Distro news and release’s

• Linux Royal

So got the Royal Lite build done. Removed all things Unity/Gnome-shell/and classic. So it has only Cinnamon and Cinnamon 2D for DE options at bootup. Also removed a bunch of apps/icons/themes. Added Royal Icons/Cinnamon Themes. Also installed VLC/Restricted Extras/and of course Remastersys so I could build it. Wanted to make it a bit smaller but not at the cost of Libre Office so I left it. It has a minimal amount of apps though, I got it down to 971mb, so about 200mb bigger then Ubuntu and about 40% the size of full Royal builds. Even in live it only booted using 199mb of ram as noted in the screenshot here. Will try and get it uploaded tomorrow. The only thing I have left to test is installing it.

• Crunchbang

well as we know crunchbag is more for old/light computer’s and servers and what the different on this released
they been some bug fixes in the installer on the DVD for the lastest release they had some bug the were having issues installing the Distro an error message appeared just before grub boots up properly!
And other minor changers like?

• Iceweasel 18
• vlc instead of gnome mplayer (popular)
• A Policy Kit Local Authority file has been added to enable easy mounting of internal drives within Thunar
• xfce4-power-manager has been patched to fix a long standing issue whereby the battery status icon would cause a visual error within tint2′s system tray, after a system had been suspended and resumed.

And as well the changers are kept minimum and any other crunchbag users will not need to upgrade to the next version unless they wish to help with test installations proceeding?

• Opensuse 12.3

go and get opensuse while it piping hot
no but opensuse is a redhat base with kde on top of it but what this make it special is the it comes with a package manager which is really good better the (gnome package manager) the fedora uses. it use something called YaST graphical user interface and Zypper as a command line interface so it both worlds plus opensuse has a rolling released distro called tumbleweed the has the latest package bit like (arch)
this beta come with the latest kde 4.10 and as well been ironing bugs and the latest kernel 3.7.1 so more support in arms computer and new support for hardware and as well

• support for metadata checksums and improved quota support in Ext4
• I/O failure statistics, subvolume quotas, quota groups, snapshot diffs, faster fsync and the ability to disable copy-on-write on a per-file base in btrfs
• userspace probes for performance profiling with tools like Systemtap or perf and a new “perf trace” tool modeled after strace.
• Many improvements to networking. The TCP protocol performance work with support for the TCP “Fast Open” mode for both clients and servers and TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827) as well as inclusion of the a “TCP small queues” feature and a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat. Other low-level protocol enhancements include support for checkpointing and restoring TCP connections and a new tunneling protocol that allows to transfer Layer 2 Ethernet packets over UDP. New is experimental SMBv2 protocol support as well as stable NFS 4.1 and parallel NFS support and the ability to have safe swapping over NFS/NBD.
• The kernel now allows for Android-style opportunistic suspend and has support for suspending to disk and memory at the same time which prevents these “yup, ran out of battery so now you lost data” annoyances with suspend-to-ram.
• In the security area we see added support for signed kernel modules, the Intel “supervisor mode access prevention” (SMAP) security feature, VFIO, which allows safe access from guest drivers to bare-metal host devices and a sandboxing mechanism that allows to filters syscalls.
• Other improvements include the ability to do SCSI over Firewire and USB, support for the PCIe D3cold power state; and the usual huge number of new and improved drivers.

and plus on top of this there will be the latest version of libreoffice so don’t you worry about thing?

• Fedora 18

fedora 18 has been released yesterday with the UEFI secure boot support so any windows 8 computer the has this feature it will work out of the box and a new installer for the the new users to install a lot easier. with advance settings from a new comer from Ubuntu (or any other Ubuntu base distro wants to try something new)?

by default this is what it looks like very nice with the latest gnome 3.6 you are going to be right at home. with this distro and for the people who don’t know gnome. gnome is a desktop interface that use to be popular an till the gnome shell was released but don’t let it fool you this is good to add extra feature like gnome extensions to make that experience a lot better for the people the like’s gnome.

like the installer the installer called (Anaconda)
ok now for the gnome haters cinnamon and mate is been released into there repos by default so you can install mate or cinnamon for a change over or just install the respins it’ s really up to you?
and upgrade feature there is a program called fedup upgrade fedora 18 and as wel can upgrade offline as well so the many updates can still be made on the fly, some packages will require a system restart. The system will boot into a special update mode “in order to avoid problems related to conflicts of libraries and services that are currently running with those on disk

• Fuduntu 2013.1

fuduntu has been updated with the lastest kernel 3.6 with driver support aka (jocky) plus they even released the netflix desktop for useful film watching since the last release they had a power manager called jupiter (mainly for eee pc’s) now that gone because jupiter power managemet development has stopped sorry everyone
if people dont know what fuduntu is well it’s an easy use system (as always) the a rolling released system they use to be base on fedora but now independent it use the gnome2 interface which that good for people who love the gnome 2 interface (sorry mate)