Conectiva Linux 10 released

CONECTIVA LINUX 10
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We are proud to present the new version of our operating system:
Conectiva Linux 10.

Conectiva Linux 10 is the result of several months of development and testing.
With the massive help of the Linux Community during the testing period, we
finally arrived at the final version: a high quality product with an
integrated desktop which is easy to use and appealing for both the beginner
and the advanced user.

Congratulations to all!
Conectiva Linux 10: you helped make it!


Main new features of Conectiva Linux 10

Kernel 2.6:
- HyperThreading support
- support for Athlon and Pentium IV CPUs
- better interactivity and response time
- ALSA sound system is now default, replacing OSS
- supermount support: no more need to mount and umount floppy disks and cdroms
- Posix ACL support
- LVM2 support
- support for block devices up to 16 terabytes in 32bits architectures
- support for some wireless devices

New services and applications:
- anti-virus for email and Samba file server
- easy and powerfull personal firewall, configurable directly from the KDE Control Center
- several anti-spam solutions
- virtual domain support for POP3 and IMAP4, as well as SMTP
- IPSEC-tools, for building VPNs with kernel 2.6 (replaces Freeswan)
- NTLM authentication support in Mozilla, Squid and the SASL library
- Samba version 3, with many improvements over previous versions, such as
  native compatibility with Windows® 2000 and Windows® 2003 networks,
  including Kerberos 5 authentication and LDAP backend
- webmin, advanced configuration system, also translated to Portuguese and
  customized for Conectiva Linux, being integrated with the desktop's Control
  Center and its theme

Desktop:
- KDE 3.2.3
- Gnome 2.6
- Evolution 1.4.6 with the Connector plugin, which allows native access to
  Microsoft® Exchange® 2000 and 2003 servers
- Mozilla web browser with Java® and Flash® plugins preinstalled
- pop-up blocker support in all web browsers
- automatic support for digital cameras and other USB devices
- Conectiva Office, an office suite based on OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 completely
  translated to Portuguese, including menus and on-line help system
- several video and audio players
- support for RSS feeds in several applications

Instalation:
- several pre-defined installation profiles for mail servers, web servers,
  file servers and many others
- desktop layout for notebooks and office workstations
- standard desktop installation uses only the first CD
- better hardware detection
- support for native 3D acceleration on NVidia® video cards
- support for SATA disks

Development:
- Eclipse integrated development environment
- java2
- gcc 3.3.3
- glibc 2.3.3
- php 4.3.6
- python 2.3.3
- perl 5.8.3
- kdevelop 3.0.4
- subversion 1.0.1

Other traditional components:
- strong criptography support for several services such as: web (Apache), LDAP
  (Openldap), email (IMAP, SMTP, POP3), remote administration (OpenSSH)
- authentication services: LDAP, Kerberos 5, NIS
- Apache 2
- network intrusion detection tool
- MySQL and Postgresql databases
- other network services such as DNS, file server, printer server and others

There is a lot more in Conectiva Linux. Please consult the Release Notes
available on the CD for more information.


DOWNLOAD
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There are basically two ways to download the ISO images of Conectiva Linux 10:
BitTorrent and FTP.

We strongly suggest the use of BitTorrent. It has many advantages over FTP,
such as:

 * simultaneous download of multiple pieces of the same file, maximizing
   bandwidth usage
 * sharing with other BitTorrent users of parts which have already been received
 * high download speed, specially in situations where files are on high demand

Direct links for BitTorrent download:
http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/torrents/cl10_cd1.torrent
http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/torrents/cl10_cd2.torrent
http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/torrents/cl10_cd3.torrent

Quick example which shows the use of the Linux text client to download the first ISO
image:

btdownloadcurses.py --url http://distro2.conectiva.com.br/torrents/cl10_cd1.torrent

This will produce the following directory and file structure when the download
is complete:

cl10_cd1
|-- cl10_cd1.iso        <--- actual ISO image
|-- cl10_cd1.iso.asc    <--- detached digital signature
`-- cl10_cd1.iso.md5    <--- MD5 checksum

In order to obtain maximum performance, please make sure your firewall allows
incoming connections to your 6881 tcp port.

IMPORTANT: please, after your download is complete, keep the BitTorrent client
running as long as possible. This ensures that other users can have a good
download speed.


The ISO images are also available via FTP:
ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/iso/cl10_cd1.iso
ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/iso/cl10_cd2.iso
ftp://ftp.conectiva.com.br/pub/conectiva/iso/cl10_cd3.iso

Mirrors will probably take a day or two to fetch all files.

MD5SUMS:
c645ca0e8464e4571dd4b5a5b20ecbc7  cl10_cd1.iso
dcfdcdd5ccc169f1b94d603f78bdaade  cl10_cd2.iso
8bf8de83a8b73b74290470afd0828945  cl10_cd3.iso

Have fun!