http://distrowatch.com/ Latest news on Linux distributions and BSD projects EN Copyright 2000-2004, DistroWatch.com. All Rights Reserved. 2008-08-27T13:31:03-00:00 DistroWatch.com distro@distrowatch.com Linux/BSD http://distrowatch.com/5058 Daniel Baumann has announced the availability of the first set of live CD images for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny", complete with a hard disk installer and available in three desktop variants (GNOME, KDE and Xfce): "The Debian Live team is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian.... debian http://distrowatch.com/5057 Warren Woodford has announced the availability of the first beta release of SimplyMEPIS 8.0, a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux: "First beta of SimplyMEPIS 8.0 available for testing. Warren announces the first SimplyMEPIS Beta, version 7.9.70. The MEPIS beta offers up-to-date user applications delivered on.... mepis http://distrowatch.com/5056 The second and final release candidate for Frugalware Linux 0.9 is out and ready for testing: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 0.9rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes.... frugalware http://distrowatch.com/5055 Randy McMurchy has announced the release of Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 6.3, a book that provides detailed build instructions for extending a base Linux From Scratch (LFS) system with popular desktop and server packages and their libraries: "The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release.... lfs http://distrowatch.com/5054 Attila Craciun has announced a new edition of Bluewhite64 Linux, a Slackware-based distribution recompiled for the x86_64 architecture. This is the first 64-bit live DVD containing the recently released Slackware implementation of KDE 4.1: "I have the joy announcing a new version of the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 KDE4.... bluewhite64 http://distrowatch.com/5053 Jereme Hancock has announced the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 4.0: "We are excited to announce the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 4.0. Ubuntu Christian Edition has been on hold for quite a while for various reasons, but we are back up and running. This is a 'back.... ubuntuce http://distrowatch.com/5052 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interviews: Kris Moore, PC-BSD lead developer News: Fedora and Red Hat servers compromised - CentOS unaffected, Novell extends "interoperability" deal; openSUSE ads SELinux support, gNewSense celebrates second birthday, user-visible changes in NetBSD 5.0 Released last week: antiX MEPIS 7.5, gNewSense 2.1 Upcoming releases:.... weekly http://distrowatch.com/5051 Brian Brazil has announced the release of gNewSense 2.1, an updated version of the Ubuntu-based distribution which contains free software only: "I've just released the live CD for gNewSense 2.1, the second full release of 'DeltaH'. This brings in a number of updates, fixes and improvements. Changes since.... gnewsense http://distrowatch.com/5050 George Vlahavas has announced the final release of Zenwalk Linux 5.2 "GNOME" edition: "Zenwalk GNOME 5.2 is now available. Based on Zenwalk current, it features the latest stable GNOME 2.22.3 Desktop, with a familiar Zenwalk desktop layout and beautiful Zenwalk artwork. Included in this release are Linux kernel.... zenwalk http://distrowatch.com/5049 MEPIS has announced a new release of antiX MEPIS, a Debian-based distribution designed to run on computers with older or limited hardware: "Anti and MEPIS announce the release of antiX MEPIS 7.5 'Toussaint Louverture'. Built using the MEPIS Linux 7.0 core, including the MEPIS 2.6.22 kernel and utilities,.... mepis Search BSD/Linux distributions distribution http://distrowatch.com/table.php