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Interesting video on 2012.

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:12:52 +0000

I was just looking up things about 2012 for the fun of it and I came across this video.

Right click here to download this video.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (Review)

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:18:54 +0000

This is a very funny and amusing anime. I found out about it from one of the younger members of my site. She had Haruhi’s picture in her profile. She even had a cute little dance from the show in her profile. I thought it looked pretty cute so I went to go see if I could fine what anime that was from. I eventually did find those images were from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya so I then set out to buy it. I first checked out rightstuff which did have it but they do not accept paypal so asked one of my friends who sells anime and does accept paypal. How ever I did not get this anime from him I did end up getting it from ebay. How ever when I searched for this anime on ebay I must have spelled it incorrectly as I came accross a hentai with a name very close to this one. I was like wait a minute I know this anime can not be a hentai specially if a 10 year old girl told me about it. So I did a quick google search and found the correct spelling of the anime and ended up finding the none hentai on ebay and getting it.

I ended up watching this in only 2 days, well the first season any way. I just could not stop watching it, I enjoyed it very much. It has humour very much like the humour in slayers which in my opinion makes it better. Even though it has humour like that of slayers it is nothing like that anime. Although another interesting thing about comparing it to slayers is there is a part in Melancholy where some one says It is classified and said in the same way that the demon of slayers says it is a secret.

I do not wish to give to much away but it does have a lot of interesting things that happen in it. It has time travel, aliens, androids, girls in bunny suits, people with ESP, and a godess that does not even know she is a godess. Oh and when I first heard about this anime I thought it was one that was made for girls which is called shoujo, how ever I found it not to be shoujo but rather shounen which is for boys. Watching this anime though I feel it is not made for either male or female but both. I mean it does not feel to me it was made exclusively for males as I liked it and I am female, heck and I was told about it from a girl who also likes it. Oh there are a few characters I feel sorry for because haruhi treats them.

Slayers OVA + movies review

admin — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:17:23 +0000

I just got done watching the slayers OVA and movies and I did enjoy them but wow they were much different from the series. That may have a little to do with the original being distributed by funimation and the OVA + Movies being distributed by ADV. Lina Inverse which is the main character’s personality is the same in both how ever she does seem much younger and does have a different outfit. Although there is one movie called Premium that does have Lina the outfit she had on in the series it even had the other character’s from the series. That was the only one like that and that one seems as though it took place between the second and third seasons of the original series.

A few more differences between the OVA + Movies and the Original series is Lina’s companion if you can call her that. Her companion is very under dressed sorceress named Naga. Naga has a very annoying laugh, which is mentioend as being annoying in a few of the OVA’s and Movies. Her laugh reminds me of the voice of Fran Dresche’s voice from the show called the Nanny although I c oulc not watch The Nanny because unlike Naga’s voice Fran’s Voice made my ears hurt. Another view on her voice is like trying to listen to nails on a chalk board.

I will admit the OVA + Movies were much more comedy based then the original series making it a whole lot more funny. There was one of the movies that was so funny I about fell out of my chair laughing. It was the movie called Slayers Great. It was both cute and funny and I enjoyed that one the most out of all of them.

Unlike the original series you can watch this out of order. What happens in one does not effect what happens in the other. I did how ever watch them in order. Do to the name of the last OVA show I thought it was about Lina getting the outfit she wears in the Original series proving that it takes place before the Series how ever I think I was wrong but would have been neat if it was.

I did find out after seeing both the first 3 of the original series, OVA and movies that there is still one more out there called the lost universe. How ever I am not yet able to find that one for sale but just happened to find it while looking for the picture for this review. I am hopping to find that last series and watch it and also make a review of it.

I do think over all that the Original was better even though this was more funny. I give both 4 out of 5 stars.

Bunnykin’s review of the slayers series.

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:15:40 +0000

This series is over a decade old and I started warching it around the time it came out however at that time I purchased it in the vhs format. This time I purchased the box set that included all 3 seasons. The first time I watched it I only made it through half of the first season so it was great getting the whole thing. I also did get the movies and ova version but this review is just of the 3 seasons.

