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In only a few years of existence, Ubuntu reached a very high level of popularity. With the slogan "Linux for human beings," Canonical clearly aimed to provide a smoother transition for the regular desktop users who wanted a change in their everyday computing experience. Though some may question Ubuntu's true con... |
21 May 2009
02:05 GMT |
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Steven Shiau announced today, May 18th, a new stable release of his system-cloning Linux distribution. Clonezilla 1.2.2-14 is using the Debian Lenny repositories (as of 05/17/2009) and is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.29-4 from backports.undebian.org. "We are happy to announce Clonezilla live 1.2.2-14 is the new stab... |
18 May 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The Foresight Linux Project team announced, on May 15th, the immediate availability of a new version of their Linux distribution. Foresight Linux 2.1.1, coming three months after the 2.1.0 release, brings notable changes, including the latest GNOME desktop environment and a new Linux kernel. "It is with great pleas... |
18 May 2009
04:05 GMT |
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While everybody is enjoying Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), the new release of the Ubuntu operating system, somewhere deep in the Ubuntu headquarters the developers are working hard to bring us all the new stuff that happens in the Linux world today. Therefore we proudly announce that the first alpha release of Ubunt... |
14 May 2009
08:30 GMT |
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François Dupoux announced yesterday evening the immediate availability of SystemRescueCd 1.2.0 Linux distribution. Big news comes with this version of the tiny Gentoo-based operating system for systems administration and data recovery, as it now has a new desktop environment, Xfce4, and it is powered by the ju... |
13 May 2009
10:51 GMT |
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The Sabily Team recently announced the release of Sabily 9.04 "Taibah" (formerly Ubuntu Muslim Edition) in three versions: the small 935 MB ISO with the most important packages, a Full 1.4 GB one with multimedia support and educational software, and the full 2.8 GB version with locally installed Quran recitations. "... |
13 May 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Pierrick Le Brun announced earlier today the immediate availability of the Zenwalk Linux 6.0 Live CD Edition. Being based on the standard version of the Zenwalk Linux distribution, the Live CD edition is actually a replica of the main edition, except for the fact that it can be run directly from the CD. Zenwalk Linux... |
12 May 2009
10:01 GMT |
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The Slack Mini Server (SMS) Project team announced two days ago, on May 10th, the immediate availability of Slack Mini Server 1.4.3, a Slackware-based Linux distribution. An important change was made to the package format, now .txz (lzma), dramatically reducing the size of the distribution. The Slack Mini Server repo... |
11 May 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Patrick Verner announced, on May 8th, the release of Parted Magic 4.1, his Slackware-based Linux distribution that was created to help users partition their hard disks or perform recovery tasks. This new version fixes several bugs, but also brings new features and applications. Parted Magic 4.1 resolves a scripting e... |
11 May 2009
05:04 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre and the community behind the Linux Mint project proudly announced last night on the official blog the immediate availability of the first release candidate of Linux Mint 7 (Gloria) operating system. This first RC is based on the recently released Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and it is powered by Li... |
6 May 2009
08:55 GMT |
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This is definitely a great time for Linux users all over the world. After Canonical showed off their latest Ubuntu distribution, it's time for Mandriva to take the spotlight. Yes, Mandriva 2009.1, also known as Spring, was released today after two Alphas, one Beta and two release candidates. There are a lot of e... |
30 April 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Just two weeks after announcing Sabayon Linux 4.1 GNOME Edition, Fabio Erculiani released today, April 29th, the KDE edition of his Linux distribution. Sabayon Linux 4.1 KDE is based on Sabayon 4 LiteMCE and brings the same usability and out-of-the-box experience, this time on top of the latest KDE 4.2.2 desktop envi... |
29 April 2009
13:41 GMT |
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MEPIS LLC announced, through Warren Woodford, the release of SimplyMepis 8.0.06 for both 32- and 64-bit processor architectures, two months after SimplyMepis 8.0 was launched. This new version doesn't bring important changes, but updates many packages from the Debian Lenny pool. Also, the Linux kernel is now at ... |
