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A request for information

As you have no doubt already read on this week's Front Page, subscriptions are going well, but not well enough (yet) to support the current LWN staff. As a result it will no longer be possible to ferret out the distribution information that has been presented in this page in the past. Some feedback has indicated that tracking a pile of minor distributions has little value in any case.

So, in the future we would like to focus on quality rather than quantity, and we would like to get reports from people, telling us about their distribution and its progress. Without that we will have little to report each week.

This week's page reflects this policy. Almost every item in this page was sent to us, either as a plain text announcement, or a URL accompanied by a brief description of why the link might be of interest to LWN readers.

Please help the Distributions page survive during this transitional time, by sending us the information that you want others to see about your distribution.

Thank you.

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Distribution News

Debian Weekly News - October 1st, 2002

Welcome to this year's 38th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community, which includes items by Ludovic Rousseau and Andrew Pollock this time. After over four years of computation effort and millions of cpu-hours of work, distributed.net has brute forced the key to RSA Security's 64 bit encryption challenge, winning a US$ 10,000 prize.

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Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter

Issue #61 of the Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter is out. "This Week's Summary: Mandrake in the News; 9.0 Commercial Apps Now Available to MandrakeClub Members; Business Case of the Week; This Week's Survey; Security-related Software Updates; Headlines from MandrakeForum."

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Red Hat releases Red Hat Linux 8.0

Red Hat, Inc. has released Red Hat Linux 8.0, a highly versatile operating system designed for personal and small business computing.

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Slackware Linux

There have been several minor changes to the Slackware development tree. See the change log for full details.

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Minor distribution updates

Aurora SPARC Linux Project releases Build 0.4 (Titanium)

The Aurora SPARC Linux Project is proud to announce Build 0.4 (Titanium) to the world. This release is for sparc32 & sparc64, and it closes a lot of the ugly bugs still present in 0.32, in addition to having a 2.4.19 based kernel.

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Lunar Linux releases 1.0 - Dirty Bird

Lunar Linux 1.0 has been released after months of hard work. With a completely revised source package managent system, Lunar Linux is targetted initially for the system administrator, and also includes popular desktops like gnome2, kde3 and xfce, and office applications such as mozilla-1.1 and openoffice-1.0.1. Besides gcc-3.2/glibc-2.2.5 and a 2.4.19 kernel with XFS support, lunar comes with daemons like apache-2.0.42, postfix-1.1.11, exim-3.36 and sendmail-8.12.6 as well as bind-9.2.1.

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Spectra Linux 1.2 Bundles McObject's eXtremeDB

McObject and Probatus Technologies have announced a bundling partnership that pairs an in-memory database system (IMDS) with a comprehensive, professional-grade Linux development and operating environment.

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Real-Time Linux Distribution Made Available By Concurrent (TechWeb)

TechWeb covers the latest released of Red Hawk Linux. Based on Red Hat Linux, Red Hawk replaces the kernel with a real-time version. Here's a press release from Concurrant, the company that bundles Red Hawk Linux with it's hardware.

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Distribution reviews

MandrakeSoft shines Linux desktop (ZDNet)

ZDNet reviews Mandrake Linux version 9.0. "Some of the most significant tweaks to Mandrake Linux 9.0 are improvements to the desktop experience. MandrakeSoft has customized all of the various graphical user environments to have a consistent look and feel, a concept it calls "more homogeneity, less futility". This means, for example, that no matter what environment users are in, they have a similar set of menus for finding and running applications."

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Mandrake Linux 9.0 in Review

Here are a couple more reviews of Mandrake Linux 9.0. German site LinuxGear has this review (in German). Also a Linux Orbit user has published his first impressions.

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