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Wubi 8.10

macyzhu — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:03:46 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 5 days, 11 hours ago

Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. It allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application. If you heard about Linux and Ubuntu, if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you.... more

SimplyMEPIS Linux 8.0 RC 1

gnuclear — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:01:52 +0000

submitted by gnuclear 1 week, 2 days ago

ProMEPIS Linux is a Linux OS based on Ubuntu that can be run from your CD drive without installation. Where it shines is its easy, 100% "point and click" installation, and automatic detection of not only "normal" computer hardware but also popular webcams, the latest wireless network cards, "Winmodems" that usually work only with Windows, digital cameras, scanners, and other devices. The difference between SimplyMEPIS and ProMEPIS is that SimplyMEPIS will continue to be a freely available desktop MEPIS bootable CD and ProMEPIS will designate an upcoming multi-CD packaged version of MEPIS.... more

Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 2

macyzhu — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:01:55 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 2 weeks, 2 days ago

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability (it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of support for every release. Ubuntu ships with the latest Gnome release as well as a selection of server and desktop software that makes for a comfortable desktop experience off a single installation CD.... more

RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2 Update Pack 2.2.4

asmith — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:03:30 +0000

submitted by asmith 2 weeks, 5 days ago

RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP2 Update Pack is designed to bring a Windows XP CD with SP2 integrated fully up to date with all of the latest hotfixes released by Microsoft since SP2's release. It accomplishes this task via direct integration, where files on the CD are directly overwritten by the updated files. This method has numerous advantages over other integration techniques.... more

Kubuntu 9.04 Alpha 1

gnuclear — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:04:35 +0000

submitted by gnuclear 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Kubuntu uses the solid base of Ubuntu plus the latest KDE. They are part of the Ubuntu community and use their infrastructure and support. It includes some of the best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the Free Software community has to offer, to make Kubuntu usable by as many people as possible.... more

openSUSE 11.1

macyzhu — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:03:13 +0000

submitted by macyzhu 2 weeks, 6 days ago

openSUSE provides everything today's Linux user needs for home computing and computing-on-the-go. This product includes a Linux operating system plus dozens of essential integrated tools that showcase the latest that open source has to offer.... more

VirtualBox 64-bit AMD Processors 2.1.0

asmith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:11:43 +0000

submitted by asmith 3 weeks ago

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Only on Windows x64.... more

VirtualBox 2.1.0

asmith — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:11:17 +0000

submitted by asmith 3 weeks ago

SLAX 6.0.9

Akimoto — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:01:53 +0000

submitted by Akimoto 3 weeks, 5 days ago

SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. It runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing. The Live CD is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and uses Unification File System, allowing read-only filesystem to behave as a writable one, saving all changes to memory.... more

Slackware Linux 12.2

MGSolid — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:02:16 +0000

submitted by MGSolid 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking "UNIX-like" system. It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.3.4 (libc6). It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menu-driven package system. A full installation gives you the X Window System, C/C++ development environments, Perl, networking utilities, a mail server, a news server, a web server, an ftp server, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, Netscape Communicator, plus many more programs. It can run on 486 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines (but uses -mcpu=i686 optimization for best performance on i686-class machines like the P3, P4, and Duron/Athlon).... more

Microsoft Office 2004 11.5.3

macyzhu — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:10:26 +0000

submitted by macyzhu on 09-12-2008

This update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance. In addition, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.... more

Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2

Alligator — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:06:11 +0000

submitted by Alligator on 05-12-2008

Windows Vista introduces a breakthrough user experience and is designed to help you feel confident in your ability to view, find, and organize information and to control your computing experience. The visual sophistication of Windows Vista helps streamline your computing experience by refining common window elements so you can better focus on the content on the screen rather than on how to access it. The desktop experience is more informative, intuitive, and helpful. And new tools bring better clarity to the information on your computer, so you can see what your files contain without opening them, find applications and files instantly, navigate efficiently among open windows, and use wizards and dialog boxes more confidently.... more

lastest changes

Update to Windows Vista that addresses feedback from customers

Process Manager 1.0.112 Beta 1

bchick — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:03:06 +0000

submitted by bchick on 03-12-2008

Process Manager is comparable with Windows Task Manager. If you have it installed on your PC is will ease your control over foreground processes and will let you terminate all heavy/multimedia programs with just two clicks.... more

VMware Player 2.5.1.126130

beta — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:01:20 +0000

submitted by beta on 24-11-2008

VMware Player is free software that enables PC users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. VMware Player runs virtual machines created by VMware Workstation, GSX Server or ESX Server and also supports Microsoft virtual machines and Symantec LiveState Recovery disk formats. VMware Player is ideal for safely evaluating pre-built application environments, beta software, or other software distributed in virtual machines. With VMware Player, anyone can easily experience the benefits of preconfigured products rapidly without any installation or configuration hassles.... more

lastest changes

Japanese localization â€” A localized version of VMware Player is now available in Japanese for Windows hosts
Smart card support for Linux guests â€” Smart cards are now experimentally supported with Linux guests
Unity mode on Linux guests â€” Although support for Unity mode on Linux guests is still experimental, repainting of application windows is much improved
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Damn Small Linux 4.4.10