27 April 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Carlos la Borde announced yesterday, April 26th, the release of iMagic OS 2009.5, his commercial, Kubuntu-based Linux distribution. This version comes with a host of new features, like a first run wizard, MP3 decoding, better integration with magicOnline 2, improved Microsoft compatibility, Google Desktop, magicGuide... |
27 April 2009
03:50 GMT |
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The Fedora Unity Project recently announced the immediate availability of a new set of Re-Spins for the Fedora 10 Linux distribution. The new ISOs, based on the official Fedora 10 (Sulphur) installation media, include all the updates released until the 14th of April and are available in a stable state for the i386 an... |
24 April 2009
07:01 GMT |
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The SliTaz team proudly announced last evening the immediate availability of the SliTaz 2.0, a minimalistic Linux distribution. The new version comes after thirteen months of hard work and includes many bug fixes, as well as significant new features. So, if you're wondering what's new in SliTaz 2.0, let us ... |
17 April 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Karl Goetz proudly announced today the second maintenance release of gNewSense 2, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that contains only 100% free software. Dubbed DeltaH and available only for the 32-bit architecture, the new gNewSense 2.2 Live CD contains mainly security updates and a few other important improvement... |
15 April 2009
12:56 GMT |
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Almost three months after the release of Sabayon Linux Lite MCE, Fabio Erculiani announced yesterday, April 13th, the immediate availability of a new edition, entitled Sabayon Linux 4.1 GNOME and based on the Lite MCE version. This GNOME edition of Sabayon Linux 4 brings a "ready to use" version of the powerful and p... |
14 April 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Robert Shingledecker, founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, announced yesterday, April 12th, the release of Tiny Core Linux 1.3, a very small Linux distribution that is only 10 MB in size. Coming one month after the previous 1.2 release, Tiny Core Linux 1.3 uses the Linux kernel 2.6.26-tinycore and brings updated p... |
13 April 2009
02:38 GMT |
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David Cortarello announced today the release of his Kwort Linux 2.4.1 Slackware-based distribution. "This version took a year to develop and provides a lot of changes from 2.4 release, including a new, more cleaned up than usual, base system, whole new tool chain, new configuration tools and lots of new things." Davi... |
10 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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While busy with his new house, Tomas Matejicek, father of the Slax distribution, decided to please his users and announced last night a new maintenance release for Slax: "I've been a bit busy (as usual) and it will be the same for the following few weeks, I'm building a new house and I have to be there ever... |
10 April 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Linux Mint is one of those distributions that have always been dear to me. With truly dedicated developers and a strong, faithful community, Mint reached, in only a few years, a very high level of popularity. Being based on Ubuntu, Linux Mint complements it by providing an elegant look as well as a full, out-of-the-b... |
9 April 2009
10:40 GMT |
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One day after the announcement for Linux Mint 6 Fluxbox CE, Clement Lefebvre and the community behind the Linux Mint project announced last evening the immediate availability of the final release of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) KDE Community Edition: "On behalf of the team I am thrilled to announce the release of Linux Min... |
9 April 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Clement Lefebvre and the community behind the Linux Mint project announced last night on the official blog the immediate availability of the final release of Linux Mint 6 (Felicia) Fluxbox Community Edition. Being based on Xubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), this version is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.27, X.Org 7.4 and Flu... |
8 April 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Mandriva announced last night the immediate availability of Mandriva Linux 2009.1 RC2. Once again, we thought it would be nice to please our readers and offer them a visual tour of this second release candidate of the upcoming Mandriva 2009 Spring. What's new in Mandriva Linux 2009.1 RC2? Well, the most obvious... |
