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The
DistroWatch
Weekly for February 4, 2008 is out. "
It's tough to be a
developer of a desktop operating system these days. Not only are we seeing
increasing usability and user-friendliness from the major Linux
distributions, the BSD world now also wants its share of the market, while
there are those who believe that even Solaris can be a viable desktop
alternative to the more established operating systems. But how far has Sun
Microsystems' flagship product progressed since the opening up of the
source code in the form of OpenSolaris? Our featured story looks at
Nexenta, Indiana, BeleniX and other OpenSolaris-based distribution and asks
whether they can compete on the desktop. In the news section, Debian edges
closer to "Lenny", Slackware announces plans to move to KDE 4, François
Bancilhon defends the code-sharing agreement with Turbolinux, and Ars
Technica investigates the latest release of NetBSD. Finally, we are proud
to announce that the recipient of the DistroWatch January 2008 donation is
the VideoLAN VLC project. Enjoy the read and happy Chinese New Year to all
our readers!"
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