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In order for Foresight Linux to follow development trends more quickly, Michael Johnson (the founder of rPath and former head of Fedora) has proposed switching from rPath Linux to Fedora.

The Linux from Scratch (LFS) intensive training has been updated to version 6.5.

Ubuntu wants to get as many touchscreens working as possible for Karmic Koala. The developers are asking for help by collecting vendor and product IDs for USB touchscreens out in the market.

It was about 16 years ago that Ian Murdock came upon the idea to design a new Linux distro. He named it Debian after Debra and Ian.

Instead of 24 months and 3 versions, Novell will in future only supply 2 updates in 18 months for openSUSE.

Finnix, a LiveCD Linux distro for system administrators, is available in version 93.0.

Linux distributor Novell is reorganizing: from now on, one developer team will dedicate itself entirely to openSUSE.