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NetBSD 5.1.2 Available for Download

NetBSD, a free, fast, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source OS available for a wide range of platforms, from large-scale servers and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices, is now at version 5.1.2. NetBSD 5.1.2 comes with a lot of changes, but most of them are fixes regarding OpenSSL, BIND, Ker...

11 February 2012
04:36 GMT

Thinstation 5.0 Has Linux Kernel 3.2

Thinstation, a basic and small Open Source "thin client" operating system supporting all major connectivity protocols, is now at version 5.0. Thinstation 5.0, the successor of Thinstation 2.2.2, spent almost an year in development. It should have been version 2.5, but the developers wanted to depart from the 2.x s...

11 February 2012
04:15 GMT

AV Linux 5.0.3 Available for Download

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 5.0.3. AV Linux 5.0.3 comes with a new Linux kernel, 3.0.16 (USB duplex fix), and will be th...

10 February 2012
10:31 GMT

Debian 5.0 Reaches End of Life

Developers from the Debian Team have announced that support for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 has been terminated on February 6. If users haven't yet switched the Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, this is a good time to do so. Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny “ was launched three years ago and two years after ...

10 February 2012
10:06 GMT

Semplice Linux 3.0 Alpha 1 Officialy Announced

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 3.0 Alpha 1. Semplice Linux 3.0 Alpha 1 is the first development release in the 3.x branch and is based on Debian Sid, as of February 6t...

9 February 2012
03:55 GMT

Webconverger 11.2 Has Firefox 10

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 11.2. The previous version of Webconverger, 11, has managed to become a popular release, so the developers have decided to expand it a little and...

8 February 2012
07:45 GMT

Devil-Linux 1.6.0 RC2 Has Linux Kernel 3.2.4

Devil-Linux, a distribution created by IT administrators for IT administrators which is primarily used as a router/firewall, is now at version 1.6.0 RC2. The most important change in Devil-Linux 1.6.0 RC2 is the introduction of a new Linux kernel, version 3.2.4, an update from the previous RC version, which had Linux...

8 February 2012
03:14 GMT

Tiny Core Linux 4.3 RC2 Officially Announced

Tiny Core Linux, a small, minimal Linux distribution based on Linux kernel 3.0, Busybox, Tiny X, and Flt, has reached version 4.3 RC2. The developers have stated that Tiny Core Linux has become an example of what the Core project can produce. The most important change in 4.3 RC2 is the introduction of self contained ...

7 February 2012
10:05 GMT

Snowlinux 2 RC Has Linux Kernel 2.6.32

Snowlinux 2 RC codenamed Ice, a Linux distribution based upon the stable and latest Debian 6 Squeeze distro with a LTS Linux kernel 2.6.32, Chromium browser, Icedove, Banshee and Shotwell, has been announced and it's available for download. Snowlinux 2 RC has a lot of new features and most of them are quite impo...

7 February 2012
00:25 GMT

Skolelinux 6.0.4 Beta 3 Available for Download

Skolelinux, a Linux distribution based on Debian, providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network, is now at version 6.0.4 Beta 3. Petter Reinholdtsen, one of the developers of Debian Edu aka Skolelinux, has recommended that users reinstall the operating system in order to get all t...

5 February 2012
04:30 GMT

Netrunner 4.1 Has Linux Kernel 3.0.0.15

Netrunner, a GNU/Linux distribution based on Kubuntu, featuring KDE as the default desktop environment, and integrating many GNOME/GTK+ programs to make it Ubuntu compatible, is now at version 4.1. Everyone is switching now to hybrid ISOs and this is one of the biggest change in Netrunner 4.1.Besides the Hybrid ISO...

5 February 2012
03:43 GMT

Salix Live Xfce 13.37 Available for Download

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

Tails 0.10.1 Has Linux Kernel 3.2.1-2

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

IPFire 2.11 Core 56 Officially Released

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

Scientific Linux 6.2 RC1 Available for Download

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

PelicanHPC 2.7 Has Octave 3.6.0

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

Red Hat Extends Lifecycle for RHEL 5 and 6

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

Endian Firewall Community 2.5.1 Has New Drivers

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

OpenJDK 6 Vulnerabilities Fixed for Ubuntu OSes

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

NanoNote Mini PC Runs Debian 6.0

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

m23 12.1 Has Remote Administration

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

Ten Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Patched for Debian 6.0

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

Frugalware 1.6 RC1 Has Firefox 9.0.1

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

ArtistX 1.2 Is Available for Download

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

R.I.P 13.7 Comes with Linux Kernel 3.2.1

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

DEFT Linux 7 RC1 Is Based on Linux Kernel 3.0

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

Mageia 2 Alpha 3 Has Linux Kernel 3.2

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

Webconverger 11 Features Firefox 9

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

Zorin OS Lite 5.2 Is Based on Lubuntu 11.04

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

RHEL 6.x Updates BIND Daemon

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

Asturix 4 Officially Announced

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

R.I.P. 13.6 Has Linux Kernel 3.2.0

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

Porteus 1.1 Has New Package Manager

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

Tiny Core Linux 4.2.1 Updates CorePlus

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

IPFire 2.11 Core 55 Fixes OpenSSL Security Issues

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

Introducing LibreCAD: Free 2D CAD Application

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

Tails 0.10 Has Linux Kernel 3.1.6

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

Ubuntu Gets Ghostscript Security Update

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

Salix Live Xfce 13.37 RC2 Fixes Persistence Options

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

Netrunner 4.0 Officially Released

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

Superb Mini Server 1.6.3 Has KDE SC

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

Semplice Linux 2.0.0 Officially Announced

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

Grml 2011.12 Has Linux Kernel 3.1.6

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

ClearOS Enterprise 6.2 Beta 2 is Based on RHEL 6.2

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

PUIAS Linux 6.2 Based on RHEL 6.2

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

Linpus Lite Desktop Edition 1.6 Has New Dock

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

Webconverger 10.2 Brings Flash Update

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

Frugalware 1.6 Pre2 Has Linux Kernel 3.1

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

Ubuntu Cloud 11.10 Live Available Now

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

Ubuntu One Releases Web Music Streaming

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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