Annunciato il rilascio della prima release candidate dell'Installer di Debian 6.0, nome in codice "Squeeze". Il CD di installazione è disponibile a questa pagina.

Improvements in this release of the installer

• Linux kernel updated to 2.6.32-29.
• Updated artwork for Squeeze theme (#603554).
• Fixed Finnish keymap in graphical installer.
• Fixed usability issues with very long questions about accepting firmware licenses when some non-free firmware is used.
• Fixed mklibs segfaults on static objects;
• Avoid reloading modules that have a network interface that is already configured.
• Support the new suite name for volatile.
• Fix text of examples in debconf templates to fit the new partition numbering scheme in GRUB 2.
• Fix resolv.conf writing of manual entered values in case DHCP doesn't supply them.
• Live Installer:
  • don't depends on fs modules since it can be loaded during the filesystem lookup;
  • also removing backend packages for both live-boot and live-config when running normal installation;
  • calling depmod before modprobing support modules;
  • for consistency, and for more flexibility with custom d-i kernels, also making anna call for installing support modules never fail.
• On GNU/kFreeBSD:
  • disable partman-zfs on kfreebsd-i386;
  • fix generation of fstab CD-ROM entries;
  • mark modules disabled due to firmware issues as optional.
• On GNU/Linux:
  • nic-modules: add qlcnic module;
  • ata-modules: force inclusion of ata_generic;
  • armel:
    • kirkwood: Added support for QNAP TS-119P+ and TS-219P+;
  • powerpc:
    • add support for YDL PowerStation, a CHRP machine with IBM Bimini board and SLOF firmware;
    • selectively load necessary modules to control G5 PowerMac fans. All G5 PowerMac models are covered now;
    • fancontrol-modules (powerpc64): add windfarm_pm121 for iMac iSight machines;
    • pata-modules: add pata_mpc52xx for Efika 5200B board;
    • nic-modules (powerpc64): add ehea module for on-board ethernet adapters present on all IBM Power 6 and later System P boards;
    • core-modules: add bestcomm-core. pata_mpc52xx and fec_mpc52xx depend on it;
    • let linux-boot-prober work on all chrp machines;
    • handle YDL initrd image in linux-boot-prober fallback test;
    • use short unique OS labels returned by os-prober;
    • use persistent device naming symlinks and UUID/LABEL tags instead of unix block device names.
• Localization:
  • Lao and Sinhala languages added;
  • 70 languages activated (included English);
  • for 57 of these, translation is 100% complete.

Rilasciata Knoppix 6.4.3, distribuzione linux derivata da Debian. Note di rilascio disponibili a questa pagina, download possibile dai link indicati a questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
KNOPPIX_V6.4.3DVD-2010-12-20-EN.iso (3496 MB),
KNOPPIX_V6.4.3CD-2010-12-20-EN.iso (698 MB).

Annunciato il rilascio di Linux Mint 201012 "Debian Edition".

• All Mint 10 features
• 64-bit support
• Performance boost (using cgroup, the notorious "4 lines of code better than 200" in user-space)
• Installer improvements (multiple HDDs, grub install on partitions, swap allocation, btrfs support)
• Better fonts (Using Ubuntu’s libcairo, fontconfig and Ubuntu Font Family) and language support (ttf-wqy-microhei, ttf-sazanami-mincho, ttf-sazanami-gothic installed by default)
• Better connectivity and hardware support (pppoe, pppoeconf, gnome-ppp, pppconfig, libgl1-mesa-dri, libgl1-mesa-glx, libgl1-mesa-dev, mesa-utils installed by default)
• Better sound support (addressing conflicts between Pulse Audio and Flash)
• Updated software and packages

Download a partire da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
linuxmint-debian-201012-gnome-dvd-i386.iso (985MB),
linuxmint-debian-201012-gnome-dvd-amd64.iso (974MB).