Calculate Linux 9.9

September 29, 2009 Linux OS

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the release of Calculate Linux 9.9, a Gentoo-based desktop and server distribution. Changes in this version include: built on top of Calculate Linux Scratch; switch to Aufs as the live file system; replaced XChat with Konversation and GStarDict with GoldenDict, added KDE Partition Manager; Mozilla Firefox is now the default web browser; Compiz has been integrated with the Xfce desktop; added proprietary NVIDIA driver to the CLDX edition; updated to Linux kernel 2.6.30 and KDE 4.3; initrd and kernel are now packed using LZMA compressions; various other speed optimisations. Here is the full press release (in Russian). Calculate Linux comes in the form of live DVDs with either KDE (CLD) or Xfce (CLDX) desktops; download the ISO images from here: cld-9.9-i686.iso(1,712MB, MD5, torrent), cldx-9.9-i686.iso (1,015MB, MD5, torrent), cld-9.9-x86_64.iso (1,804MB, MD5, torrent), cldx-9.9-x86_64.iso (1,144MB, MD5, torrent).