GhostBSD 11.0 PREALPHA4 is out for testing

Hi guys, if you ever used FreeBSD, then you probably know about GhostBSD. Few ours ago the developer team released 4th preaplha of GhostBSD 11.0. It is based on FreeBSD and offers more user-friendly nature than the later. Earlier versions of this distribution used TGZ as package management, but now it uses PKG as package management. By default GhostBSD uses MATE and Xfce as desktop environment.

According to official announcement, prealpha4 will be available for both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. It will now support VMWare X. You can manage network settings using Doas. New UFS full disk installation option including disk mirroring is also added in feature list. Live disk X configuration will done straight before getting to desktop. Lots of software updates are done and some older issues are solved. 

While there is not much announced yet, you can try out the new alpha and help developers to fix the bugs quickly. You can simply head to official website to download latest alpha or use below direct links to downloads.

 

GhostBSD 11.0 PREALPHA4 32 bit

GhostBSD 11.0 PREALPHA4 64 bit

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BlackArch 2017.01.28 released with new tools

If you are our daily reader then you must have seen, we are now covering BlackArch, a Arch Linux based distribution targeting a large number of professional Pen-Testers and Security Researchers.

In the end of last year, BlackArch team is tremendously working to bring new tool set and updates to their distro.Like recently the release of BlackArch Linux 2016.12.29 and 2016.12.20 brought hundreds of new tools, new installer and updated list of packages and features.
Now BlackArch Linux version as 2017.01.28 is here.Let's see what's new in here.
What's New in BlackArch Linux 2017.01.28?

• The first and very common thing with all new distro releases, it also got all the system packages updated and the tools underneath have been updated.
• 20 new tools added.
• In the last release of BlackArch Linux 2016.12.29, the installer was updated to 0.3.1, now in this release, the installer got a bug-fix update and got updated to 0.3.2 version.
• Now on VMware support is provided, a big relief for many.
• Now, this release is based on Linux 4.9.6.
•  "fix f*cking ruby tools (wpscan, Metasploit, etc.)" as said in the announcement.I don't think necessity of any explanation.

Well, You can get this latest release and as it has Linux kernel-base on Linux 4.9.6, so benefits are a welcome addition to this release. 

Linux Mint 18.1 KDE and xfce released

In the end of the last year, Linux Mint team released the first point release Linux Mint 18.1 in their Linux Mint 18.xx series.If you are already on that point release or if have read our coverage, then you must be knowing it was only available in Cinnamon and MATE editions.Now Today just a few hours ago, the Linux Mint team has proudly announced the KDE and Xfce editions of Linux Mint Serena(18.1).

Let me cover the new features in both releases briefly.

What's new in Linux Mint 18.1 KDE?

First and the most importantly(even if we don't mention) The version of KDE might be the first thing jumping on your mind when you hear a new KDE release of Linux Mint.So here we are getting KDE Plasma 5.8(LTS).Well, without going deeper in the features section of this DE version, I would say it's a Charm.It has Linux 4.4 and Ubuntu 16.04 as the base.

Linux 4.9.6 released

Just few moments back, Linux Kernel going well under 4.9.y stable versions got an update as Linux Kernel 4.9.6.Linux Kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the same with a list of changes been made in this particular release.

Of course as the other Linux versions go on the release tag, this one has also a good list of fixes and changes.There are 136 files changed,1030 files inserted and 814 deletions are made.
Users on the previous version of the release line of Linux 4.9.y, should must upgrade to the latest release for issue free operation on their Lnux System.
Well, You can always get the latest Kernel version Linux from the official website and soon we are to post a new topic on how to install new and latest kernel on different Linux Distros.