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Coyote Linux
Coyote Linux Personal Firewall was a personal firewall distribution of Linux designed for the purpose of protecting a personal or educational network. In addition to being designed to have very low hardware requirements, Coyote Linux was able to provide the performance and uptime that was expected from any Linux based system. This firewall product was licensed for personal and educational use and was available free of charge.
Status: Discontinued
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| 2021-12-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Pop!_OS 21.10 |
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Pop!_OS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu and developed by Sysetm76. The distribution's latest version is Pop!_OS 21.10 which includes initial support for Raspberry Pi computers. The release announcement shares other changes and features: "Previously when navigating to Applications, a full screen Application Wall would appear. In Pop!_OS 21.10, the Application Library opens in a small, searchable window over your current workspace. Like the former view, the Application Library can be opened from the top bar, a 4-finger swipe right on the trackpad, or by using Super + A on your keyboard. What this means for you: Better multi-monitor experience: The Application Library will launch on the display that has your mouse focus. This way, you can keep your eyes on your current workspace and launch the application on the display you intended. Easy scanning: Alphabetical listing makes it easier to scan and find the application or folder you want. Simple app organization: Drag and drop applications into custom folders. The new folders are always visible, and act like tabs to move between your personally organized applications. Search: Quickly filters your installed applications as well as apps available to install from the Pop!_Shop. Just the right size: Achieves the same information density while using much less space. The Application Library provides the optimal experience, especially on ultra-wide monitors." Pop!_OOS is available in Intel/AMD, NVIDIA, and Raspberry Pi editions. Download (SHA256) (pkglist): pop-os_21.10_amd64_intel_3.iso (2,513MB), pop-os_21.10_amd64_nvidia_3.iso (2,976MB). |
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| 2021-12-14 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Kaisen Linux 2.0 |
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Kaisen Linux is a rolling release, Debian-based desktop distribution. the project has published Kaisen Linux 2.0 which moves the base to Debian's Testing (Bookworm) branch. The project has also dropped the LXDE interface for LXQt. "Kaisen is now based on Debian Bookworm (Debian 12), also justifying the version number change. Among the most important things done on this new release, a complete overhaul of the menu with new, nicer and more modern icons, simplification of the menu and removal of about 15 launchers among the basic commands (such as mount and umount for example), new implementation of Btrfs snapshot tools, new tools dedicated to Cloud engineers! Many new packages have been packaged for the distribution for this, software such as Terraform, Trivy, Kubernetes, k6, k9s... LXDE has been replaced by LXQt because it is more modern and more compatible with Kaisen configurations such as Conky (which is now unique for all interfaces). LXDE is still installable, but will no longer be provided by default via an ISO or installed via the net-install ISO. The kaisen-lxde metapackage will no longer be installable and will be removed from the repositories when Kaisen Linux is upgraded to 3.0. This will leave at least 1.5 years for users to migrate to another interface." Further details are available in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): kaisenlinuxrolling2.0-amd64-MATE.iso (4,118MB), kaisenlinuxrolling2.0-amd64-KDE.iso (4,519MB), kaisenlinuxrolling2.0-amd64-LXQT.iso (4,057MB). |
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| 2021-12-14 |
NEW • Development Release: Linux Mint 20.3 Beta |
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The Linux Mint project has published a new development release. Linux Mint 20.3 Beta introduces dark theme support for the Hypnotix video streaming application and presents a new document manager called Thingy. "The Hypnotix IPTV player looks better than ever, thanks to Dark Mode support and a new set of flags. A new search function was added so you can easily find TV channels, movies and series. In addition to M3U and local playlists, the IPTV player now also supports the Xtream API. Linux Mint 20.3 introduces a brand new XApp called Thingy. Thingy is a Document Manager. It gives you a quick access to your favorite and recently opened documents and keeps track of your reading progress. The Sticky Notes application now has a search function. The look of the notes was improved by embedding the title within the note. A new control was added inside the notes toolbar to control the size of the text." These and additional changes are covered in the project's What's New document. The release notes for each edition (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce) provide further information. Download (pkglist): linuxmint-20.3-cinnamon-64bit-beta.iso (2,141MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), linuxmint-20.3-mate-64bit-beta.iso (2,129MB, SHA256, signature, torrent), linuxmint-20.3-xfce-64bit-beta.iso (2,024MB, SHA256, signature, torrent). |
