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Ich sehe gerade Selur Purzelbäume schlagen...

Yup die Tage im englischen Forum schon gesehen, interessant wird es aber erst richtig, wenn die ersten Leute anfangen Plugins zu portieren.

Mageia 2 erschienen

Relase Notes: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Release_Notes

Downloads: http://www.mageia.org/de/downloads/

Fedora 17 freigegeben

http://fedoraproject.org/

Kororaa 17 Beta erschienen

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The first beta release of Kororaa 17 (codename “Bubbles”) has been released and is available for download, in 32 and 64 bit versions for KDE and GNOME. This new release includes major updates of most packages including the kernel (3.3.7), office and desktops (KDE 4.8 and GNOME 3.4).

https://kororaa.org/2012/06/korora…-beta-released/

Download: https://kororaa.org/download/#development

ZevenOS 2.5 erschienen

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This release comes with Kernel 3.3.4 with lots of patches and drivers. As usual and for the last time we ship two official variants: 1. Full Edition with KDE 4.8.3 and 2. our Minimal Edition with LXDE and E17. The Full Edition comes with Chromium 18, Icedove 10, Gimp 2.8, KDEnlive 0.9.2, Amarok 2.6, VLC 2.0.1 and many more updates. We ship with the latest and greates multimedia codecs preinstalled aswell as the flashplayer. For wireless diagnosis we ship Wireshark, Aircrack-ng and kismon. We added RAID support to our default system aswell as LVM support in the advanced installer. We added templates for the panel Layout in KDE. For our Minimal Edition we added E17 as lowmemory alternative to LXDE and ship Iceweasel 10 ESR, Icedove 10, Gnome-Mplayer 1.0.6, Deadbeef 0.5.1 and pcmanfm 0.9.10.
Both editions now come with a adjusted GTK3 Theme for running GTK3 applications.

Download: http://www.zevenos.de/download

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Ich sehe gerade Selur Purzelbäume schlagen...

nicht nur Selur :ani_lol:

ROSA LXDE 2012 LTS

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Dear friends, we are glad to announce the release of our community LXDE-edition -- ROSA LXDE 2012 LTS. The distro is based on ROSA Marathon packages and is 100% compatible with it.

Software versions (Based on ROSA 2012 Marathon with extended 5-year technical support):

kernel 3.0.28 lts
lxpanel based on lxpanelx with some improvements from ROSA
pcmanfm 0.9.10
Libre Office (Writer and Calc)
main European locales
Firefox 10
vlc 2
deadbeef 0.5.2
LXDE Control Center
audio/videocodecs by default.

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http://www.rosalab.com/
ROSA LXDE: http://www.rosalab.com/blogs/rosa-lxde-2012-lts

Kororaa 17 erschienen

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Kororaa 17 (Bubbles) released

It is my pleasure to announce the release of Kororaa 17 (codename “Bubbles”) which is now available for download. Although I delayed this release by two weeks, unfortunately only half a dozen or so mirrors have currently synchronised the ISO images. Please be patient with slower downloads until the rest complete. Thank you.

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Features
Derived from Fedora 17, this release comes with the usual Kororaa extras out of the box, such as:

Tweaked KDE and GNOME base systems
Experimental support for Cinnamon desktop in GNOME
Third party repositories (Adobe, Chrome, RPMFusion, VirtualBox)
Firefox as the default web browser (with integration theme for KDE)
Firefox extensions enabled (Adblock Plus, DownThemAll, Flashblock, Xclear)
Instant messaging client (Kopete for KDE, Empathy for GNOME)
Microblogging client (Choqok for KDE, Gwibber for GNOME)
Full multimedia support (excluding Flash, see next)
Adobe Flash plugin installable via package manager
Jockey device manager to handle drivers such as ATI and NVIDIA
Video editor (Kdenlive for KDE, OpenShot for GNOME)
VLC as the default media player
SELinux enabled (particularly worthwhile for Flash)
English (Australian/British) support & dictionaries
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http://www.kororaa.org

MATE 1.4 erschienen

http://www.mate-desktop.org

Frugalware 1.7 (Gaia) erschienen

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The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.7, our seventeenth stable release.
No new features have been added since 1.7rc2, but 157 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.6 in no particular order:

Updated packages:
- Linux kernel 3.4.8
- XOrg server 1.12.3
- GNOME 3.4
- KDE SC 4.9
- LibreOffice 3.5.4.2
- Mozilla Firefox 14.0.1 to name a few major components.

