Annunciato il rilascio della terza beta di Mandriva Linux

Among the highlights of this release, the following items are present:

• from now on, the image contains non-free software for improved desktop experience, such as dkms drivers and non-free firmware for improved out-of-the-box functionality of peripheral devices
• new UI theme for widgets, KDM and KDE environment, developed by ROSA Labs, is provided by default
• new features in system panel (rosapanel), stack folders and system start menu (SimpleWelcome, also known as ROSA Starter),
• new TimeFrame feature, powered by nepomuk technology, which provides semantic desktop capabilities to the initial menu, allowing you to easily browse your files by date
• new dolphin file browsing interface
• a mass-rebuilding procedure was carried out to improve the system stability for supported packages
• and, of course, lots of bugfixes and package updates

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Annunciato il rilascio della prima milestone di OpenSuse 12.1

With over 800 updates, including minor and major updates, the current milestone is ready for some serious testing. This iteration already sees some major upgrades taking place, with the kernel moving on to 2.6.39 and GNOME to 3.0. In addition we have popular GNOME applications like Evolution, Eye of GNOME and others all synchronized, and KDE’s Plasma Desktop coming along nicely with a minor version upgrade to 4.6.3. You will also find upgrades to GCC, glibc, Perl, Python, and the RPM package manager.

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Rilasciata la versione finale di Fedora 15.

A universe of new features for end users: GNOME 3 desktop environment, Btrfs filesystem, Indic typing booster, Better crash reporting, Redesigned SELinux troubleshooter, Higher compression in live images, Better power management, LibreOffice productivity suite, Firefox 4 web browser, KDE plasma workspaces 4.6 and Xfce 4.8 desktop environments.

Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina, download a partire da questa pagina.

Rilasciata la prima beta di Mandriva linux 2011

despite being some days late due to unexpected problems, Mandriva 2011 beta1 should be available on your favorite mirrors soon. Among lots of package updates, it features KDE 4.6.1, visual theme updates, systemd 20, networkmanager 0.8.3.997, firefox 4.0.0rc1, bash 4.2, chromium browser versions which match google chrome, and TexLive 2011 integrated and used instead of tetex by default.

Besides packages updates, it also features plasma-applet-stackfolder application, developed by ROSA Labs, which will make part of new Mandriva 2011 UI.

Download a partire dai mirror indicati a questa pagina.

Annunciato il rilasciato Scientific Linux 6.0 "Live" edition

Scientific Linux 6.0 LiveCD/DVDs are officially released.
They are available for 32-bit and 64-bit and come with following window managers
LiveMiniCD icewm LiveCD
gnome, icewm LiveDVD
gnome, kde, icewm
Software was added from rpmforge, epel and elrepo (see EXTRA SOFTWARE) to include additional filesystem support (ntfs, reiserfs), more secure network connection (openvpn, vpnc, pptp), and several rescue and filesystem tools (testdisk, dd_rescue, ddrescue, gparted).

Download da questi indirizzi

http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/60/i386
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/60/x86_64
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso

Annunciato il rilascio del LiveDVD di Gentoo Linux 11.0

The LiveDVD features a superb list of packages, some of which are listed below.

• System packages include: Linux Kernel 2.6.37 (with Gentoo patches), Accessibility Support with Speakup 3.1.6, bash 4.1, glibc 2.12.2, gcc 4.5.2, binutils 2.21, python 2.7.1 and 3.1.3, perl 5.12.3, and more.
• Desktop environments and window managers include: KDE SC 4.6, GNOME 2.32, Xfce 4.8, Enlightenment 1.0.7, Openbox 3.4.11.2, Fluxbox 1.3.1, XBMC 10.0 and more.
• Office, graphics, and productivity applications include: OpenOffice 3.2.1, XEmacs 21.5.29 gVim 7.3.102, Abiword 2.8.6, GnuCash 2.2.9, Scribus 1.9.3, GIMP 2.6.11, Inkscape 0.48.1, Blender 2.49b, XSane 0.997, and much more.
• Web browsers include: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13, Arora 0.11.0, Opera 11.0, Epiphany 2.30.6, Seamonkey 2.0.11, and other favorites.
• Communication tools include: Pidgin 2.7.10, Quassel 0.7.1, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.7, Claws Mail 3.7.8, Qtwitter 0.10.0, irssi 0.8.15, and many more.
• Development applications include: KDevelop 4.2, KDESvn 1.5.5, qt-creator 2.1.0, Bluefish 2.0.2, and many more.
• Multimedia applications include: Amarok 2.4, MPlayer 1.0_rc4, DVDAuthor 0.6.14, LAME 3.98.4, ffmpeg 0.6, GNOME-MPlayer 1.0.0, SMPlayer 0.6.9, and several others.

Il LiveDVD è disponibile in due versioni, una versione ibrida x86/x86_64, e una versione multilib x86_64. Download a partire da questa pagina o direttamente da questi link:
livedvd-x86-amd64-32ul-11.0.iso (2.351 MB, torrent),
livedvd-amd64-multilib-11.0.iso (2.574 MB, torrent).

Il team di sviluppo di Fedora ha rilasciato la prima alpha di Fedora 15, nome in codice 'Lovelock'.

