Saturday, February 25, 2012

Mageia 2 first beta version has been released

Originated in France and forked from Mandriva, The Mageia is now independent and community based project for developing a Linux based Operating System. Anne Nicolas said the released of first beta version of Mageia 2. The main new features of it are stable glibc 2.14.1, Linux Kernel 3.2.6, KDE 4.8.0, GNOME 3.3 [3.4 will be in final release], PCmanFM 0.0.10, Amarok 2.5, Cantata 0.3.0 music player etc.



It available on both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. And comes with many desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, Wmaker, IceWM. Mageia is also available in server and LiveCD mode. This is non-profit organization which aims to provide best Linux operating system.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

PCLinuxOS 2012-2 "Phoenix Xfce" has been released

PCLinuxOS is very user-friendly Linux operating system which gives you a out-of-box experience by giving most of driver in-built. PCLinuxOS is originally forked from Mandriva but now it is independent and very popular due to the wide range of the its desktop environment like GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Openbox, Fluxbox, Enlightenment, IceWM.





PCLinuxOS 2012 "Phoenix" has been updated to version 2 in Xfce desktop environment on 20th Feb, 2012. Linux Kernel is 2.6.38.8 and Xfce version is 4.8.3, X.org 1.10.4, Mesa 7.11.2 and many other updates like 3D support for most Intel and N-VIDIA graphics cards and theme update also. 
 

Saturday, February 18, 2012

OpenSUSE 12.2 milestone 1 has been released

Milestone 1 of the OpenSUSE 12.2 is available for download with minor changes like in Mozilla Firefox and major changes is that the KDE 4.8 is used and also new artwork is there. Kim Leyendecker announced the milestone 1 release of OpenSUSE 12.2 version.



The main changes is reflected in 12.2 milestone 1 which were modified from OpenSUSE 12.1. There are some bugs is in milestone 1 so be patient because this version is for testing. We can say that this version is starting of development of OpenSUSE 12.2.

Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS has been released

Kate Stewart announced the availability of the fourth maintenance update of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS [long term support]. This version include the updates for desktop, servers and alternatives CDs and DVDs for i386 and amd64 both architecture. This version is more stable and more bugs were fixed in this version.




Here also Kubuntu 10.04.4 has also been released and available for download for i386 and amd64 architectures. The next LTS version is Ubuntu 12.04 which will be release in Apr, 2012. After that you can suggested to transfer on that.