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| 2021-12-09 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Kali Linux 2021.4 |
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Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools. The project has published a new release, Kali Linux 2021.4, which improves support for ARM-powered devices, including Apple M1 machines and the Raspberry Pi Zero 2. "With the end of 2021 just around the corner, we are pushing out the last release of the year with Kali Linux 2021.4, which is ready for immediate download or updating. The summary of the changelog since the 2021.3 release from September 2021 is: improved Apple M1 support; wide compatibility for Samba; switching package manager mirrors; Kaboxer theme; updates to Xfce, GNOME and KDE; Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, plus USBArmory MkII ARM images; more tools. As we announced in Kali 2021.1, we supported installing Kali Linux on Parallels on Apple Silicon Macs, with 2021.4, we now also support it on the VMware Fusion Public Tech Preview thanks to the 5.14 kernel having the modules needed for the virtual GPU used. We also have updated the open-vm-tools package, and Kali's installer will automatically detect if you are installing under VMware and install the open-vm-tools-desktop package, which should allow you to change the resolution out of the box." Additional information is provided in the project's release announcement. Download (SHA256): kali-linux-2021.4-installer-amd64.iso (3,142MB, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-12-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Calculate Linux 22 |
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Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based distribution with several desktop editions, a cloud and a server edition. The project has published a new version, Calculate 22: "We are pleased to announce the release of Calculate Linux 22. With this new version, you will be able to smoothly update your system after a long period of time. We also ported the Calculate Utilities to Python 3, and set PipeWire as the default sound server. Calculate Linux Desktop featuring the KDE (CLD), Cinnamon (CLDC), LXQt (CLDL), Mate (CLDM) or Xfce (CLDX and CLDXS) desktop, Calculate Directory Server (CDS), Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) and Calculate Scratch Server (CSS) are now available for download. Changes: added support for long intervals between systems updates - now you can upgrade whenever you want, even if you have not updated your system for a long time; the latest Calculate Utils 3.7 have been fully transitioned to Python 3 and Python 2.7 has been removed from the distribution image; PulseAudio audio has been replaced by PipeWire, you can still select ALSA if this is what you prefer; added Bluetooth support for ALSA." Additional information and screenshots can be found in the release announcement. Default desktop and server download options are provided here. Download (pkglist): cld-22-x86_64.iso (3,263MB, MD5, torrent), cds-22-x86_64.iso (835MB, MD5, torrent). |
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| 2021-12-08 |
NEW • BSD Release: FreeBSD 12.3 |
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The FreeBSD team has announced the availability of the third update to the operating system's 12.x branch. FreeBSD 12.3 includes several bug fixes to the kernel, userland updates, and improvements to network drivers. The project's release announcement reports: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/12 branch. Some of the highlights: updates to various networking drivers; several updates to upstream contributed software; several userland application improvements and kernel bug fixes. For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list. The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE to the memory of Ian Lepore. FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, sparc64, armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick." The release notes provide a list of fixes in this release along with their security advisories. Download (pkglist): FreeBSD-12.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso (937MB, SHA512), FreeBSD-12.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso (776MB, SHA512). |
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| 2021-12-08 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Tails 4.25 |
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The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The project's latest release is Tails 4.25 introduces a number of package updates for key components. It also features a backup utility to copy important files in persistent storage to a thumb drive. "We added a utility to make a backup of the Persistent Storage to another Tails USB stick. This utility automates the process described until now in our documentation on making a backup of your Persistent Storage, which used the command line. It's pretty basic and we still want to do something better in #7049, but we didn't want to wait more because we know that backups are a big issue for our users. External Hard Disk - we added a new entry called Tails (External Hard Disk) to the GRUB boot loader. Changes and updates: update Tor Browser to 11.0.2; update Tor to 0.4.6.8; add a shortcut to restart Tails when the Unsafe Browser was not enabled in the Welcome Screen; add a link from the error screen of the Tor Connection assistant to our documentation on troubleshooting connecting to Tor." Additional details can be found in the release announcement. Download: tails-amd64-4.25.iso (1,129MB, signature, POPESQ® 100 piezas x Resistencia 47K 0.25W carbono #A104, pkglist). |
