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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 330
The DistroWatch
Weekly for November 23, 2009 is out. "Chromium OS, Google's
long-awaited entry into the operating system market, finally made a
tentative appearance last week. Although it created much excitement on many
technology news sites, the new Linux-based distribution doesn't target
general desktop computers; instead it attempts to kick-start a new era of
cloud computing on netbooks and other portable devices. Fedora 12, the
latest version of the popular distribution and the other big topic of
discussion last week, has been hit by an unprivileged package installation
controversy, while its unofficial LXDE edition has been withdrawn due to a
nasty bug. But other than these two issues, the new release looks great -
read our first-look review to find out more. In other news, Ubuntu removes
GIMP from default installation, FreeBSD prepares for the imminent arrival
of 8.0-RELEASE, openSUSE re-evaluates its decision to remove the DHT
technology from the Transmission BitTorrent client, and founders of Qimo 4
Kids, an Ubuntu-based distribution for children, discuss the beginnings of
their project and the motivation behind using open source software to start
a charity. Also in the news section we link to interviews with Fedora's
Paul Frields and Mandriva's Buchan Milne. Finally, this week's Questions
and Answers column considers the pros and cons of rolling versus time-based
distribution release models. Happy reading!"
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