I am pleased to announce the availability of the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1!
Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you'll find better support for RAID, LVM, and cryptsetup; a network capable (FTP and HTTP, not only NFS) installer; two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: KDE 3.5.9, the latest version of the award-winning K Desktop Environment, and Xfce 4.4.2, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing and easy to use desktop environment; SMP Linux Kernel 2.6.24.5 and 2.6.25.1 (for testing) with advanced features and performance; Fuse 2.7.3 and ntfs-3g 1.2310 read/write NTFS driver; SCIM 1.4.7 (Smart Common Input Method); an updated IA32 Emulation (run 32-bit programs) in the EXTRA software series, and may more improved and upgraded packages. Read the
Official Announcement for more details.
Please consider purchasing the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 DVD directly from the following stores:
store.bin-sh.ro (RO) and
on-disk.com (USA) and you'll be helping to support the continued development of Bluewhite64 Linux!
The Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 CDs and DVD ISO can be downloaded from the
primary mirror located in Austria, or
any other additional mirror sites near you. Also, the ISOs are available for download via
BitTorrent.
Special thanks to Patrick J. Volkerding, for creating and keeping alive Slackware Linux, to Lucian for providing xServers mirror, to Peter Polonkai for the deval.hu mirrors, to the people from the Bluewhite64 Linux forum and all others who are using Bluewhite64! Thank You and I hope that you will enjoy this new release!
We are reached the second release candidate of the upcoming stable release of Bluewhite64 12.1 Linux. Since the first RC, we have upgraded the Linux Kernel to version 2.6.24.5, added the latest stable Linux Kernel 2.6.25 in to the testing area and made it available as a test.s kernel during installation. Also, added the IA32 emulation for those who need to run 32-bit programs, this can be found in the extra software repository. Many other small cosmetic fixes has been merged. Please see the
ChangeLog for more details.
There is a DVD iso available for download from the
primary mirror,
other mirrors should be updated soon.
Also, you can download via
BitTorrent too.
Please TEST, TEST and TEST as much as you can and post the possible problems to the forum
Enjoy!
The Bluewhite64 Linux --current development tree reached the first release candidate status. There are still some work to do like adding a test kernel for the final release and update the IA32 emulation. Right now there is no ISO provided, the RC2 may have one
. If you like to create an ISO please read this How To:
http://data.bluewhite64.com/bluewhite64-current/isolinux/README.TXTPlease read the
ChangeLog to see what new features was added; test as much as you can an post the bugs to the
Bluewhite64 Forum. Happy testing!
Introducing Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 Flash, the world first flash pen drive which include both Server and Desktop software.
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 Flash is based on a recently released
Bluewhite64 12.0-LiveDVD-r1 and includes the updated packages from the Bluewhite64 12.0 patches directory which fixes one or more possible security issues, an updated Linux Kernel 2.6.24.2 with advanced features and performance, the newly added "changes" feature which allows you to save changes to the pen drive or a HDD Linux partition, an updated version of ALICE 0.9.13, and may more.
Please visit the
Bluewhite64 12.0 Flash page for more details. Enjoy!
I am pleased to announce Bluewhite64 12.0-Live-DVD-r1, a maintenance release of the Bluewhite64 12.0-LiveDVD version.
Many packages have been updated and new features added. Merged updated packages from the Bluewhite64 12.0 patches directory which fixes one or more possible security issues, the kernel has been updated to the latest stable version 2.6.24 including tickless system support, Virtualization, more wireless drivers support and many more (details can be found
here). Also, another important features of this releas are KDE 3.5.8 in 65 languages, MPlayer 1.0rc2 media player and ALICE (Advanced Linux Installation and Configuration Environment) with six GUI managers, wrote in QT, which will help you to easily manage different system settings.
Please read the
LiveDVD ChangeLog for a complete list of changes and the
Bluewhite64 Linux LiveDVD page for more details about this release. And, don't miss the screenshots from our
image gallery . Enjoy!
