Development Release: Fedora 11 Alpha

The first test build of the upcoming Fedora 11 is out: "The Fedora project is proud to present the availability of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Alpha. The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with testing Fedora 11 by way of Rawhide." Some of the more interesting features of this release include: "Windows Cross Compiler (mingw32-*); ext4 and Btrfs file systems, mew volume control; PackageKit firmware support; GNOME 2.26 development snapshot, KDE 4.2 RC 2 and Xfce 4.6 Beta; NetBeans 6.5, Python 2.6, Git 1.6.1.1." Read the release announcement and release notes for more information. Download the installable live CD images from these Fedora mirrors or via BitTorrent: F11-Alpha-i686-Live.iso (636MB, SHA1, torrent), F11-Alpha-i686-Live-KDE.isoSHA1, torrent), F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live.iso (641MB, SHA1, torrent), F11-Alpha-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (703MB, SHA1, torrent). (698MB,

Development Release: Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 4

Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the fourth alpha build of Ubuntu 9.04, code name "Jaunty Jackalope": "Welcome to Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 4, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.04. It includes a number of software updates that are ready for large-scale testing." New features: "Updated packages; the latest X.Org server, version 1.6; font dot-per-inch settings are now optimized based on your monitor's capabilities; new style for notifications and notification preferences; Linux kernel 2.6.28; option of installing on the new ext4 file system, ext3 remains the default." Read the release announcement and release notes for further details and known issues. Download (MD5): jaunty-desktop-i386.iso (690MB, torrent), jaunty-desktop-amd64.iso (695MB, torrent). Most other Ubuntu sub-projects have also released new alpha images; these include Kubuntu (download, release notes), Xubuntu (download) and Ubuntu Studio (download).

NVIDIA System Tools v6.03

NVIDIA System Tools with ESA Support
Version: 6.03
Release Date: 09.01.2009
Operating System: Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit,
Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit
Language: English (International)
File Size: 62.32MB

NVIDIA System Tools v6.03

Dox Optimised nVidia 185.20

There is alot of interest in this driver so here is it from me. I still recommend my 181.22.1 or 180.84.1 since these were leaked and may not be as stable.
So don't blame me if you have strange problems . I tried to improve this where I can so checkout the release notes:

Release Highlights
-Supports all mobile cards from 6-GT100 series and quadro equivalent
-Added numerous OpenGL and DirectX performance and Image quality tweaks
-Options to install for Quality/Balance/Performance driver settings
-Added extra resolutions
-Optimised drivers

-Fixed sleep issue (not 100% sure it will work for everyone)
-Unlocked ambient occlusion setting in the Nvidia control panel (not 100% sure if all users will see this setting - Vista DX10 cards only?)
-Turned on Powermizer where it may have been disabled by default.

Download Links

XP_185.20 -20.9mb

Vista_185.20 -22.1mb
Vista64_185.20 -30.1mb

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