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Fedora Core 5 released

Fedora Core 5 "Bordeaux" was released on Monday. The announcement contains a specific set of download sites; you can also get to a list of mirrors here.

The announcement was preceded by the news that the new release could temporarily break non-GPL modules. Look for a kernel update to fix that. Those who have upgraded to FC5 may want to upgrade to flash-plugin-7.0.63-1, which properly handles integration with firefox-1.5.x contained in FC5.

ATrpms has officially launched Fedora Core 5 support for i386 and x86_64. ATrpms is a third party general purpose package repository.

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CentOS 4.3 is Released for i386, x86_64, and ia64

The CentOS team has announced the release of CentOS 4.3 for i386, x86_64 and ia64. This release includes the Linux 2.6 Kernel, SELinux, udev replacing the /dev system, Xorg, MySQL4, CyrusIMAPD, Gnome 2.8 and KDE 3.3. These improvements along with many more are detailed in the release notes.

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Mandriva One released

Mandriva has announced the availability (to Club members) of the "Mandriva One" distribution. It's big claim to fame would appear to be its ability to have a single CD function both as a live CD and an installation disk. "This high quality Linux distribution not only includes live and install functionality but also a selection of the best free software available with selected non-free applications and drivers available on a special edition for Mandriva Club members." "Mandriva Kiosk," a sort of click-and-run variant, has been pre-announced as well.

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Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 AS U7

Pie Box Enterprise Linux has released update 7 for Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3. "Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 is aimed at people who need a stable OS with a long lifespan but don't want an expensive bundled support contract. It is derived from open source software with only four packages modified in order to replace trademarks and logos with our own. Features of Pie Box Enterprise Linux 3 include the Linux 2.4 kernel, GNOME, Apache 2, Samba 3 and Logical Volume Manager."

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SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta8 Announcement

SUSE Linux 10.1 beta8 is available for testing. Click below for links to known bugs and mirrors.

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Debian Democracy

The first Call for Votes has gone out for the Debian Project Leader Election 2006. Here is the main vote page. Platforms for each of the seven candidates can be found here. A colored-coded transcript of the debate is available as well.

Here's a final look at the General Resolution looking at the GNU Free Documentation License. The Debian Project now considers the GNU FDL conditionally free, as long as no invariant sections are used.

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Debian: First AMD64 Binary Uploaded

Anthony Towns reports on the progress of AMD64 packages for Debian.

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Deprecating debmake

This won't affect very many Debian users, but if you make packages for Debian be aware that debmake will be removed from testing and unstable some time after the release of etch. Packagers should be switching to debhelper.

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Change to release schedule for Ubuntu Dapper

The updated release date for Ubuntu Dapper Drake, Desktop and Server editions has been set to June 1, 2006. "The Ubuntu Community Council and Technical Board discussed feedback on the delay proposal received during two town hall meetings on the #ubuntu-meeting public IRC channel. After conferring with an absent colleague they have now unanimously approved the new release schedule, published here."

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Australian Local Community Team for Ubuntu

The formation of the Australian Ubuntu Local Community Team has been announced. They are working on distributing, advertising and demoing Ubuntu within Australia, focusing on schools, business and home users.

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Gentoo Security team meeting summary

A summary of the latest Gentoo Linux Security Team IRC meeting is available.

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Announcing FUDCon Boston 2006

FUDCon Boston 2006 is set for April 7, 2006. "FUDCon Boston 2006 is the fifth such event globally and the second to be held in Boston, Mass. USA. FUDCon Boston 2006 will feature an expanded three track lineup which includes a user, developer and applications track. The application track will feature unique individuals and corporations, such as Levanta, MySQL, Pogo Linux and even representatives from the Catalonian Government in Spain, who have leveraged Fedora for unique purposes and have contributed to the community."

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New Persian Linux Arrived

Karamad means Efficient in Farsi (Persian). Karamad is built at DPI (Data Processing of Iran-ext IBM). The Live CD also functions as an installation media. It can show and play most sound & video files. Other software includes OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE 3.4, Persian Help, an English to Persian Dictionary, and more.

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Debian Weekly News

The March 21 Debian Weekly News is out. Topics covered this week include the status of the amd64 port, the second etch installer beta release, the process for expelling developers from the project, and more.

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Fedora Weekly News Issue 38

The Fedora Weekly News for March 20, 2006 contains pointers to: Red Hat Magazine March 2006, Red Hat Formally Announces 'Integrated Virtualization', Phoronix.com: An Interview with Greg DeKoenigsberg, Looking Back and Forward on Fedora Core 5, Release Notes II: rereleased!, OLPC Operating System, DistroWatch.com: Linux in education, and more.