This release of Fedora includes a variety of features both over and under the hood that show off the power and flexibility of the advancing state of free software. Examples include:

• Updated Desktop Environments. Fedora 15 will ship with GNOME 3, the next major version of the GNOME desktop. If you're interested in other experiences, KDE and Xfce will also be showcasing the latest and greatest in desktop technology from their respective projects.
• System and session management. Previously available as a technology preview in F14, systemd makes its full-fledged debut in Fedora 15. systemd is a smarter, more efficient way of starting up and managing the background daemons relied on by services we all use every day - such as NetworkManager and PulseAudio.
• Cloud. Looking to create appliances for use in the Cloud? BoxGrinder creates appliances (virtual machines) for various platforms (KVM, Xen, EC2) from simple plain text appliance definition files for various virtual platforms.
• Updated programming languages and tools. Fedora 15 features new versions of Rails, OCaml, and Python. GDB and GCC have also been updated. (Fedora 15 was built with GCC 4.6.0, too!)
• Productivity Applications. LibreOffice is filled with tools for everyday use, including word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications.
• Consistent Network Device Naming. Server management just got even easier. Fedora 15 uses BIOS-provided, non-arbitrarily given names for network ports, taking the burden off of system administrators.
• Dynamic Firewall. Fedora 15 adds support for the optional firewall daemon, that provides a dynamic firewall management with a D-Bus interface.
• Ecryptfs in Authconfig. Fedora 15 brings in improved support for eCryptfs, a stacked cryptographic filesystem for Linux. Starting with Fedora 15, authconfig can be used to automatically mount a private encrypted part of the home directory when a user logs in.
• DNSSEC for workstations. NetworkManager now uses the BIND nameserver as a DNSSEC resolver. All received DNS responses are proved to be correct. If particular domain is signed and failed to validate then resolver returns SERFVAIL instead of invalidated response, which means something is wrong.

Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina. Download a partire da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
Fedora-15-Alpha-i686-Live-Desktop.iso (567MB, torrent),
Fedora-15-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.iso (667MB, torrent)
Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso (568MB, torrent),
Fedora-15-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (666MB, torrent).

Il team di sviluppo di KDE ha annunciato il rilascio di KDE SC 4.6.1, nome in codice "Helga". Questa versione contiene solo correzioni di bug e aggiornamenti di traduzione, il changelog è disponibile a questa pagina. Il download dei sorgenti è possibile a partire dai mirror indicati a questa pagina, il download dei binari a partire da questa pagina.

Rilasciata la prima alpha di Mandriva Linux 2011.

this Alpha1 version also brings you:

• Latest kernel 2.6.37
• RPM 5.3.8 (20110125)
• NetworkManager 0.8.2, with mandriva integration plugin
• Systemd 17, enabled and activated by default
• KDE SC 4.6.0
• GNOME 2.32.1
• XFCE 4.8.0
• GCC 4.5.2, with plugins enabled by default
• Chromium browser, provided in a versioning scheme to match the one used Google Chrome project (e.g., chromium-browser-stable and chromium-browser-unstable)
• Firefox 4b11
• OpenSSL 1.0.0d
• Wine 1.3.13

Download a partire dai mirror indicati a questa pagina, o direttamente da questo link:
Mandriva.2011-alpha1.i586.iso (1557 MB).

Dopo 24 mesi il team di sviluppo di Debian ha annunciato il rilascio di Debian 6, nome in codice "Squeeze".

Debian 6.0 è un sistema operativo libero e per la prima volta viene fornito in due varianti. Accanto a GNU/Linux, con questa versione viene introdotta, come anteprima tecnologica, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.

Debian funziona su dispositivi di ogni tipo, dai palmari ai supercomputer. Supporta inoltre un totale di nove architetture: 32-bit PC/Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC/Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390) e ARM EABI (armel).

Questo rilascio include le ultime versioni disponibili di molti software, tra i quali:

• Aree di lavoro e applicazioni KDE Plasma 4.4.5
• una versione aggiornata dell'ambiente desktop GNOME 2.30
• l'ambiente desktop Xfce 4.6
• LXDE 0.5.0
• X.Org 7.5
• OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
• GIMP 2.6.11
• Iceweasel 3.5.16 (una versione di Mozilla Firefox priva del marchio)
• Icedove 3.0.11 (una versione di Mozilla Thunderbird priva del marchio)
• PostgreSQL 8.4.6
• MySQL 5.1.49
• GNU Compiler Collection 4.4.5
• Linux 2.6.32
• Apache 2.2.16
• Samba 3.5.6
• Python 2.6.6, 2.5.5 and 3.1.3
• Perl 5.10.1
• PHP 5.3.3
• Asterisk 1.6.2.9
• Nagios 3.2.3
• Xen Hypervisor 4.0.1 (con il supporto per dom0 e per domU)
• OpenJDK 6b18
• Tomcat 6.0.18
• più di 29.000 altri pacchetti pronti per l'uso, generati a partire da circa 15.000 sorgenti.

Debian 6.0 comprende inoltre più di 10.000 nuovi pacchetti, come il browser Chromium, la suite di controllo Icinga, l'interfaccia Software Center per la gestione dei pacchetti, il gestore delle reti wicd, gli strumenti lxc per i container Linux e il framework per cluster Corosync.

Le note di rilascio sono disponibili a questa pagina. Il download è possibile da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1.iso (4475 MB, torrent),
debian-6.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso (4446 MB, torrent).