7 April 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Patrick Verner announced today the immediate availability of Parted Magic 4.0, a Slackware-based Linux distribution designed to help users with hard disk partitioning and recovery tasks. Parted Magic 4.0 is, once again, a special version... because Patrick Verner decided to change its appearance and to introduce fant... |
4 April 2009
08:31 GMT |
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The VectorLinux team announced, on April 1st, the immediate availability of their VectorLinux 6.0 Light Linux distribution. Being designed to work with low-end machines, VectorLinux 6.0 Light will need only a 200 MhZ processor, 64 MB of RAM and 2 GB of hard disk space. "Light is aimed at users with some Linux experie... |
2 April 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Digium, Inc. announced yesterday, April 1st, the release of the AsteriskNOW 1.5.0 Linux distribution. This version comes with important changes: its base operating system is now CentOS instead of rPath and the default Graphical User Interface (GUI) was changed to FreePBX from AsteriskGUI, though the latter is still a... |
2 April 2009
08:07 GMT |
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After testing a lot of final, stable releases, we think it's time to provide some feedback on some projects that are still in development. So, let us welcome you to the Beta Testing Lab, where today we'll test Wolvix 2.0.0 Beta as thoroughly as possible. Wolvix 2.0.0 Beta is a Linux distribution based on ... |
1 April 2009
20:31 GMT |
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The Fedora Project Team announced, a few minutes ago, the release of Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Beta. Getting closer and closer to the final release, Fedora 11 promises to bring a lot of major changes and improvements along with bleeding-edge technologies to enable a modern operating system. Coming in two flavors, Fedora 1... |
31 March 2009
11:50 GMT |
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The team behind the Puppy Linux project announced, on March 27th, the release of Puppy Linux 4.2 "Deep Thought." "Puppy 4.2 "Deep Thought" is the first Official non-CE version of Puppy without Barry Kauler making the final choices since its inception. The release has been a truly collaborative effort." said Warren Wi... |
30 March 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Troy Dawson and Connie Sieh released, only one week after announcing the availability of Scientific Linux 5.3, the Live CD/DVD version of their distribution. Scientific Linux 5.3 Live CD/DVD will run on both i386 and x86_64 processor architectures. Being a Live version, the system boots directly from the optical medi... |
30 March 2009
02:51 GMT |
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The Elive team proudly announced last night yet another development release of their GNU/Linux Live CD, Elive 1.9.24. Among various improvements and bugfixes, this new development version of Elive is now based on the stable version of the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) operating system. Without further introduction, let's t... |
27 March 2009
10:59 GMT |
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With the spring settling in more and more everyday and flowers blooming all over the place, we thought it would be appropriate to take a first look at the Persian flower distribution that goes by the name of Parsix 2.0r0. Released just a few days ago, Parsix 2.0r0 is codenamed Boss Skua and was built on top of Debi... |
24 March 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Almost eighteen months ago, on the 18th of October 2007, Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 7.10, codename Gutsy Gibbon. Many important features and updates made Ubuntu fans all over the world extremely happy and eager to upgrade. The default desktop environment for Ubuntu (GNOME) reached then a very important... |
23 March 2009
10:23 GMT |
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The Frugalware Developer Team announced yesterday, March 22nd, the release of Frugalware 1.0 Linux distribution, the tenth stable version in its history. "The version number 1.0 does not indicate anything really special, the new release will bring you as many new features and bugfixes as usual, but it's still a ... |
23 March 2009
07:31 GMT |
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Almost two weeks after releasing the main version of Zenwalk Linux 6.0, the team behind the Zenwalk project announced Zenwalk 6.0 GNOME Edition. Based on the 2.6.28.7 Linux kernel, this version runs the brand new GNOME 2.26.0 desktop environment. Some of the benefits of implementing the latest GNOME release include b... |
23 March 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Alan Baghumian announced yesterday, March 22nd, the release of version 2.0r0 of his Parsix Linux distribution, codenamed "Boss Skua." Among updated packages and bugfixes, Parsix 2.0r0 brings a new Linux kernel 2.6.26.8. Also, the compression system used for the Live CD was updated to version 3.4. Other changes were... |
