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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 279
The DistroWatch
Weekly for November 24, 2008 is out. "The biggest news of the
week was the final decision in the case of SCO vs. Novell in a Utah
court. LXer.com summed it up this way: "Novell Wins, SCO Loses." In other
news, big box retailers across the United States stocked their shelves with
netbooks preloaded with Linux in time for Black Friday, the day after the
American Thanksgiving holiday and traditionally the busiest shopping day of
the year. Target and Best Buy stores displayed the ASUS Eee PC 900a for
US$299 this week. Other netbooks with prices as low as US$199 are expected
on shelves by Friday. In the news section, Paul Frields challenges the
often-made claims that Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution;
openSUSE announces Zypper 1.0 and plans for Zypper 2, Gentoo Linux
summarises the Gentoo Council functions and activities, sidux celebrates
its second birthday, and Shift Linux announces a major shift in the
direction of its Ubuntu-based distribution. Finally, we are pleased to
announce that the new editor of DistroWatch Weekly is Chris Smart of the
Kororaa and MakeTheMove.net fame. Happy reading!"
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