I started watching the first season a few weeks ago in my spare time and I just kept getting pulled in and watching to keep watcvhing it even though I needed to get a few things done. Like the anime database that I have been working on or even working on this blog. The Slayers has all kinds of content both comedy and action and even adventure. You never really know what will happen next, which is what I like. It is hard to tell some times who the bad guys are and who the good guys are and some times finding out can be a surprise and that is some thing hapening tell the very end. I enjoyed the ending of all 3 seasons and I have to say they had a good story line for each. On the second season they had a cheractor that sounded and acted just like the lady on pokemon that is on team rocket which was both funny and strange at the same time. the series had dragons, monsters, demons, Gods and so many other creatures it just kept you entertained and guessing on what you would see next. One of the episodes in the last season reminded me of another anime called Abenobashi, which kind of confused me but was pretty funny.

I can not wait to start watching the movies and the ova versions which I will be doing soon.

YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:21:06 +0000

YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW

Good morning said a woman as she walked up to the man sitting on ground.

The man slowly looked up.

This was a woman clearly accustomed to the finer things of life. Her coat was new.. She looked like she had never missed a meal in her life.

His first thought was that she wanted to make fun of him, like so many others had done before..
“Leave me alone,” he growled….

To his amazement, the woman continued standing.

She was smiling — her even white teeth displayed in dazzling rows. “Are you hungry?” she asked.

“No,”
he answered sarcastically. “I’ve just come from dining with the president. Now go away.”

The woman’s smile became even broader. Suddenly the man felt a gentle hand under his arm.

“What are you doing, lady?” the man asked angrily. “I said to leave me alone.

Just then a policeman came up. “Is there any problem, ma’am?” he asked..

“No problem here, officer,” the woman answered. “I’m just trying to get this man to his feet. Will you help me?”
The officer scratched his head. ”That’s old Jack. He’s been a fixture around here for a couple of years. What do you want with him?”

“See that cafeteria over there?” she asked. “I’m going to get him something to eat and get him out of the cold for awhile.”

“Are you crazy, lady?” the homeless man resisted. “I don’t want to go in there!” Then he felt strong hands grab his other arm and lift him up.
“Let me go, officer. I didn’t do anything.”

“This is a good deal for you, Jack” the officer answered. “Don’t blow it.”

Finally, and with some difficulty, the woman and the police officer got Jack into the cafeteria and sat him at a table in a remote corner. It was the middle of the morning, so most of the breakfast crowd had already left and the lunch bunch had not yet arrived…

The manager strode across the cafeteria and stood by his table. ”What’s going on here, officer?” he asked. ”What is all this, is this man in trouble?”

“This lady brought this man in here to be fed,” the policeman answered.

“Not in here!” the manager replied angrily. “Having a person like that here is bad for business..”

Old Jack smiled a toothless grin. ”See, lady. I told you so. Now if you’ll let me go. I didn’t want to come here in the first place.”

The woman turned to the cafeteria manager and smiled…. “Sir, are you familiar with Eddy and Associates, the banking firm down the street?”

“Of course I am,” the manager answered impatiently. “They hold their weekly meetings in one of my banquet rooms.”

“And do you make a goodly amount of money providing food at these weekly meetings?”

“What business is that of yours?”

I, sir, am Penelope Eddy, president and CEO of the company.”

“Oh.”

The woman smiled again. “I thought that might make a difference.” She glanced at the cop who was busy stifling a giggle. “Would you like to join us in a cup of coffee and a meal, officer?”

“No thanks, ma’am,” the officer replied. “I’m on duty.”

“Then, perhaps, a cup of coffee to go?”

“Yes, mam. That would be very nice.”

The cafeteria manager turned on his heel, “I’ll get your coffee for you right away, officer.”

The officer watched him walk away. “You certainly put him in his place,” he said.

“That was not my intent. Believe it or not, I have a reason for all this.”

She sat down at the table across from her amazed dinner guest. She stared at him intently… “Jack, do you remember me?”

Old Jack searched her face with his old, rheumy eyes. “I think so — I mean you do look familiar.”

“I’m a little older perhaps,” she said. “Maybe I’ve even filled out more than in my younger days when you worked here, and I came through that very door, cold and hungry.”