23 March 2009
03:47 GMT |
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Troy Dawson and Connie Sieh announced last evening the immediate availability of Scientific Linux 5.3, a Linux distribution put together by various universities and labs around the world. Being based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0.3, the new release of Scientific Linux brings improved support for Intel wireless card... |
20 March 2009
07:31 GMT |
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The Job and Esther Technologies Ltd software development company announced two days ago, March 18th, the release of their Igelle PC/Desktop 0.6.0 Live CD Linux distribution. Featuring many useful applications that are installed on most modern-day operating systems, Igelle 0.6.0 is using the lightweight Metacity windo... |
20 March 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Paul Sherman, the creator of Absolute Linux, a Slackware-based Linux distribution, has announced yesterday, March 18th, the release of Absolute Linux 12.2.2. Among others things, changes were made to the Linux kernel that is now at version 2.6.28.7 and to the installation that now uses ext4 as the default filesystem.... |
19 March 2009
19:41 GMT |
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Another week, another First Look and yet another Enlightenment-using distribution came knocking at our doors. It's OpenGEU this time around and it has reached version 8.10, beautifully codenamed Luna Serena. If my memory is correct, OpenGEU (actually Geubuntu, its ex-name) was my first encounter with the Enlight... |
18 March 2009
10:08 GMT |
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The developers behind the OpenGEU project have announced the release of OpenGEU 8.10 (codename Luna Serena). Though the packages for it were available since last month, users can now download a complete Live CD with the system. "As we already said before in the previous announcements, this is not a major release. L... |
17 March 2009
05:43 GMT |
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I used to be one of PCLinuxOS' fans and I especially enjoyed the GNOME flavor so hearing that the team was ready to finally launch a new version sparkled a lot of interest in me. And what better way to express that interest than sharing my first impressions on this popular distribution?Being a GNOME person I wen... |
14 March 2009
10:01 GMT |
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The PCLinuxOS team, also known as "The Ripper Gang," announced yesterday, March 11th, the final release of PCLinuxOS 2009.1 in both of its KDE and GNOME variants. Because of stability and functionality issues, the team decided to stick to the old KDE 3.5.10, but promised to make the latest KDE 4 available in the repo... |
12 March 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Robert Shingledecker, founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, announced yesterday, March 10th, the release of Tiny Core Linux 1.2, a very small Linux distribution that is only 10 MB in size. Based on the Linux kernel 2.6, this core desktop uses BusyBox – a tool that provides many useful UNIX utilities in one si... |
11 March 2009
08:31 GMT |
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After pushing our trusty computer to its limits with all sorts of 3D desktop effects through Elive Compiz, moonOS or Ubuntu with KDE 4.2, we decided to let it relax for a while. And given the fact that an active rest is always better than a brain-dumbing, sit-and-do-nothing kind of rest, we thought it would be nice t... |
10 March 2009
10:40 GMT |
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Vyatta Inc., a company that builds open-source and commercially supported networking solutions that provide an alternative to inflexible and over-priced products from proprietary vendors, announced yesterday evening the immediate availability of Vyatta 5.0.2. Being based on the Debian mammoth, the new release of the ... |
10 March 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Attila Craciun has announced today the release of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.2 LiveDVD. This version features almost all applications that are included in the Bluewhite64 Linux Install DVD plus software created by the Bluewhite64 Linux community. This LiveDVD has been made to run on both single and multi core 64-bit proces... |
9 March 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Jean-Philippe Guillemin, founder of Zenwalk Linux distribution, announced, two days ago (March 7th), the release of Zenwalk Linux 6.0. One of the most important updated components is Xfce, the default desktop environment, which recently reached version 4.6. "We spent the 2 last months polishing the desktop around t... |
9 March 2009
06:01 GMT |
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