Opensuse: Online Survey on Hard Disk Configuration
May 14, 2008The Opensuse Usability Team has launched a mini-survey to find out how users configure their hard disks. The freely accessible survey will be online until May 28, 2008.
more »Fedora 9 Released
May 14, 2008The Fedora project, which is supported financially by Red Hat, has just released Fedora 9. The free distribution is based on kernel 2.6.25 and includes the KDE 4.0.3 and Gnome 2.22 desktops.
more »Linspires Click'n'Run for Linux Mint
May 13, 2008Clients for Linspire's Click'n-Run Warehouse exist for Ubuntu, Freespire, and of course Linspire. Now, the Ubuntu derivative Linux Mint joins the ranks of supported Linux distributions.
more »Next LTS Ubuntu will be 10.04 – Regular Service Packs for 8.04
May 13, 2008The current Ubuntu version is less than a month old, but Mark Shuttleworth has already published plans for the future version in his blog.
more »Anthony Towns Withdraws from Debian Projects
May 09, 2008Long-standing Debian developer and former Project Leader Anthony Towns has said that he is withdrawing from current projects. The reasons seem to be a disagreement on distribution of tasks within the free Linux distribution.
more »Ubuntu Patches Vorbis Tools
May 09, 2008The Ubuntu security team has released an update to close a vulnerability in the Vorbis Tools for editing music files in Ogg-Vorbis format.
more »Puppy Linux 4.00 Released
May 06, 2008Berry Kauler, the founder of the space and resource saving Puppy Linux, has released version 4.00 of the popular mini distribution.
more »Opensuse 11: Into the Home Straights with Beta 2
May 05, 2008The Opensuse Team has just released the second beta of version 11 which is scheduled for June.
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