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A Knoppix for the masses FAQ

Karsten M. Self has burned a spool of CDs with the v3.1 1-2003-20-EN Knoppix release, and he's been passing them out to masses. Now he would like some input on packaging and especially on a FAQ to go with the CD. There is a version of the FAQ in the story below, and an updated FAQ here.

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Debian GNU/Linux

Here is the Debian Weekly News for February 11, 2003. This issue covers GNOME and KDE participation in the Free Desktop Project, the Turbo Desktop Environment aimed at users with older computers who still want to run a proper desktop, and much more.

Four candidates have been nominated for Debian Project Leader; Moshe Zadka, Bdale Garbee, Martin Michlmayr and Branden Robinson. Platforms for these candidates can be found here. The campaigning period will last until March 7, when voting will begin.

Here's a note about the Debian Project's participation in the Desktop Linux Summit, February 20 - 21, 2003.

The results of the Debian security survey (which tried to get a handle on how long Debian 'potato' users needed security updates) have been released. The end result seems to be that potato will continue to have security updates through the end of June.

The Debian Weekly News for February 17, 2003 is available. In addition to the FLOSS report sponsored by the European Commission, researchers at Stanford University's Institute for Economic Policy Research designed another survey and asked the community for its assistance. If you have ever wondered whether (GNU/)Linux was the only new and free operating system recently begun, take a look at ReactOS, which aims to implement a free version of NT.

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Gentoo Linux

Here's the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for February 17, 2003. This week: Catch Gentoo Zetagrid fever; New rsync mirrors; Gnome 2.2 now in Portage; and more.

If you've had trouble installing the latest KDE packages you'll be interested in this fix (bug #15593).

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Lycoris Linux available at Walmart

Lycoris has sent out an announcement stating that a boxed set with the Lycoris Desktop/LX distribution is now available via Walmart.com. The "ProductivityPak" and "GamePak" packages are also available.

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Red Hat Linux

Red Hat has released an updated version of Phoebe, the latest Red Hat Linux beta. The release updates the kernel and glibc. Phoebe also has GNOME 2.2, KDE 3.1 and "many many many many bugfixes".

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Slackware Linux

The slackware-current change log shows an upgrade to linux-2.4.20, and a few installer changes, among many others.

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Trustix Secure Linux

Trustix has released Trustix Secure Linux 2.0 Techology Preview 2 nicknamed Forecast. "Being a technology preview it is not suitable for production use nor to be considered maintained regarding security. We release this distribution to give you a chance to test and comment on it before it evolves into TSL 2.0. We also wish to thank those who tested and gave us valuable feedback on the previous technology preview."

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SCO Linux

The SCO Group has announced that SCO Linux 4.0, powered by UnitedLinux, has been certified with the latest edition of IBM DB2, Version 8.1.

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Freeduc

The Organization for Free Software in Education and Teaching (OFSET) has produced Freeduc, a Knoppix/Debian-based Linux system with educational software, all on one bootable CD-ROM. Version 1.1 of the Freeduc CD-ROM was released November 5, 2002. Freeduc has joined the Education section of the Distributions list.

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2-Disk Xwindow embedded Linux

2-Disk Xwindow embedded Linux has released v1.0.0 (Source code). This is the first source release.

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Astaro Security Linux

Astaro Security Linux has released stable 4.000 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: The key features of this release are heuristic spam protection, PPPoE and PPPoA DSL dial-up, faster and enhanced WebAdmin, LDAP user authentication, NAT traversal for IPSec, dynamic filtering per VPN tunnel, a transparent POP3 Proxy with optional virus protection, VLAN (802.1q), and wireless LAN (802.11b)."

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LEAF

LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall) has released Bering 1.1 with minor feature enhancements. "Changes: Includes a 2.4.20 kernel patched with grsecurity 1.9.9c, the latest version of Shorewall (1.3.14), and a patched version of IPSec (Freeswan 1.99) with x509 support, NAT-Traversal, and Notify/delete. Shorewall output is now logged through the ulogd netfilter daemon."

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Fli4l (Floppy ISDN/DSL)

Fli4l (Floppy ISDN/DSL) has released development version 2.1.2 with minor bugfixes. "Changes: The kernel is now compiled with GCC 2.95.4, removing the incompatibilities which resulted when it was compiled with GCC 2.96 (RedHat). Several minor bugfixes were also made."

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floppyfw

floppyfw has released development version 2.9.1 with major feature enhancements. "Changes: This version now uses uClibc. Traffic shaping and bridging utilities are now in the base package, and the PPP(oE) version fits on a 1.44MB floppy."

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LRs-Linux

LRs-Linux has released v0.3.1-rc2 with minor bugfixes.

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uClinux

uClinux has released v2.5.61-uc0 with minor feature enhancements. "Changes: Many small fixes to the latest development kernel."

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Lindows at the Showdown (OfB.biz)

Open for Business continues the Penguin Shootout with a look at Lindows. "Lindows is a rather polarizing distribution in many ways. For the most part, people either love it or hate it, both for the company's attitude and the distribution itself. We'll consider that in a bit, but first comes the question of how it stacks up to other distributions technically."

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Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta 2 review (DistroWatch)

Distrowatch.com has a series of reviews of Mandrake 9.1 beta releases. Here is the review for Mandrake PPC 9.1 Beta 2. "The iMac did not feel slow at any time during my testing (this is a totally subjective opinion, but I have low tolerance for unresponsive systems). Sure, my 1.4GHz Athlon XP with DDR 333 SDRAM feels faster, but the difference in performance was much less than I expected. To me, this was a good surprise: I thought I had a computer destined to my private electronic cemetery, but I have changed my mind. I'll have a fully functional backup GNU/Linux workstation when Mandrake releases the final version of Mandrake PPC 9.1."

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