Roberto Dohnert has announced the availability of two special editions of PC/OS, a Xubuntu-based distribution - "Open64 Workstation" and "OpenServer": "We are very pleased to announce the delivery of PC/OS Open64 Workstation 10a, as well as PC/OS OpenServer System 8.5. PC/OS Open64 Workstation 10a is our release of....

MINIX 3.1.6, an updated version of the small, modular and open-source operating system, has been released: "The current stable MINIX release is 3.1.6. Major Features: new drivers - Atheros L2, Intel E1000, Realtek 8169, DEC Tulip; VirtualPC Network Support (DEC Tulip); PipeFS - removed pipe handling from file....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interview: Kris Moore, PC-BSD News: FreeBSD past and present, Fedora newbie guide, interview with Ubuntu's Jane Silber, end of Kongoni Questions and answers: Backups Released last week: Linux Mint 8 "KDE", Gibraltar Firewall 3.0 Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 7.3-RC1, openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 Donations:....

Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.2: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.2rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.2 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 1.2pre2: we....

Alan Baghumian has released a revised build of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian's testing branch: "The second update version of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.0 'Kev' is available for immediate download. This version merges all security, bug-fix and feature updates published in the....

Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 8 "KDE" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 8 'Helena' KDE Community edition. The KDE Community edition aims to provide a version of Linux Mint which uses the KDE desktop. This edition is....

Rene Mayrhofer has announced the release of Gibraltar Firewall 3.0, a major new version of the Debian-based firewall distribution: "This is a major new release, updating into kernel 2.6 and Debian 5.0 'Lenny' as base system and splitting the web interface into front-end and back-end parts in preparation....

The second alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2010.1 is now available for download and testing: "The time has come for the second alpha release for the 2010.1 version of Mandriva Linux. As this is an early pre-release, major changes are mostly in the area of included third-party software.....

eBox Technologies has announced the release of eBox Platform 1.4, an Ubuntu-based server distribution that offers easy and efficient computer network administration for small and medium-size businesses: "eBox Technologies is proud to announce the general availability of eBox Platform 1.4. Besides incorporating a range of new features and....

Toutou Linux is a variant of Puppy Linux designed for French-speaking users. The project's latest version of the fast, lightweight distribution is 4.3.1, released earlier today. Compared to Puppy Linux 4.3.1, the new Toutou comes with a new "golden" desktop theme, the network is set up automatically during....

Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 13.0.8, a lightweight, Slackware-based desktop distribution featuring the IceWM window manager and solid multimedia playback support: "Absolute Linux 13.0.8 released. Multimedia installer fix. Only a few packages changed, but the multimedia installer was not properly updated and this could....

Just one week after a new stable release, the developers of PC/OS, a user-friendly desktop distribution based on Xubuntu, present a new development version to their users: "This beta offers a look at what PC/OS 10.1 will look like. With this release there are several enhancements: Linux kernel....

A new development version of Elive, a live CD featuring a customised Enlightenment 17 window manager based on Debian stable, has been released: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of the development version 1.9.60. We are very close to the next stable version of Elive....

Marco Ghirlanda has announced the release of ArtistX 0.8, an Ubuntu-based live DVD containing a large number of free multimedia software packages for audio, graphics, and video production: "ArtistX 0.8 includes the 2.6.28 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.26 and KDE 4.2, Compiz Fusion and about 2,500 free multimedia software....

Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.1, a Fedora-based distribution that easily converts an unused computer into an audio server or jukebox: "VortexBox 1.1 released. I am very excited about this release of VortexBox. We are moving from being just a media server to a music....

The third beta of MOPSLinux 7.0, a Russian Slackware-based distribution, has been released. New features since beta 2 include: a mechanism for providing different package versions and switching easily between them; ability to choose from a list of conflicting packages in case they cannot be installed simultaneously; ability....

The development of a new version of openSUSE is now under way as Henne Vogelsang announces the availability of the first milestone release of version 11.3: "It's here! The first openSUSE 11.3 milestone. The most important goal of this first milestone is to test the build interactions between....

Holger Levsen has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Skolelinux 5.0, a Debian-based distribution for schools also known as Debian-Edu: "I'm very happy to announce the second release candidate (rc2) of the Lenny-based Skolelinux version. Please test these images as much as you can and....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Opinion: GNOBSD - killed by GUI-is-for-wimps hacker culture News: Future of Solaris, Ubuntu - Yahoo deal, Mandriva's auto_inst and "Cooker" changes Questions and answers: Converting ext3 to ext4 Released last week: Ubuntu 8.04.4, PC/OS 10 Upcoming releases: Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2 New....

Ken Smith has announced that the first beta release of FreeBSD 7.3, a new version of the project's legacy branch, is now available for testing: "FreeBSD 7.3-BETA1, the first test build of the 7.3-RELEASE cycle, is now available for amd64, i386, pc98, and sparc64 architectures. For now we....