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Salix Live Xfce, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware that is simple, fast and easy to use, is now at version 13.37. Salix Live Xfce 13.37 has been for some time in development, but it was worth the wait as it will be used as a base for all other editions of Salix Live, namely KDE, LXDE and Fluxbox, at leas... |
4 February 2012
00:10 GMT |
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Tails, a live system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity and that helps you to use the Internet anonymously, is now at version 0.10.1. Tails or The Amnesic Incognito Live System has a lot of changes and users are urged to upgrade to the latest version, especially because of the new Linux kernel.Highlig... |
2 February 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Michael Tremer, developer for ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.11 Core 56, a new stable release of the popular a Linux-based firewall distribution. IPFire 2.11 Core 56 comes with a new interesting feature that can be found in the preinstalled images, which automatically scale up the partitions at the first boo... |
2 February 2012
02:51 GMT |
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Scientific Linux, a recompiled Red Hat Enterprise Linux put together by various labs and universities around the world, has reached version 6.2 RC1. Scientific Linux 6.2 RC1 comes with a small number of updates and improvements: OpenAFS was updated to 1.6.0-97.z2.sl6 and support for SL 6.2 has been added in livecd-to... |
1 February 2012
02:21 GMT |
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PelicanHPC, an iso-hybrid (CD or USB) image that lets you set up a high performance computing cluster in just a few minutes is now at version 2.7. There are only a few changes in the new version, according to the developers: Octave has been updated to version 3.6.0, dynare to version 3.4.2, and pelicanhpc.pdf is no... |
1 February 2012
02:20 GMT |
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Red Hat has just announced that it has extended the production lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years because of the overwhelming customer demand. According to Red Hat, enterprise customers have several deployment alternatives for their Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system imp... |
31 January 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Endian Firewall Community, a "turn-key" Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance with Unified Threat Management (UTM) functionality, is now at version 2.5.1. There are quite a few important changes in the new version of Endian Firewall Community, ranging from new dri... |
31 January 2012
02:06 GMT |
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Several security vulnerabilities that were discovered in the OpenJDK 6 packages by various developers, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), and Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating systems, were announced by Canonical. These are the k... |
25 January 2012
08:42 GMT |
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Ben NanoNote is a small pocket computer, that features an extremely small screen and which happens to run a Linux distribution out of the box. Ben NanoNote could be called a mini notebook. It's smaller than a soda can and can easily fit in a pocket.Besides the interesting technical details, listed below, it'... |
18 January 2012
10:43 GMT |
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m23, a free Linux distribution that installs and administrates clients with Debian, (XK)Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora and Linux Mint, is now at version 12.1. The most important improvement in m23 12.1 is the introduction of the m23 remote administration service, which will provide support for user's servers from goos... |
18 January 2012
03:24 GMT |
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Several security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel, that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation.These are the kernel vulnerabilities found recently in the Linux kernel packages: CVE-2011-2183, CVE-2011-2213, CVE-2011-2898, CVE-2011-3353, CVE-2011-4077, CVE-2011-4110, CVE-2011-4127, ... |
17 January 2012
21:09 GMT |
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Frugalware, a general purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users (who are not afraid of text mode), is now at version 1.6 RC1. Frugalware 1.6 RC1, codename Fermus, has just a few important updates and hundred of smaller fixes.It's finally made it out of the tehnical release stages and became a f... |
17 January 2012
03:17 GMT |
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ArtistX 1.2, a Ubuntu-based distribution that aims to enable artists and creators from a number of fields to work via a live and free environment, has just been released. ArtistX 1.2 has been in development for more than ten years and now it has moved from Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) to Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocel... |
16 January 2012
09:46 GMT |
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Recovery Is Possible (R.I.P.), a CD or USB boot, rescue, backup, maintenance and general purpose operating system, is now at version 13.7. R.I.P. or Recovery Is Possible has a few changes, but this time they are not as crucial as in the previous release. The most important one is the introduction of the Linux kerne... |
16 January 2012
09:13 GMT |
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DEFT Linux 7 RC1 has been announced by Stefano Fratepietro on January 13th. DEFT Linux 7 RC1 has been in the making for some time, but the developers reported that all of the problems affecting the launch of the present version had been ironed out. The distribution was tested on a lot on different configurations: ... |
16 January 2012
05:45 GMT |
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Developers of Mageia, a fork of Mandriva Linux supported by a not-for-profit organization of recognized and elected contributors, have announced the Mageia 2 Alpha 3 release. Mageia 2 Alpha 3 is a testing release for finding bugs, to look out for important missing packages, and most importantly a development platform... |
13 January 2012
02:40 GMT |
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The Webconverger project, an evolution of the hybrid client for deployments in places like offices or Internet cafes where only web applications are used, is now at version 11. Webconverger 11 comes with some necessary updates, and a logo and site design made by Patric Schwarz.The most important change in Webconverge... |
12 January 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Zorin OS Lite, an Ubuntu-based operating system aimed at Windows users that are switching over to Linux, has now reached version 5.2. Zorin OS Lite 5.2 is built on the Linux architecture so it is completely open source and it's based on Ubuntu, one of the most used Linux operating system in the world.Zorin OS Li... |
11 January 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, an enterprise Linux platform suited for a range of applications across the IT infrastructure, just received an important security update.According to the Red Hat developers, the multi-threaded BIND daemon uses the atomic operations feature to speed-up an access to shared data. This featu... |
10 January 2012
10:33 GMT |
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Asturix, an light and inovative Asturian GNU/Linux distribution based on Ubuntu directed to any kind of user, is now at version 4. The new Asturix 4 has a few interesting features. Foremost, it presents itself with a new desktop, centered on productivity and usability and has the largest color palette, with more than... |
