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Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution geared towards developers and network professionals. Unlike other distros, Gentoo Linux has an advanced package management system called Portage. Portage is a true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports, but is Python-based and sports a number of advanced features including dependencies, fine-grained package management, "fake" (OpenBSD-style) installs, safe unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages, config file management, and more.
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| 2021-08-12 |
NEW • Development Release: Elive 3.8.22 (Beta) |
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Elive is a Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop environment. The project has published a new beta snapshot which introduces new features and changes to the default applications. "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the beta version 3.8.22. This new version includes: Scaling of desktop can be manually configured now and is autodetected by default for optimal visibility; startup speed of the desktop improved in Live mode; E16 desktop with focus bug fixed; Entice EFL image viewer included; Markdown editor in realtime included, being able to export to html, ePUB and PDF. brightness settings are now smoother and in more steps; IRC chat will use now the Libera server; Google Chrome if installed by the user, will be now always updated to the last official version; hibernation makes sure you have enough space in your swap partition and if is not the case it automatically closes your browsers before to hibernate." Further information can be found in the Elive 3.8.22 Beta release announcement. Download (MD5): elive_3.8.22_beta_hybrid_i386.iso (2,752MB, pkglist). |
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| 2021-08-10 |
NEW • Distribution Release: elementary OS 6.0 |
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elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution which features a custom desktop environment called Pantheon. The project's latest release, elementary OS 6 "Odin", features sandboxed applications via Flatpak bundles, a new dark theme, and multi-touch gestures. "elementary OS 6 leverages cutting-edge sandboxing technology to enforce privacy and security protections at a technical level. In OS 6, all AppCenter apps are now packaged and distributed as Flatpaks, a modern container format that keeps apps siloed away from each other and your sensitive data. Several default elementary OS apps are now being distributed as Flatpaks as well. In addition, elementary OS 6 utilizes Portals to keep you in control of how apps interact with each other and your data. Apps must explicitly request permission in a well-defined way e.g. to get access to files or launch other apps. A new Permissions view in System Settings -> Applications exposes all the permissions apps have requested and gives you control to override or revoke them." Further information can be found in the project's release announcement. Downloads through a pay-what-you-want portal are available on the project's home page. Download: elementaryos-6.0-stable.20210810.iso (2,251MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-08-09 |
NEW • DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 929 |
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: - Review: SME Server 10.0
- News: Mint developing a new website, OpenBSD running systemd fork, DragonFly BSD changes how snapshots work with limited disk space
- Questions and answers: Defragmenting Linux filesystems
- Released last week
- Torrent corner: Alpine, Arch, Bluestar, Kaisen, KDE neon, Nitrux, PClinuxOS, Snal
- Upcoming releases: Tails 4.21, Debian 11
- Opinion poll: Do you defrag Btrfs?
- New additions: Navy Linux
- New distributions: Airyx
- Reader comments
Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly.... |
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| 2021-08-01 |
NEW • Distribution Release: 4MLinux 37.0 |
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Zbigniew Konojacki has announced the release of 4MLinux 37.0, the new stable build of the project's minimalist distribution for desktops and servers. Its "four Ms" represent maintenance (as a system rescue live CD), multimedia (for playing video DVDs and other multimedia files), mini-server (using the inetd daemon) and mystery (providing several small Linux games). 4MLinux 37.0 updates many of the popular packages to their latest versions; this includes, LibreOffice 7.1.5, GIMP 2.10.24, Gnumeric 1.12.48, Firefox 90.0.2, Chromium 90.0.4430.212, Thunderbird 78.12.0, VLC 3.0.16 and MESA 21.0.1. The Linux kernel is at version 5.10.47. "The status of the 4MLinux 37.0 series has been changed to STABLE. As always, the new major release has some new features. FluidSynth (a software synthesizer) with VMPK (Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard) have been added. Dmidecode (a tool to read hardware-related data from your SMBIOS) has also been included. HandBrake (a video transcoder) and qBittorrent (an advanced BitTorrent client) are now available as downloadable extensions. 4MLinux now uses its own servers for updating the ClamAV virus database. The Linux kernel patched to support the reiser4 file system has been added to the 4MLinux drivers collection." Here is the brief release announcement. Download (MD5, pkglist): 4MLinux-37.0-64bit.iso (988MB), 4MServer-37.0-64bit.iso (1,052MB). |
