozen mails every day.<br /><br />We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list if you're interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a low-traffic list (a few posts a month) carrying announcements of approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other interesting events.<br /><br /><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce</a><br /><br />Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:<br /><br /><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu</a><br /></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-July/000319.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1409597506511350701?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-58387895807442149202007-07-21T22:42:00.000-07:002007-07-21T22:49:49.925-07:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">AJ used to write here, that he's glad to announce. I can't say I am - I am relieved I can announce openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 to you. I didn't have a chance to put too much testing into more than the i586 DVD5 and the KDE CD. But I didn't want to wait any longer either. So I'm left with hoping the best.<br /><br />Important Changes Since Alpha5<br />==============================<br /><br />* Linux 2.6.22<br />* libzypp 3.11.8<br />* gcc 4.2<br />* Continued splitting of packages to reduce size<br />* Introduction of x86_64 CDs for both KDE and GNOME<br /><br />This is a first alpha release containing the new refactored libzypp software management library. The goal was to deliver a working version for this alpha, so expect rough edges, unusal slowdown and behavior, for example YaST integration is really alpha quality. All bug reports are very welcome.<br /><br />Media and Download<br />==================<br /><br />openSUSE 10.3 Alpha6 for i386, x86-64 and ppc comes as different media sets:<br />* 1 DVD containing the contents of the 5 CDs and the NonOSS AddOn CD<br />* 1 CD with a default KDE installation (not for ppc yet)<br />* 1 CD with a default GNOME installation (not for ppc yet)<br />* 1 AddOn CD with only NonOSS packages on it<br />* 1 AddOn CD with language packages that are used for extra languages (the DVD contains support for english, french, italian, spanish, german, chinese, japanese, czech, danish, norwegian, khmer, hungarian, polish) (the DVD has support for installation in all languages, just extra packages are only on this extra media)<br />* DVD/CDs containing the sources corresponding to the media<br /><br />We have created Delta ISOs from openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5. Please use them for download.<br /><br />The DVDs and the source media are only available via bittorrent.<br /></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2007-07/msg00005.html">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-5838789580744214920?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-13101353972603883052007-07-17T09:43:00.000-07:002007-07-17T09:47:08.131-07:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor">DSL v4.0 Alpha 1 is now available in the Release Candidate area.<br /><br />This is a very different version of DSL. It is based on the following wish list as expressed in the forums.<br /></span><ul style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><li><span id="postcolor">New 2.4.34 kernel.</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">Easier to use user interface</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">A real desktop framework</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">Drag-N-Drop capability</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">Better and more flexible file associations</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">Closer coupling of the icons and file manager</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">Document centric capability</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">Optional menu-less capability</span></li><li><span id="postcolor">More intuitive interface to MyDSL extensions</span></li></ul><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor">Please read the new Getting Started document. There are many changes in icons, file manager, accessing menu and mydsl.<br />Note: This is NOT a release candidate. It is the first in an alpha cycle. A such, do expect anomalies.<br />Updated alpha cuts will be posted as they become available.<br />When posting feedback here in this forum, please be aware that DSL has four major installations methods.<br /><br />1. Live CD<br />2. Frugal<br />3. Hybrid<br />4. Traditional<br /><br />Please indicate which method is being used.<br /><br />Be aware that this is a new system and that copying only KNOPPIX will not work!<br /><br />You should test separately from exising installations of DSL.<br />Should you so attempt to do otherwise please be aware that the following files have changed and are likely in your backup.