10 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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Recovery Is Possible (R.I.P.), a CD or USB boot, rescue, backup, maintenance and general purpose operating system, is now at version 13.6. R.I.P. or Recovery is Possible has quite a few changes in the the new version. The most important one is the 32-bit version of Linux kernel 3.2.Other updates packages include Fire... |
10 January 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Porteus, a portable Linux operating system which can be installed on a portable USB device, CDROM, SD card or hard drive, and based on the Linux Live Scripts, has just reached version 1.1. Porteus 1.1 has been released for 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and has quite a few changes compared to the previous Release Ca... |
9 January 2012
06:15 GMT |
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Tiny Core Linux, a small, minimal Linux distribution based on Linux kernel 3.0, Busybox, Tiny X, and Flt, has reached version 4.2.1. The developers have stated that Tiny Core Linux has become an example of what the Core project can produce.The 4.2 series introduces CorePlus as a simple way to get started using the Co... |
9 January 2012
06:00 GMT |
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Michael Tremer, developer for ipfire.org team, has announced IPFire 2.11 Core 55, a new stable release of the popular a Linux-based firewall distribution. IPFire 2.11 Core 55 was released immediately after the Core update 54, which brings some changes to network hardware, providing more speed and reliability. Also, t... |
9 January 2012
05:55 GMT |
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Softpedia is proud to introduce LibreCAD 1.0, a new and free open source personal CAD application designed to run on multiple platforms, such as Linux, Mac OS and Windows. Initially named CADuntu, it rapidly changed its name to LibreCAD, the first one being based on QCad CE, which in turn was based on the Qt3 library... |
6 January 2012
09:20 GMT |
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Tails, a live system that aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity and that helps you to use the Internet anonymously, is now at version 0.10. Tails or The Amnesic Incognito Live System benefits from a lot of important updates and users are urged to upgrade to the latest version.Highlights of Tails 0.10:·... |
6 January 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Canonical updated the AFPL Ghostscript packages, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF, for the Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS OSes. It was discovered that Ghostscript did not correctly handle memory allocation when parsing certain malformed JPEG-2000 images, did not correctly ha... |
4 January 2012
10:58 GMT |
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The Salix OS Team has announced yesterday, January 2nd, that a second Released Candidate of the upcoming Salix OS Xfce Live 13.37 distro is now available for download. The development team hopes this will be the last Release Candidate for Salix OS Xfce Live 13.37, before the final version.A lot of fixes were imp... |
3 January 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Netrunner, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Kubuntu, featuring KDE as the default desktop and integrating many GNOME/GTK+ programs to make it Ubuntu compatible, is now at version 4.0. It's not clear what Linux kernel the new Netrunner 4.0 is using, but we're guessing is still 2.6.35-25. There isn't ma... |
29 December 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Superb Mini Server, a Linux operating system based on Slackware 13.37 and manageable through Webmin web-based interface, is now at version 1.6.3. Superb Mini Server 1.6.3 comes with a ton of new features, changes and upgrades. The most important one is of course the new Linux kernel, version 2.6.39.4.A number of new ... |
27 December 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Semplice Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian's Sid unstable branch with the goal to provide a simple, lightweight, fast and cool environment, has made it to version 2.0.0. The Semplice Project announced the release of Semplice 2.0.0, codenamed Emily, after just one Release Candidate, which would make... |
27 December 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Grml, a bootable live system (Live-CD) based on Debian which includes a collection of GNU/Linux apps designed for system administrators, is now at version 2011.12. After only a couple of weeks from the last release candidate, the developers of the Grml Linux distribution have launched a stable version, 2011.12.... |
27 December 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Peter Baldwin from the ClearFoundation has announced that ClearOS Enterprise 6.2 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. ClearOS Enterprise 6.2 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, unlike the previous version which was developed on CentOS 5.x.The final version of the ClearOS Enterprise 6.2 Linux distri... |
23 December 2011
05:45 GMT |
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PUIAS Linux 6.2, codenamed Pisa, is a custom Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution that has just been announced by Thomas Uphil. Little is known about PUIAS Linux 6.2. The developer, Thomas Uphil, mentioned just the fact that the distro has been updated and that users who already have it installed should be able to u... |
21 December 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Linpus Lite Desktop Edition 1.6, a commercial Fedora-based distribution developed by Linpus Technologies, has been announced today, December 20th. Linpus Lite Desktop Edition 1.6 is based on GNOME 3 and it just received a large number of improvements such as a modified application dock that can be accessed from anywh... |
20 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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The Webconverger project, an evolution of the hybrid client for deployments in places like offices or Internet cafes where only web applications are used, is now at version 10.2. Webconverger 10.2 comes with some necessary updates, but also with a complete site redesign made by Patric Schwarz.The main change in the W... |
20 December 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Frugalware, a general purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users (who are not afraid of text mode), is now at version 1.6 Pre2. Frugalware 1.6 Pre2, codename Fermus, brings a lot of improvements. It's the second technical release that is aimed toward a stable 1.6 version.The most important chang... |
19 December 2011
10:30 GMT |
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Ubuntu Cloud Live, a distribution of Ubuntu that's packing all the necessary tools to deploy your own, private, secret and Live cloud environment, is available from Canonical. Ubuntu Cloud 11.10 Live distribution has been launched by Canonical with little to now fanfare. They usually make a big deal of new Linux... |
16 December 2011
10:12 GMT |
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Ubuntu One, a cloud service operated and administered by Canonical, the makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, can now be used to stream music. Users can now listen to any song, either they are on a mobile environment or just in the web browser of their desktop PC. Canonical managed to push this update before the h... |
16 December 2011
09:22 GMT |
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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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