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The release candidate for Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” is out: “The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop edition delivers the….

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When Ben Rousch joined Van Dam Iron Works close to a decade ago, it didn’t take him long to move off a proprietary network operating system and start experimenting with a Linux server. He changed horses again, to a Windows server, but today Van Dam is back in the Linux fold — lesson learned.

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Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the second revision of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian’s testing branch: “The second maintenance release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5, code name ‘Viola’, is available now. Viola r2 is synchronized with Debian testing repositories as….

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Clement Lefebvre has announced the final release of Linux Mint 5 “Fluxbox” edition: “Linux Mint is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 5 ‘Elyssa’ Fluxbox Community edition. This edition, maintained by Shane Joe Lazar, brings you the best and most essential tools from the Main and….

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Hip hop artists might not be the most obvious target for Linux evangelists, but a little-known distribution called Transmission is making waves. It’s what powers Indamixx, a pro audio production system that runs on a customised Samsung handheld computer created by Trinity Audio Group. Developed by 64 Studio Ltd. on a mixed Debian/Ubuntu base, Transmission and its bundled applications are a quintessential open source story.

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Puppy Linux makes it easy to remaster its distribution, which probably explains the sheer number of Puppy Linux variants, called puplets, in the wild. Some of these puplets differ from the original only in offering different software bundles or use different window managers, while others target specific hardware platforms (for example, Pupeee). Minisys Linux, or Muppy, is an interesting puplet in the form of a modular Linux distro based on a Puppy Linux and Slackware 12 mix.

Source: http://www.linux.com/feature/150993

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Paul Cutler has announced the release of Foresight Linux 2.0.5, the first stable distribution featuring the recently released GNOME 2.24: “Foresight Linux 2.0.5 released. It features the latest GNOME 2.24 desktop environment, %%%OpenOffice.org%%% 3.0, and the latest X.Org server release, version 1.5.1.” Some of the other new features….

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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Linux package management cheatsheet, part 4 News: Upgrading Mandriva with mdkonline, Blu-ray sets for Debian “Lenny”, Linux Mint 5 for 64-bit systems, interview with KPackageKit developers, K12Linux update Released last week: NetBSD 4.0.1, Parted Magic 3.1 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3,….

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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeBSD 7.1: “As the next step in the release cycle for FreeBSD 7.1 builds for FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 are now available for testing. The ISO images and FTP install trees are available on the FreeBSD mirror sites…..

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Mitsuhoro Kojima has announced the release of Plamo Linux 4.5, a Japanese community distribution modelled on Slackware Linux and designed for more technical Linux users. This is the project’s first stable release in 12 months. Some of the new features in version 4.5 include: Linux kernel 2.6.25.17 with….

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