<br /><br />1. .xinitrc<br />2. .desktop<br />3. .fluxbox/fluxter.bb<br />4. .fluxbox/menu<br />5. .jwmrc<br />6. .filetool.lst<br />7. .xfiletool.lst<br /><br />The following are no longer used:<br /><br />1. .xtdesktop/<br />2. .emelfm/ </span></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" id="postcolor"></span>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=36;t=18732">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1310135397260388305?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-83054397934338288122007-07-17T09:32:00.000-07:002007-07-17T09:37:50.892-07:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"> Sabayon Linux "Business Edition" is another of our hard work that proof that we do care for people needs:<br />You love Sabayon Linux and want to use it for working purpouse but you're not interested at all in games or desktop acceleration?<br />Sabayon Linux is the only distribution that recognize your hardware perfectly but you want something that will make it perfect on your working enviroment?...<br />Here you go!!!<br />Sabayon has prepared for you a fast, cheap and stable solution for every "office needs" you might have!!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">INFO/ FEATURES:</span></span><br /><ul><li> Optimized Server profile </li><li> Kernel 2.6.22 Sabayon Linux Powered<br /></li><li> Stable branch for almost all packages<br /></li><li> Wpa_supplicant compiled with a better support for mac80211<br /></li><li> Latest madwifi driver<br /></li><li> Latest Sabayon Installer<br /></li><li> Latest Ati-drivers<br /></li><li> Latest Nvidia-drivers<br /></li><li> Fast installation speed<br /></li><li> Package Selection on install time<br /></li><li> Really fast working live enviroment<br /></li><li> Easy firewall management with Kmyfirewall</li></ul></blockquote><ul><li> </li></ul>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8554">here</a>.<br />ISO - Torrents:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/sabayon/torrents/Sabayon-x86-1.0-BusinessEdition.iso.torrent" target="_blank" class="postlink">Sabayon Linux x86 Business Edition 1.0 Torrent download</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/sabayon/torrents/Sabayon-x86_64-1.0-BusinessEdition.iso.torrent" target="_blank" class="postlink">Sabayon Linux x86_64 Business Edition 1.0 Torrent download</a><br /></li></ul>Download Mirrors:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mod/mirrors/" target="_blank" class="postlink">Official Mirrors Page</a></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-8305439793433828812?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-17808529361106240662007-07-12T02:54:00.000-07:002007-07-12T03:06:53.928-07:00Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you.<br /><br />It does not require you to modify the partitions of your PC, or to use a different bootloader.<br />Just run the installer, no need to burn a CD.<br />Wubi keeps most of the files in one folder, and If you do not like, you can simply uninstall it.<br />Wubi (like Ubuntu) is free as in beer and as in freedom. You will get this part later on, the important thing now is that it cost absolutely nothing, it is our gift to you...<br /><br />Download <a href="http://wubi-installer.org/latest.php">here</a>.<br />Screenshots <a href="http://wubi-installer.org/screenshots.php">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1780852936110624066?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-79176271335151903912007-07-10T02:20:00.001-07:002007-07-10T02:25:27.642-07:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">MEPIS has announced the "Spartacus" release of antiX, a lightweight derivative of MEPIS. AntiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware. The antiX web site is at antix.mepis.org and an antiX forum is hosted at </span><a style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);" href="http://www.mepislovers.org/">www.mepislovers.org</a> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Anticapitalista said, "After months of hard work, I am delighted to announce that antiX "Spartacus" is ready for release. antiX is a fast, stable, lightweight and easy to install livecd for those with old computers or for those who prefer a 'lean and mean' operating system on modern hardware. Enjoy antiX!"</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">AntiX is built using the MEPIS Linux 6.5 core including the MEPIS 2.6.15 kernel and utilities, but mostly it has a different set of default user applications: fluxbox and ice window managers, Abiword, Gnumeric, Leafpad, Scite, Nano, gimp, xpdf, Firefox2, Sylpheed-claws, Dillo, Links2, Gaim, Xchat, gftp, Pan, Irssi, Raggle RSS reader, Gtk-Gnutella, bittorrent, flash, mozilla-mplayer, xmms, mplayer, audacity, xine, Midnight Commander, rox-filer, xarchive, xcdroast and graveman.</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Warren reported "Anti has demonstrated that you don't need to be a programmer to build a very useful derivative of MEPIS Linux. The MEPIS community is very impressed with his achievement."