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While Fedora fan enjoy the newly released Fedora 16 operating system, the developers are working hard on the next release, Fedora 17, due for release sometime in Summer 2012.Fedora 17 will be dubbed Beefy Miracle and will have an Alpha version scheduled for release at the end of February and a Beta release sometime i... |
13 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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Several security updates for Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS have been released by Canonical. The first fix relates to Dovecot which could have been made to expose sensitive information over the network because it incorrectly validated certificate hostnames when being used as a IM... |
9 December 2011
10:40 GMT |
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TurnKey Core Live CD, the common base system on top of which all TurnKey Linux appliances are built, has now reached version 11.3. The updated version of this Linux distribution includes fixes for various bruises and scrapes, as well as the very latest security updates.Users who already have a previous version ... |
6 December 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Fusion 16 Beta has been announced by Valent Turkovic, a developer that also put together Fusion Linux 14, a distribution which is essentially a Fedora Remix.Fusion Linux is an installable Live DVD ISO image that includes multimedia functionality out of the box, with added desktop tweaks for usability and additio... |
6 December 2011
04:35 GMT |
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The Debian project proudly announced that two security updates have been released in the last couple of days. Juts like the developers assert, they take security very seriously and they handle all the issues brought to their attention to ensure they're corrected within a reasonable timeframe.Leo Iannacone and Co... |
1 December 2011
12:31 GMT |
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CentOS 5.7, a free Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux that is used on almost 30% of web servers, received 10 important updates.Any updates made in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) translate into CentOS. There are 10 updates in total, split for two architectures (32-bit and 64-bit). The entire l... |
1 December 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment), an easy to use open source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines, is now at version 2.0 Beta 3. Another update from Proxmox VE has been announced, only one day after the previous Beta version. Users who run the Beta 2 release don't need to d... |
30 November 2011
10:15 GMT |
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VectorLinux 7.0 was officially announced two days ago, on November 27th, and it is distributed as a Live CD image and Installable only CD.VectorLinux 7.0 brings an updated and lightweight Xfce 4.8 desktop environment, with the Thunar file manager supporting SMB, FTP and SFTP protocols.VectorLinux 7.0 is powered by Li... |
29 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Proxmox VE (Virtual Environment), an easy to use open source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines, has just reached version 2.0 Beta 2. Users who run the previous Beta release don't need to download the entire distribution all over again. Just hit the following commands in ... |
29 November 2011
09:10 GMT |
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CentOS 5.7, a free Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and used on many web servers, has received a sleuth of updates. Any updates made in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) translate into CentOS. There are 11 updates in total, split for two architectures (32-bit and 64-bit). The entire list of update... |
29 November 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Steven Shiau proudly announced a new stable release of his popular Clonezilla Live operating system, used for cloning hard disk drives.Clonezilla Live 1.2.11-23 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and includes major improvements and various bugfixes.Clonezilla Live 1.2.11-23 is powered by Linux kern... |
29 November 2011
03:03 GMT |
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SME Server, a simple, powerful and secure Linux server for networking and communications for small and medium enterprises, is now at version 8.0 Beta 7. SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 is based on CentOS 5.7 and according to the developers SME Server 8 will be the next major release in the series. This is the last planned Beta... |
28 November 2011
05:55 GMT |
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The Debian project proudly announced that several security updates have been released in the last few days. Juts like the developers assert, they take security very seriously and they handle all the issues brought to their attention to ensure they're corrected within a reasonable timeframe.Most recent probl... |
25 November 2011
10:09 GMT |
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Developers from the Joomla Project have announced that their software, Joomla, is now at version 1.7.3, and it's considered to be a security release.Joomla a content management system (CMS), which keeps track of every piece of content on a website, much like the local public library keeps track of books and stor... |
15 November 2011
05:25 GMT |
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BitRock InstallBuilder, a tool to build easy-to-use installers for Linux that will run on virtually any distribution, has reached version 8.0.InstallBuilder generates installers for all target platforms from a single project file. You can create all your installers from a single build environment. Highlights of BitRo... |
14 November 2011
11:01 GMT |
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The Pinguy development team has just announced that Pinguy OS 11.10 Beta is now available for download. The developers said that Pinguy OS 11.10 Beta could have been a final version if not for some problems with apps that are still in the Alpha / Beta stage and there are a few quirks like the property drivers messing... |
14 November 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Astaro Product Manager, Angelo Comazzetto, has announced that Astaro Security Gateway has entered the public Beta stage for the upcoming 8.300 version.According to the developers, during the next few weeks, users will be able to test the release and try out the new features that version 8.300 of Astaro Security Gatew... |
14 November 2011
03:50 GMT |
