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icepack linux

Icepack Linux is a built-from-scratch, easy-to-use, desktop distribution. Adrian Hilgardth is the father, maintainer and main developer of icepack linux. There have been a few recent changes at the icepack website, including Adrian's Corner, with articles intended for Linux beginners, computer newbies, and Windows users taking their first steps. A French language web site has joined the existing German web site. Icepack is currently at version 2.5, and a new i3 development site is now available to track the the road to version 3.0.

Graham Todd has written a review of icepack linux 2.5. "First, Icepack-Linux 2.5 is a desktop distro. It comes without a hint of Apache in sight, but it comes with more games than I've ever seen in a Linux release. Almost two A4 pages of titles make up the list, and whilst I am not a games player and so can only go on the standard of games I tried from the list, they're not bad. To get a better selection, you're going to have to use WineX, which can be downloaded separately from the Codeweavers website."

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Technical Bulletin #12 - Getting started with uClinux

This technical bulletin by Snap Gear's David McCullough provides an introduction for embedded developers to familiarize themselves with uClinux, embedded Linux for deeply embedded microprocessors.

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Xandros nears first release: set to announce at LinuxWorld (DesktopLinux)

Here's an interview with Xandros president Michael Bego and Dr. Frederick Berenstein, co-chairman of Linux Global Partners (the financial backer of Xandros), on DesktopLinux.com. "Bego said . . . 'Xandros 1.0 will appear in late September or early October. Our beta users say Beta 2 was one of the best solutions out there. We currently have about 25 developers on the team . . . We expect to be among the first crop of profitable Linux companies . . . Mandrake is more oriented toward hobbyist users. Our emphasis is on one-button control, and the creation of a quality Linux product that corporations won't have difficulty introducing into their environment. Lycoris is heading in a great direction, but they're primarily packaging Open Source components. Between Xandros and Corel, we've invested $32 million above and beyond that, and it shows'..."

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Distribution News

The first three LSB-certified distributions

The Linux Standard Base has been official for some time, but, thus far, there have been no distributions that have truly implemented the standard. That has now changed with this press release from the Free Standards Group: MandrakeSoft, Red Hat, and SuSE all now have distributions which have achieved LSB certification.

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Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Weekly News for August 6 is out; it looks at HP's DMCA threat, backing up Debian systems, Sarge CD images, the lack of truly free truetype fonts, and more.

The Debian Weekly News for August 13 is also available. This week's issue contains a Free Software licensing quiz, a compiled list of reasons to avoid certain non-free systems, and more.

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Mandrake Linux

The second Beta of Mandrake Linux 9.0 is available for download and testing.

The Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter, Issue #53 and Issue #54 are available.

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Yellow Dog Linux

Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., makers of Yellow Dog Linux, announced the availability of Apple computers with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.

The version of netatalk that shipped with Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 was misconfigured. The location of the netatalk configuration file did not match the location of that file passed at compile time. Read more.

The version of python2 that shipped with Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 did not specify an rpm 'provide' for /usr/bin/python2. This causes some problems when using the 'apt' utility to install or update software requiring python2.

The latest revision of the Apple Titanium PowerBook G4 has a new natural resolution and video card. This update adds initial information about the new revision to the Xconfigurator monitor database. Here is a solution to the problem.

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ASPLinux

ASPLinux has announced (in Russian) the release of ASPLinux 7.3 (vostok). You can find some additional details at the DistroWatch ASP Linux page.

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Red Flag Linux

Red Flag Linux has announced (in Chinese) the release of Red Flag Linux Desktop 3.2 beta.

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New Distributions

Cool Linux CD

Cool Linux CD is a bootable CD that contains a live Linux distribution based on Red Hat 7.3. It also includes the XFS filesystem, devfs, IceWM, QVWM, ROX-filer, OpenOffice.org, Opera, Mozilla, Sylpheed, Pan, Licq, X-chat, GFTP, ppp-redialer, xmms, xine, mplayer, gqview, LinNeighborhood, IPTraffic, VMWare, and more. Version 1.30a was just released.

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Linuxin GNU/Linux

Linuxin GNU/Linux is a new distribution from Spain. The recently released version 1.0 is based on Debian woody, with some additional ease-of-use features, like a graphical installer and autodetection and configuration of hardware. Found on DistroWatch.

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UHU-Linux

UHU-Linux is a Hungarian distribution. Now at beta 4, this distribution is aimed at beginners. It is based on partly on Mandrake and features fully automatic hardware detection and is dpkg-based. Found on DistroWatch.

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Minor distribution updates

Arch Linux

Arch Linux has released version 0.3 (firefly) with major feature enhancements.

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Astaro Security Linux

Astaro Security Linux has released 3.203 with major security fixes. Bug fix releases 3.204 and 3.205 are also out now.

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The Aurora SPARC Linux Project

The Aurora SPARC Linux Project has announced the released of Build 0.31 (Phoenix Rising). This build is mostly 0.3, with some minor bugfixes and sparc64 isos.

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Debian-Ham

Debian-Ham has released v0.4 with major bug fixes.

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floppyfw

floppyfw has released floppyfw-1.9.99. See the change log for details.

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MkLinux

MkLinux has a new release candidate, Pre-R2. Changes between Pre-R1 and Pre-R2 can be found here.

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The openMosix Project

The openMosix Project has announced the port of openMosix to version 2.4.19 has been released.

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PXES Linux Thin Client

PXES Linux Thin Client has released version 0.5-RC10. Support for many network devices was added with this release.

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Trustix Secure Linux bug fix advisories

Here is a minor bug fix for the samba package. The previous package did not create the /var/cache/samba directory and therefore browsing did not work. Fixed in this package.

This openssl patch fixes a typo in the previous patch.

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Distribution reviews

Friendly Linux Alternative to Windows (PC World)

Lycoris Desktop/LX receives a favorable review from PC World magazine. "Looking for an inexpensive, simple-to-use alternative to the Windows operating system? Linux may leap to mind, but since Corel abandoned its effort, no vendor has concentrated strictly on making Linux friendly enough for newbies. Now, the $30 Desktop/LX distribution from upstart Lycoris demonstrates that Microsoft's monopoly on friendly operating systems for the PC could be coming to a close."

An older review on PC World UK gives Desktop/LX four out of five stars.

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Another Look at Yellow Dog Linux (LowEndMac)

Here is a review of Yellow Dog Linux on LowEndMac. "The list of included applications is impressive -- arguably you'd never need to install another package, but the problem is that the Mac applications which we've all grown used to are not available. GIMP offers Photoshop users a similar interface and most of the functions they're used to, but it lacks the ability to handle CMYK separations, and so is of no use in professional print scenarios."

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