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Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Weekly News for March 11, 2003 looks at some recent Linux kernel developments, Debian fun stuff from Openstuff.net, and much more.

Here is the call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Election 2003.

The Debian release manager is looking for assistants to help with the many tasks that need to be accomplished before sarge can be released.

Join in the third bug squashing party for sarge, March 14 - 16, 2003, and help to correct as many release critical bugs as possible in all those Debian packages.

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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 10

Here's the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of March 10, 2003. This week GWN looks at distcc in a nutshell; and notes that they got a remarkable response to their call for developers.

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Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter

The Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter for March 7 is out; it looks at the second Mandrake Linux 9.1 release candidate, the business case of the week, and more.

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Here is the press release from Red Hat regarding its new commercial distribution offerings. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES" is a cheaper version of the Advanced Server product (now "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS"); "It is ideally suited for application-, network-, file-, print-, mail-, and Web-serving, as well as for running custom or packaged business applications." Also available is "Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS," which is aimed at engineering workstations - software development, electronic design, etc.

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Slackware 9.0-rc2 has been released for testing.

Slackware has released a second candidate for Slackware 9.0. As usual the gory details can be found in the slackware-current change log.

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SuSE announces 8.2, new partner program

SuSE has announced SuSE Linux 8.2, a strongly desktop-oriented version of the company's distribution. Availability is mid-April.

The company has also launched a new partner program, which is aimed at helping others sell SuSE products.

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Young project leader hopes to make Linux software installation easier (NewsForge)

Robin Miller interviews Mike Hearn, leader of the Autopackage project in this NewsForge article. "Autopackage is a concept that is in the process of becoming a reality, a little bit at a time, in the traditional Open Source manner. The idea is to come up with a single software packaging/installation system that will work across all major Linux distributions, and resolve dependencies, too, so that neither developers nor users need to worry about distribution compatibility issues." Thanks to Ashwin N

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New Distributions

Orange Linux

Orange Linux is a floppy-based Linux distribution that includes a set of tools for making your own distribution, a VGA graphics library, and a small Pong game. Initial version 1.0 was released March 11, 2003.

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rpm-livelinuxcd

rpm-livelinuxcd is a 120MB RedHat-based distribution that runs completely from CD, fits into around 80MB of RAM and is nearly indistinguishable from a system installed on a hard disk. Features include hardware recognition at boot, samba, dhcpd, name, xinetd, and SSH servers, virtual terminals, PAM, etc. Useful for dedicated servers, routers, emergency systems, cluster nodes and such, it does not contain an X11 Server. Initial version 0.9 was released March 5, 2003.

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Minor distribution updates

ALT Linux

ALT Linux has released v2.2 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: This release contains a lot of new packages in addition to largely improved existing base; almost all of them are built with gcc3. The already good server and desktop is now a lot better with a larger degree of audited and secured services and smoother office and multimedia applications out-of-the-box."

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Astaro Security Linux

Astaro Security Linux has released v4.001 with major bugfixes. "Changes: This Up2Date fixes bugs in the AntiSpam Feature in the SMTP Relay, the Pfsgroup variable setting in IPSec VPN, an issue in the POP3 Proxy, and a problem with empty IPSec logs, and sets the correct crypto algorithm for the Blowfish IPsec policy. Outgoing emails are no longer checked for spam."

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Fd Linux

Fd Linux has released v3.0-0 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: In this version, the kernel was upgraded to 2.4.20 and migrated to iptables. PCMCIA support was added to incorporate PCMCIA network cards and 802.11b wireless adapters, such as Lucent/Orinoco, Cisco, and D-Link cards. There was a complete rewrite of the rc.network automatic network configuration script, and this version moves over to the uClibc library set to save on space, upgrades to the udhcp DHCP client/server binaries, compiles in more commands and functions into BusyBox, provides working add-on packages for usage expansion, has the ability to mount extra portions of RAM to expand file system, and features much more."

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LinuxInstall.org

The LinuxInstall.org Project has released v3.0rc1. "Changes: This release includes kernel 2.4.18-26.8.0, security updates, Mozilla 1.2.1, Evolution 1.2.2, a complete set of Red Hat 8.0 manual documents in HTML, Acrobat Reader 5.06 with Mozilla Plugin, Real Player 8.0 with Mozilla Plugin, Flash Player 6.0 r69 with Mozilla Plugin, Microsoft TrueType Core Fonts for Web, XMMS 1.2.7, xine 0.9.18 with libdvdcss, and a dual-boot configuration with NTFS/FAT32 support."

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Morphix

Morphix has released v0.3-3 with minor feature enhancements. "Changes: XFree v4.3 added, a number of installer bugs have been fixed, and a translucency lkm mini-module is available for testing."

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Trinity Rescue Kit v 1.0 released

The Trinity Rescue Kit has released v1.0. It now has networking capabilities like ssh and samba and supports about every network card, disk controller and USB controller.

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uClinux

uClinux has released v20030305 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: Lots of new things and lots of fixes. This release has both uClinux 2.4.20 and 2.0.39 kernels, uClibc-0.9.19, glibc-2.2.5. and uC-libc, over 50 board types with default configurations, and about 150 application packages."

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Distribution reviews

Red Hat 8 - Invigorate your desktop (iodynamics)

This iodynamics article looks at Red Hat Linux 8.0, with some helpful hints to help you make the most of your Red Hat desktop. "Red Hat's latest Linux distribution is one example of this progress. The distribution comes with hundreds of great open-source applications, but it takes some 'tweaking' to configure Red Hat as a complete desktop OS. While many applications are included, some, for one reason or another, are not. And of those that are included, some need additional configuration to work properly."

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