Slax 6.0.3 Has Been Released

The Slax development team has announced the latest version of Slax 6.0.3 yesterday. Among all the updates described in the changelog, it features a bugfix for SquashfsLZMA kernel driver. They said 6.0.3 won’t include the fix, but it has been decided to wait a bit and include it.

What’s new in this release?

• Added kernel 2.6.24.3 with kernel headers, stripped sources and modules all using the same version, to prevent any possible mismatch
• Silenced several bootup messages
• Added wpa_suplicant package
• Updated to Slackware-current, which adds a lot of FIRMWAREs
• Fixed a bug in sqlzma, which may cause (in rare conditions) data read errors
• The sgnfile= boot parameter was not working, so it’s fixed now.
• Make_iso.sh now works even if called from a different directory
• The ‘copy to ram’ boot menu option doesn’t have any changes= default anymore
• Fixed loading of modules from subdirectories while using copy2ram
• The ‘nocd’ boot parameter has different meaning now. It will cause CDROMs to be skipped, but still visible later on

You can download this release of Slax at Here.

Final Release of GoblinX 2.6 Standard Edition is Out

The final release of GoblinX 2.6 Standard edition, a Slackware-based live CD for the desktop has announced. As the development team said, GoblinX Standard is the original edition which was first released in October 2004. It includes five windows managers: KDE, Fluxbox, Xfce, Enlightenment and WindowMaker.

The main upgrades since release candidate 1: Added SLAX firewall; added more options to Isolinux menu; rebuilt GtkDialog interfaces to prevent resize action; corrected several errors and bugs; corrected Kill button in media manager interfaces; upgraded some libraries and packages, including xorg-server; corrected some sudo issues; removed X.Org default resolution; removed some libraries; added more services to boot; added more auto-start options; corrected Ivman issues.

More info can be found at Goblinx's site and the ISO of this release can be download at here.

Slax 6.0 has been Released

Slax, a modern, small and fast Linux operating system with a modular approach and outstanding design, has been released its version 6.0.

What’s new on this release? First, Slax is officially released in two forms, ISO and TAR. As you surely know, the iso format (labeled as “Slax for CD”) is to be burnt to a CD (preferably a miniCD medium). But nowadays, CDs are pretty obsolete, so the TAR format (labeled as “Slax for USB”) is for all the other people who need to run Slax directly from USB media or from a disk. Simply unzip (extract) the tar archive directly to your device (to it’s root directory, it will create ‘boot’ and ’slax’ subdirectories). That’s almost all; you only need to make it bootable. For that purpose, navigate to the ‘boot’ directory and find bootinst.sh (if you are in Linux) or bootinst.bat (if you are in Windows). Run it. Linux users will need to use root account for that. The script will setup the device to be bootable.

If you are using “Slax for USB”, you will notice that all the changes you made are PERMANENT. Yes, even if you’re running Slax from a VFAT filesystem (thanks to posixovl). But a native Linux filesystem is always prefered, of course. In that case, you won’t be able to use bootinst.sh/bat, you’ll have to try liloinst.sh

Despite its small size, Slax provides a wide collection of pre-installed software for daily use, including a well organized graphical user interface and useful recovery tools for system administrators.

The modular approach gives you the ability to include any other software in Slax easily. If you're missing your favourite text editor, networking tool or game, simply download a module with the software and copy it to Slax, no need to install, no need to configure.

You can download this new release at Here or Here.

NimbleX 2008 Beta has been released

NimbleX; a Slackware-based mini live CD which is able to boot from a mini CD, USB storage device or from another computer on the Local Area Network; has released the 2008 Beta version. Several things still need to be polished but overall it's an important step towards what's going to be NimbleX 2008. The most significant changes are from the technology point of view, that in the future should provide a significant increase in usability and stability.

Highlights since NimbleX 2007 are:

• Experimental Safe Installer
• Better LZM compression
• 2008 Beta is split in 5 pices
• 9 Desktop environments
• and many other things.

The Experimental Safe Installer is a very important addition for the users that was created to allow people with XP, and in the future with other distros, to make a "one key hit" safe deployment to HDD. The approach with the experimental safe installer is to avoid altering any partitions, this way minimizing the risk of damaging data and minimizing the user input to only one Enter necessary to get NimbleX on the HDD.
Using the new LZM compression I managed to squeeze a lot more stuff in NimbleX.

