Archive for January, 2010
Development Release: FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Ken Smith has announced that the first beta release of FreeBSD 7.3, a new version of the project's legacy branch, is now available for testing: "FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. For now we....
Distribution Release: Ubuntu 8.04.4
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the fourth update to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, the current long-term support Ubuntu version that is supported with security updates until April 2011 on desktops and April 2013 on servers: "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 8.04.4....
Development Release: PC-BSD 8.0 RC
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Kris Moore has announced the availability of the release candidate for PC-BSD 8.0, a user-friendly, FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0-RC, running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.4. PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of enhancements and improvements....
Distribution Release: PC/OS 10
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of PC/OS 10, a user-friendly desktop distribution based on Xubuntu: "We are proud to announce that we have just released the newest release of PC/OS. PC/OS OpenWorkstation and PC/OS WebStation are the two editions released. These replace PC/OS 2009 OpenWorkstation and WebStation.....
Distribution Release: SystemRescueCd 1.3.5
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
François Dupoux has released SystemRescueCd 1.3.5, a Gentoo-based live CD containing a variety of disk and data management utilities. Here is the summary of changes since the previous release: "updated the standard kernels to Linux 2.6.31.12 with btrfs update from 2.6.32; updated FSArchiver to 0.6.5 (bug fixes, progress....
Distribution Release: MoLinux 5.2
Monday, January 25th, 2010
MoLinux 5.2, an Ubuntu-based Spanish distribution developed in cooperation between the Spanish regional government of Castilla La Mancha and Centro de Excelencia de Software Libre, has been released. Some of the more important new features in this version include: addition of the XMBC media centre for controlling music,....
DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 338
Monday, January 25th, 2010
This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Hymera and commercial Linux News: Booting Ubuntu in 15 seconds, Lubuntu update, Slackware articles round-up, insecurity of OpenBSD, Qimo 4 Kids 2.0 Questions and answers: Linux on Apple hardware Released last week: Tiny Core Linux 2.8, Càtix 1.6 New additions: DigAnTel, Element....
Distribution Release: Tiny Core Linux 2.8
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of Tiny Core Linux 2.8, the world's smallest graphical distribution: "Tiny Core Linux 2.8 is now posted. The theme for this release is to have a single directory for extensions and dependencies. This greatly improves systems resources by having a single copy....
Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Alpha 4
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The fourth alpha release of Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, a server-oriented distribution based on the OpenSolaris base system and Ubuntu software packages, is now ready for testing: "On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) 3.0 Alpha 4, the....
Distribution Releases: Càtix 1.5, 1.6
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Càtix is a Debian-based distribution and live DVD with complete support for the Catalan language. The project has announced two new releases - Càtix 1.5 is the last Càtix featuring the KDE 3 desktop while Càtix 1.6 is the distribution's first version that defaults to KDE 4 (version....