</p> <p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">AntiX is designed to work on computers with as little as 64MB RAM and Pentuim II or equivalent AMD processors. The new ISO images are available in the 'released/antix' subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and at the MEPIS public mirrors.</p></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></p>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/13830">here</a>.<br /><p>Download the latest version here, currently antiX-Mepis6.5 (410MB) <a href="ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/released/antix/antiX-Mepis6.5.iso" title="Download">download</a></p> <p>antiX is also available on the MEPIS mirrors. <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors" title="MEPIS mirrors">mirrors</a></p> <p>antiX-Mepis6.5 md5sum and xdelta patches available. <a href="ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/released/antix/" title="md5sum/delta patches">antiX</a></p> <p>Here is a link to some screenshots. <a href="http://s9.photobucket.com/albums/a72/anticapitalista/antiXrc3/antiX2/antiX_pre_final/?action=view&current=Grub.jpg&amp;slideshow=paused&amp;interval=3" title="Screenshots1">Screenshots1</a></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-7917627133515190391?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-85745734940637534862007-07-05T04:33:00.000-07:002007-07-05T04:52:24.826-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d0FvcyxAzl8/RozZKovrBjI/AAAAAAAAACc/H-Sy5ChfFHE/s1600-h/distro.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_d0FvcyxAzl8/RozZKovrBjI/AAAAAAAAACc/H-Sy5ChfFHE/s320/distro.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083676856153736754" border="0" /></a>Good news for PCLinuxOS fans!!!! But at the same time die-hard Ubuntu supporters must be worried. Here is why.<br />Finally PCLOS has taken lead from Ubuntu on the last 3 months based rankings on distrowatch.com. The H.P.D. today showed 2669 for PCLOS against 2668 for Ubuntu.<br /><br />So the trend is clear Ubuntu is loosing the race to PCLOS. Ubuntu has been the leader quite for a long time and established its reputation. PCLOS on the other hand is relatively new and need to maintain its good work to be at the top of the distro race. <br /><br />But certainly both the Distributions are really great. As always, not every person is satisfied with these two but overall they have many more positive responses than the negative ones.<br /><br />I hope this race would continue indefinitely as this would help the Linux and the community grow as a whole.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-8574573494063753486?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-16105233038028519682007-07-04T02:49:00.000-07:002007-07-04T02:53:33.121-07:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><span id="postcolor"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">DSL v3.4 is now released. </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Final change log:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">1. Updated MurgaLua to v0.4.1</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">2. Added libXft.so.2</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">3. Added acpid. Use boot option "acpid"</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">4. Added bcrypt. Dropped des</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">5. Improved emelfm for better CLI support</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">6. Fixed user umount Debian Woody bug.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">7. Updated webdata to use bcrypt</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">8. Updated file backup/restore to use bcrypt via "protect" boot option.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">9. New image has been added: dsl-3.4-initrd.iso</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">I took a little side trip while working on 4.0 to make a much asked for version of DSL.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">dsl-3.4-initrd.iso version has the KNOPPIX image packed in the initial ramdisk. This means it is very easy to setup a PXE DSL server.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">It also means the entire system </span><i style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">always</i><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"> loads into ram. You will need 128MB ram for this version. It will boot as a typical isolinux version and thereby eliminates the scan for the KNOPPIX image. So, by producing this image I have tried to satisfy two areas of improved use. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Note: The embedded install scripts are not aware of the new initrd version.</span></blockquote></span></span>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=4;t=18678">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/dsl-3.4.iso">dsl-3.4.iso</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1610523303802851968?