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 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 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).

Annunciato il rilascio della seconda release candidate di FreeBSD 7.4.

The second Release Candidate for the FreeBSD 7.4 release cycle is now available. For this build only the amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures are available. An initial set of pre-build packages are available on the DVD and CDROM images for the amd64 architecture. At the time the i386 images were created the two large meta-packages that are the bulk of what we normally provide (Gnome and KDE) were not available so there are some packages on the i386 images but what is there is not a reflection of what we expect to include with the final release. Several bugs we feel are critical enough to warrant fixing before the 8.2/7.4 releases are finalized, so the release will be delayed and we will be providing a third Release Candidate about a week from now.

Download dai mirror indicati a questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link FreeBSD-7.4-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso (1.145 MB),
FreeBSD-7.4-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (2.029 MB).

OpenSuse 11.1 ha raggiunto il suo fine vita. Dopo il 13 gennaio non saranno più disponibili aggiornamenti, neanche gli aggiornamenti di sicurezza. Rilasciato il 18 dicembre 2008, openSUSE 11.1 includeva il kernel linux 2.6.27.7 , KDE 4.1.3 e 3.5.10, GNOME 2.24.1, Firefox 3.0.4 e OpenOffice 3. OpenSuse 11.2 raggiungerà il suo fine vita il prossimo 12 maggio 2011, OpenSuse 11.3 il 15 gennaio 2012.

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).

Annunciato il rilascio della quinta milestone di OpenSuse 11.4. Download a partire da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0957-i686.iso (690 MB, torrent),
openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0957-i686.iso (684 MB, torrent),
openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0957-x86_64.iso (700 MB, torrent),
openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0957-x86_64.iso (683 MB, torrent).

• Kernel 2.6.37rc5-12 is the basis of M5, including the famous "200 line" per tty task groups patch to improve desktop interactivity, and featuring the almost-complete removal of the so-called 'Big Kernel Lock', which should improve scalability. This kernel supports new drivers, including Broadcom wireless and updated open-source graphics drivers, and a host of the usual other improvements.
• Libzypp 8.10.2 adds improved support and fixes for metalinks, the multiple download URL specification.
• On the desktop, the KDE Platform makes the leap to version 4.6 beta with many improvements in the UI and underlying infrastructure. This includes a complete rewrite of Kontact and is undergoing heavy testing. There is a serious chance KDE PIM 4.6 will not make it into the final openSUSE 11.4 release, testing and development is needed!
• KOffice is updated to 2.3 RC superseding beta1, including the exciting Krita natural media painting app. Meanwhile OpenOffice.org is removed, having been succeeded by LibreOffice which is updated to 3.3.0.1.
• GNOME 2.32.1 is now available as the 2.32.2 is the final version planned for openSUSE 11.4, which is notable for being the last stable release before GNOME 3 in March.

Annunciato il rilascio di Sabayon Linux 5.4 "Gaming Edition". Download possibile dai mirror indicati a questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
Sabayon_Linux_5.4_x86_Gaming.iso (4,245MB, torrent),
Sabayon_Linux_5.4_amd64_Gaming.iso (4,368MB, torrent).

Features list:

• Based on Sabayon Linux 5.4 GNOME (both amd64[64bit] and x86[32bit])
• Featuring the Linux Kernel 2.6.36 and all the bells and whistles that are in our repositories as of today
• Remastered thanks to the Sabayon's little helper called "molecule" (what an odd name for a dog)
• Filled with gazillions of games! The best Free Open Source (Free Software, yeah Mr. Stallman, who cares about names!) games of the Linux land

Games included: 0ad, Alien Arena 2011, Battle of Wesnoth, Foobillard, Freeciv, Frozen Bubble, GNOME Games, M.A.R.S. a ridiculous shooter, Micropolis, NeverBall, Nexuiz, OpenArena, Pingus, Pychess, Scorched 3D, Simutrans, Spring, Stepmania, Torcs, Tremulous, Warsow, Warzone 2100, Wormux.

Annunciato il rilascio di PCLinuxOS 2010.12.

PCLinuxOS 2010.12 holiday CDs are now available for KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce and Enlightenment desktops featuring the latest updates from the PCLinuxOS software repository. All CDs feature Linux kernel 2.6.33.7bfs for maximum desktop performance, NVIDIA and ATI fglrx driver support, multimedia playback support for many popular formats, wireless support for many network devices, and printer support for many local and networked printer devices. 'Addlocale' allows you to convert PCLinuxOS into over 60 languages. 'GetOpenOffice' can install OpenOffice.org supporting over 100 languages. 'MyLiveCD' allows you to take a snapshot of your installation and burn it to a live CD or DVD. PCLinuxOS 'liveusb' allows you to install PCLinuxOS on a USB key disk.

Download possibile dai link indicati a questa pagina, o utilizzando i torrent disponibili a questa pagina.