This beta is 16MB overweight and in the final we'll have to loose some weight to keep in the 200MB shape. NimbleX 2008 Beta is split in 5 to allow users that customize it a greater flexibility. Those that don't need a graphical environment can easily make it 50MB big.

9 Desktop environments have been added in the Beta: KDE, E17, E16, XFCE, IceWM, EDE, Fluxbox, OpenBox and TWM.

Other significant additions are: Gimp, XINE, Firefox, XMMS, GParted, ClamAV, support for RPM and DEB packages and many many other stuff. The beta has many multimedia libs added by default, but they and other stuff will probably be removed in final to slim it down to 200MB.

The KOffice package now contains all the applications but it's usability it's still the usability that KOffice always offered.
To remaster the NimbleX CD, all you have to do now is execute the remaster script from a terminal.

Download this beta release at here.

GoblinX 2.6 Mini Edition Has Been Released

The GoblinX Mini Edition is the son of GoblinX and contains only XFCE as windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications.

Main upgrades since previous release:

• Added Slax(Tomas) firewall as default.
• Added more options to Isolinux menu.
• Rebuilt Gtkdialog interfaces to not allow resize action. Corrected few errors and bugs.
• Corrected Kill button in media manager interfaces.
• Added Ghdcpd, Xrefresh, Gnome-utils and Bluez packages.
• Upgraded some libraries and packages including Xorg-server. Changed z.Goblix for z.Mini, a different GoblinX module for Mini edition.
• Corrected some Sudo issues.
• Removed Xorg default resolution.
• Removed some libraries.
• Added more services to boot.

Download this new release of light-weight, Slackware-based live CD featuring the Xfce window manager at Here.

Absolute Linux 12.1 Beta 2 is Out

New Beta release of Absolute Linux 12.1 has been released. Absolute Linux is a light-weight modification of Slackware using the IceWM window manager.

Here's the release notes of Absolute Linux 12.1 Beta 2 that its development team said:
"This is another new kernel (2.6.23.12) which I compiled with tickless (for laptop lower-power, for battery life extension). Also switched preemption model to low-latency desktop, plus the usual extra includes instead of modules for user-needed stuff like MMC (SD) cards, USB mass storage, NTFS, etc.

Other major change is for wireless - switched to wicd. Be sure to enable wicd daemon when installing if you want to use wireless, when you do this you will see the wicd tray icon next to the clock when using IceWM, you can configure wicd from there. Package highlights: GIMP 2.4.3, Firefox 2.0.0.11, GTK+ 2.12.4, libpng security fix, and about 100 other packages."

Btw, you can download this beta release at here.

First Release Candidate of Frugalware 0.8. is Out

The Developer Team of Frugalware has released First Release Candidate of Frugalware 0.8.

Frugalware Linux is an independently developed general purpose desktop Linux distribution designed for intermediate users. It follows simple Slackware-like design concepts and includes the "pacman" package management utility from Arch Linux.

Whats changed since previous version:

• Improved Splash: it now presents till the very end of the shutdown process.
• Fixed the "packages one by one" select method in the installer.
• The LiveCD now supports copy the disc to RAM if enough memory is available to free up your CD/DVD drive.
• Package updates: Kernel 2.6.23.14 + security fixes, Xorg 7.3 + security fixes, GNOME 2.20.3 and More than 300 other package updates
• New packages: etckeeper - keeps your /etc under version control, linuxwacom - support for the Wacom tablets, New Xorg drivers and More than 20 other new package

Download the ISO of this first RC of Frugal at here or here if you prefer to use Torrent.

GoblinX Micro 2.6 Has Been Released

The GoblinX Micro Edition is the smallest version of GoblinX's distribution and contains only Fluxbox as windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications. The edition is indicated for those users whose like to do fast tests, know more about Fluxbox and rebuild the Live CD.

The Micro is created mostly to help us to develop better and small applications that can be used for all small windows managers such as Fluxbox, and also prepare the Live CD without all less necessary files we can find. We also intend to use it to test Web2 and/or Ajax applications.

Main upgrades since release candidate rc01 edition:
Added Slax(Tomas) firewall. Added more options to Isolinux menu. Rebuilt Gtkdialog interfaces to not allow resize action. Corrected few errors and bugs. Corrected Kill button in media manager interfaces. Added Ghdcpd and Xrefresh. Upgraded some libraries and packages including Xorg-server. Changed z.Goblix for z.Micro, a different GoblinX module for Micro edition. Changed z.User for z.Muser, a different User settings module for Micro edition. Corrected some Sudo issues. Removed Xorg default resolution. Recompiled Fluxbox against Imlib2.