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-75852641077166082412007-07-04T02:29:00.000-07:002007-07-04T03:11:16.635-07:00Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Well folks, it's that time to announce a new stable Slackware release again. So, without further ado, announcing Slackware version 12.0! Since we've moved to supporting the 2.6 kernel series exclusively (and fine-tuned the system to get the most out of it), we feel that Slackware 12.0 has many improvements over our last release (Slackware 11.0) and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user.<br /><br />Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.4.1, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment, and KDE 3.5.7, the latest version of the award-winning K Desktop Environment.<br /><br />Here are some of the advanced features of Slackware 12.0:<br /><br />- Runs the 2.6.21.5 version of the Linux kernel from ftp.kernel.org. Also included is a kernel patched with Speakup to support speech synthesizers providing access to Linux for the visually impaired community. The 2.6.x kernel series has matured into a stable kernel, and provides reliable performance for your desktop or your production server.<br /><br />- System binaries are linked with the GNU C Library, version 2.5. This version of glibc also has excellent compatibility with existing binaries.<br /><br />- X11 7.2.0. This is the X.Org Foundation's modular X Window System. You will notice many more X package than before, and it's probably best to install them all. There's been much activity in the X development world, and the improvements here in terms of performance and hardware support are sure to be only the beginning.<br /><br />- Installs gcc-4.1.2 as the default C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran-77/95, and Ada 95 compiler.<br /><br />- Support for fully encrypted network connections with OpenSSL, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, and GnuPG.<br /><br />- Apache (httpd) 2.2.4 web server with Dynamic Shared Object support, SSL, and PHP 5.2.3.<br /><br />- PCMCIA, CardBus, USB, IEE1394 (FireWire) and ACPI support. This makes Slackware a great operating system for your laptop.<br /><br />- The udev dynamic device management system for Linux 2.6.x. This locates and configures most hardware automatically as it is added (or removed) from the system, and creates the access nodes in /dev. It also loads the kernel modules required by sound cards and other hardware at boot time.<br /><br />- New development tools, including Perl 5.8.8, Python 2.5.1, Ruby 1.8.6, Subversion 1.4.4, git-1.5.2.2, mercurial-0.9.4, graphical tools like Qt designer and KDevelop, and much more.<br /><br />- Updated versions of the Slackware package management tools make it easy to add, remove, upgrade, and make your own Slackware packages. Package tracking makes it easy to upgrade from Slackware 11.0 to Slackware 12.0 (see CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT). The slackpkg tool in /extra can also help update from an older version of Slackware to a newer one, and keep your Slackware system up to date. In addition, the slacktrack utility (in extra/) will help you build and maintain your own packages.<br /><br />- Web browsers galore! Includes KDE's Konqueror 3.5.7, SeaMonkey 1.1.2 (this is the replacement for the Mozilla Suite), and the immensely popular Firefox 2.0.0.4, as well as the Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 email and news client with advanced junk mail filtering.<br /><br />- The complete K Desktop Environment (KDE) version 3.5.7, including the KOffice productivity suite, networking tools, GUI development with KDevelop, multimedia tools (including the amazing Amarok music player), the Konqueror web browser and file manager, dozens of games and utilities, international language support, and more.<br /><br />- A collection of GTK+ based applications including pidgin-2.0.2, gimp-2.2.15, gkrellm-2.2.10, gxine-0.5.11, xchat-2.8.2, xsane-0.994, and pan-0.131.<br /><br />- Large repository of extra software packages compiled and ready to run. This includes various window managers, the Java(TM) 2 Software Development Kit Standard Edition, libsafe (buffer overflow protection for additional security), ISDN support, additional 802.11 drivers, and much more (see the /extra directory).<br /></blockquote><br />Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.slackware.com/announce/12.0.php">here</a>.<br />Download <a href="http://slackware.com/getslack/">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-7585264107716608241?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-87642484219386280742007-06-28T22:33:00.000-07:002007-06-28T22:47:27.204-07:00The Tribe 2 release of Ubuntu was announced. There is also simultaneous release of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu.<br />Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10.<br /><br />Pre-releases of Gutsy are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.