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All Rights Reserved. 2008-12-01T09:59:26-00:00 DistroWatch.com distro@distrowatch.com Linux/BSD http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/KylDyknfCJk/5216 This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature story: Linux distributions and the global economic crisis News: Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 performance benchmarks, Glendix brings Plan 9 to Linux, Pardus case study, VectorLinux's new graphical installer Released last week: Fedora 10, FreeBSD 6.4 Upcoming releases: Slackware Linux 12.2, FreeBSD.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_zKZUTOlTpg00UZwNnpU1QIDFD4/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_zKZUTOlTpg00UZwNnpU1QIDFD4/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/KylDyknfCJk" height="1" width="1"/> weekly http://distrowatch.com/5216 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/G-0ZNpSVJMI/5215 Volker Theile has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeNAS 0.69, a FreeBSD-based operating system providing free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services: "This will hopefully be the last release candidate before a stable release can be published. So please test this version and report any problems..... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/0n4LZUNm2JWX6I2dBJeuwRlpQCk/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/0n4LZUNm2JWX6I2dBJeuwRlpQCk/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/G-0ZNpSVJMI" height="1" width="1"/> freenas http://distrowatch.com/5215 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/Lzndb3ioSNk/5214 Tilman Sauerbeck has announced the availability of the first release candidate for CRUX 2.5, a minimalist, i686-optimised Linux distribution built for power users: "The first release candidate for the upcoming CRUX 2.5 release is available now. Release notes: includes glibc 2.8, GCC 4.3.2 and Binutils 2.19; Linux kernel.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CKAHNLwfmjw-hRZWZygxYxLgQFc/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/CKAHNLwfmjw-hRZWZygxYxLgQFc/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/Lzndb3ioSNk" height="1" width="1"/> crux http://distrowatch.com/5214 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/mrwOCjgHlyE/5213 Patrick Verner has announced the release of Parted Magic 3.2, the latest version of another distribution specialising in hard disk partitioning: "Parted Magic 3.2. This is mostly a bug-fix release for the 3.x series with a few new features. Some of the new updates include GParted 0.4.0, Linux.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_wrUjvbehRnyt4tynwIYiQdgrh0/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_wrUjvbehRnyt4tynwIYiQdgrh0/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/mrwOCjgHlyE" height="1" width="1"/> partedmagic http://distrowatch.com/5213 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/sziaYHEmOGU/5212 A new stable version of GParted LiveCD, a Debian-based specialist distribution with a collection of hard disk management utilities, has been released. What's new? "This release is a bug-fix release with some minor updates; based on Debian 'Lenny' on 2008-11-27, Linux kernel 2.6.26; a program called MC_HxEd was.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/N12hW4VApwbD-S5PPCsjE5cb_cI/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/N12hW4VApwbD-S5PPCsjE5cb_cI/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/sziaYHEmOGU" height="1" width="1"/> gparted http://distrowatch.com/5212 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/bieVmDT5DDs/5211 FreeBSD 6.4, a new stable version of the project's legacy 6.x branch, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE. At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights: new.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/hg_z4PVAZCvCJUjcavYhvurTCjA/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/hg_z4PVAZCvCJUjcavYhvurTCjA/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/bieVmDT5DDs" height="1" width="1"/> freebsd http://distrowatch.com/5211 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/yYctYDNP0I0/5210 The first and only release candidate for openSUSE 11.1 is out and ready for final testing: "The openSUSE Project is happy to announce that openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 is now available. If all goes well, this will be the last testing release before the final 11.1 public release.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2UQ_2e6cqV1JK_KirD28Ey1oEIE/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/2UQ_2e6cqV1JK_KirD28Ey1oEIE/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/yYctYDNP0I0" height="1" width="1"/> suse http://distrowatch.com/5210 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/onIFbYn_HPw/5209 Philip Newborough has announced the release of CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the light-weight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications: "The final build of CrunchBang Linux 8.10.01 is now available. This is the third release of the distribution and as the version number suggests, it is.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xb524w-1wVVa-NALOxh7Oko00DE/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/xb524w-1wVVa-NALOxh7Oko00DE/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/onIFbYn_HPw" height="1" width="1"/> crunchbang http://distrowatch.com/5209 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/9SzQkUi5ZUI/5208 Poseidon Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a good collection of academic and scientific applications for GIS/maps, numerical modelling, 2D/3D/4D visualisation, statistics and graphics. An updated version 3.1 was released yesterday. What's new? "Based on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with security updates until 2008-10-17; for the first time Poseidon Linux.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cPGbtYGVAyvv3JKxZYBg9lmQnYw/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/cPGbtYGVAyvv3JKxZYBg9lmQnYw/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/9SzQkUi5ZUI" height="1" width="1"/> poseidon http://distrowatch.com/5208 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/8tyRT3nBc_o/5207 Robert Lange has announced the availability of the first beta release of VectorLinux 6.0: "The VectorLinux development team is proud to announce the first beta release of VectorLinux 6.0. The big news is that VectorLinux has a new GUI installer for the first time! This was built from.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wqfNBtAVPjGbDwmMzHOKM_9FE8o/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wqfNBtAVPjGbDwmMzHOKM_9FE8o/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/8tyRT3nBc_o" height="1" width="1"/> vector http://distrowatch.com/5207 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~3/gU3TIzA4hi8/5206 The Elive project continues its rapid release cycle of development builds that will eventually lead to Elive 2.0. The latest version is 1.9.18: "The Elive team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.18. This version includes a greatly improved new kernel and a lot.... <p><a href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/71ftdek00xTuyTZRQSZFP6GozX0/a"><img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/71ftdek00xTuyTZRQSZFP6GozX0/i" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/distrowatch/BFai/~4/gU3TIzA4hi8" height="1" width="1"/> elive http://distrowatch.com/5206 Search BSD/Linux distributions distribution http://distrowatch.com/table.php