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Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Project announced that it is a founding member of the Desktop Linux Consortium (DLC) which was recently founded and will be incorporated as a non-profit association. A recent survey on DesktopLinux.com indicated that Debian is the most popular GNU/Linux Distribution for the Desktop.

Stephen Frost discussed problems in OpenSSL 0.9.6/0.9.7, LDAP, SSH. "There are quite a few bugs that are probably because of the problem I'm about to describe (177868, 178061, 173821, probably others..) so it was felt that this might be something to make other developers aware of."

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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 6

Here's the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of February 10th, 2003. This week's top topics: Gentoo Linux at FOSDEM; New Release Manager for 1.4; Icons for Gentoo Linux.

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MandrakeSoft releases Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1

MandrakeSoft announced the immediate release of Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1, a comprehensive and versatile Linux solution that provides large accounts with critical business server functions, plus MandrakeSoft's famous "user friendly" touch. The Corporate Server includes MandrakeClustering tools.

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Red Hat Linux

Red Hat, Inc. has announced that Red Hat Linux Advanced Server has achieved US Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Common Operating Environment (COE) certification. COE is a DoD software security and interoperability specification.

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Slackware Linux

Slackware has upgraded several gnome packages and gcc has been upgraded to gcc-3.2.2 on slackware-current. See the details of these and other updates in the change log.

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New Distributions

Shabdix

KDE.News covers an informal group called LIGLUG (LinuxIran Gnu/Linux User Group), which has finished its work on a customized live CD based on KNOPPIX GNU/Linux and KDE. This live CD, which is called "Shabdix", will be used to promote GNU/Linux and FarsiKDE in Iran. The initial release is Shabdix 0.7.

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Minor distribution updates

2-Disk Xwindow embedded Linux

2-Disk Xwindow embedded Linux has released 1disk 1.0 update with minor bug fixes. "Changes: Text widget cleanups were made. additional net drivers were added."

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MURIX Linux

MURIX Linux has released v2003-01-14 with minor feature enhancements.

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RUNT

RUNT has released v1.10 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: A first attempt at USB bootable support was added. Please read "Booting from USB" in README.runt."

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RxLinux

RxLinux has released v1.3.0 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: Many changes have been made in the startup scripts in order to support embedded systems. This means that Rxlinux can now boot and run from solid state hard disk like Disc-On-Chip, FlashDisk, etc. It also means that it can be installed on a regular hard disk. New software packages include keepalive, Postfix, squid, and frox."

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TA-Linux

TA-Linux has released v0.2.0 beta 3 (i386) with minor bug fixes. "Changes: Many packages including the kernel and XFree86 were updated. The collection now features over 360 packages, including GNOME 2.2 and KDE 3.1. Some bugs were also fixed."

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TopologiLinux

TopologiLinux has released v2.0.2 with minor feature enhancements. "Changes: Small fixes and updated packages."

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uClinux

uClinux has released v2.5.60-uc0 with minor feature enhancements. "Changes: Updates to the latest Linux kernel."

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Vector Linux

Vector Linux has released version 3.2 of their Linux distribution. This release marks the complete conversion to a Slackware based system and mostly LSB compliant.

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Distribution reviews

SuSE Linux 8.1 Takes Our Challenge (OfB.biz)

Open for Business reviews SuSE Linux 8.1. "In reality, to the average user, there really isn't much of note in SuSE 8.1's desktop that wasn't available in 8.0. Like 8.0, the default GUI is KDE 3.0, and also like 8, SuSE uses a pre-release version of the Keramik style for the widgets (buttons, scrollbars, etc.). SuSE added an attractive new window manager style to the mix that went very nicely with the new "Crystal" icons and the aforementioned Keramik style to provide a professional looking desktop. As an added bonus, we found the main program launch menu and the "quick launch" menu both to be better organized in this release than in previous editions."

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