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Development Release: Lunar Linux 1.6.5 RC1

10.07.2010 02:15 Stefan Wold has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Lunar Linux 1.6.5, a source-based distribution designed for more advanced Linux users: "The Lunar team proudly announces the release of Lunar Linux 1.6.5-rc1 codename 'Mare Ingenii'. This project is still alive and we don't intend to....

Development Release: Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3 RC1

09.07.2010 20:00 Robert Gabriel has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3, a Slackware-based distribution for the desktop: "Finally I can release RC1 of Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3. Since alpha 2 a lot of things have changed, a lot of things got added and the same....

Development Release: GhostBSD 1.5 Beta

09.07.2010 15:00 Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of a beta release of GhostBSD 1.5, a FreeBSD-based live CD with GNOME and a work-in-progress graphical system installer: "GhostBSD 1.5 beta is here. In this beta we have the back-end of the PC-BSD installer, but it is not configured to install....

Development Release: ClearOS 5.2 RC1

09.07.2010 11:15 The first release candidate for ClearOS 5.2, a network and gateway server designed for small organizations and distributed environments, is out and ready for testing: "The first release candidate for ClearOS Enterprise 5.2 is now available. All the major features have been implemented and upgrades from ClarkConnect 4.x....

Distribution Release: PCLinuxOS 2010.07

09.07.2010 02:30 Bill Reynolds has announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2010.07, the latest update of the popular beginner-friendly Linux distribution and live CD: "Quarterly updated CD images of PCLinuxOS are now available for download on mirrors worldwide. The quarterly release currently comes in three editions: KDE 4.4.5 SC edition, GNOME....

Distribution Release: Mandriva Linux 2010.1

09.07.2010 01:15 Mandriva Linux 2010.1 has been released: "Mandriva, the leading European publisher of Linux solutions, announces today the launch of the final version of Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. Quicker, easier and more secure than ever, Mandriva Linux offers new functionalities which revolutionise the desktop. In a nutshell, Mandriva Linux....

Distribution Release: Salix OS 13.1 "LXDE"

08.07.2010 07:45 George Vlahavas has announced the release of Salix OS 13.1 "LXDE" edition, a lightweight, Slackware-based desktop Linux distribution: "Salix OS 13.1 LXDE edition has been released. Based on Slackware Linux 13.1, it features the lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, with a clean look and feel. The main applications that....

Distribution Release: Guadalinex 7

06.07.2010 17:00 The Council of Economy, Innovation and Science of the Spanish regional government of Andalucía has published the final release of Guadalinex 7, an Ubuntu-based distribution on a DVD designed for deployment in government offices and schools around the region. Thirty percent faster than its predecessor, this new version....

Development Release: Linux Deepin 10.06 RC

06.07.2010 12:00 Linux Deepin is a Chinese community distribution based on Ubuntu, and version 10.06 will be the next release after 9.12. Compared with the previous beta release, this release candidate fixes the bugs found in Thunar and GDM, and replaces ibus-pinyin with ibus-sunpinyin, currently considered by many as the....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 361

05.07.2010 12:15 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Taking a peek at GhostBSD 1.0 News: Fedora's new project leader, Mandriva's uncertain future, Linux Mint's flirt with Debian, Peppermint and Slackware interviews Questions and answers: Open source licences Released last week: Absolute Linux 13.1.2, Astaro Security Gateway 8.0, IPFire 2.7 Upcoming....

Distribution Release: BlankOn 6.0

05.07.2010 06:00 Ainul Hakim has announced the release of BlankOn 6.0, an Indonesian desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu with support for Indonesian languages and scripts, as well as English: "BlankOn 6.0 'Ombilin' is the newest version of the BlankOn distribution. It was developed by the Indonesian Linux Mover Foundation....

Distribution Release: Absolute Linux 13.1.2

04.07.2010 12:30 The latest version of Absolute Linux, a lightweight Slackware-based distribution with IceWM, comes with Google Chrome as the default web browser and a number of security fixes: "Absolute Linux 13.1.2 released. Google Chrome replaces Mozilla Firefox as default browser. Lower memory usage, faster rendering and proper URL parsing....

Distribution Release: Estrella Roja 2.8

03.07.2010 10:15 Estrella Roja 2.8, an Argentinian Linux distribution based on Debian's testing branch, but featuring the legacy KDE 3.5 desktop, has been released. According to the release announcement , the new version combines the relatively lightweight KDE 3.5 desktop environment with a new i686-optimised Linux kernel, version 2.6.34,....

Distribution Release: Element 1.3

03.07.2010 05:15 Kevin Thompson has announced the release of Element 1.3, a Xubuntu-based distribution for home theatre personal computers: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Element OS 1.3. This is the first version of Element OS to provide streaming content services out of the box through the....

Distribution Release: IPFire 2.7

03.07.2010 00:15 Jan Paul Tuecking has announced the release of IPFire 2.7, a specialist distribution of Linux for firewalls: "Today we are going to release IPFire 2.7. At first we will only release the ISO files, the update is not yet available via pakfire. The reason for this is the....