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Glenn Cady has announced the release of Ultimate Edition 2.2, a desktop Linux distribution and live DVD based on Ubuntu, but enhanced with extra software, device drivers and multimedia codecs: "Ultimate Edition 2.2. This release was built from Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' with all the goodies you have .

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Stefan Emmerich has announced the availability of a new beta release of Debris Linux, version 1.8.1. Debris Linux is a minimalist (under 200 MB), Ubuntu-based desktop distribution with GNOME. What's new? "Fixed bug in 1.8.0 which defaulted to Dutch instead of US keyboard layout during boot; updated kernel .

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Max Moser has announced a pre-final release of BackTrack 4, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a collection of security testing and forensics tools: "The Remote Exploit team is ecstatic to announce the public release of BackTrack 4 pre-final (code name 'pwnsauce'). We have major changes in BackTrack, and have .

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Point Clark Networks has announced the availability of the second release candidate for ClarkConnect 5.0, a specialist CentOS-based distribution for routers, gateways and firewalls: "ClarkConnect 5.0 release candidate 2 is out. What's new? For new installations, ClarkConnect 5.0 is close to final release quality. There are a number .

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Marc Poirette has announced the release of the first beta build of PureOS 2.0, a desktop distribution and live CD (with KDE 4) based on Debian's testing branch: "PureOS 2.0 beta 1 is available, built with Linux-Live scripts 6.2.9. This is the first version based on 'Squeeze' (Debian .

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GeeXboX 1.2.2, a standalone, Linux-based media player, has been released: "GeeXboX 1.2.2 - feature enhancement release. With a few interesting patches recently having been committed to 2.0 development tree, people on the forum asked for backport of these to the stable 1.2 release. So did we, adding a .

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Insane Coding: "About two years ago, I wrote an article titled the "The Sorry State of Sound in Linux", hoping to get some sound issues in Linux fixed. Now two years later a lot has changed, and it's time to take another look at the state of sound in Linux today."

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The H Open: "To comply with the GPL, Palm has released the source code packages for its Linux-based WebOS used by the new Palm Pre, which has been on sale in the US since the beginning of June. The company has also set up its own open source site."

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Raiden's Realm: "One of the things that's been frustrating me a lot lately is all the negative press about KDE4. And the Gnome fanboys have been having a blast with it. I can't tell you how many times they've said that the change “destroyed KDE” and it “is the worst thing KDE ever did” and “KDE has more bugs than a roach motel” and other such derogatory statements."

Source: Linux Today

Always Right: "I've been warned by Jono that the Satanic issue with Canonical is solved. Now, that's fast !"

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Groklaw: " If you have been having trouble finding Linux on a netbook, you can stop wondering why. I suspected it was being monopoly-crushed. Here's the smoking gun, at last, thanks to Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet, who attended Comdex and asked the right question:"

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LinuxPlanet: "As I wrote a few days ago, I replaced Kubuntu and Ubuntu on several of my home PCs with PCLinuxOS and 64 Studio. I was intending to wait a couple of months to post a followup because long-term performance is what matters. But a few things have impressed me so much these two newcomers to my little computing empire deserve an extra mention."

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "The first ten of the one hundred paper cuts for Ubuntu 9.10 have now been determined and are shared on the Ubuntu development list."

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PhoneNews: ""As on any popular platform, we recognize that some developers will experiment in ways that cross official boundaries, but we believe that our formal offerings – and community efforts built around those offerings – will provide the best experience for the vast majority of webOS developers and users.”"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

eldavojohn writes "Groklaw brings us news of Microsoft holding the smoking gun in regards to the death of Linux on netbooks. You see, the question of Linux on netbooks in Taiwan was put forth to the Taiwan Trade Authority director, who replied, 'In our association we operate as a consortium, like the open source consortium. They want to promote open source and Linux. But if you begin from the PC you are afraid of Microsoft. They try to go to the smart phone or PDA to start again.' It's simple; fear will keep them in line. PJ points out, 'So next time you hear Microsoft bragging that people prefer their software to Linux on netbooks, you'll know better. If they really believed that, they'd let the market speak, on a level playing field. If I say my horse is faster than yours, and you says yours is faster, and we let our horses race around the track, that establishes the point. But if you shoot my horse, that leaves questions in the air. Is your horse really faster? If so, why shoot my horse?'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Security DevCenter

Driving home from work, listening to NPR's story about health care costs, I couldn't help but be struck by a couple of numbers. The Obama health plan will cost a trillion dollars we're told. A TRILLION sounds big enough to end the debate, doesn't it? Then I hear, almost as a footnote, that that trillion is over ten years. That's