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Release Digest: Distributions, November 28, 2004

Distribution: QiLinux Live!
Release: 1.0
Announcement: [ Thanks to Francesca for this information.
]

The first live version of QiLinux is available on www.qilinux.it!. QiLinux is the first
Linux distribution 100% made in Italy from scratch.

QiLinux live! 1.0 can be executed from CDROM without any
installation and will let you evaluate the capabilities of the
QiLinux desktop as well as being a useful instrument for your
computer.

Here are the features of QiLinux live! 1.0:

  • Kernel 2.4.27 and 2.6.9
  • KDE 3.3.1
  • On boot network configuration for ethernet interfaces
  • On boot filesystems automatic detection (support for Linux and
    Windows FAT16/32 and NTFS)
  • On boot configuration of the graphical server Xorg 6.8.1
  • Automatic detection of sound cards
  • Cups print server with thousand of printer drivers
  • Automatic detection of USB external drives (e.g. flash
    memories)
  • ACPI and APM support
  • English and Italian language supported

Here are the main applications that are in the CDROM ready to
use:

  • All KDE applications from network, graphics, multimedia, games,
    pim, admin and addons packages
  • OpenOffice 1.1.3 with KDE integration
  • Smb4k for lan browsing
  • Kaffeine media player and libdvdcss
  • Firefox 1.0 web browser
  • dcqui-qt,lopster and BitTorrent p2p applications
  • Java 2 runtime environment
  • k3b for CD/DVD burning
  • partimage for partitions backup
  • qtparted for partitions management
  • audacity, an audio streams recorder/editor
  • frozen bubble, an arcade game
Download Link:

The iso image can be downloaded
here
. The image che be downloaded from one of our mirrors
(downloads)
for faster downloads.


Distribution: BeatrIX Linux
Release: November 04
Announcement: ” BeatrIX started life in August as a live-CD based on Debian
and Knoppix. Before releasing what we foolishly called 0.1b —
foolish because it was more like a 0.8 — we researched and worked
on BeatrIX for a year. In other words, unlike some other
distributions of Linux that start life half-baked, we’re a
corporation that has paid programmers and we will make our money by
consulting to businesses. BeatrIX will remain open-source and
free…”

Full Announcement
Download Link: Download
Page

Distribution: Buffalo Linux
Release: 1.5.1
Announcement: “Buffalo Linux 1.5.1 is a bug fix and update release to version
1.5.0. Included are 23 base package updates and 31 extra package
updates. Major package updates include: ICEWM-1.2.17, Samba-3.0.8,
ALSA-1.0.7…”
Full
Announcement
Download Link: Download
Page

Distribution: AUSTRUMI
Release: 0.9.1
Announcement: “AUSTRUMI is a business card size (50MB) bootable Live CD Linux
distribution. Imagine the ability to boot your favorite Linux
distribution whether you are at home, at school or at work…”
Full
Announcement
Download Link:
Download Page

Distribution: Puppy Linux
Release: 0.9.7
Announcement: “Puppy version 0.9.7 released. Puppy live-CD ISO file with
Firefox is 54.0M, or with Opera is 50.2M. Release notes:

  • Puppy now has the Gaim instant messenger client, version 1.0.2,
    with support for IRC, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN and Jabber.
  • There is a new paint program called mtPaint.
  • Puppy has a new internal HTML file viewer, called phv. This is
    a Tcl/Tk application, that uses the tkhtml widget…”

Full
Announcement

Download Link: Download
Page

Distribution: ParallelKnoppix
Release: 2004-11-26
Announcement: “Beautify configuration: There’s now a ParallelKnoppix entry in
the KDE menu. Click there, and it should be easy enough to follow
the instructions to get it configured. Tutorial will be updated
next week…”
Full Announcement
Download Link:
ISO Download

Distribution: Vine Linux
Release: 3.1
Announcement: Full Announcement (in
Japanese)
Download Link: Download
Page

Distribution: Kalango Linux
Release: 3.0
Announcement:Full Announcement (in
Portuguese)
Download Link: Download
Page

Distribution: Feather Linux
Release: 0.6.2
Changelog:
  • Added ‘wakeonlan,’ a tool to send Wake-on-LAN packets
  • “Included a custom resolution option in the X setup script
  • “Made some small mplayer changes…”

Full
Changelog

Download Link: Download Page

Distribution: Linux Netwosix
Release: 1.2
Announcement:
“The system has been completely rebuilt, now
assures a high security for your network. Linux Netwosix 1.2
resolves all the critical problems discovered into releases 1.0 and
1.1 and now could be considered like one of the most important
distribution in this field thanks to its lightweight and clear
structure and now it’s more configurable and secure…”

Full
Changelog

Download Link: Download Page

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