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| 2021-07-31 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Freespire 7.7 |
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Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of Freespire 7.7, a new update of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop. This version adds the ability to (optionally) incorporate various web applications into the system: "Today, the PC/OpenSystems LLC open-source development team releases Freespire 7.7. This update launches an entirely new direction for our distribution products, Freespire, Linspire and Xandros, by incorporating a cloud app approach. Since this is Freespire, our community-support build, we did not incorporate anyone's specific web apps into the distribution. The selection is entirely the user's choice. And for more traditional use cases, the core of Freespire has not changed at all - it's still a full-featured desktop OS; all of the applications and resources of the Ubuntu repositories are available, as always. The distribution includes: Xfce 4.16 desktop, Linux kernel 5.4, Synaptic, Google Chrome 92, DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and homepage, Ice SSB, KPatience, DreamChess, Geary mail client, KolourPaint, Parole, Rhythmbox, Caja as the default file manager." Read the complete release announcemnet for further details. Download: release-77F.iso (1,427MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2021-07-29 |
NEW • BSD Release: OPNsense 21.7 |
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OPNsense is a HardenedBSD-based specialist operating system (and a fork of pfSense) designed for firewalls and routers. The project's latest release, OPNsense 21.7, will be the last version based on HardenedBSD and introduces a new installer with ZFS support. "For more than six and a half years, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing. OPNSense 21.7, nicknamed 'Noble Nightingale', is one of the largest iterations of code changes in our recent history. It will also be the last release on HardenedBSD 12.1. We are planning to start the work on FreeBSD 13 as soon as next week for the 22.1 series. The installer was replaced to offer native ZFS installations and prevent glitches in virtual machines using UEFI. Firmware updates were partially redesigned and the UI layout consolidated between static and MVC pages. The live log now contains the actual rule ID to avoid mismatches after adjusting your ruleset and the firewall aliases now also support wildcard netmasks." The release announcement offers further details. Download: OPNsense-21.7-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2 (422MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-07-29 |
NEW • Distribution Release: siduction 21.2.0 |
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Ferdinand Thommes has announced the release of siduction 21.2.0, the latest build of the project's distribution set with a choice of Cinnamon, KDE Plasma, LXDE, LXQt and Xfce desktops, all based on Debian's "unstable" branch: "The siduction team is very proud that for our 10th birthday (yes, we started out in July 2011) we can present siduction 2021.2.0 to you. This one is dubbed 'Farewell' in remembrance of our friend Axel, who passed away way too early. So no, 'farewell' does not mean we are going away. The highlight of this release is the resuscitated siduction manual, that goes back to the days of sidux, which some of you will remember as a former incarnation of siduction. What’s new this time around? The flavours we offer for siduction 2021.2 are KDE Plasma 5.20.5, LXQt 0.16.0, Cinnamon 4.8.6, Xfce 4.16, LXDE 11, X.Org and noX. GNOME and MATE did not make it again due to a lack of a maintainer support within siduction." Read the detailed release notes for more information. Download (pkglist): siduction-21.2.0-cinnamon-amd64.iso (2,514MB, SHA256), siduction-21.2.0-kde-amd64.iso (2,893MB, SHA256), siduction-21.2.0-lxde-amd64.iso (2,323MB, SHA256), siduction-21.2.0-lxqt-amd64.iso (2,334MB, SHA256), siduction-21.2.0-xfce-amd64.iso (2,404MB, SHA256). |
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| 2021-07-29 |
NEW • Development Release: MX Linux 21 Beta 1 |