The
linuxtracker.org, which keep the Bluewhite64 torrents, changed his site and back end, so, all Bluewhite64 torrents need to be recreated and uploaded with a new announce address. At the
Get Bluewhite64 section you will find the new torrents for the Bluewhite64 Install DVD and CD`s. The miniLive torrent is also updated and can be downloaded from the
Bluewhite64 miniLive page. The LiveDVD is not yet updated because I'm working on a new version, Bluewhite64 12.0-LiveDVD-r1, which will be released after the 2.6.24 kernel is out. If you seeding using old version of torrents they are still working until February 1'st and I recommend you to download the new ones and save over the existing ISOs. In this way you keep seeding alive to the new Bluewhite64 users. Thanks!
There is a new
FTP and
HTTP mirror for Bluewhite64 Linux project at the
Romanian Education Network (RoEduNet). Thank you!
I have the joy of announcing Bluewhite64 miniLive, a 257MB LiveCD including the latest stable kernel version 2.6.23.8, X.org 7.2, KDE 3.5.8, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.9 web browser and Thunderbird email client.
For download and a complete list of features please see the
Bluewhite64 12.0-miniLive page.Enjoy miniLive!
I'm happy to announce that the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 LiveDVD is ready for download!
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 Live DVD runs entirely from DVD and includes all packages from Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 (except the Y and KDEi software series) and the updated packages from the patches directory. Also, in addition to this version, I have included extra packages created by the Bluewhite64 Linux community. Thanks to all for such a great work!
More details about this release can be read at the
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 Live DVD page.
Starting from today, you can buy personalized Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 DVD and Bluewhite64 12.0 CDs from
http://on-disk.com. Thanks to on-disk.com for offering a new way to fund and keep developed the Bluewhite64 Linux project.
Get
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 DVD and
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 CDs.
Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 includes the Linux 2.6.21.5 kernel with the IA32-emulation enabled, the testing Linux 2.6.22 kernel in the testing/ directory with support for IDE, SATA, SCSI and RAID controllers, Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, XFS and IBM`s SGI filesystems, SCSI and ATA RAID volume, Software RAID, LVM2 (the Logical Volume Manager), KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and encrypted file systems. Also, Bluewhite64 12 includes the GCC 4.1.2 compiler and Glibc 2.5 with NPTL (Native POSIX Thread Library), six window managers including the latest KDE 3.5.7 and XFce 4.4.1, updated development tools, the Subversion version control system, the Mozilla Firefox browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 email and news client, SeaMonkey 1.1.2, Apache 2.2.4 webserver with php 5.2.3, Mysql 5.0.37 and much more.
The
official announcement has more details about Bluewhite64 12.0 advanced features and enhancements.
For a complete and detailed list of changes since Bluewhite64 11.0, check out the
CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT file or the Bluewhite64 12.0
Changelog.
Download CD and DVD ISO images using the primary mirror:
http://mirror.inode.at/data/bluewhite64/bluewhite64-12.0-iso/Metalink (Thanks
Anthony Bryan )
http://www.bluewhite64.com/metalink/bluewhite64-12.0-install-dvd.iso.metalinkOr, download using Torrents:
Install CD #1, #2 and #3 -
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=4335Install DVD
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=4334Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 screenshots can be found
here.
This release brings 6 install CD ISO images and one DVD ISO image.
CD ISO`s content:
* install CD #1 - first bootable installation disk
(A, AP, D, K, L, N, T, TCL , isolinux/ and kernels/ directories);
* install CD #2 - second install CD
(E, F, KDE, X, XAP, Y, extra, usb-and-pxe-installers);
* install CD #3 - third install CD (KDEi and extra/);
* source CD #4 - (pasture/ and source/);
* source CD #5 - (testing/ and source/);
* source CD #6 - (source/);
If you want to support the Bluewhite64 Linux project development, you can make a small donation using Paypal:
Enjoy using Bluewhite64 Linux !
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