14 DAY TRIAL // Welcome to the 132nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: DEFT Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and Parted Magic 5.9. In other news: The PC-BSD development team has released the PC-BSD 8.2 RC1 operating system to testers; the final version of Amarok 2.4.0 has been released and adds transcoding and MusicBrainz support; the highly anticipated XFCE 4.8.0 desktop environment has been finally released after many years of development. For this week we've also prepared a nice tutorial about how to install the LibreOffice office suite in Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04. The weekly ends with the video clip of the week, the new/updated Linux distributions, and the development releases.
Summary:
On January 11th, Stefano Fratepietro proudly announced the release of DEFT Linux 6. The latest update to the forensic and recovery Linux distribution comes with a new kernel and a plethora of updates including to the main software lineup, Sleuthkit, Autopsy, Dhash and so on. But DEFT Linux 6 also comes with some more exiting new features. One of the biggest is the inclusion of Windows computer forensic tools which run in DEFT 6 using Wine.
Highlights of DEFT Linux 6:
· Linux kernel 2.6.35; · Sleuthkit 3.2.0; · Autopsy 2.24; · Xplico 0.6.1; · Dhash 2.0.1; · Guymager 0.5.7; · FTK Imager 3; · Digital Forensic Framework 0.9; · Xmount 0.4.4 now included; · Mount_ewf utility now included; · ISO MD5 file check now fixed.
Download DEFT Linux 6 now from Softpedia.
On January 12th, Patrick Verner announced the immediate availability for download of Parted Magic 5.9, a Linux distribution for partitioning tasks. The new release is just a maintenance version that updates two programs and fixes various booting issues.
Highlights of Parted Magic 5.9:
· Linux kernel 2.6.36.2; · Super Grub Disk 0.9799; · Super Grub Disk 2 1.98s1; · Clonezilla 1.2.6-40; · Plop boot manager (plpbt) 5.0.11; · Psensor 0.4.4; · BusyBox 1.17.4; · Nwipe 0.03; · SimpleBurn 1.6.0; · Syslinux 4.03; · ClamAV 0.96.5; · e2fsprogs 1.41.14; · Gparted 0.7.1.
Download Parted Magic 5.9 now from Softpedia.
On January 13th, Red Hat announced the latest update to the long running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 operating system. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 comes with plenty of updates including a brand new Linux kernel build as well as new versions of many of the main packages.
The latest RHEL release comes with enhanced driver support. Several drivers, for network adapters, RAID controllers and other drivers are included and supported from the installer. RHEL 5.6 comes with several updates in the virtualization department as well. Libvirt has been upgraded to version 0.8.2.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 ISO images can be downloaded by all existing RHEL subscribers via the Red Hat Networks service.
· On January 10th, the PC-BSD team has prepared another testing release of the upcoming PC-BSD 8.2 operating system, now based on FreeBSD 8.2 RC1. PC-BSD 8.2 RC1 features KDE Software Compilation 4.5.4, X.Org 7.5, Firefox 3.6.13, Pidgin 2.7.7, various improvements, lots of updated packages and a couple of bug fixes. Read more about it here.
· On January 15th, Amarok 2.4.0 has finally landed, after many months of development. It's been close to a year from the previous major Amarok release and there are plenty of things to like in the fresh Amarok 2.4.0 "Slipstream." Along with the expected performance improvements and bug fixes, new features like transcoding support, a brand new collection scanner, support for the iPod Touch 3G, MusicBrainz tag correction and other features should make Amarok users quite pleased. Read more about it here.
· XFCE fills a particular niche for Linux users, a lightweight desktop environment built entirely on GTK2. It's been two years from the last major release, but XFCE 4.8 has been finally released, on January 16th, to the delight of fans everywhere. The latest version brings quite a few new features, both user facing as well as under the hood, things like better remote shares support, a brand new panel app, a new file operations dialog and many others. Read more about it here.
Tutorial of the Week: How to Install LibreOffice in Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04
· The following tutorial will teach every Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS user how to install the new LibreOffice open source office suite and replace the old OpenOffice.org office suite from Oracle.
The LibreOffice package are available for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) users. To remove OpenOffice.org from your system and install LibreOffice, follow the next step-by-step (with screenshots) tutorial.
Read the entire tutorial here.
Video Clip of the Week: New features in Amarok 2.4 Beta 1
· For this week we've posted a 720p high-definition video clip to introduce some of the new features in latest Amarok 2.4 music player. The video has 3 minutes and 1 second, and it was posted by skf1n. Enjoy!
Distributions Updated Last Week:
· UTUTO XS Vivo! 2010 · Xfld 0.3 · Bubuntu 8.04 Beta · PelicanHPC 2.3 · MeeGo 1.1.2 · ExTiX 7.0 · Clonezilla LiveCD 1.2.6-59 · REMnux 2.0 · 4MLinux 2.0 · IPFire 2.9 Core 44 · Fedora Games Spin 14 · Comal-Linux 1231a · JayOS 20100601
· Chakra GNU/Linux 0.4 Alpha 3 · Pardus Linux Corporate 2 RC · Chrome OS 1.0.628 RC · VectorLinux 7.0 Alpha 4.9 · Debian Live Unstable 6.0 RC1 · Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 RC1 · Scientific Linux 6 Alpha 5 · Foresight Linux 2.5.0 Alpha 1
See you again on January 24th for another issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly.