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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 369

30.08.2010 11:45 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Under these rocks and stones News: OpenSolaris governing board resigns, Illumos, Mandriva 2010.1 "Xfce Live", Ubuntu 10.10 proposed wallpaper Questions and answers: Sharing files on home network Released last week: Linux Mint 9 "Xfce", Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.0, ArtistX 0.9 Upcoming releases: Zentyal....

Distribution Release: Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.0

30.08.2010 03:00 Phil Miller has announced the release of Chakra GNU/Linux 0.2.0, an Arch-based live and installation CD featuring the latest KDE desktop: "The Chakra development team is proud to announce the availability of 'Jaz', our first live image using our stable repositories. We've been working hard since March 2010....

Distribution Release: ArtistX 0.9

29.08.2010 01:45 Marco Ghirlanda has announced the release of ArtistX 0.9, an Ubuntu-based live DVD that turns a common computer into a multimedia production studio: "ArtistX 0.9 is based on the Remastersys software for creating live media and includes the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion....

Development Release: Calculate Linux 10.9 Beta 1

27.08.2010 13:15 Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the availability of the first beta release of Calculate Linux 10.9, a Gentoo-based desktop distribution: "After five months of development, the first beta of Calculate Linux Desktop 10.9 is available. There are three ISO images for download - KDE , GNOME and Xfce....

Distribution Release: Zenwalk Linux 6.4 "Live"

26.08.2010 06:00 Zenwalk Linux 6.4 "Live" edition has been released: "Zenwalk Live 6.4 is ready. I am happy to announce Zenwalk Live 6.4, which will allow more people to discover the speed and simplicity of Zenwalk without having to install it first. It consists of standard Zenwalk ISO packages following....

Distribution Release: Vyatta 6.1

25.08.2010 01:15 Tom McCafferty has announced the release of Vyatta 6.1, a new version of the Debian-based distribution for firewalls are routers: "Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced Vyatta 6.1, the latest release of the company’s open network OS encompassing enterprise-class routing and network security.....

Development Release: Fedora 14 Alpha

24.08.2010 17:45 Dennis Gilmore has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Fedora 14: "The Fedora 14 'Laughlin' alpha release is available. This release offers a preview of some of the best free and open source technology currently under development. Features: systemd - a smarter, more efficient way....

Distribution Release: Linux Mint 9 "Xfce"

24.08.2010 15:15 Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of the Xfce edition of Linux Mint 9: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 Xfce. Based on Xubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx', Linux 2.6.32, Xfce 4.6.1 and X.Org 7.4, Linux Mint 9 'Isadora' Xfce features a lot....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 368

23.08.2010 13:00 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Taking a Long Look at Salix OS 13.1.1 News: Ubuntu gets multitouch, FreeNAS developments, running KDE 4.5 on OpenSolaris, the Java drama Questions and answers: Chatting with Jared Smith, Fedora Project Leader Released last week: Ubuntu 10.04.1, Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, Frugalware....

Distribution Release: Lunar Linux 1.6.5

23.08.2010 09:15 Stefan Wold has announced the release of a new set of installation CD images for Lunar Linux, a source-based distribution: "The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.5. The last known issues with the ISO image have been resolved. We added support for hybrid....

Distribution Release: NetSecL 3.0

23.08.2010 06:45 Yuri Stanchev has announced the release of NetSecL 3.0, a security-enhanced Linux distribution. Unlike the previous versions which were based on Slackware Linux, this one openSUSE Studio as its build tool: "It was time for a change and we at NetSecL realized that the new version of NetSecL....

Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.3

23.08.2010 03:00 Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.3, a general-purpose distribution designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3, our thirteenth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.3rc2, but 94....

Development Release: TinyMe RC2010.08.20

22.08.2010 18:15 An updated release candidate for a new version of TinyMe Linux, a mini-distribution based on Unity Linux, is available for download and testing: "TinyMe 'Acorn' i586 release candidate 2010.08.20 has made its way into the world! Previous issues forced a do-over, using the Unity 2010.1 i586 release as....

Distribution Release: Greenie Linux 7.1L

22.08.2010 15:45 Stanislav Hoferek has announced the release of Greenie Linux 7.1L, an Ubuntu-based, user-friendly desktop distribution optimised for home users in Slovakia and Czech Republic : "Another Greenie Linux release is here. Greenie 7.1L is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. What is new? Graphical design was....

Distribution Release: Parted Magic 5.3

22.08.2010 04:30 Patrick Verner has released a new version of Parted Magic, a specialist live CD designed for data rescue and disk partitioning tasks: "Parted Magic 5.3 updates BusyBox 1.17.1, FreeType 2.4.2, NTFS-3G 2010.8.8, udev 161, Linux kernel 2.6.34.5. Some other adjustments have been made to improve memory usage.....