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Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005 is available! Posted by David Pierron on 04-13-2005 at 18:14 Following the recent new roadmap announcement, Mandriva (pronounced "Man-dree-vah"!) Linux Limited Edition 2005 is a transitional release between 10.1 Official and 2006 Official which will be released by the end of this year. Limited Edition 2005 is the ideal product for Linux users who need the most up-to-date and exciting features at the earliest opportunity, without sacrificing stability and performance. Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005 is immediately available for all Club members and contributors and provides: - Linux kernel 2.6.11.6 - KDE 3.3.2 (with some backports from version 3.4, including kpdf) - GNOME 2.8.3 - Firefox 1.0.2 - GCC 3.4.3 - The GIMP 2.2 - Cdrecord 2.01.01a21 (with DVD+R dual-layer support) - OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 - MySQL 4.1.11 - and many others! Limited Edition 2005 is built to increase amd optimize performance: it has been designed with x86-64 technology in mind and has support for dual-core technology, allowing the use of the most powerful applications on advanced new processors. Special optimizations also enhance the overall speed delivered by the system. For instance, KDE is 10% faster, thanks to special tuning by Mandriva! Limited Edition 2005 also provides better support for removable devices such as digital cameras, CD-ROM drives and USB keys through immediate detection of devices as they are plugged in, and by allowing you to boot the installation from a USB key. Additionally, this release offers full support for Adaptec Host RAID controllers (RAID, SCSI, SATA) and extended recognition for the most recent flat screen monitors, including widescreen resolutions. Additionally, the support of the XBox console will certainly appeal to gamers and enthusiasts! Also available is DKMS which allows kernel modules to be dynamically built for each kernel on your system in a simplified and organized fashion. Mandriva Club members and Mandriva's contributors have immediate access to LE 2005 through Bittorrent or HTTP download! If you are not yet a Mandriva Club Member, subscribe now: http://www.mandrivalinux.com/en/club Limited Edition 2005 is also available for preorder as a DVD set at the price of 65 USD (59 euros). Preorder your DVD at: http://store.mandriva.com/product_info.php?cPath=88_97&products_id=217 Discover all the features of Limited Edition 2005 at: http://www.mandriva.com/products/limited-edition A free download version of Limited Edition 2005 will be made publicly available at a later date. Mandriva Online Team. ------------------------------------------------------------------ All Mandriva products & services: http://www.mandrivastore.com?fnl=20050413 Join the Club! http://www.mandrivalinux.com/en/club/?fnl=20050413 (0) Comments FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE is now available Posted by David Pierron on 01-25-2005 at 13:08 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:02:10 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE is now available The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Legacy development branch. Since FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE in May 2004 we have made conservative updates to a number of software programs in the base system, dealt with known security issues, and made many bugfixes. For a complete list of new features, known problems, and late-breaking news, please see the release notes and errata list, available here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.11R/relnotes.html http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/4.11R/errata.html FreeBSD 4.11 will become an "Errata Branch". In addition to Security fixes other well-tested fixes to basic functionality will be committed to the RELENG_4_11 branch after the release. Both Security Advisories and Errata Notices are announced on the freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list. This is expected to be the last release from the RELENG_4 branch. Most of the Developers are now focused on the RELENG_5 branch, or on the cutting edge development in HEAD. For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please see: http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/ Availability ------------ FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE supports the i386 and alpha architectures and can be installed directly over the net, using bootable media, or copied to a local NFS/FTP server. Distributions for both architectures are available now. Please continue to support the FreeBSD Project by purchasing media from one of our supporting vendors. The following companies will be offering FreeBSD 4.11 based products: FreeBSD Mall, Inc. http://www.freebsdmall.com/ Daemonnews, Inc. http://www.bsdmall.com/freebsd1.html If you can not afford FreeBSD on media, are impatient, or just want to use it for evangelism purposes, then by all means download the ISO images. We can not promise that all the mirror sites will carry the larger ISO images. At the time of this announcement they are available from the following sites. MD5 checksums for the release images are included at the bottom of this message. Bittorrent ---------- As with the 5.3 release we are experimenting with Bittorrent. A collection of trackers for the release ISO images is available at http://people.freebsd.org/~kensmith/4.11-torrent/ FTP --- ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp3.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp5.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp11.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.at.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.au.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.ca.FreeBSD.org/ ftp://ftp2.ch.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.cz.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.de.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.ee.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.es.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.fi.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.fr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.ie.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.is.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp8.jp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.kr.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.lt.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.nl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.no.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp5.pl.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp3.ru.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.se.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.sg.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.si.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.sk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp2.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp6.tw.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp.uk.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp6.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ ftp://ftp10.us.