“Ma’am?” the officer said questioningly. He couldn’t believe that such a magnificently turned out woman could ever have been hungry.

“I was just out of college,” the woman began. “I had come to the city looking for a job, but I couldn’t find anything. Finally I was down to my last few cents and had been kicked out of my apartment. I walked the streets for days.
It was February and I was cold and nearly starving. I saw this place and walked in on the off chance that I could get something to eat.”

Jack lit up with a smile. ”Now I remember,” he said… ”I was behind the serving counter. You came up and asked me if you could work
for something to eat. I said that it was against company policy.”

“I know,” the woman continued. “Then you made me the biggest roast beef sandwich that I had ever seen, gave me a cup of coffee, and told me to go
over to a corner table and enjoy it. I was afraid that you would get into trouble… Then, when I looked over and saw you put the price of my food in the cash register, I knew then that everything would be all right.”

“So you started your own business?” Old Jack said.

“I got a job that very afternoon. I worked my way up. Eventually I started my own business that, with the help of God, prospered.” She opened her purse and pulled out a business card.. “When you are finished here, I want you to pay a visit to a Mr. Lyons…He’s the personnel director of my company. I’ll go talk
to him now and I’m certain he’ll find something for you to do around the office.” She smiled. ”I think he might even find the funds to give you a little advance so that you can buy some clothes and get a place to live until you get on your feet… If you ever need
anything, my door is always opened to you.”

There were tears in the old man’s eyes. “How can I ever thank you?” he said.

“Don’t thank me,” the woman answered. “To God goes the glory. Thank Jesus…. He led me to you.”

Outside the cafeteria, the officer and the woman paused at the entrance before going their separate ways….

“Thank you for all your help, officer,” she said.

“On the contrary, Ms. Eddy,” he answered. “Thank you. I saw a miracle today, something that I will never forget. And..And thank you for the coffee.”

If you have missed knowing me, you have missed nothing.

If you have missed some of my emails, you might have missed a laugh..

But, if you have missed knowing my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, you have missed everything in the world.

Have a Wonderful Day. May God Bless You Always and don’t forget that when you “cast your bread upon the waters,” you never know how it will be returned to you..

God is so big He can cover the whole world with his Love and so small He can curl up inside your heart..

When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, trust Him fully and let go.
Only 1 of 2 things will happen, either He’ll catch you when you fall, or He’ll teach you how to fly!

The power of one sentence!

God is going to shift things around for you today and let things work in your favor.

If you believe, send it. If you don’t believe, delete it.

God closes doors no man can open & God opens doors no man can close..

If you need God to open some doors for you…send this on.

Have a blessed day and remember to be a blessing…

LIVE WELL, LOVE MUCH, LAUGH OFTEN

Remarks from the Early Show – WOW!

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:33:01 +0000

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are, Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away..

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her ‘How could God let something like this happen?’ (regarding Hurricane Katrina).. Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, ‘I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?’

In light of recent events…. Terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school…. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said okay.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with ‘WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.’

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace…

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass it on if you think it has merit.

If not, then just discard it…. No one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein

Voted Best email of the Year

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:53:08 +0000

If you think, you are unhappy. . .

If you think your salary is low. . .

If you think you don’t have many friends. . .

When you feel like giving up . . .

If you think you suffer in life,
do you suffer as much as he does?

If you complain about your transport system . . .

If your society is unfair . . .

Enjoy life, how it is, and as it comes

There are always those who are worse
off than we are. There are many things
in your life that will catch your eye, But
only a few will catch your heart…pursue those…

I will be getting another kitty

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:23:10 +0000

My Aunt is giving away her cats do to them making her sick so I am getting the littlest one named Gizmo. It is already litter trained, been fixed and had all of it’s shots. This will be good and give my other cat a friend to play with as I know he gets bored and would like company. I do hope they both get along with each other and I do not find them fighting.