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SlimPup, a puplet of Puppy Linux, designed to be very slim, clean, minimalistic, lightweight, and have a look like Crunchbang, is now at version 3.4. There are not many changes since SlimPuP 3.3, but they are somewhat important and have to be mentioned. First things first, Blender has been added. This is a a full fun... |
7 November 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Michael Tremer, developer for ipfire.org team, has just announced IPFire 2.11, a new stable release of the popular a Linux-based firewall distribution. The first IPFire in the 2.x series was released four years ago and each version since then came with substantial changes and lots of new features.The biggest new feat... |
3 November 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Scientific Linux, a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux put together by various labs and universities around the world, has just reached version 5.7. Scientific Linux 5.7 comes with some new apps and a few improvements. Most importantly, the distribution is now powered by Linux kernel 2.6.18. Not much of an improveme... |
3 November 2011
11:15 GMT |
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Pinguy OS 11.10 Pre-Alpha, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 11.10, was just announced by the Pinguy development team.Being a pre-alpha version, users need to know that a lot of applications have not been included and some that are installed might even get removed in the next releases.Pinguy OS 11.10 Pre-Alpha is ... |
3 November 2011
10:00 GMT |
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AV Linux, a custom shop modded and rodded Linux based Operating System built from a hand-picked selection of available tools including Debian/GNU Linux, the LXDE Desktop Environment and Remastersys, has just reached version 5.0.2. AV Linux 5.0.2 brings Linux kernel 3.0.6, has a few bugfixes, updated applications and ... |
2 November 2011
11:00 GMT |
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The Alpine Team announced that Alpine Linux 2.3.0, a community-developed operating system designed for x86 Routers, Firewalls, VPNs, VoIP and servers, is now available.Alpine Linux 2.3.0 brings a lot of new features. The most important one is the use of a new Linux kernel, from the 3.0 series.It's also based on ... |
2 November 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Willensky Aristide proudly announced last night, November 1st, the immediate availability for download or upgrade of the ArchBang 2011.11 operating system. ArchBang 2011.11 is a Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux, but with the lightweight Openbox window manager. The new version brings various features, new a... |
2 November 2011
07:11 GMT |
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Wine is a miraculous software that aims to provide Linux users the “luxury” of running Windows software. There are other ways to run this type of software, like in a virtual machine, but doing so requires a powerful computer and a genuine Windows copy. The work that goes into Wine to make Windows develope... |
31 October 2011
09:30 GMT |
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The global economic crisis is forcing government all over the world to reduce spendings. The Ministry of Education and Science from Portugal has advised the school boards from around the country that 50.000 computers, distributed from 2004 to 2007, will not get their Windows licenses renewed. Instead, schools will ha... |
31 October 2011
09:10 GMT |
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The Debian project proudly announced a couple of days ago, October 8th, the third maintenance release of the stable Debian 6.0 operating system.Debian 6.0.3 brings fixes to various security issues, as well as improvements to some serious problems. Some of the packages included in the previous versions of the distribu... |
10 October 2011
10:05 GMT |
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Alan Baghumian proudly announced on October 9th, the immediate availability for download of the Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7r1 operating system.Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7r1 is the first maintenance update to Parsix 3.7 series, bringing a lot of new features and improvements, and of course many updated packages.Dubbed Raul, Parsix ... |
10 October 2011
06:00 GMT |
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George Vlahavas from the Salix OS development team, proudly announced on October 4th that the a new edition of the Salix OS operating system is now available for download, featuring the Ratpoison window manager.The Salix OS 13.37 Ratpoison distribution was created for console/terminal fans that like to use only their... |
5 October 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Steven Shiau proudly announced the final and stable release of its popular Clonezilla Live operating system, used for cloning hard disk drives.Clonezilla Live 1.2.10-14 is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and includes major improvements and various bugfixes, see the official changelog for details.Th... |
28 September 2011
08:53 GMT |
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After many years of development, the GeeXboX team proudly announced a couple of days ago, September 17th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable release of GeeXboX 2.0, the perfect MediaCenter distribution for HTPCs. GeeXboX 2.0 is now available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures (see ... |
19 September 2011
13:01 GMT |
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Ubuntu 11.04, dubbed Natty Narwhal, is one of the most controversial distributions to be launched in recent years, but not in regard to other operating systems. It's hard to anticipate how it will fare, however it's safe to say is one of the biggest leaps, in terms of accessibility, any developer has taken ... |
1 June 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Barry Kauler, the father of Puppy Linux, has just announced today, May 25th, the immediate availability for download of the Puppy Linux 5.1.2 Wary operating system, an edition of Puppy Linux intended for antique machines. The new Puppy Linux Wary 5.1.2 distribution focuses on supporting older hardware components. It... |
25 May 2011
10:14 GMT |
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François Dupoux has announced today, April 6th, that SystemRescueCd Linux distribution has now reached version 2.1.0.SystemRescueCd 2.1.0 now uses the new 2.6.35.12 Linux kernel (long-term kernel: rescuecd + rescue64), but an alternative Linux kernel, 2.6.38.2 (the most recent one), is also available.The Syste... |