slocate was removed and replaced by mlocate
catalyst has dropped support for all ATI Radeon HD hardware before the 5000 series
cpupower package has replaced all CPU scaling daemons
all packages that still used sysvinit have been converted to use systemd
grub1 has been replaced by grub2

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Download: http://www.frugalware.org/download

Frugalware 1.8 (Cinna) erschienen

https://localhost/www.frugalware.org

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The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.8, our eightteenth stable release.
No new features have been added since 1.8rc2, but 157 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.7 in no particular order: Updated packages:

- Linux kernel 3.7.5
- XOrg server 1.13.2
- GNOME 3.6
- KDE 4.9
- LibreOffice 3.6.3.2
- Mozilla Firefox 18.0.1
to name a few major components.

video decoding acceleration is now enabled in most multimedia applications
cpu scaling should now work out of the box on i686 and x86_64
cpupower is now only needed to modify the default cpu scaling settings
mesa 7.11 drivers revived to support hardware that mesa upstream dropped support for
utf8 is now the default locale encoding for new installs and upgrades...

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Download: http://www.frugalware.org/download

Fedora 19 sorgt für kleine Katastrophen

Erst ein Umlaut, und dann auch noch ein Apostroph im Release-Namen ... dass "Schrödinger's Cat" nebenbei auch noch für ein Quantenparadoxon steht, fällt dabei nicht mal mehr ins Gewicht, wenn die Auswirkungen auf den Fedora-Bugtracker und GRUB schon bedenklich handfest sind; immerhin haben Apostrophe oder Anführungszeichen je nach Variante teilweise deutlich unterschiedliche Wirkungen in Linux-Konsolen.

Kurz darauf fragte man sich schon, ob es den Aufwand wert sei, die Veröffentlichung bis zur Prüfung und Korrektur aller denkbaren Tools anzuhalten, oder doch lieber einfach wieder zur Beschränkung auf einfache lateinische Buchstaben in Release-Namen zurückzukehren.

Und wie das mit Problemen dieser Größenordnung so ist, gibt es immer einige Trolle, die das Thema extrapolieren und für das nächste Release gleich die Verwendung von Unicode-Zeichen empfehlen, bis hin zu Emoji-Zeichen...

LWN-Artikel (via Fefe)

Frugalware 1.9 (Arcturus) erschienen

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The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.9, our nineteenth stable release.
No new features have been added since 1.9rc2. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 1.8 in no particular order:

- Updated packages: Linux kernel 3.10.17, XOrg server 1.14.2, GNOME 3.8, KDE 4.11, LibreOffice 4.1.2.3, Mozilla Firefox 22.0 to name a few major components.
- netconfig has been replaced by NetworkManager
- frugalwareutils has been replaced by the new fvbeutils
- vi binary symlinks are now configurable, used to be hardcoded to their packages
- old display-manager-legacy.service has been dropped for the new systemd method of individual service files
- console keymaps and x11 keymaps are now managed by the systemd method

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Download: http://www.frugalware.org/download

Ubuntu hat nun auch Kernel 3.11 im Programm, auch für die Version 12.04 LTS (= "Long Term Support").

Leider ist diese Kombination wohl nicht ausreichend getestet: Die Kernel-Treiber für nvidia-304 oder nvidia-319 mögen sich da nicht bauen lassen (DKMS make.log), weil "ein leerer Wert nicht ignoriert wird, wie er sollte". Anscheinend kein unbekannter Fehler.

Fedora 20 (Heisenbug) erschienen

http://fedoraproject.org/

Download: http://fedoraproject.org/de_CH/get-fedora

In der aktuellen c't 19/2014 werden noch mal die gängigeren Distributionen und bevorzugten Desktop Manager verglichen.

Fedora 21 erschienen

https://getfedora.org/de_CH/workstation/

Fedora KDE, MATE, Xfce, LXDE usw.: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/de/

Lxqt 0.8 für Fedora 21 in den offiziellen Fedora-Paketquellen verfügbar

http://lxqt.org/

An manchen Stellen zwar erst "halbfertig", aber zumindest weitestgehend ausreichend stabil um so einigermaßen damit zu arbeiten.

yum install -y lxqt* pcmanfm-qt5

DistroWatch berichtet darüber, dass systemd mittlerweile den Linux-Kernel forkt. Die üblichen Verschwörungstheoretiker hatten das bereits vorausgesagt...

Also entweder es ist bald April, oder...

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We are systemd. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.