Latest Distro Releases and Advisories

Tuesday, June 29th, 2004
by Lockergnome

Latest releases from Distrowatch

” ROCK Linux 2.0.2 (codename ‘wildlife’) was released to the public. The release is a maintenance release - and so includes a number of security fixes and minor version updates pulled from the development tree. Due to always active work on non-x86 ports this time with full boot CD on Sparc64 (Ultra SPARC) and IBM RS/6000 (RS/6k) support! The changes from 83 changesets, include about 37 fixes, 27 updates and 21 additions.” changelog (which includes download locations)

Buffalo Linux 1.3.1

” This major release brings Buffalo fully compatible with Slackware 10.0 and provides additional enhancements. These include: new desktop improvements, new Buffalo GUI ‘admin’, improved CD upgrade option, kernel 2.6.7, OpenOffice 1.1.2, GIMP 2.0.2, GNOME 2.6.1, GCC 3.3.4, Mozilla 1.7… a total of 59 package upgrades. New builds of MySQL, Scribus, GAIM, and others. With this release the Buffalo new version cycle is expected to slow down. Future version releases will track new kernel versions or major package updates.” buffalo-1.3.1.iso (691MB)

DragonFly BSD 1.0 RC1

” Changes and features include: variant symbolic links, UDF support, lightweight kernel threads, message passing, GCC 3.4 in the tree, binutils 2.14, Kernighan’s awk 2004-02-07, BIND 9.2.4 rc4, CVS 1.12.8, libpcap 0.8.3, tcpdump 3.8.3, less 381, MMX/XMM kernel optimisations are now on by default, greatly improving bcopy/bzero/copyin/copyout performance for large (>4K) buffers, new installer program, XIO, acpica5, new AC’97 codec support, network stack revamping, long standing bug fixes for wide variety of support and stability issues, and way, way, way more.” dfly-1.0RC1.iso.gz (76.8MB)

Quantian 0.5.9.2

” Second release based on Knoppix 3.4. New packages: qemu (a fast emulator), as well as a variety of Debian ’science’ packages: kalzium, celestia, starplot, openbabel, chemtool, xtide, viewmol, achilles, blast2 and two more calculators (gcalctool, galculator). Several bioinformatics package from Matt Hope’s site: bioperl, biopython, hmmer, emboss, as well as python-reportlab. Experimental support for BioConductor…. ” Download: Quantian_0.5.9.2.iso (1,222MB)

Latest Packages:

thunderbird � 0.7.1 | firefox � 0.9.1 | synaptic � 0.51 |
freetype � 2.1.9

Latest Advisories from Linux Today

SECURITY: Gentoo Linux Advisory: mit-krb5

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