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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter

The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of March 20, 2006 covers x86 arch testers team looking for members, Athlon X2 dual-core host accessible for Gentoo developers, modular X to be unmasked this week, report from open-source conference in Tokyo, and several other topics.

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 143

The DistroWatch Weekly for March 20, 2006 is out. "It's that time of the year when development activity in the open source software world is about to reach its peak - the release of GNOME 2.14 last week will be followed by Fedora Core 5 later today, with SUSE 10.1 coming out next month. At the same time, Ubuntu's Dapper Drake has received extra 6 weeks to get more polish, while Mandriva's new "One" product has been overshadowed by news about the sudden involuntary departure of the distribution's founder. Also in this issue: Debian developers on explaining their project to non-geeks, update on the custom DVD booting a number of distributions, and a quick look at the new KNOPPIX 5.0."

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Ark Linux 2006.1-rc1

The first release candidate of the KDE-centric Ark Linux 2006.1 is out. This release includes KDE 3.5.1, OpenOffice.org 2.0.2, amaroK 1.4 beta 2, kopete 0.12 beta 1, Xorg 7.0, gcc 4.1, and glibc 2.4.

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Announcing Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.4 (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop introduces Foresight Desktop Linux 0.9.4 with GNOME 2.14 and lots of other updates.

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RR64 Linux 3.0 beta 1 announced

Gentoo-based RR64 3.0 beta 1 is out. of RR64 Linux is available. This release features Xgl, GCC 4.0.2 as the default compiler, 2.6.15 kernel, 2.6.16-rc5 XEN kernel (SMP enabled), X.org 7.0, KDE 3.5.1, GNOME 2.12.3 and more.

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Fedora updates

Updates for Fedora Core 5: perl-Archive-Tar (upstream version 1.29), perl-Convert-ASN1 (upstream version 1.20-1), perl-DBD-Pg (upstream version 1.45), perl-PDL (bug fixes and code cleanup), lftp (upstream version 3.4.3), system-config-bind (bug fix and updated translations), tcsh (bug fixes), avahi (bug fixes), squid (new upstream version), authconfig (make smb.conf and krb5.conf loading more robust), bind (bug fixes)

Updates for Fedora Core 4: GFS-kernel (rebuilt against kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4), strace (bug fixes), perl-PDL (bug fixes and code cleanup), selinux-policy-strict (bug fixes), bind (bug fixes).

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Slackware updates

There were a couple of lengthy entries in the Slackware current change log this week, mostly about problems and fixes for the X11 packages. Also a new linux-2.6.15.6 kernel in testing, and upgrades to cairo, gtk+2 and dnsmasq.

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Trustix Secure Linux updates

Trustix TSL-2006-0013 covers bug fixes in rsync and squid for TSL 2.2 and 3.0.

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Automatix kicks Ubuntu into gear (Linux.com)

Linux.com eases a Ubuntu install with Automatix. "To test Automatix, I started with a fresh install of Ubuntu Breezy. Automatix supports all versions of Ubuntu up to Breezy, including Kubuntu and Edubuntu. It doesn't support Dapper, PPC, or AMD64 yet. Once the installation was complete, I logged in, opened Firefox, Googled for "automatix," and clicked on the first link, which happened to be to a complete Automatix tutorial on ubuntuforums.org. The tutorial was posted last year and makes reference to Ubuntu Hoary, but it works just fine for Breezy."

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PCLinuxOS: A Bright, New, Live-Linux on the OS Horizon (MozillaQuest)

MozillaQuest reviews PCLinuxOS. "PCLinuxOS still is in the late beta stages of development. We took a quick look at the latest PCLinuxOS live CD, PCLinuxOS Preview .92 (pclinuxos-p92.iso) to see how it is coming along. It's doing well. And we like the PCLinuxOS preview."

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My desktop OS: Gentoo Linux (NewsForge)

NewsForge hears from a Gentoo Linux fan. "Gentoo Linux is all about choices. Do I want VLC media player compiled with Win32 codecs and Xine or MPlayer with AAC support? Or do I want to scrap that and go with open source formats? Gentoo uses the powerful Portage package manager to install and remove programs. Much of Portage's power comes from USE flags that tell Portage what dependencies to compile a program with. It has a front end called Emerge which the guide recommends for installing programs. To install Xine with AAC support, you can add the use flag and program to /etc/portage/package.use or the command line (USE="aac" emerge xine)."

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