<br /><br />Tribe 2 is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Gutsy development cycle. The Tribe images are known to be reasonably free of show-stopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Gutsy. You can download it here:<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/</a> (Ubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/</a> (Kubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/</a> (Edubuntu)<br /><a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/">http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/gutsy/tribe-2/</a> (Xubuntu)<br /><br />See <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors">http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors</a> for a list of mirrors.</blockquote><br />Read the full release announcement <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-June/000311.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-8764248421938628074?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-91054202431013263232007-06-26T12:47:00.000-07:002007-06-26T13:01:40.173-07:00Slackware quitely informed about the second release candidate, the Slackware 12.0 RC2.<br /><blockquote><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">This might as well be called 12.0 RC2 so that we're not accused on skimping on release candidates. ;-) Still going through various reports, and (especially) looking into getting the php.ini defaults reasonable (as well as figuring out which features can be safely built as extensions). But, we're getting there.</span><br /></blockquote>Read the <a href="http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386">changelog</a> for more details.<br />Slackware didn't released any official version of the release but testers can get help on installation on this <a href="http://www.slackware.com/install/">page</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-9105420243101326323?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-19045227928653236242007-06-26T12:19:00.000-07:002007-06-26T12:30:07.666-07:00Sabayon Linux announced the release of third testing version of 3.4. Excerpts from the release announcement.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">The Sabayon Linux Crew is happy to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 3.4 Loop3 for both x86 and x86-64 architecture.<br /><br />What happened since Sabayon Linux 3.4 Loop2 ?<br /><ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Important Changes:</span><br /><li> Removed Enlightenment 16 Desktop to let us focus better on GNOME/KDE integration<br /></li><li> Removed 140 packages - a.k.a. the mass shrinking - NO MORE duplicated applications<br /></li><li> Removed NX server, Internet Kiosk framework and all the server oriented applications (they will show up in the Business Edition)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gaming:</span><br /></li><li> Sabayon Linux 3.4 is all about gaming! Play your favourite games as easy as 1-2-3.<br /></li><li> Strengthen the Sabayon Linux Games Deployment framework - we NOW support a lot of Cool GAMES!<br /></li><li> Featuring<br /></li><li> Savage 2.00e<br /></li><li> FlightGear 0.9.10<br /></li><li> DangerDeep 0.3.0<br /></li><li> Warsow 0.3<br /></li><li> Nexuiz 2.3<br /></li><li> Torcs 1.3.0<br /></li><li> Battle of Wesnoth 1.2.4<br /></li><li> Coldwar demo has been removed </li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hardware Support:</span><br /></li><li> Updated NVIDIA drivers to 100.14.11<br /></li><li> Updated ATI drivers to 8.37.8<br /></li><li> Updated madwifi-ng driver to SVN snapshot to support MacBooks<br /></li><li> Strengthen VMWare 6.0 support<br /></li><li> Re-added linuxwlan-ng drivers<br /></li><li> Added pommed utility to support MacBooks LCD backlight tuning<br /></li><li> Added support for Agere et131x ethernet controller -> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/et131x</a><br /></li><li> if NVIDIA detected: add NVIDIA Control Center icon to desktop<br /></li><li> if ATI detected: add AMD Control Center icon to desktop<br /></li><li> Updated HAL to 0.5.9 (plus upstream accepted patches for 0.5.9.1) - complete MacBook support<br /></li><li> Updated kernel with the latest stable patches<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Noticeable Applications:</span><br /></li><li> Updated KDE to 3.5.7<br /></li><li> Added FileZilla 3.0 FTP Client<br /></li><li> Update aMule to 2.2.x CVS release (won't crash anymore)<br /></li><li> Update gnome-main-menu<br /></li><li> Updated KDEBluetooth to 1.0beta3<br /></li><li> Updated GeeXbox to 1.1rc3<br /></li><li> Updated VirtualBox to 1.4.0<br /></li><li> Added Manencode 0.8<br /></li><li> Added pommed<br /></li><li> Updated WINE to 0.9.39<br /></li><li> Updated sabayon-version with the proper USE flag<br /></li><li> Updated KVM to 28 </li></ul></blockquote>Read the full release announcement <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=47071">here</a>.<br />Download Sabayon <a href="http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mod/mirrors/">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1904522792865323624?