Download this release of GoblinX Micro 2.6 at Here.

VoltaLinux 2.0 has been released

Voltalinux is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and the pkgsrc package system from NetBSD. The project offers a pre-built distribution where the user can enjoy the clean design of Slackware Linux with the availability of over 5,000 NetBSD ports ready to be installed.

Now, Voltalinux 2.0 based on 2.6.21 kernel, based on slackware 12.0 and pkgsrc-2007Q3.

The main new feature is the installer !
120 packages ready to be installed (even for slackware 12.0)
As previous release it has no gui and is server oriented, most of packages are for server use: postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, pure-ftpd, mysql, hylafax, quagga, exim, maradns and many more.

You can download its ISO at here.

First Release Candidate of GoblinX Standard 2.6

The GoblinX Standard is the original edition which first ISO was released in the end of October 2004. It includes five Windows Managers: KDE, Fluxbox, Xfce, Enlightenment and WindowMaker.

What's New since release 2.0/2.5:

Upgraded all packages. Upgraded Kernel (2.6.21.3), AuFS, Linux live and Squashfs. Rebuilt Magic Center to add new features and to use with different windows managers. Rebuilt GoblinX harddisk installer to make it simple. Added more graphical interfaces. Corrected and upgraded some scripts. Removed Beryl. Compiz and Mesa are included in a separeted module.

This is the first release candidate and you can download it at here.

ZenWalk 5.0 RC 1

This release is continuing from previous beta release of ZenWalk 5.0. Main differences between BETA and RC1 are: The theme was changed back to blue/orange, as many users asked to keep the legendary "summer/beach" Zenwalk artwork spirit. Brasero has been integrated into Thunar and the volume manager, so that it is launched in the correct mode (data/audio) when a blank media is inserted. And Most bugs are fixed, course.

For who don't know, Zenwalk Linux (formerly Minislack) is a Slackware-based GNU/Linux operating system with a goal of being slim and fast by using only one application per task and with focus on graphical desktop and multimedia usage.

Zenwalk features the latest Linux technology along with a complete programming environment and libraries to provide an ideal platform for application programmers. Zenwalk's modular approach also provides a simple way to convert Zenwalk Linux into a finely-tuned modern server (e.g. LAMP, messaging, file sharing).

You can download its first release candidate at here.

DARKSTAR Linux 2008.1 Has Been Released

DARKSTAR Linux 2008.1 is an linux operating system desktop oriented and based on Slackware Linux, easy to install, configure and use, wich targets the beginners in Linux. It has a lot of easy to use GUI tools, a lot of applications of office, multimedia and games. The operating system is designed to work out of the box.

DARKSTAR Linux 2008.1 is published in DVD ISO format. You can run that DVD as a Live-System, no need to install, or install it on your hard drive.

First of all, the graphical configuration tools that our team designed, Advanced Linux Installation and Configuration Environment (ALICE), as high quality tools for your use.

Main features are:

• Yet another Linux Installer (YaLI), the graphical installer that makes DARKSTAR Linux installable in just a few quick steps.
• Disk Manager, the graphical partitioner
• X.org Setup, the graphical tool for x.org configuration.
• Network Configurator, the graphical network configuration, can be used to setup PPPoE also.
• Package Manager, the graphical package manager.
• Time Configurator, the graphical tool for timezone configuration.
• Services Configurator, the graphical startup services configurator.

Btw, you can get the ISO at here.

VectorLinux 5.9 Final GOLD Edition

The development team of VectorLinux have announced the release of VectorLinux 5.9 Final GOLD edition. This is the fruit that has resulted from several months of coding, debugging and testing by the core development team and the Vector community.
This release follows our legendary tradition of stability (inherited from SlackWare-12), blazing speed on even modest hardware and simplicity of design and function.

This release features fully working browser plugins including Flash, java, mp3, real media, Windows media, pdf and Quick time. Additional features include: X.org 7.3, Linux kernel 2.6.22.14, fully customized Xfce 4.4.2, Fluxbox, Jwm, SeaMonkey Internet Suite 1.1.7, Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Opera 9.5.0 beta1 (so you'll be sure to have your favorite browser!). Abiword and Gnumeric for your office tasks.

We include our own suite of GUI configuration and support tools such as Vasm, Vwifi and Gslapt. There is a full set of the latest wireless drivers and configuration tools, support for read and write to ntfs via fuse and ntfs-3g.

