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Five days after the announcement of Voice and Video Chat service in Gmail for Debian-based Linux distributions, Google unveiled a Gmail phone call service for Windows, Mac, and Linux. more>>

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The Linux community had two birthdays to celebrate recently. Debian GNU/Linux turned 17 on August 16 and openSUSE has been providing an excellent desktop Linux for five years. more>>

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Alan Baghumian has announced the release candidate of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6, a desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian’s testing branch: “The release candidate version of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6 aka Vinnie is available now. Parsix package repositories are synchronized with Debian testing repositories as of July 1, 2010 and for….

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Estrella Roja 2.8, an Argentinian Linux distribution based on Debian’s testing branch, but featuring the legacy KDE 3.5 desktop, has been released. According to the release announcement (in Spanish), the new version combines the relatively lightweight KDE 3.5 desktop environment with a new i686-optimised Linux kernel, version 2.6.34,….

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Jörg Schirottke has announced the release of KANOTIX 2010, a desktop distribution and live DVD with KDE 3/4 based on Debian GNU/Linux 5.0: “Just in time for LinuxTag 2010, updated KANOTIX ‘Excalibur’ versions are available. All based on Debian 5.0 ‘Lenny’ with all the latest security updates and….

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Alan Baghumian has announced the release of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, a desktop-oriented distribution based on Debian’s testing branch: “We are proud to announce that the final Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5r0 ISO images are available for immediate download. This release provides a stable computing platform for your daily uses and….

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Stefan Lippers-Hollmann has announced the availability of the first preview release of sidux 2010-01, a desktop Linux distribution and live CD based on Debian’s unstable branch: “Now that KDE 4.4.3 and Linux kernel 2.6.34 have entered the archive, we have the pleasure to announce the immediate availability of….

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Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the third test release of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian’s testing branch: “The third and final set of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5 ‘Frankie’ testing ISO images are out. In this release efforts were centralized on….

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There are some superb desktop Linux distributions that are designed to work with very old hardware. For example, Puppy Linux is a great choice to quickly turn an old PC into a secure, easy to use word processing, email and light web browsing workstation. more>>

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Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the second test release of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian’s testing branch: “The second set of Parsix ‘Frankie’ (3.5) testing ISO images are out. In this release efforts were centralized on fixing reported problems….

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