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Ultima Linux is a Slackware-based Linux distribution designed to be easy-to-install and use. Ultima Linux includes an automatic update tool called "ulupdate", which greatly simplifies keeping the system up-to-date with the latest software.
Ultima Linux 4-SP1 has just been made available to the world. This is a minor release, containing primarily security updates and that kind of fun stuff. Also included are Subversion and MPlayer, which are new in this release.
Unlike previous releases, this one is done a little bit differently. If you already have Ultima 4 installed, you dont need to upgrade - the same updates are now on ulupdate, and in the case of the new packages on the packages page of our Web site.
However, because there are so many updated packages - around half the system! - we have decided to update the ISO download to include everything pre-configured for your convenience.
Ultima Linux 8.2 is not available for free download, but interested users can purchase the live CD or the 3-CD installation set from the projects Get Ultima page (from US$3.99).
Enhancements:
- After over a year and a half of intensive development, the Ultima Linux developers are pleased to announce the Ultima Linux 8.2 (codename Godot) release. This is our first major new version since the 8.1 Beta release last year, and the first stable release since all the way back in January 2006. Among other features included in this release: first stable release with full AMD64 support; improved live CD with integrated, easy-to-use live CD installer; Linux kernel 2.6.21.3 with built-in SMP support; X.Org R7.2 (pre-release) with ATI/NVIDIA proprietary drivers; KDE 3.5.7 desktop with full auto-mounting (HAL/D-Bus); beautifully redesigned default desktop; play MP3s, CDs, DVDs, and more right out of the box....

Linare Operating System meets entire needs and fulfills all requirements of this era. The entire system and its applications are designed to work well with each other and suit your individual computing style.
A complete coalition of Internet software offers you intuitive communications capabilities. Built-in tools let you be productive immediately. Linare provides a luscious, glossy look, across every application and the utilities you need to control and customize your system. Best of all, it just works.
Main features:
- Linare offers an user-friendly and gives a new look and feel.
- Includes simple and well-structured menu.
- Access files on local drives, CD-Rom, Floppy disk just on single click.
- Automatic mount and unmount action allowing user to easily access CD-ROMs and floppies.
- Converts .doc files to .pdf files wihtout any convertor tools.
- Compress files with ease.
- KDE 3.2.2,OpenOffice.org 1.1, Evolution Mail, Gaim are included.
- Provides a full featured word, spreadsheet, presentation tool.
- Supports both vector and bitmap images.
- You can export presentations and drawings to the Macromedia Flash format (.swf) and can view presentations in a simple web browser that has the Flash plugin installed.
- Enables to analyse, calulate your numbers and communicate your data quickly and easily. Presents many built-in tools to generate 3D and 2D charts with Calc.
- Create effective multimedia presentations with special effects, animation with Impress
- You can create brochures, newsletters, reports, documents everything from business letters to books with professional layouts with writer.
- You can create everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D images and special effects.
- Users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
- Fully-featured email client has features such as support for IMAP, POP3, multiple accounts, powerful filters, PGP/GnuPG privacy, inline attachments, and much more.
- Mozilla, a fast, secure, featureful web browser enables tabbed browsing and blocks Pop-up windows. Includes Mail and HTML Editor.
- Can hold face-to-face conversations with friends and family, and collaborate with co-workers around the world using your PC and Internet.
- Keeps all your downloads in one dialog and you can add and remove transfers. Transfers can be paused, resumed, queued or scheduled.
- Includes Evolution Mail.Check upcoming appointments, new messages, weather, and news at a glance.
- View and send email in either HTML or text formats. On-the-fly spell checker helps you create professional email without slowing down.
- Supports major industry communications standards to connect Linux and UNIX users to existing infrastructure. With Connector, Evolution works even more closely with Microsoft Exchange servers to connect Linux and UNIX systems to the rest of the organization.
- You can scan images, view graphics of different formats such as PostScript, TIff etc.,
- Can convert images to other graphics formats.
- Supports virtual fonts and fonts in TeX PK, Type 1 and TrueType formats.
- Includes GIMP, enables tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
- You can take screenshots, capable of capturing images of either the whole desktop or just a single window.
- You can view your CDs, Hear your favourites, record songs.
- Can play MP3 files.
- RealPlayer 8 lets you experience the broadest range of cool audio and video (A/V) content on the Web at the click of a button.
- Includes Noatun featured with audio effects, a six-band graphic equalizer, a full plugin architecture, network transparency, and several look and feels!

Beltane is a web-based central management console for the Samhain file integrity / intrusion detection system. Beltane project enables the administrator to browse client messages, acknowledge them, and update centrally stored file signature databases.
Beltane requires a Samhain (version 1.6.0 or higher) client/server installation, with file signature databases stored on the central server, and logging to a SQL database enabled.
In a client/server installation of Samhain, you have individual hosts monitored by Samhain clients, and a central log server (called yule) where also the file signature databases are kept. Beltane enhances this setup by providing an interface to browse client messages, acknowledge them, and modify the file signature database for a client according to the file changes reported by that client.
As the Samhain daemon keeps a memory of file changes, the file signature database need only be up to date when the daemon restarts and downloads the database from the central server. Beltane allows you to use the information logged by the client in order to update the signature database.
Details
Beltane is a PHP4 (also works with PHP5) application, with some additional components written in C. PHP4 (or PHP5) may be compiled as Apache module or as CGI interpreter (Beltane is tested with Linux, Apache 1.3/2.0, PHP 4.3.4/5.0.3 used as CGI interpreter, suexec, no SSL, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases).
Beltane 2 can also be used with an Oracle database.
On the client side, Beltane requires a Javascript capable browser. Cookies must be enabled. We recommend Mozilla/Firefox, as it is rumoured to be the most standard-conforming browser, but most inferior browsers may work as well.
Documentation is provided as SGML and HTML files within the tarball. You are adviced to read the documentation before attempting to install Beltane.
Main features:
- Major performance and scalability improvements for reduced memory consumption, faster baseline database updates, and faster reload of the client panel
- Support for Oracle database (Beltane version 2.1.1 and above)
- Client Status Display (running/dead/unknown)
- Bulk Update from user-defined criteria like: the hostname, a list of files (with or without checksums), or a time window
- On-the-fly Sorting of the message list
- Message Filtering with POSIX regular expressions
- GnuPG Signing of client file signature databases after an update
- Search function for the database.
- Editing of client configurations
- Client Configuration Reload can be triggered
- Multiple Users with logging of login/logouts
- Server Messages can be viewed optionally
Enhancements:
- Multiple administrator accounts are possible, per-user configurability has been improved, and a strict locking policy has been implemented to avoid race conditions.