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| 2021-12-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: Freespire 8.0 |
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Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of Freespire 8.0, the latest update of the project's Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop. The new version continues to be based on Ubuntu's latest long-term support release, version 20.04: "Today, the PC/OpenSystems LLC FOSS development team has released Freespire 8.0, an update which delivers much needed system enhancements and security fixes. Once again we have let users decide; they have spoken and we have included all the most-requested Google services - Calendar, Docs and Gmail. For more traditional use cases, Freespire core has not changed at all - it's still a full-featured desktop OS, with all of the applications and resources of the Ubuntu repositories available as always. Freespire does not incorporate any proprietary media codecs and aside from Google Chrome, there are no other vendor-specific software applications pre-installed at all. Freespire 8.0 features a new stable kernel which fixes bugs and broadens hardware support. Google Chrome 96 includes security patches and other general browser improvements. We have upgraded Xfce 4.16, X11, Samba and other system fundamentals, including non-UEFI and secure boot systems." Here is the full release announcement with screenshots. Download: freespire-8.iso (1,436MB, SHA256, pkglist). |
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| 2021-12-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: EndeavourOS 21.4 |
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EndeavourOS is a rolling release Linux distribution based on Arch Linux. The project's latest snapshot is version 21.4 which includes several new improvements and fixes. "NVIDIA users have a new sanity check for NVIDIA and kernel updates. The check helps preventing boot problems after update. Apps UpdateInTerminal, eos-update-notifier and welcome include this update check. Welcome has a new button DE: information (DE is the installed desktop name) and opens the browser to the dedicated DE info page. Our eos-apps-info is added by default. The eos-apps-info-helper is now capable of showing information about many more apps, and it supports using a web browser which can be configured by yourself. An addition to paccache-service-manager has been made, which now ships with a checkbox for deleting the cache of uninstalled packages. A new and improved schedule configuration window for eos-update-notifier. The function grub-tools now adds info and warnings when needed about variable GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER in /etc/default/grub. An improvement on AKM that marks the current running kernel with the * symbol." These and other improvements can covered in the project's release announcement. Download: EndeavourOS_Atlantis-21_4.iso (1,927MB, SHA512, signature, torrent, pkglist). |
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| 2021-12-03 |
NEW • Distribution Release: CentOS 9 |
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The CentOS project has published a new snapshot release, CentOS 9 Stream which acts as a middle ground between Fedora and the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The project's release announcement says: "Updates posted to Stream are identical to those posted to the unreleased minor version of RHEL. The aim? For CentOS Stream to be as fundamentally stable as RHEL itself. To achieve this stability, each major release of Stream starts from a stable release of Fedora Linux—In CentOS Stream 9, this begins with Fedora 34, which is the same code base from which RHEL 9 is built. As updated packages pass testing and meet standards for stability, they are pushed into CentOS Stream as well as the nightly build of RHEL. What CentOS Stream looks like now is what RHEL will look like in the near future." CentOS is available in x86_64, ARM64, and PowerPC64 flavours. At the time of writing, the release notes are not yet available. Download: CentOS-Stream-9-latest-x86_64-dvd1.iso (8,037MB, pkglist). |
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3CX Phone System is a specialist, Debian-based Linux distribution designed to run a complete unified communications platform. The 3CX client, included in the distribution, can also be installed separately on most hardware as well as the cloud. It provides a complete open standards-based IP PBX and phone system that works with popular SIP trunks and IP phones. It will automatically configure all supported peripherals and it also comes with clients for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android. The ISO image includes a free license for the 3CX PBX edition. The ISO image contains the standard Debian installer which installs a minimal system with the nginx web server, PostgreSQL database, iptables firewall and Secure Shell. Options not relevant to 3CX have been removed from the distribution. Download the installation ISO image from here: debian-amd64-netinst-3cx.iso (378MB). |
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