BSD Release: GhostBSD 2.5

January 24th, 2012
John Combs has announced the release of GhostBSD 2.5, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system and live media with a choice of GNOME or LXDE desktops: "After months of work, the official final release of GhostBSD 2.5 is finally here! Many bugs have been fixed and many parts of....


DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 440

January 23rd, 2012
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Let's talk tiny - Tiny Core Linux 4.2 News: Mandriva and Pardus status update, Fedora packages, Gentoo zero-day packaging, Bodhi's Bloathi, ZevenOS overview Questions and answers: Clang went the compiler Released last week: Toorox 01.2012 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 12.2 roadmap New additions:....


Distribution Release: Toorox 01.2012

January 20th, 2012
Jörn Lindau has announced the release of Toorox 01.2012 "GNOME" edition, a Gentoo-based desktop Linux distribution featuring GNOME 3.2.1: "Toorox 01.2012 'GNOME'. A new version of the 'GNOME' edition of Toorox featuring the recent stable GNOME 3.2.1 has been finished. Some GNOME Shell extensions have been added to....


DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 439

January 16th, 2012
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at Kororaa Linux 16 News: FreeBSD 9.0 update, testing Unity 5.0, new features in Fedora 17, interviews with Debian's Steve McIntyre and openSUSE's Frédéric Crozat, Linux Mint overview Questions and answers: SOPA and open-source software Released last week: FreeBSD 9.0,....


Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC1

January 15th, 2012
Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the first of the two planned release candidates for Frugalware Linux 1.6, a general-purpose distribution for desktops and servers designed with intermediate Linux users in mind: "Frugalware 1.6rc1 (Fermus) released. The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability....


Distribution Release: ArtistX 1.2

January 15th, 2012
Marco Ghirlanda has announced the release of ArtistX 1.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution designed for musicians and other artists, and featuring a large collection of multimedia and graphics software: "After nearly ten years of development and more than ten versions, the ArtistX 1.2 multimedia studio on a DVD is....


Development Release: DEFT Linux 7 RC1

January 13th, 2012
Stefano Fratepietro has announced the availability of the first release candidate for DEFT Linux 7, a specialist Ubuntu-based live DVD for digital forensics and penetration testing: "Finally we were able to realize a very stable DEFT Linux 7 release, solving all problems responsible for postponing the release date....


BSD Release: PC-BSD 9.0

January 13th, 2012
Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 9.0, a desktop-oriented distribution based on the latest stable FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD development team and iXsystems are pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD version 9.0. Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, this is also the first PC-BSD which offers users....


Development Release: Mageia 2 Alpha 3

January 13th, 2012
Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the third alpha release of Mageia 2: "The third development release, Mageia 2 alpha 3 is now available for tests. This is the last alpha version so we really need your input now. Major new features: ships with the latest stable....


BSD Release: FreeBSD 9.0

January 12th, 2012
The FreeBSD Engineering Team has announced the release of FreeBSD 9.0, a major new version of the BSD operating featuring a brand-new system installer: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which....