Guardian Digital released yesterday, December 4, 2007 the latest version of their security targeted distribution: EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.18 (Version 3.0, Release 18). ISOs for i686 and x86_64 are available for direct download and also as torrent images. The download size is very small ~570 MB but it includes all the necessary tools to run a secure standalone or application server.

Changes in 3.0.18 include among others:

• New Guardian Digital Health Center for proactive hardware monitoring
• FwkNop and PSAD Tools for new levels of Security (featured in the the new Linux Firewalls book by Michael Rash)
• New stress-kernel package with a new stress testing suite
• Several new packages such as drbd (8.2.1), dsniff (2.3), psad (2.1), quota (3.15), sdparm (1.02), stress-kernel (3.0).
• The latest stable versions of MySQL (5.0.45), asterisk (1.4.14), kernel (2.6.23), openswan (2.4.10), samba (3.0.27a), syslog-ng (2.0.5), webtool (3.18), etc.
• Numerous fixes and features enhancements

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Almost one month after RedHat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (20071107), the CentOS team released yesterday their own 5.1 update for centos5. There are available new iso images for centos5.1 and we can also find a special netinstall iso that can be used to start a remote install. Systems running centos5 will notice the update in the yum/up2date repositories and can be upgraded immediately.

Besides the changes introduced by rhel5.1 you can find the centos particularities here. Personally I have found it quite strange that after the upgrade the /etc/redhat-release file was not showing 5.1 but still CentOS release 5 (Final), even if centos-release-5-1.0.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm was upgraded:
cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5 (Final)
instead of something like “CentOS release 5.1 (Final)“. Apparently this is a known issue and the centos team will create wiki page explaining the situation about that in the next couple of days.

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20070520: If you will run today yum (or up2date) on a Centos 4 system you will notice that there are many updated packages available. This is happening because Centos has released the 5th update of Centos-4 a few days ago and now this update is appearing on Centos mirrors.

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While still hoping to release Etch as expected in December, the Debian team has revealed the name of the next Debian version: Lenny. This is from debian-news.net and the actual announce is very funny:

“If you managed to read so far: Congratulations! That means you get to be one of the lucky first 10 people to know the codename for the next Debian release: it will be called Lenny.”

Haha… I’m one of the lucky ones