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François Dupoux has announced the release of SystemRescueCd 1.4.0, a major new update of the popular Gentoo-based live CD designed for data rescue and disk management tasks: "SystemRescueCd 1.4.0 introduces two new options that allow you to boot from NFS v3 or NBD. Basically, if the computer on....

Iuri Stanchev has announced the release of NetSecL 2.6, a Slackware-based distribution enhanced with GCC stack smashing protection and other security features: "NetSecL 2.6 released. In the new release you will find QEMU, servers and new penetration tools. We took our time to separate the usual network utilities....

The fourth beta of MOPSLinux 7.0, a Russian Slackware-based distribution, is now available for download and testing. According to the release announcement (in Russian), this is the last beta - next on the developers' agenda is a first release candidate. This release doesn't include many major new features,....

Daisuke Suzuki has announced the release of Vine Linux 5.1 (code name "Cheval Blanc"), a Japanese general-purpose community distribution available for the i386, x86_64 and PowerPC architectures. This is a minor update in the Vine 5.x series that integrates all the bug-fix and security updates announced since the....

Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, code name "Lucid Lynx": "Welcome to Lucid Lynx Alpha 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS." New features: "The default search engine has been changed to Yahoo! The default home page will....

Warren Woodford has announced the availability of the first release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.5, a new version of the Debian-based desktop distribution, now with KDE 4: "SimplyMEPIS 8.4.98, release candidate 1 of MEPIS 8.5, is now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. Major packages have not changed since....

Sylvain Balbous has announced the release of PapugLinux 10.1, a minimalist, Gentoo-based live CD with the Fluxbox window manager and a number of mostly lightweight desktop applications: "PapugLinux release 10.1 is now available for download. Version 10.1 is a major release of PapugLinux in terms of package update....

John Van Gaans has released the first beta of TEENpup 2010, a Puppy-based distribution with IceWM and KDE 3 applications, designed primarily for netbooks: "TEENpup 2010 Beta has been released. This release of TEENpup will find a number of new friends with netbooks. Originally I started developing this....

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 8.0, a major new version of the user-friendly FreeBSD variant designed for the desktop: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 8.0 (Hubble Edition), running FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-P2, and KDE 4.3.5. PC-BSD 8.0 contains a number of....

Markku Kero has announced the release of Igelle 1.0.0, an independent desktop Linux distribution featuring a custom desktop, package management and other unique characteristics: "We are happy to announce the release and immediate availability of a distinct flavor of Igelle, Igelle DSV 1.0.0 for personal computer desktops. Igelle....