BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.0
FreeBSD 8.0, a major new update of the popular operating system for servers, desktops and embedded devices, has been officially released: “The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE. This release starts off the new 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 7.X and introduces many new features. Some of the highlights: Xen Dom-U, VirtualBox guest and host, hierarchal jails; NFSv3 GSSAPI support, experimental NFSv4 client and server; 802.11s D3.03 wireless mesh networking and Virtual Access Point support; ZFS no longer in experimental status; ground-up rewrite of USB, including USB target support; continued SMP scalability improvements in many areas, especially VFS; revised network link layer subsystem; experimental MIPS architecture support.”
Read the release announcement, release highlights and release notes for additional information.
Download (torrents): 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,784MB, SHA256, torrent), 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,848MB, SHA256, torrent).
Distribution Release: Linux Mint 8
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 8, a beginner-friendly, Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution: “The team is proud to announce the stable release of Linux Mint 8, code name ‘Helena’. The 8th release of Linux Mint comes with numerous bug fixes and a lot of improvements. In particular, Linux Mint 8 comes with support for OEM installs, a brand new Upload Manager, the menu now allows you to configure custom places, the update manager now lets you define packages for which you don’t want to receive updates,the software manager now features multiple installation and removal of software and many of the tools’ graphical interfaces were enhanced.”
Read the release announcement and visit the what’s new page (with screenshots) to find out more about the new release.
Download (mirrors) the installable live CD image from here: LinuxMint-8.iso (688MB, MD5, torrent).
KNOPPIX 6.2
Klaus Knopper has released KNOPPIX 6.2, a new version of the popular Debian-based live CD/DVD with LXDE as the default desktop: “The current version 6.2 has been completely updated from Debian ‘Lenny’, ‘Testing’ and ‘Unstable’, and uses kernel 2.6.31.6 and X.Org 7.4. Microknoppix is a complete rewrite of the KNOPPIX boot system from version 6.0 and up, with the following features: high compatibility with its Debian base; accelerated boot procedure; LXDE as graphical environment – a very slim and fast desktop with extremely short start time and low resource requirements; amount of installed software greatly reduced in the CD edition; network configuration handled by NetworkManager….”
Read the rest of the release notes for more details.
Download the DVD, CD or the special ADRIANE edition with accessibility features for the visually impaired: KNOPPIX_V6.2DVD-EN.iso (3,675MB, MD5, torrent), KNOPPIX_V6.2CD-EN.iso (691MB, MD5, torrent), KNOPPIX-ADRIANE_V6.2CD-EN.iso (691MB, MD5, torrent).
Fedora 12, the latest version of the popular open-source operating systems for desktops and servers, has been released: “The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free, open-source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include next-generation Ogg Theora video, virtualization improvements and advancements to NetworkManager, among numerous others.”
See the press release, release announcement and release notes for further information.
Download (mirrors, torrents): Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso (654MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-12-i686-Live-KDE.iso (681MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso (656MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-12-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (685MB, SHA256, torrent).
openSUSE 11.2 “Edu Li-f-e”
Jigish Gohil has announced the release of the “Edu Li-f-e” edition of openSUSE 11.2, an openSUSE variant designed for children and students, with educational applications, Sugar desktop environment, LTSP server software, and out-of-the-box support for multimedia playback: “openSUSE Education community is proud to announce openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e – Linux for education based on openSUSE 11.2. The Li-f-e flavor bundles the best software openSUSE has to offer, such as popular desktop environments, educational application, development suites, multimedia, and great out-of-the-box user experience. Some highlights of what makes this a very special distribution: latest desktop environments – GNOME 2.28 (default), KDE 4.3.x, Sugar 0.86, IceWM; applications include tons of educational applications, graphics, development, office suite, and complete multimedia support; LTSP server….”
Read the rest of the release announcement for further details.
Download: openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-11.2-1-i686.iso (2,929MB, MD5, torrent).
