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Announcement: the AGNULA project

The AGNULA project aims to develop two reference distributions for the GNU/Linux operating system completely based on Free Software (i.e. under a FSF approved Free Software license) and dedicated to audio and multimedia. One distribution will be Debian-based (DeMuDi) and the other will be Red Hat-based (ReHMuDi).

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Scyld Beowolf

In the May 23rd Distributions page the Scyld Beowulf Cluster Operating System was incorrectly identified as hardware specific. In fact the Scyld distribution supports x86, Alpha, and other platforms.

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Distribution News

Debian GNU/Linux

The Debian Project has sent out a release describing what is claimed to be a new intercontinental Internet performance record: the first Debian Woody CD was transferred from Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in 13 seconds. The systems on both ends were running Debian, of course.

The Debian Weekly News for May 23 is out, with coverage of MPlayer, Nessus, the fair use status of the fortunes file, and more.

Here's the Debian Weekly News for May 29. It looks at the new Debian Flyers, the abortive attempt at packaging WineX, apt preferences, and more.

In this announcement Josip Rodin discusses woody release status. "To reiterate the main point from the April 30th mail by Anthony Towns, the release of woody is being held back because there is no systematic way to build packages in security advisories on all architectures included in woody."

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Mandrake Linux

Issue #43 of the Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter is out. "This Week's Summary: StarOffice 6.0 Officially Released; Spotlight on MandrakeExpert; MandrakeClub Activities; Website of the Week (plf.zarb.org); Online Survey; Ximian GNOME for Mandrake 8.2; Mandrake in the News; Website Updates; Software Updates; Headlines from MandrakeForum."

The Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter for June 1 (issue #44) is out. It covers the MandrakeSoft.com redesign, the Business Case of the week, recent security alerts, and more.

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Red Hat Linux

Red Hat has two bug fixes out for this week. There are new SANE packages for RH 7.3 which fix a problem observed when upgrading SANE. There are also new XFree86 packages are available which fix various bugs reported since the last erratum update. These are available for RH 7.1 - alpha, i386, ia64 and RH 7.2 - i386, ia64.

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Slackware Linux

On May 25, 2002 Slackware 8.1-rc1 was announced. That was followed by Slackware 8.1-rc2, announced on June 1, 2002. Since then much progress has been made on cleaning up the remaining bugs. As always the Slackware-current change log contains the details.

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Yellow Dog Linux

Terra Soft Solutions, Inc., publishers of Yellow Dog Linux, announced the Japanese edition of Yellow Dog Linux 2.2, which will be showcased by Amulet at LinuxWorld Tokyo.

Yellow Dog Linux has an updated errata page which YDL users might want to take a look at. There are also some bug fix advisories out.

New glibc packages are available, fixing a bug in YDL 2.2 that may cause programs to seg fault. Updated mpg321 packages are available for which fix a buffer overflow in the network streaming code as well as other bugs. Finally, updated kdebase packages are available that change the default artsd behavior to use 8-bit mode which allows sound to function.

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New Distributions

MicroBSD

MicroBSD is a hardened, secure, Posix1e, small foot print OS. It is currently available for x86, with Alpha, Sparc, and PPC ports in the works. It aims to use as little hard disk space as possible while providing a fully functional system. A 0.4 Mini and Full x86 release version was announced May 28, 2002. (Thanks to Joe Klemmer)

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New distribution: WISP-Dist

The first public release of WISP-Dist, a new embedded distribution, has been anounced. It runs out of 8MB flash and is aimed primarily at running wireless routers.

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Minor distribution updates

Astaro Security Linux

Astaro Security Linux has released stable version 3.2. "The most important new key features are a PPPoE client, a DHCP server and client, sophisticated reporting and log file handling, traffic shaping, heavily improved HTTP and SMTP proxies, IPSec with X.509 certificates and AES encryption, PKI management for the X.509 certificates, surf protection (with optional URL listing with 12 mio entries), and High Availability (with optional hot standby)."

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Devil-Linux 0.5RC1

Version 0.5RC1 of Devil-Linux has been announced.

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Gnome2 -beta5 and beyond available on Gentoo

Gnome2 is now available for the Gentoo portage system.

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Knoppix

KNOPPIX has released version 1.5, its first appearance on Freshmeat.

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Lycoris Desktop/LX Continues Grow in Popularity

Lycoris products Desktop/LX Personal and Desktop/LX Deluxe are now available at Fry's Electronics retailers; and other Desktop/LX news.

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Distribution reviews

Mandrake gets top billing in Desktop Linux poll

According to this DesktopLinux.com story, Mandrake Linux is the most popular desktop Linux system.

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Linuxlookup.com reviews Red Hat 7.3

LinuxLookup.com features a review of Red Hat Linux version 7.3.

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3 Distributions Power Up Linux (eWeek)

eWeek Labs tested SuSE Linux 8.0, Mandrake Linux 8.2 and Red Hat Linux 7.3. They say "... the penguins have made some great strides in usability - to the point that users unfamiliar with Linux could comfortably find their way through a machine installed with any of these Linux variations." (Thanks to Brian Park)

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SuSE 8.0, KDE 3.0 first look (Register)

The Register checked out SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.0. "I've been using SuSE 7.3 pretty much exclusively on my personal machines for five or six months now, though with several upgrades of the kernel, FreeType, KDE, etc. It's accessible to Linux newbies if not exactly easy, yet reasonably power-user friendly. It may well be the best of all the packaged distros. And while there are imperfections in a few of the packages, overall I'd have to say that 8.0 is a solid step forward. I'll be keeping it, that's for sure." (Thanks to Micha H. Werner)

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