Akimoto — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:08:06 +0000

submitted by Akimoto on 18-11-2008

Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution. It includes a fully automated remote and local application installation system and a very versatile backup and restore system which may be used with any writable media including a hard drive, a floppy drive, or a USB device. It has a nearly complete desktop, and many command line tools. All applications are chosen with functionality, size and speed in mind. It includes XMMS (MP3, CD Music, and MPEG), FTP client, Dillo web browser, links web browser, FireFox, spreadsheet, Sylpheed email, spellcheck (US English), a word-processor (FLwriter), three editors (Beaver, Vim, and Nano [Pico clone]), graphics editing and viewing (Xpaint, and xzgv), Xpdf (PDF Viewer), emelFM (file manager), Naim (AIM, ICQ, IRC), VNCviwer, Rdesktop, SSH/SCP server and client, DHCP client, PPP, PPPoE (ADSL), a web server, calculator, generic and GhostScript printer support, NFS, Fluxbox window manager, games, system monitoring apps, a host of command line tools, USB support, and pcmcia support, some wireless support.... more

ReactOS 0.3.7

gnuclear — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:02:56 +0000

submitted by gnuclear on 05-11-2008

ReactOS is an open source effort to create a Windows NT 4/2000/XP+ compatible operating system licensed under the GNU public license. In partnership with the WINE project, ReactOS also supports drivers which work under Microsoft Windows.... more

lastest changes

Improved x64 architecture support
The start of a real MSVC compiler support project
Kernel improvements and bug fixes in quite a few parts: Configuration Manager, IO Manager, KE, Memory Manager, Object Manager, Process Manager
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Linux Kernel 2.6.27.3

Arthas — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:03:19 +0000

submitted by Arthas on 23-10-2008

Linux Kernel is the essential part of Linux, responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, and basic file system management.... more

Fedora Linux 10 Build 2

gnuclear — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:02:01 +0000

submitted by gnuclear on 21-10-2008

The Fedora Project is an openly-developed project designed by Red Hat, open for general participation, led by a meritocracy, following a set of project objectives. The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year, with a public release schedule. The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in building Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than in past releases. By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the open source community.... more

LinuxMCE 0710 RC 2

gnuclear — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:04:11 +0000

submitted by gnuclear on 01-10-2008

LinuxMCE is a free, open source add-on to Kubuntu including a 10' UI, complete whole-house media solution with pvr + distributed media, and the most advanced smarthome solution available. It is stable, easy to use, and requires no knowledge of Linux and only basic computer skills.... more

lastest changes

Added support for amd64
Added support for mixed amd64/i386 mdâ€™s
Added support for 1080p resolution. It works great with the masking UI, but itâ€™s slow with alpha blended UI
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VMware Fusion 2.0 Build 116369

DoubleEagle — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:03:22 +0000

submitted by DoubleEagle on 16-09-2008

VMware Fusion is a great way to run Windows, Linux, or Solaris at the same time as Mac OS X - without rebooting. Built from the ground up for the Mac, it leverages nearly a decade of virtualization expertise to harness the full power of your Mac hardware.... more

RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP3 Update Pack 1.0.0a

beta — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:06:05 +0000

submitted by beta on 28-08-2008

RyanVM's Windows XP Post-SP3 Update Pack is designed to bring a Windows XP CD with SP2 integrated fully up to date with all of the latest hotfixes released by Microsoft since SP2's release. It accomplishes this task via direct integration, where files on the CD are directly overwritten by the updated files. This method has numerous advantages over other integration techniques.... more

Almeza MultiSet 6.0 Build 115

asmith — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:06:27 +0000

submitted by asmith on 16-07-2008

Almeza MultiSet automates installation of any version of Windows, complete with all the latest service packs, patches and security updates. It installs a pre-configured, ready-to-use operating system to all computers in your organization. Save weeks of monotonous work by installing and configuring all required applications completely unattended.... more

Nexenta 2.0 Alpha 1

beta — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:18:30 +0000

submitted by beta on 18-06-2008

Nexenta is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. It contains Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP, Firefox, Evolution, software update manager, Synaptic package manager, Gaim Instant Messenger, abiword, administration & development utilities, editors, graphics, GNOME, interpreters, libraries and many others. All of this is running on the state-of-the-art SunOS kernel.... more

lastest changes

3392 packages ported over just two weeks of Hardy Hackathon Fest! This includes latest dpkg/apt, gcc, binutils, coreutils, perl, python, ruby, Qt libs, GTK libs, etc you name it.
Based on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
100% native Debian environment, easy to upgrade, easy to use

Debian 5.0 Beta 2

Akimoto — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:03:33 +0000

submitted by Akimoto on 10-06-2008

Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux. Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 18733 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.... more

Windows Post-Install Wizard 6.5.1

beta — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:04:35 +0000

submitted by beta on 09-06-2008

Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI) is a hypertext application designed for giving users choice. While Windows XP offers many ways of customizing the setup process out of the box, its major drawback is the lack of being able to select which applications an end user may install. In the past, end users and administrators needed to either download the files manually, or create overly complex scripts that could only be used once. This allows you to create one image, which can then be custom configured, and optionally, automated, so that end users can install any applications that have been configured into WPI.... more