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A major new update to MX Linux, a Debian-based desktop distribution is now available for testing. Version 21 is based on the soon-to-be-stable Debian 11 "Bullseye" and features the Xfce 4.16 desktop: "MX 21 beta 1 is now available for testing. MX 21 is built from Debian 'Bullseye' and MX repositories. Things that are new in the beta 1: new and updated applications; new installer partition selection area, including some LVM support if LVM volume exists already; new UEFI live system boot menus, now you can select your live boot options (persistence) from the boot menu and submenus rather than using the previous console menus; Xfce 4.16; user password (sudo) for administration tasks by default, you can switch this in mx-tweak/Other tab; many small configuration changes, particularly on the panel with new default panel plugins. With this beta 1 release, we are particularly interested in testing the new UEFI live system boot menus as well as testing the installer. VirtualBox testing is welcome, but we are looking for edge cases on real hardware for the most part." See the full release announcement for more details and known issues. Download (pkglist): MX-21beta-1_x64.iso (1,713MB, SHA256, signature), MX-21beta-1_386.iso (1,713MB, SHA256, signature). |
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| 2021-07-28 |
NEW • Development Release: Linux Lite 5.6 RC1 |
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Linux Lite is a beginner-friendly Linux distribution based on Ubuntu's long-term support (LTS) release and featuring the Xfce desktop. The distribution combines its Ubuntu base with a collection of user friendly utilities and guides to help new users get started. The project has published a new development release features an option to launch the system installer from the welcome window and offers a new icon theme. There have also been a number of package upgrades. "Details: Kernel: 5.4.0-80 (custom kernels also available via our repository for versions 3.13 - 5.13); Firefox: 89.0.2; Thunderbird: 78.11.0; LibreOffice: 6.4.7.2; VLC: 3.0.9.2; GIMP: 2.10.18; Base: 20.04.2. Known issues: No prompt to eject media at the end of the Legacy install, prompt is available at the end of the UEFI install. Release notes - not working on first installer slide. Desktop icons - English support only. GRUB - holding shift down whilst booting in UEFI mode does not bring up the Grub menu (works in Legacy mode), waiting for Ubuntu fix. GRUB menu shows Linux Lite as 'Ubuntu'. After you install Linux Lite, you can change GRUB to show 'Linux Lite'." Further information, including minimum system requirements and screenshots, can be found in the project's release announcement for the new release candidate. Download: linux-lite-5.6-rc1-64bit.iso (1,413MB, SHA256, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-07-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Grml 2021.07 |
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Michael Prokop has announced the release of Grml 2021.07, the latest stable build of the project's live Linux distribution focusing on the needs of system administrators. It is based on Debian's "testing" branch. "Grml - new stable release 2021.07 available. This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing ('bullseye'). As usual it also incorporates current hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release. Important changes: the Grml IRC channel moved to OFTC; the network configuration tool netcardconfig no longer prompts for uncommon wireless/WiFi options, to simplify and speed up its usage. New features: grml-terminalserver - support for UEFI PXE boot (now supporting BIOS boot via pxelinux and EFI boot via GRUB); netcardconfig - support for enabling blocked devices via rfkill; forensic mode - improved handling for block device changes and parent device handling; grml-chroot - support efivarfs in EFI environments...." Read the brief release announcement and the detailed release notes for further information. Download (mirrors): grml64-full_2021.07.iso (786MB, SHA512, torrent, pkglist), grml64-small_2021.07.iso (403MB, SHA512, torrent). Images built for 32-bit processors (i686) are also available. |
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| 2021-07-26 |
NEW • Development Release: Haiku R1 Beta 3 |
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The third beta of the inaugural stable release of Haiku, an independently-developed, open-source operating system for personal computers, is now ready for testing. A successor of BeOS, the new Haiku release comes with an improved installer and hardware drivers, updated ports of many popular software packages, and numerous bug fixes: "Poetry is in motion. The Haiku Project, its developers and team members announced that the Haiku operating system released its third beta build, version R1/Beta3, on July 25th, 2021. Version R1B3 continues the trend of more frequent releases to provide users and developers with an up-to-date and stable platform to work on. This release combines the best of Haiku’s history as a spiritual successor of BeOS and the hard work of a passionate community. It provides several new features and performance improvements that make Haiku even better." See the release announcement and release notes for detailed information about this beta snapshot. The new Haiku ISO image is available fro both x86_64 and i386 architectures; download links (pkglist): haiku-r1beta3-x86_64-anyboot.iso (719MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), haiku-r1beta3-x86_gcc2h-anyboot.iso (714MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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