Category: Linux

  • 2007/06/01 Sam Linux 2007.1 Test 1

    Well here is the release of Sam Linux 2007.1 Test 1 which I haven’t yet tested. I tested the one for 2006 and found that it was a very good but very slow distro, though I had it running on 500 MHZ processors. here is an excerpt from Distrowatch.com: A new development build of SAM…

  • 2007/05/30 Ubuntu MOTU Q&A

    here is what Daniel Holbach said in the ubuntu mailing list: Today’s Topics: 1. MOTU Q&A sessions (Daniel Holbach) 2. MOTU Mentors list! (Daniel Holbach) ———————————————————————- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:00:39 +0200 From: Daniel Holbach Subject: MOTU Q&A sessions To: ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com, fridge-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: <1180447239.5853.8.camel@bert> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii” Hello everybody, are you…

  • 2007/05/29 Sidux 2007-2 Released Today

    here is an excerpt from distrowatch.com on the release of Sidux 2007-2 today: The second stable version of sidux, a Debian-based distribution built by some of the former developers of KANOTIX, has been released: “After three months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2007-02 for amd64 and i686 systems,…

  • 2007/05/23 MCNLive “Toronto” Released

    Here is an excerpt from Distrowatch on topic of MCNLive “Toronto”‘s Release: A new, enhanced version of MCNLive, a Mandriva-based live CD distribution, has been released: “I am glad to announce MCNLive, code name ‘Toronto’. What’s the difference to ‘Delft’? VirtualBox OSE, KOffice suite, GIMP, gThumb, gxine, gFTP, Bluefish, Quanta, KAudioCreator, Kopete, KDE Bluetooth, a…

  • 2007/05/22 Mandriva Layoffs

    Here is an excerpt from Distrowatch.com about the Mandriva Layoffs: We start this week’s news section with information about a new round of layoffs at Mandriva: “Last Thursday, at least four Mandriva employees received the news that their contracts will be stopped next month. All of them are people who are very active in the…

  • 2007/05/19 Microsoft Patents knocked around by Linus Tarvald

    in this article on digg which was found on this website Torvalds tells Microsoft to put up or shut up Microsoft may have patent problems of its own, claims Linux kernel creator Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 16 May 2007 Linus Torvalds has hit back at Microsoft’s claims that it holds 42 patents that are infringed by…

  • 2007/05/18 Ubuntu CE 3.1 Released:

    Well Ubuntu CE 3.1 has been released. here is an excerpt from distrowatch.com: Jereme Hancock has announced the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 3.1, a bug-fix update based on Ubuntu 7.04: “We have just released Ubuntu Christian Edition v3.1 (Feisty). This is a maintenance release to fix a few bugs. The bug fixes in this…

  • 2007/05/17 Arch Linux 2007-05 Released

    Today Arch Linux has released 2007-05 and here is an excerpt from distrowatch.com Tobias Powalowski has announced the release of Arch Linux 2005-07, the first official release since the project implemented a new, more frequent release policy: “It’s done, final 2007.05 ‘Duke’ ISO images for i686 and x86_64 are ready. Changelog to the last installation…

  • Protected: 2007/05/16 Secret Password Post #3: Sad 🙁 News!

    here is an excerpt from distrowatch Weekly about Fedora Core 7: Fedora 7 Josh Boyer has announced a slight delay in the development of Fedora 7. Originally scheduled for May 24th, it will now be made available a week later, at the earliest: “We do not have a rawhide repository available as of yet, and…

  • Protected: 2007/05/15 Secret Password Post #2: Giant News!

    Well round 2 of the Secret Password Post: I hope you still can use that Leet-Key Extension for this since the next few posts will be Secret Password Post 3,4,5, and 6. This is Big news from Distrowatch.com and some important news: Let’s start the news section with an interesting post published on several Fedora…