| Aug 27 | Development Release: Debian Live 5.0 Beta 1
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.... | | Aug 27 | Development Release: SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Beta 1
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 of.. | | Aug 26 | Development Release: Frugalware Linux 0.9 RC2
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 .. | | Aug 26 | Distribution Release: Beyond Linux From Scratch 6.3
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.. | | Aug 26 | Development Release: Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 RC1 "KDE4 LiveDVD"
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.. | | Aug 25 | Distribution Release: Ubuntu Christian Edition 4.0
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.... | | Aug 25 | DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 267
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 la.. | | Aug 25 | Distribution Release: gNewSense 2.1
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 bring in a number of updates, fixes and improvements. Changes .. | | Aug 25 | Distribution Release: Zenwalk Linux 5.2 "GNOME"
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.. | | Aug 24 | Distribution Release: antiX MEPIS 7.5
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 util.. |
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| Apr 16 | Bruce Perens tells how he got involved with Linux and Free Software (v..
You've probably seen quotes from long-time Linux and Free Software advocate Bruce Perens , and you may have even have seen his picture a few times. Now, in this exclusive Linux.com video, you have a chance to "meet" him in a little more personal way, and to learn how Bruce got interested in Linux a.. | | Apr 16 | What's the right filesystem for your portable backup drive?
So you just bought an external hard drive for backups. Now, with what filesystem should you format it? Ext2? FAT32? No matter which one you choose, there are trade-offs to consider. | | Apr 16 | Mounting archives with FUSE and archivemount
The archivemount FUSE filesystem lets you mount a possibly compressed tarball as a filesystem. Because FUSE exposes its filesystems through the Linux kernel, you can use any application to load and save files directly into such mounted archives. This lets you use your favourite text editor, image v.. | | Apr 16 | A GNOME-based Desktop on Demand
Desktop on Demand (DOD) is the latest contender to give users a full-fledged remote desktop instead of Web-based applications to help users to stay productive when they are on the move. Similar to Ulteo (which we reviewed not long ago), DOD gives you a full-blown remote Linux-based desktop -- but t.. | | Apr 15 | Meet IT industry analyst Dan Kusnetzky (video)
Dan Kusnetzky is one of the people you see quoted all over the place, especially about GNU/Linux and its effect on the computing world. But not many people (as a percentage of the world's total population) have had a chance to sit down with Dan and learn who he is in any kind of personal sense, so .. | | Apr 15 | The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match
Apple's recently released a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone , but if you were hoping to port or develop original open source software with it, the news isn't good. Code signing and nondisclosure conditions make free software a no-go. | | Apr 15 | Bringing chat to the browser with JWChat
JWChat is a Jabber instant messaging client that is written using only HTML and JavaScript. This means that you need not install a Jabber instant messaging client in order to use Jabber, assuming you already have a Web browser installed. A Jabber client that runs in a Web browser could be just the .. | | Apr 15 | Run Windows andLinux without virtualization
Linux does everything that many users want it to, but some people have tasks that require Windows applications. You can dual-boot both operating systems, or run Windows in a virtualized environment on Linux. Alas, virtualization makes the guest OS almost useless for processor- and RAM-intensive tas.. | | Apr 14 | Comic strip aims for a fun way to educate new Linux users
Jeremiah Gray wants to provide an interesting way to learn about Linux, so he's created a new comic strip, called Hackett and Bankwell , about the open source operating system. The strip will be published as a series of comic books that Gray hopes will appeal to new Linux users, but he says it is ".. | | Apr 14 | Software animation with Pencil
Attention computer animators -- if you've ever felt limited by working in three dimensions with tools like Blender, check out Pencil , an open source, cross-platform animation app that lets you create in glorious 2-D. Pencil mimics hand-drawn animation techniques, but it's easy to use and produces .. |
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