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Patrick Volkerding has announced that Slackware "Current", the distribution's development branch, has reached release candidate status: "The to-do isn't entirely empty here, but it's pretty much down to minor nits, and so we're going to call this release candidate 1 and (mostly) freeze further updates unless they happen....

Red Hat has announced the availability of the beta release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the beta release of 5.4 (Linux kernel 2.6.18-155.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products. This beta includes the....

Bill Reynolds has announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2009.2, a beginner-friendly distribution and live CD for the desktop: "The quarterly ISO image updates of PCLinuxOS 2009.2 and PCLinuxOS GNOME 2009.2 are now available, featuring a fully updated ISO image with the latest applications from the PCLinuxOS repositories. Additional....

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 4.2 "GNOME" edition, a Gentoo-based desktop distribution and live DVD: "On the behalf of the Sabayon Linux team, we are happy to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 4.2 GNOME. Features: based on Sabayon 4.1 GNOME, containing hundreds....

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann has announced the availability of the first preview release of sidux 2009-02, a desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian's unstable branch: "We have the pleasure to announce the availability of the first preview for sidux 2009-02 'Aether', shipping with kernel 2.6.30. 'Aether' mostly concentrates on integrating KDE....

Fixstars has announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2, a CentOS-based distribution designed for the Apple PowerPC and Sony PlayStation machines: "Fixstars today announced the immediate availability of Yellow Dog Linux 6.2, delivering several updates and improvements making it simpler to install, faster, and easier to use.....

Joe Brockmeier has announced the availability of the third milestone of openSUSE 11.2 "The openSUSE project is pleased to announce the release of openSUSE 11.2 milestone 3. Images are ready for download and testing. This release includes the 2.6.30 Linux kernel, KDE 4.3 beta 2, GNOME 2.27.2, OpenOffice.org....

blackPanther OS is a Hungarian desktop Linux distribution with RPM package management. The just released version 9.1 is a major update, featuring many new technologies, Linux kernel 2.6.29.1, KDE 4.2.0 and OxygenOffice 3.1. Besides the live CD, the distribution provides a total of eight software repositories containing over....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Report: LinuxTag 2009 News: Updated kernel for "Lenny", Slackware install guide, Fedora 12 "Constantine", free articles by BSD Magazine Released last week: Linux Mint 7 "x86_64", Tiny Core Linux 2.1, linuX-gamers Live 0.9.5 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3, Pardus Linux 2009 RC....

Kris Moore has announced the availability of the second release candidate for PC-BSD 7.1.1, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: "I've just finished uploading PC-BSD 7.1.1 RC2 for your inspection. This version fixes many of the bugs you've reported from RC1, and also seems to fix a....