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Entries Tagged ‘distro’

New recovery OS updates

Yesterday, August 3rd, two Linux recovery operating systems received minor updates: my favorite, RIPLinuX (10.7) and another OS which I wrote about a while ago, Parted Magic (5.2). The changelog files show these new releases include bug fixes, minor enhancements and updated versions for the main packages (e.g. partitioning tools). Changelog for RIP LinuX: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/Changelog [...]

SystemRescueCD

Yet another recovery OS has been updated this month. SystemRescueCD 1.5.8 is a minor update (the 2nd release in 3 weeks) to provide new standard kernels (2.6.32.16), alternative kernels (2.6.34.1) and a new version of the gparted package. Although I’m not a big fun of it (I prefer RipLinux) I wanted to give it a [...]

Fedora 11 coming closer

Just a quick reminder: Fedora 11 Beta is due tomorrow, March 31th (one week later than the initial schedule). The feature list is almost 100% completed and I must say I’m impressed with it so far (I’m running Rawhide as I said before). Here’s two more screenshots:

Fedora 11 preview

Fedora 11 Alpha came out a month ago, 2 days later than the initial schedule, and it has recently entered its “Feature Freeze” state. Codenamed Leonidas, Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 25th and it includes a large number of new features (most of them have already been approved). I’ve been using [...]