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SystemRescueCd 1.5.0, a Gentoo-based live CD with a collection of data rescue and disk partitioning utilities, has been released. From the changelog: "initramfs - udevd used to load kernel modules that corresponds to the hardware; initramfs - /init bootscript rewritten; initramfs - added firmware required for Ethernet and....

After four beta releases, the first release candidate for the upcoming MOPSLinux 7.0, a Russian distribution based on Slackware Linux, is now ready for testing. Compared to the last beta release, these are some of the most important changes in RC1: several packages have been rebuilt to add....

Alan Baghumian has released the first development build of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, a desktop distribution and live DVD based on Debian's testing branch: "The first set of Parsix 3.5 'Frankie' testing ISO images are out. Although this is the first testing ISO, the system stability is very good....

Warren Woodford has announced that the third release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.5 is ready for testing: "MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.5.00, RC3 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. We've updated the kernel to 2.6.32.10. The release notes from the Linux kernel team indicated that....

The second beta release of PCLinuxOS 2010 is now available for download and testing. What's new? "Linux kernel updated to 2.6.32.10 - updates, bug fixes and suggestions based on community feedback over the past week were implemented on the live CD. In addition to the KDE 4.4.1 version,....

Yuichiro Nakada has announced the release of Berry Linux 1.01, a Fedora-based Japanese distribution and live CD (with support for English) for the desktop, featuring the KDE 4 desktop environment. This is the project's first release based on Fedora 12. From the changelog: "Berry Linux 1.01 released. Based....

Mandriva has announced the release of Mandriva Enterprise Server 5.1, a commercial Linux distribution with 5-year maintenance support: "The first update of Mandriva Enterprise Server (MES) 5, the simple and innovative Linux server, is available today. Coming with plenty of technology enhancements, hardware support scope and software list....

Henne Vogelsang has announced the availability of the third milestone of openSUSE 11.3: "The third of seven scheduled milestone releases for 11.3 was completed and released on schedule. Milestone 3 focuses on using GCC 4.5 as the default compiler, leaving a great deal of the work in the....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at Haiku News: Fedora developers stage "unrest", a look at Mandriva's history, openSUSE 11.2 "LXDE" and "Xfce" live CDs, Wolvix 2.0.0 Questions and answers: Loopback devices Released last week: Frugalware Linux 1.2, VortexBox 1.2, PC/OS 10.1 Upcoming releases: OpenBSD 4.7,....

The second alpha build of GeeXboX 2.0, a Linux mini-distribution for Home Theatre PCs (HTPC) and media centres, is available for testing: "It has already been one month since 2.0-alpha1 release so here is alpha2. This release fixes many bugs that have been encountered by our users on....