Noah’s ark type dream

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:22:09 +0000

This was a very odd dream it started out as a space or star trek type dream. We were traveling the stars searching for a lost space ship. The ship looked kind of like a borg ship except with a round top and it was more of a white or silver color. We came to this huge planet that had to be bigger then Jupiter but support like like Earth. We landed on this planet and began to explore to see if the ship we were looking for was here. We came across a crashed ship that looked close to what we were looking for except it was about half the size of the one we were looking for. We went inside and began to explore the ship. In one of the rooms we found a control panel for some thing that was very unknown to us. One of the people following me hit a button and seemed to have sent us back in time to when the ship we were in was built, which was thousands of years ago. We watched the ship being built and even the much larger one that we were looking for, which was about the size of earth. We watched as they put animals in huge rooms in the big ship. Many of the animals we had never seen but we did see some from earth as well.

After watching with amazement we were invited to go with in the earth pod, where they put all the earth animals. So we went ahead and got in the ship in the earth pod and looked around and found a basket ball or at least some thing like a basketball cause. So we played for a little bit and was having all kinds of fun and then we noticed that the big ship started breaking apart each pod was separating from the main ship and going to different planets the one we were in was heading toward earth.

After that I woke up.

A linux distro for anime fans

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:56:20 +0000

This is got to be the perfect distro for me and I do plan on trying it when I have time. It is based on debian and ubuntu so should run the same programs that they run.
Here is what distro watch says about it.

Linux Mangaka is a desktop Linux distribution originally designed primarily for the fans of Japanese Manga and Anime, but eventually evolving into a complete, beginner-friendly operating system with complete multimedia support. Based on Ubuntu with GNOME and Google desktop, the distribution includes a large variety of programs for graphics design, many freely available Google applications, a number of games, and an innovative set of desktop themes.

The developers web site is http://animesoft.wordpress.com/ , and here is a screen shot.

Any way I can not wait to have time to try this out and make a review about it right here on my blog.

What I have been up to lately

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:08:08 +0000

One thing many of my readers may have noticed is I have not put any anime news up for a while and have mostly been posting linux news. Main reason why is I am very far behind on linux news and have been trying to catch up. I am behind do to working on a new project one I have been wanting to do for a long time and that is an anime database, which I have been working very hard on lately. The new project is at http://otakudata.org and I hope to have a lot of useful anime info on there. Not only useful but also easy to find what you are looking for, which means easy to navigate.
It actually took me a few weeks just to find a cms that I liked and that would make making an easy to navigate site easier for me.
I started with a great big list of cms’s that I found on open source cms and slowly narrowed it down as I found the cms’s did not have what I needed or were to complicated to use. I ended up getting the list down to just a few cms’s which include: joomla, ocportal, wordpress, bitweaver, and glfusion.
Glfusion was taken out of the picture do to the theme it self being a pain to edit or change and I did not want to be stuck with the default theme.
Joomla was taken out of the picture do to a lot of things about it making me very frustrated.
Ocportal was removed from the list do to a few seo issues I found it has, although I do like the cms it would have been a lot of work to fix the seo issue that I had found.
Bitweaver was taken out do to have primitive it looks an feels, all though I could have edited the theme to get it to do what I wanted but was unsure how got it actually is, like seo and a site with lots of data. I did look for sites currently running it, but found it very difficult to find any. I also asked about it on other sites and no one seemed to have any issue. Although this cms does do exactly what I want but it was taken off the list.
Wordpress is the cms/ blog script I ended up choosing as I know it very well form running this blog and I found with using a few plug ins and skin edits that it can do what I want really easily so that is what I am using. Although I have found as creating the otaku data that I have changed from one plug in to another just because I found a plug in that worked a lot better and I do see that after I get more info on the site that I will be installing a few other plug ins as they are ones I tested but do not need them just yet.

I do also want to tell you that I will be changing the way in which the blog is done it will be more reviews, personal thoughts and less anime and distro news. Do to that I have included links to the places I get the news from.

