The PLD project has announced the release of PLD Linux Distribution 2.0, designed for 6 architectures (i386, i586, i686, Athlon, AMD64, and PowerPC).
Category Archives: Linux 64-bit
A new development release of 64 Studio (version 1.3.0), a Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools - is now available.
“Our latest development release (1.3.0) is the very first to be based on a stable release of Debian, the recent Etch release. This means that users should be able to add any packages they need from official Debian mirrors, including security updates, without breaking their systems. The forthcoming 64 Studio 2.0 release will retain compatibility with Etch, to create a long-lived and stable creative desktop. New packages in this release include Ardour 2 beta 12 and Xara. The serious bug with sample rate setting for USB audio interfaces in the 1.2.0 release has been fixed”, 64 Studio’s team says.
Canonical LTD. today released Ubuntu 7.04 Linux operating system, code-named Feisty Fawn, which is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit PC versions, as well as for PowerPC, OpenPower/Power5 and Sun UltraSPARC based computers.
“Ubuntu is the award-winning Linux distribution for the desktop, laptop, thin client and server which brings together the best of open source software every 6 months. Ubuntu 7.04 desktop edition includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support,” the press release says.
Mandriva has announced the release of Mandriva Linux 2007.1, named “2007 Spring”.
Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring, which is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, integrates the latest innovations in the fields of office suite applications, Internet, multimedia and virtualization technologies, according to Manriva’s team.
Debian Project announced last week the Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 operating system, codenamed “etch”, which is the first version officially supporting 64-bit AMD64 and Intel EM64T.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 includes a number of updated software packages from previous version, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.5a (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.14, the Xfce 4.4 desktop environment, the GNUstep desktop 5.2 and X.Org 7.1.
CentOS 5.0 Linux distributon was released yesterday. The announcement says it’s available for both for the i386 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) architectures.
CentOS is built by recompiling source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Arch Linux 0.8 “Voodoo” had been released last week.
The Voodoo ISO images for i686 and x86_64 are ready for download at Arch Linux download page.
Arch Linux team has also announced that this Linux distribution is changing its name to Ark Linux.
AMD has released Proprietary Linux Graphics Driver 8.35.5 for ATI video cards, including driver version for Intel EM64T and AMD64 platform architecture.
This release of the AMD Catalyst Linux Graphics Driver software suite, aimed for ATI Radeon, ATI Mobility Radeon, ATI FireGL, and ATI Mobility FireGL GPUs, introduces the Beta version of the AMD Catalyst Control Centre: Linux Edition to replace the FireGL Control panel.
It resolves the issue found on certain notebooks using AMD ATI GPUs.
Sabayon Linux 3.3 has been released recently. This Linux distribution, based on Gentoo Linux, is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Sabayon Linux 3.3 - New Features and Improvements
• Sabayon Linux kernel sources based on 2.6.20 featuring wireless-dev, unionfs, squashfs 3.0, Afatech 9005 support, MacTel enhanced support
• Both systems completely recompiled with new LDFLAGS that give an extra performance boost and reactivity
• Featuring both software raid support and dmraid 1.0
• GeeXbox has been updated to 1.1rc1 waiting for the upcoming 2.0 release.
• Gentoo Portage import freeze was on the 20th of January, 2007
• Complete artwork redesign to meet the new marketing strategy
• Faster boot time thanks to massive startup optimizations
• Created the basis to the yet highly experimental eINIT support trough the selection of the accelerated init system using (accel_init=/sbin/einit)
• Featuring HAL 0.5.9 and D-Bus 1.0.2 for an out-of-the-box laptop experience
• X.Org 7.2 featuring AIGLX and Composite support
• Beryl 0.2.0r2 supporting XGL, AIGLX and NVIDIA Composite extension
• NVIDIA Drivers 9755 and 9631 (legacy - automatically triggered - to disable append nvidia=disablelegacy to the boot prompt. To force 9631, append nvidia=forcefail instead) sporting our runtime linking feature
• Support for the latest NVIDIA GPUs like GeForce 8800 GTX
• ATI Drivers 8.34.8 sporting our runtime linking feature
• ATI GPU detection improved for X600, X700, X8xx video cards
• Metisse 0.4 Technology Preview ONLY for GNOME and KDE desktops
• Outstanding wireless support thanks to the drivers imported from the wireless-dev linux kernel git tree (sporting the cutting edge DeviceScape IEEE802xx stack) and to a much more integrated NetworkManager stack
• Outstanding NTFS support in read/write mode thanks to NTFS-3G 1.0
• Fonts rendering highly improved on all the Desktop Environments (fonts look sharp and clean now)
• The award winning Acceleration Manager has been rewritten using Qt 4.2 and it’s 2x times faster than the old one (latest release is 1.3.2)
• KDE 3.5.6 with Sabayon Linux integration patches
• GNOME 2.16.2 with a highly improved Sabayon Linux integration
• New Games on the DVD! (removed Quake4 and added Sauerbraten - aka Cube 2 - and Battle of Wesnoth)
• Get Live Help extended to the shell using irssi (you can run “get-live-help” without X.Org, chat with us and get helped, LIVE!)
