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).

Rilasciata la versione finale di Scientific Linux 6.0.

The final release only has the same packages that were originally released by upstream vendor, all security and bug-fix errata are in their respective repositories; we have reduced the number of extra packages we put in Scientific Linux 6; there is no 'contrib' repository; we have added several packages to Scientific Linux that are not found anywhere in the upstream release, including IceWM, OpenAFS, Revisor, Live USB Creator, YUM auto-update, external YUM repositories

Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina, elenco dei cambiamenti rispetto alla versione precedente a questa pagina. Download a partire da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link:
SL-60-i386-2011-03-03-Install-DVD.iso (3.508 MB),
SL-60-x86_64-2011-03-03-Install-DVD.iso (4.040 MB).

Rilasciata la seconda alpha di Mandriva Linux 2011.

Among the most noticeable features are the simplification of the initial setup steps, both when running the image in Live mode, or before the installation, update to kernel 2.6.37.2, integration of the latest networkmanager-mdv plugin by Andrey Borzenkov, switch from scim to ibus for input framework, more indepth systemd integration into the system, and, of course, lots of packages updates all around.

Download a partire dai mirror indicati a questa pagina.

Rilasciato Parted Magic 5.10, LiveCD Linux-based contenente strumenti per il recupero dati e il partizionamento dei dischi.

The most notable changes are the Linux 2.6.37 kernel, GParted 0.8.0, and the move back to Firefox as the default web browser. We updated some programs and here is the list: FSArchiver 0.6.12, gzip 1.4, hdparm 9.37, xz 5.0.1, Conky 1.8.1, NTFS-3G 2011.1.15, Linux kernel 2.6.37, gDisk 0.6.14, HDT 0.4.1, Squashfs 4.1 and GParted 0.8.0. These programs have been added: Firefox 3.6.13, and NTP 4.2.6p3 (ntpd starts automatically at boot).

Download da questa pagina o direttamente da questo link pmagic-5.10.iso (143 MB).

Annunciato il rilascio di Tiny Core Linux 3.5, distribuzione linux minimale.

Change log for Tiny Core v3.5:

* Updated busybox 1.18.3 plus patches.
* Updated zsync to 0.6.2.
* Updated fluff file manager to 0.8.9
* New autoscan-devices compiled to improve boot speed.
* Updated tc-functions for call to autoscan-devices.
* New rotdash compiled to improve boot speed.
....

Download da questa.

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).

Annunciato il rilascio della seconda alpha di Ubuntu 11.04, nome in codice "Natty Narwhal".

Alpha 2 is the second in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Natty development cycle. New packages showing up for the first time include:
* LibreOffice 3.3 (has replaced OpenOffice.org 3.2)
* X.org Server 1.10 and Mesa 7.10
* Linux Kernel 2.6.38-rc2.

Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina. Download da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
natty-desktop-i386.iso (689MB, torrent),
natty-desktop-amd64.iso (692MB, torrent).
Rilasciata la seconda alpha anche di Kubuntu 11.04 (download, note di rilascio), Xubuntu 11.04 (download), Ubuntu Studio 11.04 (download), Edubuntu 11.04 (download), Mythbuntu 11.04 (download).

Il KDE project release team ha annunciato il rilascio di KDE 4.6, ultima major release del popolare desktop environment di Linux e Unix. È possibile scaricare i file sorgenti di KDE 4.6 dai mirror indicati a questa pagina.

KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE's three product lines.

Annunciato il rilascio di Sabayon Linux 5.5, nome in codice "Fermi".

• More than 1000 updated packages since Sabayon 5.4 and more than 100 bugs (stability, usability and performance) fixed
• Shipped with Desktop-optimized Linux kernel 2.6.37 (Group Scheduling patch, Tuxonice, AUFS2.1) and Glibc 2.11
• Cutting-edge X.Org Graphics stack (mesa-7.10 + xorg-server-1.9 + 2.6.37 kernel = KMS enabled, Gallium3d, best performance with OSS drivers)
• Providing the best AMD/ATI and NVIDIA Linux Desktop out-of-the-box experience out there
• Providing extra Server-optimized, OpenVZ-enabled, Vserver-enabled kernels in repositories
• Installable in 10 minutes
• Slightly faster boot time compared to Sabayon 5.4
• Ext4 filesystem as default, btrfs (experimental), encrypted (luks) filesystem support
• Containing GNOME 2.32 (getting ready for GNOME 3.0) and KDE 4.5.5 (KDE 4.6.0 will be available through updates)

Download a partire dai mirror indicati a questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link

Sabayon_Linux_5.5_x86_K.iso (2,010MB, torrent),
Sabayon_Linux_5.5_x86_G.iso (1,543MB, torrent),
Sabayon_Linux_5.5_amd64_K.iso (2,173MB, torrent),
Sabayon_Linux_5.5_amd64_G.iso (1,694MB, torrent).