ClarkConnect 5.0

The full list of changes is available in the developer change log — highlights include:

• Upgrade to CentOS 5.x
• Complete LDAP integration
• Protocol filtering
• Improved bandwidth management
• Mail quarantine
• Improved Windows integration:
  • Roaming profiles
  • Recycle bin support
  • File auditing

Download: community-5.0.iso (595MB).

CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01

As the version number suggests, it is based on Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. As with all previous releases, 9.04.01 has been built from scratch using the Ubuntu MinimalCD.

For the first time, CrunchBang Linux is available to download in both 32 and 64-bit builds. The addition of the 64-bit (amd64) builds were a major contributing factor to the delay of this release, although the end result was worth the extra development time. Other noticeable changes as a result of moving to the latest stable Ubuntu release include:

• Much improved boot performance with faster start-up times.
• Improved support for wireless cards.
• Ext4 filesystem support.

Download:
crunchbang-9.04.01.i386.iso (621MB), crunchbang-9.04.01.amd64.iso (674MB), crunchbang-lite-9.04.01.i386.iso (427MB), crunchbang-lite-9.04.01.amd64.iso (437MB).

Frugalware Linux 1.1 Pre 2

A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.1pre1:

• Improvements:
  • An x86_64 flash plugin is now part of the default installation.
  • Just a FYI in case you are using the ext3 filesystem, which is our current default: though we ship the latest stable kernel, we did not switch the default value of the ‘data’ option to ‘writeback’, the feature which still makes ext3 seem more robust than ext4 at the time of writing. See here for more information.
• Package updates:
  • GNU C library 2.10.1
  • Linux kernel 2.6.30
  • Xorg 7.4 with xorg-server 1.6
  • GNOME 2.26.3
  • Xfce 4.6.1
  • GCC 4.4.0
  • More than 980 package updates
  • More than 100 new packages

frugalware-1.1pre2-i686-dvd1.iso (4,277MB, torrent).

PC-BSD 7.1.1

Version 7.1.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements from PC-BSD 7.1, including KDE 4.2.4, improvements to printing support, Xorg Server 1.6.1, and much more.

Download: PCBSD7.1.1-x86-DVD.iso (2,030MB, torrent), PCBSD7.1.1-x64-DVD.iso (2,028MB, torrent).

FreeBSD 8.0-BETA1

The first public test build of the FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE test cycle is now
available, 8.0-BETA1. Through the next week or so more information
about the release will be posted but here is the current target schedule
for the other ‘major events’:

BETA2: July 13, 2009
BETA3: July 20, 2009
RC1: July 27, 2009
RC2: August 17, 2009
RELEASE:August 31, 2009

Download: 8.0-BETA1-i386-dvd1.iso (531MB), 8.0-BETA1-amd64-dvd1.iso (636MB).