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ FreeBSD is also available via anonymous FTP from mirror sites in the following countries and territories: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and the United States. Before trying the central FTP site, please check your regional mirror(s) first by going to: ftp://ftp.<yourdomain>.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD Any additional mirror sites will be labeled ftp2, ftp3 and so on. More information about FreeBSD mirror sites and the current list of all active mirror sites can be found at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html For instructions on installing FreeBSD, please see Chapter 2 of The FreeBSD Handbook. It provides a complete installation walk-through for users new to FreeBSD, and can be found online at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Acknowledgments --------------- The FreeBSD Developers deserve the most thanks. Without their efforts FreeBSD would not exist. Many companies donated equipment, network access, or man-hours to finance the release engineering activities for FreeBSD 4.11 including The FreeBSD Mall, Hewlett Packard, Yahoo!, Sentex Communications, and NTT/Verio. The release engineering team for 4.11-RELEASE includes: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Security John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, I386 Release Building, Mirror Site Coordination Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Release Engineering, Documentation Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> Alpha Release Building Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Package Building Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Package Building Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Security Officer Paul Saab <ps@FreeBSD.org> Bittorrent Coordination A few people put in more than their fair share of last-minute work. This includes Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org> who did a lot of work on the linux_base-8 package integration, and Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> who did a lot of package rebuilding thanks to a few recent security issues in some key packages. CD Image Checksums ------------------ For Alpha: MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc1-gnome.iso) = 3f0f49a9c7067f398ca0b47fd21234eb MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc1-kde.iso) = b4c83df8e979741c7972f379154360aa MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso) = 8fd241bab99fed226ef71184ed0b0b38 MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso) = 3280b9e34fd26db7ce0dd24f1a05e7b4 For i386: MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-gnome.iso) = 80c6b06b83432efc6cbe1cff3ebd893f MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc1-kde.iso) = 84921fe6b6b4bfd3f7011788985d34e2 MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso) = 73553999f9f8e2e49222ba14e8ecbde5 MD5 (4.11-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso) = 28b006bcdf5df8b8b7e8f1831085cdae -ken (0) Comments Mdklinux Flash NWL: Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64 is now ava Posted by David Pierron on 01-14-2005 at 13:13 Flash: Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64 is now available to Mandrakeclub Silver and above members Here's a little present from Mandrakesoft that's bound to keep a lot of people busy during the winter holidays: Mandrakeclub Silver (and above) members can now download Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64. This version of Mandrakelinux has been optimized to take advantage of 64-bit Intel and AMD processors, and comes with a number of brand new features. Highlights * Everything from 10.1 Official, including BlueTooth support * Support for Intel EM64T CPU's * Hyper-threading and Dual Core technologies * Blackdown.org Java VM 1.4.2-01 for x86-64 * Support for Macromedia Flash content * Enhanced Virus Protection ("NX bit") technology. This will protect your system against "buffer overflow" attacks. * Mixed software sources. You can install and use 32-bit software seamlessly. Start your download now: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=3104 Not a Mandrakeclub member yet? Find out more: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/club Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64 is also available as a boxed set. It includes : * One DVD * Two Manuals (English) * One month of Web support * A one-month subscription to the Mandrakeonline updating service * A one-month subscription to Mandrakeclub (Standard level) Mandrakeclub members get discounts: 20% Standard, 25% Silver and above! Order it now: http://www.mandrakestore.com To learn more about Mandrakelinux 10.1 for x86-64, see: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/101/x86-64 The Mandrakesoft Online Team. ------------------------------------------------------------------ All Mandrakesoft products & services: http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club! http://www.mandrakeclub.com (0) Comments FreeBSD 4.11 Release end of January 2005 Posted by David Pierron on 01-11-2005 at 12:29 Announcement ------------ The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 4.11-RC2. This is the second of three scheduled Release Candidates. A schedule for the Release Cycle is available at: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.11R/schedule.html We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be identified and worked out. Availability of ISO images and support for doing FTP based installs is given below. If you have an older system you want to update using the normal CVS/cvsup source based upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_4_11. Problem reports can be submitted using the send-pr(1) command. At the moment there are no known severe issues. However the Linux Emulation subsystem (mostly added as a package) has been completely updated based on RedHat 8.0. We would appreciate people testing the Linux emulation support. In particular testing to see if linux applications continue to behave correctly if the linux_* packages get installed while using sysinstall(8) during the initial installation of the machine. The package set for disc1 is still being decided on, what is on disc1 for this RC will most likely change before the release. Changes since RC1: - two fixes to the handling of virtual memory - disable network port randomization based on rate of connections - add support for the 5721 to bge(4) - fix for fxp(4) on interfaces that do not use the 82557 chipset - add em(4) to adapters available on Alpha - a few small fixes to sysinstall(8) - lots of documentation fixes Availability ------------ The RC2 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html The MD5s are: MD5 (4.11-RC2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 9606b3cd476525cd61372028e8eefac8 MD5 (4.11-RC2-alpha-disc2.iso) = ac300ed53ab87df85b75e78c1a55a9ff MD5 (4.11-RC2-i386-disc1.iso) = 2fd3ed54059b85d67c649f25077a3b94 MD5 (4.11-RC2-i386-disc2.iso) = 3c5b12451bee9597cf310b4e39891f0d MD5 (4.11-RC2-i386-miniinst.iso) = 40d03c42d2bf490a8f98b76725e2abe9 -ken (0) Comments Linux burnfest ... Posted by David Pierron on 10-08-2004 at 16:53 I have downloaded, burned to CD and installed the following Linux distros: Slackware 10, Debian 3, Mandrake 10 Official, Fedora Core 2 and Gentoo 2004.2 ... http://www.slackware.org http://www.debian.org http://www.linux-mandrake.com http://fedora.redhat.com http://www.gentoo.org (0) Comments