ZevenOS 2.0
Leszek Lesner has announced the release of ZevenOS 2.0, a Xubuntu-based distribution and live CD featuring the Xfce desktop and BeOS-like artwork: “We are proud to announce the release of ZevenOS 2.0. ZevenOS 2.0 is based upon Ubuntu 9.10; it brings big changes like a completely new audio subsystem (PulseAudio), switch from HAL to DeviceKit, MagiKit – a standard application management layer, Remaster-Kit for easy ISO re-mastering, Encode and Super Encode – an all-in-one multimedia converting application, MAGI 2 – an application launcher, installer and configuration center. The typical BeOS like look has been improved with changes to Deskbar, icon theme and GTK+ theme. Disk Manager now supports auto-detection of BFS (BeOS) partitions and allows to mount them. The contact manager got an improved VCard filter.”
Read the detailed release announcement for a full list of new features and screenshots.
Download (MD5): ZevenOS-20.iso (696MB, torrent).
Development Release: openSUSE 11.2 RC2
Joe Brockmeier has announced the availability of the second and final release candidate for openSUSE 11.2: “This is it folks! We’re almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. This release includes an updated kernel, Samba, Firefox, and more. Release Candidate 2 includes a few new packages, and several of the ‘most annoying bugs’ in RC1 have been fixed. New packages include: Linux kernel 2.6.31.5, SeaMonkey 2.0, Firefox 3.5.4, Samba 3.4.2, X.Org Server 1.6.5.”
Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and known issues.
Download (mirror list): openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0339-i686.iso (678MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0339-i686.iso (696MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE4-LiveCD-Build0339-x86_64.iso (689MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0339-x86_64.iso (694MB, MD5, torrent).
Mythbuntu 9.10
Mythbuntu 9.10, a distribution designed for home theatre systems and featuring MythTV, has been released: “Mythbuntu is built upon the base of Ubuntu and thus has all the features of Ubuntu. Features: Mythbuntu Control Centre – used to modify settings on a Mythbuntu system that are not necessarily MythTV specific; Mythbuntu Log Grabber – grabs specific log files into a single area and can upload them to pastebin for easy troubleshooting; partitioner creates one large partition (ext4); auto-builds are now easily enabled/disabled via an installable package; MythTV 0.22.0-zrc1 included; MythTV backend now uses upstart, this allows automatic restarting of the backend in the event of a failure. New features in MythTV 0.22: MythUI support allowing fancier themes; support for VDPAU; MythVideo storage groups….”
More information is available in the release notes.
Download (MD5): mythbuntu-9.10-desktop-i386.iso (576MB, torrent), mythbuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso (594MB, torrent).
Ubuntu Studio 9.10
Ubuntu Studio 9.10, an Ubuntu sub-project a featuring a real-time kernel and a large variety of audio, video and graphics editing applications, has been released: “The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sixth release: Ubuntu Studio 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’. With this release, which you can download in a 1.4 GB DVD, Ubuntu Studio offers a pre-made selection of packages, targeted at audio producers, video producers and graphic designers. Ubuntu Studio greatly simplifies the Linux-based multimedia workstation. Features: official upstream real-time kernel; font meta package added to the graphics meta, which installs hundreds of free fonts; Xwax and a2jmidid packaged and added to the audio meta-package; Xjadeo added to the video meta; Firewire libraries are now upgraded to 2.0….”
Read the release notes for additional information.
Download (MD5): ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-i386.iso (1,485MB, torrent), ubuntustudio-9.10-alternate-amd64.iso (1,529MB, torrent).
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.0-RC2
Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.0: “The second of the release candidates for the FreeBSD 8.0 release cycle is now available. At this point we feel most of what has been discovered during public testing that is feasible to fix as part of the release process has been addressed. So the current plan is to have 8.0-RC3 in about two weeks. ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP sites, and a ‘memory stick’ image is available for amd64/i386 architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the CD-ROM and memory stick images include the documentation packages but no other packages. The DVD image includes the packages that will probably be available on the official release media.”
Here is the complete release announcement.
Download: 8.0-RC2-i386-dvd1.iso.gz (1,784MB, SHA256), 8.0-RC2-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz (1,848MB, MD5).
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