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A new version of Jolicloud, a netbook-oriented Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, has been announced. Labelled as "pre-final", this is expected to be the last development build before the project's inaugural stable release. From the announcement: "Following a number of important updates we announced last week, including our....

Jean-Philippe Guillemin has announced the availability of the first beta release of Zenwalk Linux 6.4, a Slackware-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop: "Zenwalk 6.4 Beta is ready for testing. Zenwalk 6.4 provides many enhancements at system and application levels. The brand new 2.6.33.1 kernel features the new BFS....

Phil Miller has announced that the fifth alpha release of Chakra, an Arch Linux-based distribution and live CD with the latest version of the KDE desktop, is now available for testing: "After lots of testing and rebuilds we are finally there. Chakra Alpha 5 'Panora' left the building....

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the availability of the first beta release of Calculate Linux 10.4 "KDE" edition, a Russian, Gentoo-based desktop distribution: "A new cycle of development of Calculate Linux - Calculate Linux Desktop 10.4 beta 1 KDE released. Features: KDE updated to version 4.4.1; added utility 'cl-passwd'....

Matias Fonzo has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0, an independent, general-purpose distribution containing free software only: "I am pleased to announce the release candidate 2 of Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0. Dragora is a powerful and reliable GNU/Linux distribution created from scratch with....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: An introduction to Igelle 1.0 News: Solaris no longer free, OpenSolaris 2010.03 delays, Fedora leadership change, Ubuntu user interface musings, new features in Mint 9 Questions and answers: Wiping hard disks Released last week: Sabayon Linux 5.2, FreeBSD 7.3, SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0....

Christophe Lincoln has announced the release of SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0, a minimalist (but extensible) and fast desktop Linux distribution with Openbox as the default window manager: "The SliTaz team is proud to announce the release of the SliTaz GNU/Linux 3.0 operating system. It's simpler, faster, customizable, mightier and....

Kevin Thompson has announced the release of Element 1.1, an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers: "We are pleased to announce the release of Element 1.1, which is available immediately for free download. This is the first service pack for the Element 1 series operating....

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 5.2, a Gentoo-based desktop Linux distribution with GNOME/KDE and with a custom (binary) package manager: "The best, refined blend of GNU/Linux, coming with bleeding edge edges, is eventually here. Say hello to Sabayon Five-point-Twoh, available in both GNOME and....

Anil Gulecha has announced the release of NexentaStor 3.0, an OpenSolaris-based storage appliance with a web-based administration interface: "On behalf of the NexentaStor team, I'm happy to announce the release of NexentaStor Community edition 3.0. This release is the result of the community efforts of Nexenta partners and....