We have games lots of games. Printers, scanners and cameras are supported as well. Popular programs like Amarok, OpenOffice, kde-3.5.8 and many others are available in our repository which currently boasts well over a thousand of the most popular linux applications and support software.

Other news with this release is VLpackager, an easy way to package source code into usable binary packages and at long last a GUI control center dubbed VasmCC. We also have a modified version of cruxports for those wishing to easily build software that may not have made it to the repository yet.

For who don't know Vector Linux, it is a small, fast, Intel based Linux operating system for PC style computers. The creators of Vector Linux had a single credo: keep it simple, keep it small and let the end user decide what their operating system is going to be. What has evolved from this concept is perhaps the best little Linux operating system available anywhere.

For the casual computer user you have a lightening fast desktop with graphical programs to handle your daily activities from web surfing, sending and receiving email, chatting on ICQ or IRC to running an ftp server.

The power user will be pleased because all the tools are there to compile their own programs, use the system as a server or perhaps the gateway for their home or office computer network. Administrators will be equally as pleased because the small size and memory requirements of the operating system can be deployed on older machines maybe long forgotten.

Btw, you can download the ISO of this final release at here.

GoblinX Micro 2.6 rc01 Has Been Released

The GoblinX Micro Edition is the smallest version of our distribution and contains only Fluxbox as windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications. The edition is indicated for those users whose like to do fast tests, know more about Fluxbox and rebuild the live CD.

"The Micro is created mostly to help us to develop better and small applications that can be used for all small windows managers such as Fluxbox, and also prepare the livecd without all less necessary files we can find. We also intend to use it to test Web2 and/or Ajax applications.. " the development team said.

The first ISO released for the 2.6 series, GoblinX Micro includes several upgrades and corrections. Xorg is upgraded to the newest version, also several applications were upgraded and several small bugs are corrected. It also introduces some small graphical interfaces to be used for Fluxbox.

You ca download GoblinX Micro 2.6 at here.

BlueWhite64 Linux Mini Live Edition

The developers of Bluewhite64 Linux, a Slackware-based distribution for 64-bit processors, have announced the availability of a new "miniLive" edition of their product, BlueWhite64 Linux 12.0 Mini Live.

Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 miniLive (257MB) runs entirely from CD or USB stick and includes packages from Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0, the updated packages from the patches directory and a few custom created one. The miniLive was created using Linux Live scripts 6.1.5 and uses the AuFS (another unionfs) and Squashfs LZMA.

Features:

• SMP Linux Kernel version 2.6.23.8
• X.org 7.2
• KDE 3.5.8
• IA32 emulation (run 32-bit CLI and GUI programs)

Internet:

• Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 (flash ready) and Konqueror (Java ready) web browsers
• Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 and Kmail 1.9.7 email clients
• Pidgin 2.2.2 multi-protocol Instant Messaging client
• Xchat 2.4.2 IRC chat program
• Ktorrent 2.2.3 BitTorrent client
• Akregator 1.2.8 RSS feed aggregator

Graphics

• Gimp 2.4.1 Image Editor
• Kuickshow 0.8.13 Image Viewer
• Kpdf 0.5.8 PDF Viewer
• ksnapshot 0.7 Screen Capture Program

Multimedia

• Mplayer 1.0.0-rc2 Movie Player
• Noatum 2.10.0 Media Player
• K3B 1.0.4 CD& DVD Burning

Office

• Koffice 1.6.3
• Kword - Word Processing
• KSpread - Spreadsheets
• Kpresenter - Slide Presentations

Package manager

• Swaret 1.6.3 (CLI)
• QtSwaret qtswaret-0.1.5.3 (GUI)

and many more!

Download this mini Live CD at here or at here.

Vector Linux Standart 5.9 RC 1 has released

The Vector Linux founder, Robert Lange has announced the first release candidate of VectorLinux 5.9.

Vector Linux is a small, fast, Intel based Linux operating system for PC style computers. The creators of Vector Linux had a single credo: keep it simple, keep it small and let the end user decide what their operating system is going to be.

What has evolved from this concept is perhaps the best little Linux operating system available anywhere. For the casual computer user you have a lightening fast desktop with graphical programs to handle your daily activities from web surfing, sending and receiving email, chatting on ICQ or IRC to running an ftp server.

The power user will be pleased because all the tools are there to compile their own programs, use the system as a server or perhaps the gateway for their home or office computer network. Administrators will be equally as pleased because the small size and memory requirements of the operating system can be deployed on older machines maybe long forgotten.


