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Debian Weekly News - November 12th, 2002

The Debian Weekly News is now available. This week: the APT Development requires Help; Hewlett-Packard recently expanded their Test Drive Program to support Debian GNU/Linux; The Debian project was honored with the Linux New Media Award; and much more.

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Mandrake Linux

The Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter for November 7, 2002, is available. This week news looks at the new CLIC distribution; also get the top 10 "freshest" RPMs from MandrakeClub; and much more.

MandrakeSoft announced the availability of boxed versions of Mandrake Linux 9.0. There are three packaged versions from which to choose: the Mandrake Linux PowerPack and Standard editions are designed for individual users, and the ProSuite Edition is created for small and medium-sized enterprises.

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Red Hat Linux

Red Hat has an updated version of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) available for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3. This update addresses various issues filled in bug reports.

IBM developerWorks has a tutorial detailing the ins and outs of transforming a stock, "out of the box" Red Hat installation into a finely tuned, stable system customized to individual needs and tastes. The material presented here is based on Red Hat 7.3. Registration is required

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Slackware Linux

Slackware current has upgraded to KDE 3.1-rc2.

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Armor-plated Linux gets backup (News.com)

News.com covers the release of a new wrapper for the NSA's SE Linux. "The Open Source Development Group (OSDgroup), a Linux training firm, and Houston-based network consultancy Westcam have teamed up to release a package that adds a graphical installer and new security settings to the OS released by the National Security Agency almost two years ago."

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SCO Boosts the Number of Applications Available for UnitedLinux

The SCO Group has announced a series of new programs to encourage application development for its SCO Linux Powered by UnitedLinux product to be released this fall. Through its enhanced Developer Network, SCO is providing commercial and Open Source developers with increased educational opportunities, access to technical information and expert technical support to help them write or port applications and drivers for SCO Linux and other UnitedLinux products.

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How to do a SuSE 8.1 FTP Install (PCLinuxOnline)

SuSE is a GNU/Linux distribution which does not have freely downloadable ISOs. A workaround to this is installing via FTP. PCLinuxOnline.com shows how to do this.

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New Distributions

Bootix Linux

Bootix Linux (now Bootyx Linux) is a bootable Linux CD based on Slackware Linux 8.0 designed to allow the easy imaging of multiple workstations, using the updcast set of Linux tools. Bootix v0.80 was released November 7, 2002.

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Minor distribution updates

Astaro Security Linux

Astaro Security Linux has released v3.211 with minor security fixes. "Changes: This Up2Date improves Surf Protection restart, the SelfMonitoring for Surf Protection, and adds a new IDENT Proxy version. It fixes a cosmetic issue in the WebAdmin license display and a DoS IPSec Bug (VU#459371)."

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Coyote Linux

Coyote Linux has released v1.0.283 of the Wolverine firewall and VPN server with major bugfixes. "Changes: This version contains fixes for several problems with the PPTP server limiting and refusing connections, IPSEC updates, a new kernel, a completely replaced SNMP subsystem, and adds the beginnings of PPPoE support."

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KNOPPIX

KNOPPIX has released v3.1-8-11-2002 with minor feature enhancements. "Changes: This release has a Spanish translation for (/usr/local/bin/)knx-hdinstall, a WINE update (20021031/unstable), the correct DHCP entry in /etc/network/interfaces with netcardconfig, and a PCMCIA update (3.2.2)."

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Mindi Linux

Mindi Linux has released v0.71_20021109 with minor bug fixes. "Changes: This version features an updated 2.4.20 kernel, better handling of Debian and Gentoo Linux distributions, better tape/CD support, and numerous bugfixes."

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RxLinux

RxLinux has released v1.0.7 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: IPSEC and PPTP are now supported using FreeS/Wan and Poptop. LVS is now supported, and RxLinux can be configured as an LVS director. iptables was added, the kernel was updated to 2.4.19 and patched for IPVS, and OpenMosix was upgraded to 0.2.4. The RxMaster interface was also simplified."

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uClinux

uClinux has released v2.5.47-uc0 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: This release uses the latest development kernel. Most of uClinux has been rolled into the main Linux distribution."

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Warewulf

Warewulf has released v1.5 with major bugfixes. "Changes: Fixes for bugs in the following tools: wwjobs, nodes, nodeupdate, and nodeconf, a new ability to integrate various kernel args into the node build process, and some minor GUI tweaks to nodes."

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