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-900024053838612212007-06-22T02:55:00.000-07:002007-06-22T03:13:25.372-07:00Mandriva announced the release of latest Corporate Desktop. Excerpts from the announcement are: <i><br /></i><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><i>Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Corporate Desktop 4.0, the brand new version of its enterprise-dedicated work station.<br /></i><i>Ergonomically designed, secure, comprehensive, easy to use and to administer: by consulting its corporate clients and building on its own expertise in the desktop area, Mandriva developed Corporate Desktop 4.0, a distribution that can be installed in less than 15 minutes and extensively customized thanks to a new post-installation tool.<br /><br /></i>Corporate Desktop 4.0 focuses on the key points for business: directory administration and integration, mobility, security and ergonomics.<br />Mandriva also takes advantage of its partnerships with many hardware vendors and software publishers to offer extensive hardware compatibility and a complete range of ISV software. With the support of these companies, Corporate Desktop 4.0 features certified compatibility with Intel®, HP® and NVIDIA® hardware, and integrates software from Arkeia®, BitDefender®, VMware® and many more.</blockquote>Please read the full <a href="http://www.mandriva.com/en/company/press/pr/mandriva_is_proud_to_announce_the_release_of_corporate_desktop_4_0">press release</a> for more details.<br />Mandriva offers to test Corporate Desktop 4. You can <a href="https://my.mandriva.com/cd4/trial">register and be able to download full version of the Corporate Desktop 4</a> and access official updates for 1 month.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-90002405383861221?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-52396255106922831162007-06-19T05:10:00.000-07:002007-06-20T13:05:37.735-07:00<span id="postcolor"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Damn Small Linux(DSL) announced the download for their first release candidate of v3.4. Their brief release announcement is as follows.<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Change Log for DSL v3.4RC1<br /><br />1. Updated MurgaLua to v0.4.1<br />2. Added libXft.so.2<br />3. Added acpid. Use boot option "acpid"<br />4. Added bcrypt. Dropped des<br />5. Improved emelfm for better CLI support<br />6. Fixed user umount Debian Woody bug.<br />7. Updated webdata to use bcrypt<br />8. Updated file backup/restore to use bcrypt via "protect" boot option.<br /><br />You can download from the Release Candidate <a href="ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/release_candidate/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">section.</a><br /><br />Please test carefully as the backup/restore code has changed.<br />Please test the new bcrypt code with caution.</blockquote></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-5239625510692283116?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-49171556282722936872007-06-15T01:51:00.001-07:002007-06-17T08:10:35.571-07:00Patrick Volkerding has announced the first release candidate of <a href="http://distrowatch.com/slackware">Slackware</a> Linux 12.0: "<span class="Quote">It's that time again, and here we have Slackware 12.0 release candidate 1! If we're lucky, we got it all right the first time. Big thanks to the crew.</span>" This message has been posted on the distribution's <a href="http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386">current changelog</a>, together with a large number of package updates. The upcoming Slackware Linux 12.0 is a major new version; this is the first time a Slackware release will default to a 2.6 kernel (version 2.6.21.5), now compiled with GCC 4 (version 4.1.2). Many other packages also come in their latest versions: the modular X.Org 7.2 with Xgl and Compiz support, KDE 3.5.7, Xfce 4.4.1 and, at long last, Apache 2.2 with PHP 5. As usual, there is no ISO image available for download, but interested beta testers should keep an eye on <a href="ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO-images/slackware/Current-ISO-build/">this FTP server</a> which periodically publishes unofficial ISO images built from the current tree; alternatively, you can build your own DVD image by following <a href="http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/isolinux/README.TXT">these instructions</a>. Happy testing!<br />(Source : http://distrowatch.com)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-4917155628272293687?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-10765824904051257962007-06-14T11:40:00.001-07:002007-06-17T08:11:05.952-07:00Andreas Jaeger has announced the fifth alpha release of <a href="http://distrowatch.com/suse">openSUSE</a> 10.3: "<span class="Quote">I'm glad to announce openSUSE 10.3 Alpha5. The following are some highlights of Alpha5 compared to Alpha4: Linux kernel 2.6.22-rc4; reduced size and cleaned-up dependencies of some packages; glibc 2.6; Emacs 22.1; OpenOffice.org 2.2.1rc3; lots of package renames and splits to create smaller systems and allow a one-CD installation; two one-CD installation media: a GNOME CD and a KDE CD, both contain a small desktop; if openSUSE is installed from CDs, user is offered to bring up network connection in order to be able to install a remote add-on product together with openSUSE.