As said in its release notes of Vector Linux 5.9:

"We are proud to release the RC1 of VectorLinux 5.9 standard. We should not be to far away from a final at this point. We want to be looking at the overall usability of this release and where we can make improvements in the user experience. This includes squashing remaining bugs and improving the package mix. With this release we updated Firefox, SeaMonkey, Opera and the GIMP to their latest. We improved on the artwork (subject to discussion) and added a few software selections to balance the usability. We did some major code clean-ups to the init system and udev for faster boot-up and shut-down speeds. The development team is very pleased with this release we think you will be too."

You can download the ISO of this release at here.

GoblinX Mini 2.5 Final Release

The Final "Mini" edition of GoblinX 2.5 has been released. Its a Slackware-based live CD featuring the Xfce desktop.

The GoblinX Mini Edition is the son of GoblinX and contains only XFCE as windows manager and GTK/GTK2 based applications.

GoblinX is a bootable live CD distribution based on Slackware Linux. The primary goal for GoblinX is to create a more pleasant and functional desktop, standardising all icons and themes to make it easy for novice users to learn about available applications.

Main upgrades since release candidate v.01:

• Added script to use module on the fly from Thunar/Nautilus
  
• Upgraded gtkKeyboard Layout, gtkSource, gtkHDInstall
  
• Upgraded Media Manager and added new policies to HAL and Ivman
  
• Added a hidden Ivman home folder because other applications need to save settings
  
• Added Xbindkeys and configured special keys
  
• Corrected sudo/su and shadow errors
  

You can download GoblinX Mini 2.5 at here.

Absolute Linux 12.1.0 Beta 1 Has Released

First beta of Absolute Linux 12.1.0 that based on the recently updated Slackware 12.0 modification has released.
This is a beta release because it is based on Slackware-current. The base system, utilities and integration are actually superior to anything in the 12.x series so far, but it is possible that there can be package incompatabilities between Slackware 12.0 releases and Absolute 12.1x.

Includes support back to Intel Pentium CPUs; this means you should be able to install on an old Intel Pentium-1 or a AMD K6-2 machine. You will need at least 48MB of RAM. Suggested minimum hardware requirements are a Intel Pentium II and 64MB RAM. If things run slow, turn off the auto-mounting option.

The default Auto-mouting of connected devices (CDs, USB sticks, external drives...) is unique in that devices are not automatically mounted, but icons of the devices appear in a panel hidden UNDER the taskbar. When you want to look, click the arrow on the right of the taskbar; that bar will slide off to the right, and connected devices appear on the lower panel.



Single-click on an icon for the default action, else right-click for a menu. (For example, an audio CD will have "Play", "Rip" and "eject" listed.) You can also have the devices truly auto-mounted, with icons popping up on the desktop, by selecting the appropriate options in the DevTray preferences. For VOLUMES > PREFERENCES, choose MOUNTING auto mount and under pinboard show icons on the pinboard.

You can download it at here.

black | route, The Security and Forensics Analysis Linux

black | route is another security and forensics analysis linux distribution for x86 compatible architectures. The goal of the project is to create a GNU/Linux distribution for advance users, texttools lovers, network, security specialist and system administrators. It was originally based on Slackware.

Future releases are base on xlike kernel patchset, xlike and blackroute teams are collaborated to give users more possibilities under one root.

Being an Open Source project without corporate background and without funding, the BlackRoute Linux project is always looking for new contributors to help with development, web design, translations, support, spreading the word, and more.

Lapwing Linux, a mini Slackware

Lapwing Linux is Slackware based "lite" desktop distribution. Lapwing-Linux is a distro thats not full of bloat and fat but includes all the software needed to be useful.

Lapwing don't restrict the user to having just what we give them, it make it easy to add, remove and rip to shreds everything if the user wants to.


Highlights of Lapwing are:

• Easy to learn; for all computer users, from expert Windows users to computer newbies
• Easy to administer; it shouldn't be a chore to get new software or configure it
• Easy to tinker; understandable options and scripts, let the user decide how things work
• Easy to recover; in case the user does foul it up, easy to get something working again
• Easy to blow up; just kidding :-)

The different Lapwing-Linux from all the other GNU/Linux distros as author said are:

It doesn't use the current development model of "freezing" packages for a release; the core packages (such as glibc, GCC, UDEV etc) are frozen to ensure stability, but all packages "above" this are renewed as and when needed.

You can download Lapwing at here.