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Development Release: Unity Linux 2010 RC1

distro@distrowatch.com — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:48:32 +0000

Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to....

Development Release: Fedora 13 Alpha

distro@distrowatch.com — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:47:49 +0000

Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Fedora 13: "The Fedora 13 'Goddard' alpha release is available. Among the top features for end users, we have: automatic print driver installation so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to....

Development Release: MCNLive Kris Beta 1

distro@distrowatch.com — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:34:30 +0000

MCNLive, a Mandriva-based distribution and live CD, has been resurrected by the members of the Dutch Mandriva Club. The first beta of the brand-new MCNLive Kris, is now available for download: "After a few years of silence around MCNLive, here we are again with a brand new MCNLive....

Development Release: PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1

distro@distrowatch.com — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:19:09 +0000

The first beta build of PCLinuxOS 2010 has been released: "PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing....

Development Release: SME Server 8.0 Beta 5

distro@distrowatch.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:24:12 +0000

Ian Wells has announced the availability of the fifth beta release of SME Server 8.0, a CentOS-based server distribution: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next major release of....

Distribution Release: Frugalware Linux 1.2

distro@distrowatch.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:08:15 +0000

Miklós Vajna has announced the release of Frugalware Linux 1.2, a general-purpose, community-built distribution for intermediate Linux users: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2, our twelfth stable release. No new features have been added since 1.2rc2, but 62 changes have....

Distribution Release: PC/OS 10.1

distro@distrowatch.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:32:58 +0000

Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of PC/OS 10.1 "OpenWorkstation GNOME" edition, an Ubuntu-based distribution for the desktop: "The developers of PC/OS are excited to bring you this new installment in the PC/OS family. Users and customers have demanded it so we have now delivered it. This release....

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 344

distro@distrowatch.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:32:57 +0000

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0 News: Ubuntu unveils new desktop theme, KNOPPIX releases 6.3 CeBIT edition, openSUSE adds LXDE desktop to install media, multicd.sh Questions and answers: RHEL 6, useful shell tips Released last week: Elive 2.0, Linux From Scratch 6.6....

Distribution Release: NuTyX 2009.3

distro@distrowatch.com — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:42:12 +0000

Thierry Nuttens has announced the release of NuTyX 2009.3, a French desktop Linux distribution with custom package management. This is the fourth update in the 2009 series; while the base system, the C library and the compiler remains unchanged throughout the 2009.x releases, a number of small problems....

Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta 1

distro@distrowatch.com — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:54:54 +0000

Anil Gulecha has announced the availability of the first beta release of Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, a free and open-source operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with GNU application userland, Debian utilities and Ubuntu software packages: "On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the availability....