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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interview: Kris Moore, PC-BSD News: FreeBSD past and present, Fedora newbie guide, interview with Ubuntu’s Jane Silber, end of Kongoni Questions and answers: Backups Released last week: Linux Mint 8 “KDE”, Gibraltar Firewall 3.0 Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 7.3-RC1, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 Donations:….
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Alan Baghumian has released a revised build of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian’s testing branch: “The second update version of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0 ‘Kev’ is available for immediate download. This version merges all security, bug-fix and feature updates published in the….
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Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 8 “KDE” edition: “The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 ‘Helena’ KDE Community edition. The KDE Community edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the KDE desktop. This edition is….
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The second alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1 is now available for download and testing: “The time has came for the second alpha release for the 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. As this is an early pre-release, major changes are mostly in the area of included third-party software…..
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The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the 2010 “We’re Linux” video contest. The contest seeks to find the best
user-generated videos that demonstrate what Linux means to those who use it
and inspire others to try it.
Source: http://linux.sys-con.com/node/1274718
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Toutou Linux is a variant of Puppy Linux designed for French-speaking users. The project’s latest version of the fast, lightweight distribution is 4.3.1, released earlier today. Compared to Puppy Linux 4.3.1, the new Toutou comes with a new “golden” desktop theme, the network is set up automatically during….
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The New Zealand Post is one of three government agencies looking to rip out their Windows desktops and replace them with Linux and open source applications. A tiny four-desk proof-of-concept of the Linux scheme is reportedly set to start in February and run for two months followed by a broader 40-user pilot.
Source: https://linux.sys-con.com/node/1265693
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Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 13.0.8, a lightweight, Slackware-based desktop distribution featuring the IceWM window manager and solid multimedia playback support: “Absolute Linux 13.0.8 released. Multimedia installer fix. Only a few packages changed, but the multimedia installer was not properly updated and this could….
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The third beta of MOPSLinux 7.0, a Russian Slackware-based distribution, has been released. New features since beta 2 include: a mechanism for providing different package versions and switching easily between them; ability to choose from a list of conflicting packages in case they cannot be installed simultaneously; ability….
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