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Bluewhite64 12.0-LiveDVD-r1 Hits the Web

A maintenance release with a lot of new features!

Feb 5, 2008 10:06 GMT  ·  By
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Atilla Craciun, lead developer of Bluewhite 64, announced yesterday the availability of the Bluewhite64 12.0-Live-DVD-r1 edition. This is a maintenance release for the Bluewhite64 12.0 stable LiveDVD version.

A large number of packages have been updated and new features made their way into this release. The latest stable version of the Linux kernel - 2.6.24 - is now included. KDE 3.5.8 with support for 65 different languages, Mplayer 1.0rc2, ALICE (Advanced Linux Installation and Configuration Environment) with six GUI managers - diskmanager, netmanager, pkgmanager, servmanager, timemanager, xorgmanager - are only a few of the new features in the 12.0 Live DVD r1 release. The only package removed was kplayer.

Here are some of the new additions:

￭ human blue 0.3 window decorations ￭ Wallpapers for KDE4 ￭ hwinfo 13.57 ￭ slapt-get 0.9.12c ￭ parted 1.8.7 ￭ full KDE internationalization (KDEi 3.5.8)

And the updates are:

￭ kernel version 2.6.24 ￭ KDE version 3.5.8 ￭ cairo version 1.4.12 ￭ cdrdao version 1.2.2 ￭ compiz version 0.6.2 ￭ (patched) Cups-1.2.11 ￭ emerald version 0.5.2 ￭ emerald-themes version 0.5.2 ￭ fuse version 2.7.2 ￭ GIMP version 2.2.17 ￭ glibc-zoneinfo-2.5-noarch-3 to glibc-zoneinfo-2.5-noarch-6 ￭ gnupg2 version 2.0.6 ￭ ia32-lib32 version 0.2.3 ￭ jre version 6u2 ￭ k3b version 1.0.4 ￭ kima version 0.7.4 ￭ ktorrent version 2.2.4 ￭ libassuan version 1.0.2 ￭ libgpod version 0.5.2 ￭ libksba version 1.0.2 ￭ libpng version 1.2.23 ￭ libwnck version 2.18.3 ￭ mkinitrd version 1.1.2-x86_64-7 ￭ mozilla-firefox version 2.0.0.11 ￭ mozilla-thunderbird version 2.0.0.9 ￭ mysql version 5.0.51 ￭ netwatch version 1.0c ￭ nuvos version 0.7.1 ￭ OpenOffice version 2.3 ￭ openssh version 4.7p1 ￭ php version 5.2.5 ￭ Pidgin version 2.2.1 ￭ pygobject version 2.14.0 ￭ pygtk version 2.12.0 ￭ pyrex version 0.9.6.1 ￭ (patched) qt-3.3.8 ￭ (patched) rsync 2.6.9 ￭ samba version 3.0.28 ￭ seamonkey version 1.1.7 ￭ sqlite version 3.5.3 ￭ tcpdump version 3.9.7

When you start using the LiveDVD, keep in mind that there's no password set for "root" and "bluewhite64" users. You just have to hit 'enter' whenever you're asked for a password. To try Bluewhite64 12.0-LiveDVD-r1, download it right now from Softpedia!