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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 832.45 MB Status: 1 seeders and 7 leechers Added: 2007-02-19 19:53:46

Source: vyatta

The Vyatta project, which develops a complete, Debian-based firewall and router distribution, has announced the release of Vyatta Community Edition 2.0: "Vyatta today announced that Vyatta Community Edition 2 (VC2) is now available for download from the Vyatta web site. VC2 is the latest freely-available, community-supported release of .

Source: litrix

Litrix Linux, a Gentoo-based distribution made in Brazil, has entered a testing stage towards a new release, version 7.2: According to the release announcement (in Portuguese), Litrix Linux 7.2 includes several new applications and features, such as: NdisWrapper for wireless networking; support for USB, SATA and PATA drives; .

Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: SaxenOS and SimplyMEPIS - bumps in the middle of the road News: Ubuntu drops 3D desktop, Daniel Robbins returns to Gentoo, SabayonLinux loses developers, CentOS 5 update Released last week: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r5, Puppy Linux 2.14 Upcoming releases: Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 .

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Robert writes to tell us Red Hat's CEO Matthew Szulik is encouraging customers to take Microsoft up on their support voucher offer for Novell's rival Linux system in order to "get the issue over with." Dismissing the impact that the Microsoft-Novell deal has had on business, Szulik is just happy to see customers taking Microsoft's money. "Szulik also dismissed Oracle Corp's attempt to under-cut it on Linux support on similar grounds, insisting that customers were unlikely to be convinced by cost savings that are a small percentage of their overall software spend."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

michuk writes "There are currently at least five popular ways of installing software in GNU/Linux. None of them are widely accepted throughout the popular distributions. This situation is not a problem for experienced users — they can make decisions for themselves. However, for a newcomer in the GNU/Linux world, installing new software is always pretty confusing. The article tries to sum up some of the recent efforts to fix this problem and examine the possible future of packaging software in GNU/Linux."