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Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml 2008.11, a Debian-based live CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators: "grml version 2008.11 has been released and is currently being uploaded to the mirrors. What's new? New grml-scripts: grml-chroot -....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature story: Linux distributions and the global economic crisis News: Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 performance benchmarks, Glendix brings Plan 9 to Linux, Pardus case study, VectorLinux's new graphical installer Released last week: Fedora 10, FreeBSD 6.4 Upcoming releases: Slackware Linux 12.2, FreeBSD....

Volker Theile has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeNAS 0.69, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "This will hopefully be the last release candidate before a stable release can be published. So please test this version and report any problems.....

Tilman Sauerbeck has announced the availability of the first release candidate for CRUX 2.5, a minimalist, i686-optimised Linux distribution built for power users: "The first release candidate for the upcoming CRUX 2.5 release is available now. Release notes: includes glibc 2.8, GCC 4.3.2 and Binutils 2.19; Linux kernel....

Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 3.2, the latest version of another distribution specialising in hard disk partitioning: "Parted Magic 3.2. This is mostly a bug-fix release for the 3.x series with a few new features. Some of the new updates include GParted 0.4.0, Linux....

A new stable version of GParted LiveCD, a Debian-based specialist distribution with a collection of hard disk management utilities, has been released. What's new? "This release is a bug-fix release with some minor updates; based on Debian 'Lenny' on 2008-11-27, Linux kernel 2.6.26; a program called MC_HxEd was....

FreeBSD 6.4, a new stable version of the project's legacy 6.x branch, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights: new....

The first and only release candidate for openSUSE 11.1 is out and ready for final testing: "The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 is now available. If all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public release....

Philip Newborough has announced the release of CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the light-weight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications: "The final build of CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01 is now available. This is the third release of the distribution and as the version number suggests, it is....

Poseidon Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a good collection of academic and scientific applications for GIS/maps, numerical modelling, 2D/3D/4D visualisation, statistics and graphics. An updated version 3.1 was released yesterday. What's new? "Based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with security updates until 2008-10-17; for the first time Poseidon Linux....

Robert Lange has announced the availability of the first beta release of VectorLinux 6.0: "The VectorLinux development team is proud to announce the first beta release of VectorLinux 6.0. The big news is that VectorLinux has a new GUI installer for the first time! This was built from....

The Elive project continues its rapid release cycle of development builds that will eventually lead to Elive 2.0. The latest version is 1.9.18: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.18. This version includes a greatly improved new kernel and a lot....

Greg Kurtzer has announced the release of Caos Linux NSA 1.0, a light-weight, stable and secure distribution of Linux for servers, compute nodes and network appliances: "The Caos team of developers and contributors from Infiscale are proud to announce the public release of Caos Linux NSA version 1.....

The Fedora project has announced the release of Fedora 10: "The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, today announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free, open source operating system distribution. This release includes the premiere of a....

The government of Extremadura (Spain) has announced the availability of a beta release of gnuLinEx Lenix, a Debian-based distribution customised for use in schools and government offices around the region. The new version includes many productivity applications for office, Internet, graphics design and multimedia use. It is compatible....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature stories: Novell wins and SCO loses, Linux netbooks hit store shelves News: Fedora claims 9.5 million users, openSUSE plans for Zypper 2, Gentoo outlines Council activities, sidux celebrates second birthday, Shift Linux changes direction Released last week: Mandriva One 2009 "Xfce", Yellow....

Greenie Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution customised for Slovak and Czech users. A new version, now based on "Intrepid Ibex", was announced earlier today: "A new version of Greenie Linux, based on Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' is here! Main changes: Greenie is now based on Ubuntu 8.10, with....

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a free book that provides instructions for compiling a basic Linux operating system from scratch, offered primarily as an educational tool for those who wish to learn more about Linux internals. A brand new version was released today: "The Linux From Scratch community....

Colin Watson has announced the first alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04, code name "Jaunty Jackalope": "Welcome to Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 9.04. The primary changes from Intrepid have been the re-merging of changes from Debian. We've also been spending some time getting....

SME Server 7.4, a CentOS-based specialist distribution for servers, has been released: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 7.4. This release is based on CentOS 4.7. Other major changes in this release are the use of dar for backups and....