FreeBSD and PC-BSD release new version
The FreeBSD project announced the release of version 8.2 and 7.4 on 24 February. Both bring many new features and bug fixes. FreeBSD can run on a variety of architectures, and is still regarded as one of the most stable and hardened systems available. The most user friendly derivative, PC-BSD, also saw a new release on the same day.
The FreeBSD Project publishes two versions of its popular BSD clone line. 8.2 and legacy 7.4 published at the same time with many of the same improvements. You have 2.32.1 GNOME and KDE of 4.5.5. asynchronous logging queue support has been improved, to variable-length messages is set to allow execution of flags for more flexibility. Sysctl has been improved to allow more current updates and large free range in memory management and several new virtual memory variable options. Other memory improvements were seen in the areas of detection and reallocation of shared memory blocks. Now supports GUID partition table and partition table and header checksum verification has been fixed. Number of disk and network improvements and bug fixes have been implemented at the kernel level, as well as in user-space applications. Many network and graphics driver improvements and additions have been implemented. Different filesystem support elements have been improved across the Board. The security fixes are a bzip2-integer overflow and multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. And, of course, all of your favorite applications have been updated as well as.
Updating existing installations is supported and FreeBSD comes in multiple install media formats. CD and DVD ISO images are frequently, but other methods such as such as network installed are also supported.
Not to exceed, PC-BSD published their latest and greatest on 24 February to. PC-BSD is sometimes known as the Ubuntu of * BSD. It embody many of the same elements as most Linux distributions. Nice and simple easy to use graphical installer, an attractive and useful desktop out-of-the-box, practical applications, and a graphical Software Manager.
Based on FreeBSD 8.2, many of the same improvements in your PC-BSD 8.2 are inherited. BC-BSD 8.2 features things like KDE 4.5.5, xorg 7.5 and nvidia driver 260.19.29. The standard installation with software such as GIMP, ImageMagick, digiKam comes in addition to a number of KDE apps. If you are installing, can an extra software including FireFox 3.6, 3.2.1 OpenOffice and VLC 1.1.5 select.
Download-PC-BSD 8.2 for 32-bit or 64-bit computers. See the release notes and ChangeLog for more details.
Next Debian release to support ZFS
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"The next release of Debian GNU/Linux, Squeeze, will include support for ZFS using the official installer."This means that Debian will become one of the first GNU/Linux distributions to support the filesystem, according to developer Robert Millan.
"ZFS is a combined filesystem and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. It is now owned by Oracle."
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SimplyMepis celebrates 8th anniversary with release
Warren Woodford, founder of MEPIS has announced 21 eighth time anniversary of MEPIS on November SimplyMepis 11.0 Alpha 3 release. SimplyMepis takes usually quite a while to cook and no final release date has been given.
This release "with Debian squeeze, but with a 2.6.36 kernel continue." "In this version has MEPIS backported the Galbraith latency patch, improved desktop performance." This patch has latency attention, received its inclusion on the Linux kernel mailing list lately, since and offers higher performance for some desktop setups discussed. Some users have reported greatly increased performance while others it really only advantages opened State processes under additional TTY (PTS). Also reported that the patch NULL cause could pointer dereference bugs but Galbraith said it was anyway rewrite. In any case, it is an interesting move by the normally conservative Woodford.
Alpha in this cycle were developmental something more than 800 MB in size, and some say Woodford should just go ahead and add all sorts of additional software and graphic material, (or USB key) because the ISO already requires a DVDrom. More documents the street may arise later.
Alpha 1 had a bug which prevents that the live image on many PCs boot and although Woodford, that said "Some bugs have been fixed, the affected installation and boot from USB key" problems prevent boot-up DVD in alpha 2 continued. So, an alpha 3 released soon to fix it.
So far, 11.0 has a fairly new boot splash, but the login and desktop decorations remain largely unchanged. KDE 4.4.5 is the featured desktop with applications like Firefox 3.5.6, GIMP 2.6.10 and OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 provided. Unless no other radical changes are the latency patch is the latest stable version, but it's still very early.
Woodford reflects on MEPIS, "it was launched 8 years the MEPIS Linux project that before today, when Warren Woodford would be decided to create a version of Linux that easily try from CD to install the live environment and easy for everyone to use." "In the course of the years have reported by SimplyMEPIS first OS is one year old children, and the first OS of the 90-year-old adults."
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Mageia trudging on release
The Mageia project moves to your first alpha, expected now sometime in January. She have set up the infrastructure, developmental biology and administrative teams, and choose a permanent logo employs.
Beginning of November the Mageia project had many necessary elements almost in place. These include things like a build server, Web site hosting wiki, a code of conduct, development and management teams and a roadmap. The build server is based on Mandriva one and just almost complete. PLF is temporarily hosting some online resources and Zarb.org is hosting the mailing lists until a change to Gandi is complete. Packaging, artwork, distribution were organised developers, translators, designers, QA and other teams. Alpha was scheduled for December at this time.
Mageia is some forward according to a recent blog post. The many logo entries were short-listed come were and a final decision is expected any day now. There were so many nice entries this is bound to be a very difficult task.
Early in the week, Mageia.org mapping was created and registered. This will collect Mageia and distribute resources necessary to develop the distribution. Anne Nicolas was appointed President, Arnaud Patard is the new Secretary and Treasurer is Damien Lallement. Monthly reports will be published for those interested in the financial details. Report logs of the founder weekly meetings also published, and their own public communication channels have each team and.
Discussions are on-going-on the repository directory structure and Subversion repositories are implemented. Main mirror directory starts with three media: core, nonfree and tainted. and have five subdirectories: release, updates, Updates_testing, backports and Backports_testing. Importing Mandriva are logical and organized as a developer with the base system, compiler and rpm tools start. X will be followed next by the desktop environments, before it on the remaining software. Removing license restrictions encumbered code is top priority.
Tester is the most important treat for anxious, that December Alpha back to sometime in January with the first release still on schedule for March were pushed has.
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"Much has been written about the fact that the next version of Ubuntu, Natty Narwhal, will switch its interface from GNOME to Canonical's own Unity interface."Little has been said about the plan to introduce a Mono-dependent application, Banshee, as the default music player.
"This is yet to be finalised; it is dependent on the application fitting into a single CD, along with the rest of the distribution.
"Mono is an attempt to reproduce some parts of Microsoft's .NET development environment as an open source offering. It has been said more than once, and by more than one authority, that it may could well pose patent dangers to developers as it is core technology from Microsoft."
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