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Gentoo Linux 2005.1-r1 released

The Gentoo Release Engineering team has announced Gentoo Linux 2005.1-r1. "The 2005.1-r1 release is simply a media refresh over the 2005.1 release. What this means is that it used the same base snapshot, and has very few changes. It is essentially nothing more than a bug-fix release. Though offered to all architecture teams, only a few had bugs that were large enough to warrant an interim release before 2006.0's release next year. This media refresh is only of stages and the InstallCD images. The PackageCD images from 2005.1 are still valid and have not been rebuilt."

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Ubuntu releases Flight CD 1

Flight CD 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Dapper development cycle. While Flight CD 1 should be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, it just might break your system. It's available in both Ubuntu (GNOME) and Kubuntu (KDE) versions, so check it out and join in the bug day, on November 24.

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Aurora Sparc Linux Build-2.0 Beta2

The Aurora Sparc Project has announced (click below for the announcement) the second beta of Build-2.0 with ISO images. "For those of you who have no earthly idea what I'm talking about, allow me to explain. The Aurora SPARC Project is an effort to support SPARC (32 and 64 bit) hardware on Linux. Specifically, we rebuild Fedora Core for SPARC." Build-2.0 matches fairly well with Fedora Core 3.

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New Distributions

Zeroshell

Zeroshell is a Live CD distribution aimed at providing the main network services a LAN requires. It is also available as a 128MB Compact Flash image useful if you have to boot your box from this device instead from CDROM. Zeroshell 1.0.0 is undergoing testing, with a final release expected in December 2005.

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SLAMPP

SLAMPP is Live CD Linux distribution that can also be installed to a hard drive. This Slackware/SLAX based distribution is designed to be used as an instant home server. SLAMPP 1.1 was recently released.

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Distribution Newsletters

Debian Weekly News

The Debian Weekly News for November 22, 2005 looks at C++ library problems in testing, a live CD for children, project leader delegations, a new debtags package search, lca05 miniconf: call for presentations, new features for the packages overview page, and several other topics.

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 23

The latest Fedora Weekly News covers Boston FUDCon 2006, New Features Coming in moin 1.5, Fedora netdev Kernels, First Fedora Ambassadors Meeting, Fedora Logo on distrowatch.com, New Favicon on fedoraproject.org, How to build rpm for kmenu-gnome, Building a Simple Calendar Server with Fedora, Set up the VNC Server in Fedora, Flash Player 7.0.61 Released, Firefox 1.5 RC 3 Released, and several other topics.

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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter

The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of November 21, 2005 covers the European Gentoo Developer Conference, the removal of phpgroupware from the tree, 2005.1-r1 release for select architectures, GWN via RSS feed, and more.

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DistroWatch Weekly

The DistroWatch Weekly for November 21, 2005 is out. "There is no rest for the developers of most distributions - following new development releases of SUSE and Ubuntu last week, the first test release of Fedora Core 5 is also expected shortly. What do you think of the new Mandriva 2006 and how does it compare with other KDE-centric distributions, such as Kubuntu 5.10? A long-time Mandriva user offers his views. Also in this issue: a new release of TheOpenCD, a quick look at RR4 Linux and an observation about the changing attitude of Microsoft towards Linux. Last but not least, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, affectionately known as GIMP, is exactly 10 years old today."

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Package updates

Fedora updates

Fedora Core 4 updates: perl (bug fixes), GFS-kernel (update to 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 kernel), dlm-kernel (update to 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 kernel), cman-kernel (update to 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 kernel), gnbd-kernel (update to 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 kernel).

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Mandriva updates

Mandriva Linux 2006.0 updates file (corrects x86_64 segfault) and drakxtools (bug fixes).

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Trustix updates

Trustix Secure Linux has various bug fixes for: cyrus-imapd, initscripts, mailman, xinetd, ebtables, iproute, isdn4k-utils, pkgconfig, tsl-utils and atk, backuppc, bind, clamav, curl, dhcp, expat, file, fontconfig, glib12, gtk12+, gtk2+, libglade, mono, opencdk, pango, pcre, php4, samba, vim, xorg-x11.

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Distribution reviews

First Look At Mandriva 2006 (Mad Penguin)

Mad Penguin reviews Mandriva 2006. "Mandriva (the artist formerly known as Mandrake) has always been about the desktop. Sure, they've got their enterprise products just like any other major Linux software developer, but from this author's armchair, it sure would seem their heart and soul is rooted deeply in the Linux desktop... and there's nothing wrong with that. Their French heritage shows in their passion for excellence and it hasn't gone unnoticed. After all, somebody has got to make sure the Linux desktop is on a constant upswing, right?"

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Linspire Review: In The Beginning, There Was Tux (Lockergnome)

Lockergnome begins a review of Linspire. "Folks, I have installed more 'easy to use' Linux distros than I'd care to mention. Many of them have outstanding installers. Xandros for instance, is very attractive to install and gives you a user-friendly feel during the install process. Linspire also provides an outstanding install outline that is both easy to use and to follow for most users. Yet unlike every other distro that I have tried to install on my notebook computer, Linspire actually detected my video card without any help from me whatsoever."

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