Distribution news for August 1, 2002 [LWN.net]

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.