</span>" Here is the full <a href="http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-announce/2007-06/msg00004.html">release announcement</a>. As usual, a complete set of CD and DVD images are available for <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version">download</a> either <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#BitTorrent">via BitTorrent</a> or from these <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Mirrors_Development_Build">FTP/HTTP mirrors</a>; here are two quick links to the new single-CD installation images (<a href="http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Alpha5/iso/cd/MD5SUMS">MD5</a>): <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Alpha5/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.3-Alpha5-GNOME-i386.iso">openSUSE-10.3-Alpha5-GNOME-i386.iso</a> (698MB), <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Alpha5/iso/cd/openSUSE-10.3-Alpha5-KDE-i386.iso">openSUSE-10.3-Alpha5-KDE-i386.iso</a> (700MB).<br />(Source : http://distrowatch.com)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-1076582490405125796?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-37205864563520304632007-06-10T14:07:00.000-07:002007-06-17T08:15:49.774-07:00Martin Pitt has announced the first alpha release (also referred to as "Tribe 1") of <a href="http://distrowatch.com/ubuntu">Ubuntu</a> 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon": "<span class="Quote">Welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10. Tribe 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Gutsy development cycle. The primary changes from Feisty have been the re-merging of changes from Debian. Common to all variants, we have upgraded the kernel to 2.6.22.</span>" Read the <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-June/000301.html">release announcement</a> and visit the distribution's <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe1">testing page</a> for a detailed list of changes updates. <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors">Download</a> (<a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-1/MD5SUMS">MD5</a>): <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-1/gutsy-desktop-i386.iso">gutsy-desktop-i386.iso</a> (695MB), <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/gutsy/tribe-1/gutsy-desktop-amd64.iso">gutsy-desktop-amd64.iso</a> (699MB). Besides Ubuntu, the project has also released alpha 1 CD images for <a href="http://distrowatch.com/kubuntu">Kubuntu</a> (<a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/GutsyGibbon/Tribe1/Kubuntu">release notes</a>), <a href="http://distrowatch.com/edubuntu">Edubuntu</a> and <a href="http://distrowatch.com/xubuntu">Xubuntu</a> (see <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/Tribe1/Xubuntu">release notes</a>).<br />(Source : http://distrowatch.com)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-3720586456352030463?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3679599791096838554.post-55852938482523113572007-06-10T14:04:00.000-07:002007-06-17T08:17:19.418-07:00<a href="http://distrowatch.com/mepis">MEPIS</a> AntiX is a new, unofficial derivative of MEPIS Linux aimed at computers with as little as 128 MB or RAM. A development release, offering the choice of Fluxbox or IceWM as window managers, is now available for testing: "<span class="Quote">MEPIS has announced that the release candidate of a community built and maintained ultra-lite derivative of MEPIS has been released for public testing. AntiX is the brainchild of a MEPIS community member, who wanted a version of MEPIS that would work well on very old PC hardware. AntiX is not a lite version of SimplyMEPIS and it is not an official product of MEPIS. It is built from the MEPIS Linux core, but mostly it has a different set of default user applications: Fluxbox and IceWM window managers, AbiWord, Gnumeric, GIMP, Firefox, Sylpheed Claws....</span>" Read the full <a href="http://www.mepis.org/node/13723">release announcement</a> for further details. <a href="http://www.mepis.org/mirrors">Download</a>: <a href="ftp://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/testing/antiX_6.5.rc5_32.iso">antiX_6.5.rc5_32.iso</a> (403MB, <a href="http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/mepis/testing/antiX_6.5.rc5_32.md5sum">MD5</a>).<br />(Source : http://distrowatch.com)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3679599791096838554-5585293848252311357?l=linuxdistrorevs.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Vipul Agrawalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04724244051938012909noreply@blogger.com0