Two years of Bluewhite64 Linux, two new releases. I am delighted to announce the availability of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD and Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash (LiveUSB)!

I hope you will enjoy the new Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD including the stable SMP Linux Kernel 2.6.24.7 with advanced features and performance. The LiveDVD is designed to bring a modern Linux Desktop, for the AMD64/EM64T architectures, including the modularized X.org 1.4.0.90 (7.3) with Compiz (including manager and extra plugins/3D effects), the award winning KDE 3.5.9 in 65 languages, OpenOffice.org 2.3, the Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 (flash ready) and Konqueror (flash/java ready) web browsers, Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 and KMail 1.9.9 email clients, Swaret 1.6.3 and Qtswaret 0.1.5-3 package managers, digiKam 0.9.3 for digital photo management, the Krusader 1.90.0 Twin Panel File Manager, the MPlayer 1.0rc2 Media Player, the IA32 emulation to run 32-bit programs, aMSN 0.97 - a free open source MSN Messenger clone, and many more server and desktop based programs and tools. See the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 LiveDVD page for download and more details. For screen captures, please visit our gallery with the new LiveDVD.

The Bluewhite64 12.1 Flash is specially designed to run entirely from a USB Flash Pen Drive with the possibility to choose your working environment from the beginning: Command Line Interface (CLI - recommended for servers) and/or Graphical User Interface (GUI - recommended for Desktop computers).

The "save changes" feature has been improved and enabled by default in this new version of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash. It is done using "bw64save.dat" file which is a compressed image of empty loop XFS file system. Depending of the Pen Drive size, you will have different space size for saving your changes: for 2GB there is 375MB, for the 4GB is 2375MB, for the 8GB is 6395MB and for 32GB is 30400MB space available. In this way, you can use the Bluewhite64 12.1 Flash as a mobile HDD without any data loss. Please see the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 Flash page for more details.

Enjoy this two news releases && Happy birthday Bluewhite64!

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.TXT

Please 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.