Distribution Release: KNOPPIX 6.2

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:51:05 +0000

Klaus Knopper has released KNOPPIX 6.2, a new version of the popular Debian-based live CD/DVD with LXDE as the default desktop: “The current version 6.2 has been completely updated from Debian ‘Lenny’, ‘Testing’ and ‘Unstable’, and uses kernel 2.6.31.6 and X.Org 7.4. Microknoppix is a complete rewrite of the KNOPPIX boot system from version 6.0 and up, with the following features: high compatibility with its Debian base; accelerated boot procedure; LXDE as graphical environment – a very slim and fast desktop with extremely short start time and low resource requirements; amount of installed software greatly reduced in the CD edition; network configuration handled by NetworkManager….” Read the rest of the release notes for more details. Download the DVD, CD or the special ADRIANE edition with accessibility features for the visually impaired: KNOPPIX_V6.2DVD-EN.iso (3,675MB, MD5, torrent), KNOPPIX_V6.2CD-EN.iso (691MB, MD5, torrent), KNOPPIX-ADRIANE_V6.2CD-EN.iso (691MB, MD5, torrent).

Development Release: Chakra Alpha 4

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:46:51 +0000

Phil Miller has announced the availability of the fourth alpha release of Chakra, a desktop distribution and live CD with KDE 4 based on Arch Linux: “Today we are pleased to announce the release of alpha 4, named ‘NewAge’, of our very own Chakra live media. A lot has changed since alpha 3. We have a new KDE 4 theme; Tribe can install custom mount points, and we did a ton of fixes. KDEmod got updated to version 4.3.3. Chakra hardware detection got stripped down to fit X.Org Server 1.7.1.901 package, so only NVIDIA drivers are the supported proprietary drivers for now. Most noticeable changes and additions since alpha 3: Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 with fglrx patch; Chakra tools updated (aqpm, shaman, chase); ATI Catalyst support temporarily dropped….” Here is the complete release announcement. Download: chakra-minimal-i686-091116-alpha4.iso (674MB, MD5), chakra-minimal-x86_64-091116-alpha4.iso (687MB, MD5).

Distribution Release: Fedora 12

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:39:59 +0000

Fedora 12, the latest version of the popular open-source operating systems for desktops and servers, has been released: “The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free, open-source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include next-generation Ogg Theora video, virtualization improvements and advancements to NetworkManager, among numerous others.” See the press release, release announcement and release notes for further information. Download (mirrors, torrents): Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso (654MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-12-i686-Live-KDE.iso (681MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-12-x86_64-Live.iso (656MB, SHA256, torrent), Fedora-12-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso (685MB, SHA256, torrent).

Distribution Release: openSUSE 11.2 “Edu Li-f-e”

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:36:11 +0000

Jigish Gohil has announced the release of the “Edu Li-f-e” edition of openSUSE 11.2, an openSUSE variant designed for children and students, with educational applications, Sugar desktop environment, LTSP server software, and out-of-the-box support for multimedia playback: “openSUSE Education community is proud to announce openSUSE-Edu Li-f-e – Linux for education based on openSUSE 11.2. The Li-f-e flavor bundles the best software openSUSE has to offer, such as popular desktop environments, educational application, development suites, multimedia, and great out-of-the-box user experience. Some highlights of what makes this a very special distribution: latest desktop environments – GNOME 2.28 (default), KDE 4.3.x, Sugar 0.86, IceWM; applications include tons of educational applications, graphics, development, office suite, and complete multimedia support; LTSP server….” Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-11.2-1-i686.iso (2,929MB, MD5, torrent).

Distribution Release: Momonga Linux 6.1

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:33:32 +0000

Takaaki Tabuchi has announced the release of Momonga Linux 6.1, a Japanese community distribution modelled on Fedora. This is a minor bug-fix and security update to Momonga Linux 6 (released in July), containing minor kernel and application updates, with most of the base system remaining unchanged. Among the updated packages are Linux kernel 2.6.30.9, X.Org Server 1.6.5, KDE 4.3.2, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Firefox 3.5.5, Apache 2.2.14, Postfix 2.6.5, and Emacs 23.1. Some additional packages and hardware devices, such as KDE devinfo, iwl1000 and iwl6000 firmware, LXDE desktop and x3f-tools, were added to the distribution. Users running Momonga 6 can update to the latest version with yum, but upgrades from earlier versions are not supported. See the release announcement and release notes (both links in Japanese) for more information. Download the installation DVD image from here: Momonga-6.1-i686-DVD.iso (4,243MB, SHA256, Momonga-6.1-x86_64-DVD.iso (4,248MB, SHA256).

