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Distribution news for August 1, 2002

This has been a relatively slow week for distribution news. Several of the major vendors have released new versions recently, and while development has started on several new branches, these are too new to have much to report. The new Debian installer that will be used in "sarge" is a worth a look. You'll find more information in the Debian Weekly News.

The minor distributions have been more active. There are a number of new releases including ClarkConnect, DemoLinux and Lycoris. There should be something there for everyone, whether you want to run Linux from a CD while at the (non-Linux) office, or want an easy desktop system for Grandma, or you are power-user and want to install everything from source. If your dream Linux system isn't mentioned on this list, then it's in the LWN Distributions list. We have some plans to improve that as well, so stay tuned, and hopefully we'll be back in two weeks.

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Distribution News

Debian Weekly News - July 30th, 2002

The Debian Weekly News #29 is now available. Topics this week include funding free software development and free software job opportunities in the UK.

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Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter

The Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter for July 25 is out. It looks at the first Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta, the latest financial results, and more.

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NetBSD

NetBSD has released v1.5.3 with minor security fixes.

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Red Hat Bug Fix advisory for GCC 2.96-RH

Red Hat has an updated version of GCC 2.96-RH available for RH 7.2 and 7.3, addressing various issues filed in bug reports.

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Yellow Dog Linux Bug fix Advisory for qt

Yellow Dog has updated qt packages are available. "The version of the Qt tookit that shipped with Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 contains a small bug which causes the startup time of KDE applications such as Konqueror to be quite slow. The bug also caused general UI slowness in applications such as KMail and broken preview functionality in the KDE Control Center's screensaver module. Installing the updated Qt packages resolves all of these above problems."

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UnitedLinux Clan To Detail Unified ISV, Channel, Customer Programs At LinuxWorld (CRN)

Here's a CRN article about UnitedLinux. "At LinuxWorld from Aug. 12-15, UnitedLinux--a consortium formed in May by four leading Linux distributors--will demonstrate an alpha version of its uniform UnitedLinux distribution and detail new programs, said Ransom Love, the former president and CEO of Caldera, who became head of Caldera's UnitedLinux operation in June."

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Minor distribution updates

2-Disk Xwindow System

The 2-Disk Xwindow System has released v1.4rc078 with some code cleanup.

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ClarkConnect

ClarkConnect has released verion 1.1. The software now comes in two versions:

The Standard version is free, no support included
The Office version includes 30-day install support, along with VPN, wireless, antivirus trialware, content filtering and a few extra features.

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DemoLinux 3.01pl5 available for download

DemoLinux has released version 3.01p15. "This is the latest (and probably last) version in the 3.0x series of DemoLinux, and surely the last using the old but stable 2.2.18 kernel."

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KNOPPIX

KNOPPIX has released version 3.0 with major feature enhancements. The KNOPPIX website also announces the release of version 3.1, a Debian-based CD featuring Linux-Kernel 2.4.x, KDE V3.0.2, OpenOffice, and much more

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Lycoris Releases Much Anticipated Desktop/LX Update 2

Lycoris has released Desktop/LX Update 2, featuring a new Internet installer, Iris, to browse and install Desktop/LX programs from the Software Gallery.

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Lycoris Desktop/LX

PCLinuxOnline reports that the Lycoris release of Desktop/LX Update 2 Build 46 has gone gold.

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MicroBSD

MicroBSD has released v0.5 with major feature enhancements.

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Server optimized Linux

Server optimized Linux (SoL) has released v15.00 with major feature enhancements.

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VectorLinux

VectorLinux has an iso image of a new beta, named SOHO. See the announcement on TuxReports.