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Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose community distribution designed for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc2, the second candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. Here....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Interview with Clement Lefebvre and first look at Linux Mint 8 News: Linux Mint ends "distro hopping", Debian releases first 6.0 installer, Ubuntu outlines new netbook interface with Enlightenment, OpenSolaris developers fear for project's future, Mandriva "Cooker" updates Questions and answers: Disk....

After many months of testing and experimentation, the final release of Element version 1.0, an Ubuntu-based distribution designed for home theatre or media centre personal computers, is available for end users: "This version is based on and thus binary compatible with Ubuntu 9.10. Featured software in this release....

Epidemic GNU/Linux 3.1, a user-friendly Brazilian distribution (with support for Portuguese and English) based on Debian's testing branch, has been released. The focus of this minor update was on correcting bugs and polishing the system, but there have been also some important additions, such as a new boot....

Alexander Eremin has announced the release of MilaX 0.5, an OpenSolaris-based mini-distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB pendrive: "MilaX 0.5 released. Based on OpenSolaris snv128a. JWM as WM, system monitor - conky, keyboard layout switcher - SCIM. Now with fastest browser Midori - Twitter,....

Christophe Lincoln has released a new development build of SliTaz GNU/Linux, the last testing version before the final 3.0 release expected at the end of March: "The SliTaz contributors are proud to announce a new Cooking version of the live CD. This is the last Cooking RC before....

Roberto Dohnert has released the second beta build of PC/OS 10.1 "OpenWorkstation", a Xubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution: "We have released beta 2 of PC/OS 10.1. With this release we have updated to the Ubuntu 9.10 base. We have removed Xsplash and GDM 2.28 and went to GDM 2.20;....

Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the fifth alpha release of Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, a minimal, server-oriented distribution based on the OpenSolaris base system with Ubuntu software packages: "On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability of the Nexenta Core Platform (NCP)....

Henne Vogelsang has announced the second milestone release on openSUSE's journey to version 11.3: "Milestone 2 is part of the milestones where we track new releases in the open source universe and test the building of our various distribution images with them. While milestone 1 introduced various pre-release....

Warren Woodford has announced the availability of the fifth beta version of SimplyMEPIS 8.5, a beginner-friendly distribution based on Debian's stable branch featuring the latest KDE 4 desktop: "MEPIS has announced SimplyMEPIS 8.4.97, the fifth beta of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. Deltas, requested....