Linux OS Distribution Reviews
The first beta release of ZevenOS 5.0, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a BeOS-like user interface, is ready for testing: “ZevenOS used the deskbar for ages to create a slick and nice looking tasklist and main menu panel. With the current struggle in development on ZevenOS I decided to….
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Ferdinand Thommes has announced the availability of the first release candidate for siduction 12.2.0, a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian’s unstable branch and featuring four desktop environments – KDE, LXDE, Razor-qt and Xfce: “We are happy to present the first release candidate of siduction 2012.2 – ‘Riders….
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Dru Lavigne has announced the availability of the third release candidate for PC-BSD 9.1: “The RC3 images for the upcoming PC-BSD 9.1 are now available for i386 and amd64 architectures. This is expected to be the last snapshot before 9.1-RELEASE, so report any bugs to the testing mailing….
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Clement Lefebvre has announced the availability of the release candidate for Linux Mint 14 – in the usual MATE and Cinnamon flavours: “The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 14 Nadia RC. For the first time since Linux Mint 11, the development team was….
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Alexander von Gluck IV has announced the availability of the fourth alpha release of Haiku 1, an open-source operating system that targets personal computing, inspired by BeOS: “The Haiku project is excited to announce the availability of our fourth official alpha release. A year and four months have….
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Eric Turgeon has announced the availability of the third release candidate for GhostBSD 3.0, a FreeBSD-based operating system for the desktop with GNOME or LXDE: “The third release candidate of GhostBSD 3.0 now supports GNOME 2, LXDE and Openbox desktops and it is now available for testing. This….
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Tomáš Matějíček has announced the availability of the second release candidate for Slax 7.0, a minimalist Slackware-based live CD with KDE 4: “I’ve been mostly fixing and improving the RC 1 build of Slax. The boot installer script has been fixed and updated. One of the most common….
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Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the third alpha release of Mageia 3: “Finally the bug hunt was successful and the alpha 3 release is now available for tests. We hope you will enjoy this new one. Upgrade from Mageia 2 is now possible and we need….
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Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the first release candidate for NetBSD 5.2, the project’s legacy branch. “The first release candidate of NetBSD 5.2 is now available. NetBSD 5.2 is intended for those who have an application using NetBSD 5.0.x or 5.1.x who don’t want the churn….
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Cassidy James has announced the availability of the first public beta release of elementary OS 0.2, a beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 12.04 and featuring a custom GNOME Shell called “Pantheon”: “Developers and testers, today we are happy to announce the first beta release of elementary….
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A new alpha release of antiX 12.5, a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian’s testing branch, is now ready for download: “antiX-12.5-alpha2 available for public testing. New: 64-bit editions of core, base and full. The i486 flavours are bug-fix and development releases from antiX 12. Since Debian ‘Testing’….
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Michael Zanetta has announced the availability of the third beta release of Pentoo 2012.0, a specialist Gentoo-based live CD containing a collection of penetration testing tools: “Today we are releasing the 64-bit edition of beta 3. The Pentoo Linux team really isn’t accustomed to failure, but every single….
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