The arrival of Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” signaled a new era for the whole family of distributions that use Ubuntu as a base. Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and other Ubuntu derivatives soon followed with new releases of their own projects.

The second major release since SUSE became a community project is looking good. We took openSUSE 11.0 for a test ride.

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The makers of Parted Magic 3.0 refer to this as the "most aggressive changelog of any release to date".

The Debian project has frozen the codebase for the next generation release, Version 5.0 ("Lenny") of its Linux distribution. This rules out any changes to software packages, except where the changes are absolutely necessary for the release.

Starting shortly, Dell will be supplying its Linux computers with Ubuntu 8.04.

The Debian developers are preparing for the publication of Debian Lenny in September. The Release Team has just announced a complete freeze of all packages for next week.