News and Editorials
Creating live Linux CDs has become a fairly common pastime. Many of the
distributions added to
the distributions list
in the past year
are live CDs tailored to specific purposes. Many people start with a live
CD that they like and then add and subtract packages to create the CD of
their dreams.
Debian-based
KNOPPIX remains one
of the most popular distributions to use as a starting point.
Many major vendors will create a live CD to showcase a current snapshot of
a release, and often a live CD is used to showcase some other software
package. IBM developerWorks takes
a look at how to distribute your software packages on a live Linux CD.
The Slackware-based SLAX-Live CD is another popular
starting point. SLAX and many variants use shell scripts from the Linux Live project to tailor their
favorite distribution into a live CD.
Canonical Ltd. created Launchpad, a
suite of tools (some proprietary, some free) that allows Ubuntu Linux to be
easily turned into Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and a host of other variants.
Fedora fans now have the Kadischi Fedora Live CD
Project, which has recently created Fedora
Core 5 Test 2 live CDs.
This is only a quick view of the growing number of tools for rolling your
own Linux distribution.
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New Releases
BLAG Linux and GNU has released
BLAG30002 (Johannesburg). "
BLAG30002 is based on Fedora Core 3 plus
updates, adds apps from Dag, Freshrpms, NewRPMS, and includes custom
packages. BLAG30002 is the latest update to the BLAG30k series, using the
last updates from Fedora before moving to the Fedora Legacy project."
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The
GoblinX Linux Project has released
GoblinX Premium 2006.1 edition, exclusively at On-Disk.com.
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Distribution News
Progress on Dapper Drake continues, in spite of the "Distro Plague of
Death" that had most of the team down before day 3. Most team members were
back at work by
Day 4, looking at upstream
timezone data structures, klibc build failures on Sparc, remaining X bugs,
and more. Here's the
Day 5 progress
report, and the final report from
Day 6.
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The migration of Ubuntu's archive to Launchpad's archive management
infrastructure, Soyuz, has been completed successfully. For most users
this should be completely transparent.
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It's time once again for the Debian Project Leader Elections. Nominations
will be open until February 26, 2006.
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The Debian i18n team is planning on a session in Extremadura, Spain next
September. Click below for more information.
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Yellow Dog Linux pulled the gold-master 4.1 ISOs from replication in order
to correct some bugs. These have mostly been squashed now, and the
gold-master CD-Rs are again on their way to the replication facility.
"
[One] bug which concerns dual and quad-core G5 Power Macs remains
open. We put our best into this issue, but as with all software projects a
line must be drawn and the product must ship. As such, this bug is not a
show-stopper and the work-around requires less than a minute,
post-installation."
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The
Unofficial Fedora FAQ has had
an update. "
Also, fedorafaq.org is proud to announce our new
subscription service, The Insider FAQ! We provide answers to all sorts of
Fedora and Red Hat questions that are not normal fedorafaq.org questions,
but with the same detail and simplicity as fedorafaq.org. :-) Try it out,
it's really useful, really cheap, and it helps support fedorafaq.org!"
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The Fedora Core 5 test3 release has slipped by a week. Test 3 is now due
by February 20, 2006.
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New Distributions
Musix is a 100% Free Debian-based
operating system intended for musicians, audiophiles and other users. It
contains an enormous collection of free programs. It can run as a live
CD/DVD and can also be installed to a hard drive. Currently supported
languages (as of February 2006): English, French, Spanish, Portuguese,
Catalán, Vascuence and Gallego.
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Distribution Newsletters
The Debian Weekly News for February 7, 2006 covers Debian packages for the
Kolab groupware server, an update for the stable Debian release, Finnish
Debian community has been honored by the Finnish Linux User's Group (FLUG),
the call for Project Leader nominations, graphical installer development,
and several other topics.
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This week's
Fedora
Weekly News has the following articles: Red Hat commits to MIT's $100
laptop, Interview with Orv Beach at SCALE, A Report from Solutions Linux
2006, Fedora Core 5 Test 3 Slip, LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards,
Create a custom Linux distribution online, and more.
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The
Gentoo
Weekly Newsletter for the week of February 6, 2006 is out. This issue
covers GNOME 2.12 moves to stable, Gentoo developer receives a donated
Wi-Spy spectrum analyzer, Poppler and KPDF, EUSecWest conference, OSC 2006
(spring edition) in Tokyo, and several other topics.
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The first edition of Mandriva Linux Inside has been released in
PDF
format. It includes the reborn "Cooker Weekly News", which is also
available
here.
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The
DistroWatch
Weekly for February 6, 2006 is out. "
With all eyes on the final
stages of development of Fedora Core 5 and SUSE Linux 10.1, other
distributions are not resting either; we bring you interesting information
about the upcoming releases of Novell Linux Desktop 10 and Kubuntu
6.04. Interested in network security and penetration testing? The brand new
BackTrack live CD provides an amazing collection of tools just for this
purpose; we'll take a quick look at the first beta released over the
weekend. Also in this issue: try the new smart-urpmi for Mandriva and read
how a vice president of a large financial firm fell in love with
Gentoo. Finally, our January donation, the largest DistroWatch.com has ever
made, goes to Gambas and Krusader."
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Package updates
Bug fix updates and upgrades (featuring KDE 3.5.1) for Fedora Core 4:
gnome-python2-extras,
vixie-cron,
selinux-policy-targeted,
selinux-policy-strict,
libselinux,
udev,
kernel,
autofs,
arts,
kdeaccessibility,
kdeaddons,
kdeadmin,
kdeartwork,
kdebase,
kdebindings,
kdeedu,
kdegames,
kdegraphics,
kde-i18n,
kdelibs,
kdemultimedia,
kdenetwork,
kdepim,
kdesdk,
kdeutils,
kdevelop,
kdewebdev,
audit,
module-init-tools,
authd,
docbook-style-xsl,
cups,
audit.
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Newsletters and articles of interest
Computer Business Review
covers
Nigerian distribution, Wazobia Linux. "
Lagos, Nigeria-based Leapsoft
is aiming to over come those hurdles by providing its Linux distribution in
Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, the three most spoken languages in Nigeria, as well
as English. It is also aiming to translate Linux into popular African
languages. The operating system comes with translations of the
OpenOffice.org 2.0 productivity suite, multiple browsers, desktop search,
automated networking tools, multi-media software, and application
development tools, amongst other things."
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