Tuesday, December 22, 2009

PARSIX - Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r1 `Kev` has been released

The first update version of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0 aka `Kev` is available for immediate download. This version merges all security and bug fix updates published on the APT repositories. Also a bug in installer that prevented detection of other installed operating systems on GRUB 2 has been fixed. Parsix Kev brings a vast amount of new features like: GNOME 2.26.3, brand new kernel based on Linux 2.6.29.6 with extra patches and drivers, updated installer system that supports separate /home partition, ext4 file system and GRUB 2, NetworkManager is finally default networking stack, AuFS and UnionFS support, SquashFS+Lzma compression for live-CD and lots of updated packages like GNU Iceweasel 3.5.5, GParted 0.4.8, Pidgin 2.6.2 and OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Compiz-Fusion 0.8.2 etc. Due to vast amount of changes and new default features in this version, its highly recommended to do a CD-ROM update mode installation. For more information see release notes. Donations are highly appreciated. Another news that Parsix 3.5 aka `Frankie` repositories are up and running and all community users are welcomed to start testing and using it. Frankie final release is planned for March 2010. Download:

parsix_3.0r1-i386.iso (687 MB, MD5), parsix_3.0r1-amd64.iso (693 MB, MD5)

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