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July 28, 2010 08:27 PM
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Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of GhostBSD 1.5, a FreeBSD-based live CD with GNOME and a work-in-progress graphical system installer: "GhostBSD 1.5 is out. We have updated to Gnome 2.30. Now you can install GhostBSD by terminal commands and a list with pc-sysinstall. The partitions supported to....
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July 28, 2010 08:05 PM
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Anil Gulecha has announced the third release candidate for Nexenta Core Platform 3.0, an OpenSolaris-based server distribution: "On behalf of the Nexenta project, I'd like to announce the
availability of the Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC3. The main changes over the RC2 release include ON fixes backported to b134.....
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July 27, 2010 11:22 PM
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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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July 27, 2010 10:10 PM
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Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 9 "KDE" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 KDE. Linux Mint 9 KDE is available in 32-bit and 64-bit as a liveDVD, via Torrent and HTTP download. Based on Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid....
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July 27, 2010 09:33 PM
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Petter Reinholdtsen has announced a test release for Skolelinux 6.0, a Debian-based distribution for schools also known as Debian-Edu: "This is the first test release based on Squeeze. The focus of this release is to test the user application selection. To have a look, install the standalone profile....
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July 27, 2010 07:43 AM
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Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 1.2.5-35, a new stable version of the specialist live CD designed for hard disk partitioning and cloning: "This release of Clonezilla Live includes major enhancements, changes and bug fixes. The underlying GNU/Linux operating system was upgraded. This release is....
by Open Source News
July 26, 2010 08:02 AM
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Frugalware Linux 1.3 RC1 was unleashed after two pre-releases and exactly on schedule: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre2. Improvements:....
by Open Source News
July 26, 2010 07:42 AM
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Feature: Taking a Look at openSUSE 11.3
News: FreeBSD elects a new Core Team, TrueCrypt improvements and an alternative to Flash
Questions and answers: Adding updates to the install process
Released last week: Sabayon, Tiny Core, Peppermint Ice, PC-BSD
Upcoming releases: Frugalware Linux 1.3rc1
New distributions: Buluo....
by Open Source News
July 25, 2010 09:19 PM
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eBox Platform 1.5, an Ubuntu-based, easy-to-use platform to manage various network services, has been released: "eBox Platform development team is glad to announce that the first installer CD for eBox Platform 1.5 is now available for download. Please note that eBox Platform 1.5 is a development version based....
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July 23, 2010 08:34 PM
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FreeBSD 8.1 was formally announced after a few days of its appearance on world-wide mirrors: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE. This is the second release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.0 and introduces....