7 Ağustos 2008 Perşembe

Development Release: gOS 3.0 Beta "Gadgets"

gos The developers of gOS Linux have released what they call a "Gadgets" edition of their product, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a variety of Goolge Gadgets and other desktop enhancements: "gOS 3 'Gadgets' instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, introducing over 100,000 possible iGoogle and Google Gadgets to the desktop. Google Documents, Calendar, and Mail launch in Mozilla Prism windows to closer resemble desktop applications. The newest release of Wine 1.0 is included to support thousands of Windows software for our advanced users. gOS 3 'Gadgets' is based on the solid Linux distribution base of Ubuntu 8.04.1. It is the third and the best version of the Linux OS that debuted at Wal-Mart stores less than one year ago." Visit the distribution's product page to read the release announcement. Download: gos-base-8041-20080806.iso (688MB).

Development Release: Linux Mint 5 RC1 "KDE"

mint The first release candidate for the KDE Community edition of Linux Mint 5 is out and ready for testing: "Linux Mint 5 'Elyssa' KDE Community edition RC1 (BETA 045) was released today. This is the first beta release of the KDE Community edition for Linux Mint 5, codename 'Elyssa', based on 'Daryna' and compatible with Ubuntu 'Hardy' and its repositories. Note: this is not a KDE 4 desktop. The packages and kernel were updated to be on par with Ubuntu 8.04.1. Mint applications: mintInstall, mintWifi, mintUpdate, mintAssistant, mintUpload (done via Konqueror). Known issues: the release notes link on the first page of the installer does not open Firefox; if you use a separate partition for /boot you will not get a graphical boot; because of compatibility problems PulseAudio was not included in this release...." Read the full release announcement and release notes for more details. Download: LinuxMint-5-KDE-BETA-045.iso (1,192MB, MD5).

Development Release: Fedora 10 Alpha

fedora Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the alpha release of Fedora 10, the first development milestone leading towards the stable distribution release in late October 2008: "In an ongoing effort to prevent premature kitten death, the Fedora Project is ecstatic to present the availability of Fedora 10 (Cambridge) Alpha. Test now, make it better now, keep Cambridge on schedule, and protect the kittens in the future. Some highlights: many improvements, bug fixes, and enhancements from upstream; new graphical boot environment; wireless connection sharing; audio improvements to remove glitches; security audit tool; improved webcam support; better IR remote control support; RPM 4.6; OCaml; Haskell." See the release announcement and release notes for further information. A set of live and installation media is available for download from Fedora mirrors or via BitTorrent: Fedora-10-Alpha-i686-Live.iso (697MB, SHA1, torrent), Fedora-10-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.iso (689MB, SHA1, torrent), Fedora-10-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso (701MB, SHA1, torrent), Fedora-10-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (693MB, SHA1, torrent).