Rilasciata la versione 5.8 di Parted Magic

Parted Magic now includes the SciTE text editor! For the first time the ISO image can be fully loaded into RAM and Booted. This means, for example, that the default syslinux menu can be used for a PXE boot. The following programs have been updated: clonezilla-1.2.6-40, plpbt-5.0.11, psensor-0.4.4, linux-2.6.36.2, busybox-1.17.4, nwipe-0.03, simpleburn-1.6.0, syslinux-4.03, clamav-0.96.5, e2fsprogs-1.41.14, gparted-0.7.1 These are the new programs that were added: zerofree-1.0.1, cmospwd-5.0, open-iscsi-2.0.871, hfsprescue-0.1, gscite223

Download da questa pagina, o direttamente da questo link: pmagic-5.8.iso (148 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).

Annunciato il rilascio della prima release candidate di KDE 4.6, nome in codice "Caramel", desktop environment per sistemi Unix, Linux, BSD. È previsto il rilascio di una seconda release candidate per il 5 gennaio 2011, prima del rilascio della versione finale previsto per il 26 gennaio 2011.

Right before christmas, KDE has published the first candidate for the upcoming release of KDE 4.6.0. The focus at this stage is on fixing bugs and completing translations and artwork. As such, the rework of the Oxygen icon set is nearing completion, many bugs reported by testers in the past weeks have been fixed and stabilization is still in full swing. KDE's release team has decided to not include the new release of KDE-PIM, containing the Kontact groupware client and the new KMail2 which is based on the Akonadi groupware cache in this release due to open issue with migration of large sets of data from the traditional client. These bugs are being worked on as we speak, but the risk at this point is too high to include the new Kontact in the 4.6.0 release.

Rilasciata Mandriva Linux 2010.2. Download a partire da questa pagina, o direttamente da questi link
mandriva-one-2010.2-KDE-i586.iso (692 MB),
mandriva-one-2010.2-GNOME-i586.iso (703 MB),
mandriva-linux-free-2010.2-i586.iso (3860 MB),
mandriva-linux-free-2010.2-x86_64.iso (3868 MB).

Mandriva 2010.2 is an incremental update on top of Mandriva 2010.1, incorporating all the security and bugfix updates since its release.

Just to give you some statistics about what changes in 2010.2 when comparing to 2010 Spring (also known as 2010.1), these are some of the numbers.

Since the 2010.1 release, the secteam has released a total of 5055 RPMs via official updates, counting both security and bugfix advisories, across 272 different packages.

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.

Rilasciato Google Chrome Dev 10.0.612.3 per Windows e Mac OS X, e Google Chrome Dev 10.0.612.1 per tutte le piattaforme (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)

This release fixes several crashes as well as:

All

• Updated WebKit - 534.15

Windows

• Google Cloud Print sign-in interface is now out from behind a flag and can be found in Under the Hood (Issue 60092)

Mac

• Various minor tweaks to tab overview mode (Issue 50307)
• 25% less logspew when loading the PDF plugin
• Sandbox the GPU process (Issue 48607)
• Experimental popup blocker animation
• Fix stuck hover state in bookmark button (Issue 27073)

Known Issues

• There is no space between the Apps- and the Most Visited-Sector (Issue 67073)
• The expanded Apps-Sector becomes unvisible after clicking on it (Issue 67075)

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.

Annunciato il rilascio della quarta beta di VirtualBox 4.0.0. Download possibile da questa pagina.

The following items were added/fixed since VirtualBox 4.0.0 Beta 3:

• Audio: fixed memory corruption under certain circumstances
• 3D support: fixed OpenGL support for Windows 2000 guests
• Settings: modifying VM session could lose disk attachments (4.0 Beta 3 regression)
• OVA: fixed crash during import
• GUI: better OS type string matching
• GUI: fixed redraw problem on X11 guests with multiple monitors attached (Mac OS X hosts only)
• GUI: remember last directory in file dialogs
• Settings: fixed .vbox file format portability issue with snapshots (backslashes)
• ExtPacks: fixed installation on certain Linux hosts (e.g. openSUSE)
• ExtPacks: require sudo for installation on Linux and Solaris hosts
• Storage: fixed possible crash during suspend
• Storage: fixed raw disk access on OS X
• Storage: lower the CPU usage for low disk I/O bandwidth limits
• Storage: added multi-attachment image mode for shared disk clusters
• Storage: fixed SATA activity LED handling
• 2D: fixed seamless mode when 2D is on for Mac hosts
• Additions: fixed incompatibility with SLED 11

Rilasciato Google Chrome Dev 9.0.597.19 per tutte le piattaforme (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)

The Dev channel has been updated to 9.0.597.19 for all platforms.

• This was primarily a crash fix release, in particular resolving a sync related crash issue (Issue: 57898).

maggiori informazioni sono disponibili a questa pagina.

Oracle ha annunciato il rilascio della versione 5.5 (5.5.8) di MySQL. Il MySQL Community Edition 5.5, che è rilasciato sotto licenza GPL (GNU General Public License), ed è disponibile per il download gratuito da questa pagina, comprende InnoDB come storage engine di default. In questa versione infatti MyISAM viene sostituito da InnoDB (sviluppato da Innobase, società controllata da Oracle) come storage engine predefinito.

MySQL 5.5 offre miglioramenti significativi permettendo agli utenti di migliorare le prestazioni e la scalabilità delle applicazioni web in più ambienti operativi, inclusi Windows, Linux, Oracle Solaris e Mac OS X.

Con il rilascio di MySQL 5.5 gli utenti trarranno beneficio da:

• Miglioramento delle prestazioni e scalabilità: MySQL database e lo storage engine InnoDB sono stati migliorati per offrire prestazioni ottimali e scalabilità quando sono in esecuzione sul più recente hardware e software disponibile (CPU multi-core e ultimi sistemi operativi disponibili). Inoltre, con questa versione InnoDB è ora lo storage engine predefinito per il database MySQL, offrendo transazioni ACID, l'integrità referenziale e crash recovery.
• Maggiore disponibilità: New semi-synchronous replication e Replication Heart Beat migliorano la velocità e l'affidabilità del failover.
• Migliorata l'usabilità: migliorati gli indici ed il partizionamento delle tabelle, supporto a SIGNAL / RESIGNAL, e la diagnostica avanzata, incluso un nuovo PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, migliorata la gestibilità di MySQL 5.5.