• New Virtualization Support stack featuring: KVM-12 (fully supported), libvirt and Virt-Manager GUI (Technology Preview ONLY)
• Music Edition is now enabled by default (you’ll hear a nice music made by Tryad on Jamendo.org during the Live boot - CC License)
• Sabayon Linux Installer is now about 25% faster on fresh installations and 10% faster on upgrades
• 6th Sense Install upgrades now could be considered much more ironed out and tested but still EXPERIMENTAL
• New users creation after install will have the new Sabayon Linux default look
• Automatic and out-of-the-box video card auto-reconfiguration after install: if you’ll upgrade your PC to a new video card, the system will auto-reconfigure X.Org automatically
• Finally we have a LVM Management GUI imported from RH - system-config-lvm
• Language Configuration Helpers have been rewritten and ironed out
• Mozilla applications language autoconfiguration now works nicely
• Added Safe Internet Browsing Helpers to easily enable/disable Tor/Privoxy stack after install on GNOME, Ephipany, KDE, Konqueror, Mozilla applications and Opera. See /sbin/safe-browsing-setup
• Netscape Flash now works out-of-the-box on Firefox, Konqueror and Opera browsers
• Tons of stability fixes.
The Frugalware Developer Team announced the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6, the sixth stable release of this Linux distribution which is available in bot 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
Nero has announced Nero Linux 3 with 64-bit support at CeBIT 2007 show.
“The new version of the definitive burning application for Linux OS added Blu-Ray and HD DVD data recording support as well as an improved graphical user interface (GUI) that is similar to the current Nero Burning ROM 7 edition. In addition to Blu-ray and HD DVD burning capabilities, Nero Linux 3 will also natively support 64-bit systems, as well as Unicode in all languages currently supported in Nero 7. Many Linux distributions will be supported in the new upgrade including Red Hat Enterprises, Fedora Core, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Linspire,” and Mandriva After Dawn reports.
NVIDIA has updated the Display Driver for 64-bit Linux operating sytem. The new 1.0-9755 version brings support for NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600 graphics cards under Linux, as well as initial support for NVIDIA SLI with GeForce 8800, Quadro FX 4600, and Quadro FX 5600 cards.
NVIDIA’s latest Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver supports both desktop and notebook-use video cards. You can download the driver at company’s official webiste.
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team announced the FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. This release continues the development of the 6-STABLE branch of this Unix-like free operating system, providing performance and stability improvements, bug fixes and new features, according to Team.
Some of the highlights are freebsd-update, which provides officially supported binary updates for security fixes and errata patches, experimental support for CAPP security event auditing, OpenBSM audit command line tool suite and library, KDE updated to 3.5.4, GNOME updated to 2.16.1, csup integrated cvsup client now included, disk integrity protection and authentication added to gel, and many driver updates.
FreeBSD 6.2 is available for different 64-bit and 32-bit platforms.
More info and download: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
MEPIS released Beta 1 of its SimplyMEPIS-64 (64-bit) Version 6.0-4 last week. The launched SimplyMEPIS-64 Beta 1 Linux distribution release features a security-patched 2.6.15 kernel and the KDE 3.5.3 desktop, as same as Firefox 2.0.0.1 browser with Flashplayer 9, OpenOffice 2.0.2 office suite, and support for the newest sound chips and Apple hardware.
The 64-bit version of SimplyMEPIS offer the same advanced hardware autodetection, multimedia integration, and easy-to-use installer that is included with the 32-bit edition, the company claims.
Technalign released its new Pioneer Linux operating system to the community. The first release is the 32-bit version to be followed immediately by the 64-Bit version. The released community edition includes many features found previously in Frontier and is available for download at the www.tapioneer.com. The Pioneer 32- and 64-bit include Firefox 2.0, Thunderbird and Kmail email clients, OpenOffice.org, K3b for CD/DVD burning and other.
Technalign has partnered directly with Canonical and is using Kubuntu/Ubuntu as the base. Pioneer is a derivative of Ubuntu and not a fork.
The commercial versions have minor differences between the free version. Individuals may choose from either the free version or a boxed set available from the over 600 Technalign partners in the US and Canada. The boxed set, of course, comes with support while the free version is supported via the community on the TaPioneer website. CrossOver Office is included with several of the boxed sets allowing the end-user the ability to run their favorite Windows applications.
Pioneer EX, or Extended, will be available in the next several weeks as a beta. Plans for Pioneer on Apple G3, G4, and G5 processors is expected shortly as well.