Distribution Release: Parted Magic 4.6

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:10:09 +0000

Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 4.6, a specialist live CD designed for disk management and data rescue tasks: “Parted Magic 4.6 is a mostly a bug-fix release with some usability improvements. Key changes: many fixes and changes for Netbooks; GNU Parted bug ‘ERROR: Current NTFS volume size is bigger than the device size!’ is fixed; Parted Magic Save Session uses xz instead of 7-zip; ClamAV was added, but you have to download the definitions yourself; Flash Player can be downloaded and installed from the panel’s application launcher; a simple program to change the keyboard layout was added to the desktop; a new program added (lxrandr) to re-size the display while running inside of X.Org; ROXTerm was replaced by an svn build of LXTerminal; Clonezilla was removed from the main Parted Magic image because it’s not possible to make a rescue ISO without downloading a template.” Visit the project’s home page to read the full release announcement. Download (MD5): pmagic-4.6.iso.zip (82.0MB).

Development Release: MOPSLinux 7.0 Alpha 4

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:05:13 +0000

The fourth alpha release of MOPSLinux Linux a Russian desktop distribution based on Slackware Linux with up-to-date packages, is now available for testing. Some of the most important changes since alpha 3 include: update to Linux kernel 2.6.31.6 and glibc 2.11; support for Btrfs and NILFS2 file systems; KDE 4.3.3 and Qt 4.6-beta1; support for Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM); addition of OpenLDAP server; wxWidgets now work; fixed bug with installing distribution to hard disk other than first; the mpkg-core was split, now mpkgsupport and nwidgets are separate packages; finally solved problem with updating glibc with mpkg; wicd no longer needs to be restarted after each login. Here is the brief release announcement (in Russian). Download the installation DVD from here: MOPSLinux-7.0-alpha4.iso (1,779MB, MD5).

Distribution Release: Bluewhite64 Linux 13.0 “LiveDVD”

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:02:50 +0000

Attila Crăciun has announced the release of the “LiveDVD” edition of Bluewhite64 Linux 13.0, Slackware-based live DVD (not installable) for 64-bit systems: “I’m happy to announce that a new version of Bluewhite64 Linux 13.0 ‘LiveDVD’ is ready for download. This new version brings the option to boot the DVD into KDE 4.3.2, Xfce 4.6.1 or to the command-line interface. The live DVD is powered by Linux Kernel 2.6.31.5 with advanced features and optimized for performance. Also, you will find the award-winning K Desktop Environment version 4.3.2 and the Xfce 4.6.1, Firefox 3.5.5 and SeaMonkey 2.0 (including Flash and 64-bit Java plugins), Thunderbird and KMail e-mail clients, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, newly added SuperTuxKart and FooBillard games, Blender – an open source, cross platform suite of tools for 3D creation, the IA32 emulation to run 32-bit programs, Gambas, KMyMoney2, Scribus, WINE….” Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5): Bluewhite64-13.0-LiveDVD.iso (1,988MB, MD5).

Distribution Release: ZevenOS 2.0

admin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:00:21 +0000

Leszek Lesner has announced the release of ZevenOS 2.0, a Xubuntu-based distribution and live CD featuring the Xfce desktop and BeOS-like artwork: “We are proud to announce the release of ZevenOS 2.0. ZevenOS 2.0 is based upon Ubuntu 9.10; it brings big changes like a completely new audio subsystem (PulseAudio), switch from HAL to DeviceKit, MagiKit – a standard application management layer, Remaster-Kit for easy ISO re-mastering, Encode and Super Encode – an all-in-one multimedia converting application, MAGI 2 – an application launcher, installer and configuration center. The typical BeOS like look has been improved with changes to Deskbar, icon theme and GTK+ theme. Disk Manager now supports auto-detection of BFS (BeOS) partitions and allows to mount them. The contact manager got an improved VCard filter.” Read the detailed release announcement for a full list of new features and screenshots. Download (MD5): ZevenOS-20.iso (696MB, torrent).