DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 340

February 8th, 2010
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interview: Kris Moore, PC-BSD News: FreeBSD past and present, Fedora newbie guide, interview with Ubuntu's Jane Silber, end of Kongoni Questions and answers: Backups Released last week: Linux Mint 8 "KDE", Gibraltar Firewall 3.0 Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 7.3-RC1, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 Donations:....


Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.2 RC1

February 8th, 2010
Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.2: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.2pre2: we....


Distribution Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0r2

February 7th, 2010
Alan Baghumian has released a revised build of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian's testing branch: "The second update version of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0 'Kev' is available for immediate download. This version merges all security, bug-fix and feature updates published in the....


Development Release: Elive 1.9.60 (Unstable)

February 7th, 2010
A new development version of Elive, a live CD featuring a customised Enlightenment 17 window manager based on Debian stable, has been released: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.60. We are very close to the next stable version of Elive....


Distribution Release: Linux Mint 8 “KDE”

February 7th, 2010
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 8 "KDE" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 'Helena' KDE Community edition. The KDE Community edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the KDE desktop. This edition is....


Distribution Release: Linux Mint 8

February 6th, 2010
Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 8 "KDE" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 'Helena' KDE Community edition. The KDE Community edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the KDE desktop. This edition is....


Development Release: Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2

February 6th, 2010
The second alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1 is now available for download and testing: "The time has come for the second alpha release for the 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. As this is an early pre-release, major changes are mostly in the area of included third-party software.....


Distribution Release: Gibraltar Firewall 3.0

February 5th, 2010
Rene Mayrhofer has announced the release of Gibraltar Firewall 3.0, a major new version of the Debian-based firewall distribution: "This is a major new release, updating into kernel 2.6 and Debian 5.0 'Lenny' as base system and splitting the web interface into front-end and back-end parts in preparation....


Distribution Release: eBox Platform 1.4

February 4th, 2010
eBox Technologies has announced the release of eBox Platform 1.4, an Ubuntu-based server distribution that offers easy and efficient computer network administration for small and medium-size businesses: "eBox Technologies is proud to announce the general availability of eBox Platform 1.4. Besides incorporating a range of new features and....


Distribution Release: Toutou Linux 4.3.1

February 3rd, 2010
Toutou Linux is a variant of Puppy Linux designed for French-speaking users. The project's latest version of the fast, lightweight distribution is 4.3.1, released earlier today. Compared to Puppy Linux 4.3.1, the new Toutou comes with a new "golden" desktop theme, the network is set up automatically during....