7 April 2011
07:44 GMT |
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Alan Baghumian has announced on April 2nd, the immediate availability for download of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6r2. It's the second update to Parsix in the 3.6 series, bringing a lot of new features and technical fixes and of course the latest stable packages in GNOME environment.Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6r2 aka Vinnie is t... |
4 April 2011
04:49 GMT |
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Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.4 has been announced by Phil Miller, on November 23rd, and it features the new KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5 environment. This will be the last point-release of Jaz, the Live CD which uses the stable repositories.Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.4 now features the new Linux kernel 2.6.33.7-2 with LZMA suppo... |
26 November 2010
06:57 GMT |
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Barry Kauler proudly announced last night (September 22nd) the immediate availability for download of the Quirky 1.3 lightweight operating system.The new Quirky 1.3 release comes with a new Linux kernel, lots of updated packages, a new wallpaper created by "stu90," and some important bugfixes."This is built from the ... |
23 September 2010
07:00 GMT |
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A reputed security expert named Lenny Zeltser, who specializes in reverse-engineering malicious software has put together a special Linux distribution tailored to the specific needs of malware researchers. Called REMnux, the distro contains a wide variety of tools for analyzing malicious traffic and inspecting variou... |
12 July 2010
07:00 GMT |
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The second release candidate of the upcoming openSUSE 11.3 operating system was announced on July 1st by Bryen Yunashko. This is also the last development release, and every openSUSE user should get it and test it, in order to report existing bugs (if any). Just like the first RC, openSUSE 11.3 RC2 comes with a very ... |
2 July 2010
05:07 GMT |
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The Sabayon Linux team announced on June 17th the immediate availability of two new editions of their popular Sabayon Linux operating system. SpinBase and CoreCDX editions are designed for Linux experts and advanced users that want to set up a home server or create their very own operating system, based on Sabayon. T... |
18 June 2010
06:23 GMT |
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The Zenwalk developers released a few minutes ago the highly anticipated GNOME edition of the recently announced Zenwalk 6.4 Linux distribution. Being powered by Linux kernel 2.6.33.4 and the (rather old) GNOME 2.28.2 desktop environment, Zenwalk 6.4 GNOME includes some new features. For example, the Totem media play... |
11 June 2010
06:05 GMT |
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The Pardus development team released a few minutes ago the new Pardus 2009.2 Linux-based operating system. Powered by the Linux kernel 2.6.31.13 and built on top of the newly released KDE Software Compilation 4.4.4 environment, Pardus 2009.2 (codename Geronticus eremita) comes with an amazing installer and bleeding-e... |
4 June 2010
09:00 GMT |
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Yesterday evening, May 18th, Patrick Volkerding announced the second release candidate of the upcoming Slackware 13.1 operating system. Powered by a Linux kernel 2.6.33.4, Slackware 13.1 RC2 comes with the newly released Pidgin 2.7.0 instant messenger and many other fixes. Without further ado, let's take a close... |
19 May 2010
06:37 GMT |
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None other than Clement Lefebvre announced a few minutes ago the next major version of the Linux Mint operating system. Dubbed Isadora, Linux Mint 9 is available right now for download (see link at the end of the article), it's distributed for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, as a Live CD or a Live DVD (wit... |
18 May 2010
08:11 GMT |
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The third development release of the upcoming openSUSE Linux distribution, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3, is out. The biggest update in this release is the move to GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, but there are plenty of bug fixes and other updates as well. Most major packages haven't been updated since Milestone 2,... |
16 March 2010
07:51 GMT |
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After the announcements of KDE, KDE64 and Fluxbox editions of the current Linux Mint 8 (Helena) operating system, Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint community are once again proud to present today the first release candidate of the upcoming Linux Mint 8 LXDE Community Edition. Being powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31, t... |
16 March 2010
04:45 GMT |
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The third and final alpha of the latest Mandriva Linux, Mandriva Linux 2010.1 "Spring" Alpha 3, has been released and is now available for download and testing. Those wanting to see what the Mandriva team has cooked up for this release will be a bit disappointed, as Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 3 doesn't come wit... |
15 March 2010
05:20 GMT |
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The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha is here, the first step towards the final release due in May. The Linux distro comes with a lot of new features and updates catering to all user groups, regular users, developers and system administrators. Ease of use was a main focus and Fedora 13 comes with automatic printer drivers an... |
9 March 2010
11:03 GMT |
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The SME Server development team has released not one but two testing versions of upcoming releases, SME Server 7.5 RC1 and SME Server 8.0 Beta 5. The release candidate version, SME Server 7.5 RC1, is mostly a bug-fixing build, while SME Server 8.0 Beta 5 also comes with a couple of bigger changes. "The SME Server d... |
9 March 2010
11:01 GMT |
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The Frugalware development team has announced the release of Frugalware 1.2, the 12th stable release of the Linux distribution. Frugalware 1.2 comes with only a number of bug fixes from the second release candidate, but there are some pretty big changes from the previous stable release, Frugalware 1.1. The biggest up... |
8 March 2010
17:01 GMT |
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