Guardian Digital has announced the release of EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.20: 'Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Linux Community 3.0.20. This release includes many updated packages and bug fixes and some feature enhancements to the EnGarde Secure Linux installer and the SELinux policy.....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Mandriva Flash 2008.1 on ASUS Eee PC 900 News: Slackware tests KDE 4.1, Fedora suffers from update outage, attackers crack LinuxMint.com, interviews with Ubuntu's Scott Remnant and gOS's David Liu, Zypper tips and tricks Released last week: Scientific Linux 5.2 'Live CD/DVD',....

The first alpha release of Mythbuntu 8.10, a project developing an easy-to-use MythTV system based on Ubuntu, is out: 'Today we are introducing the first Mythbuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' alpha release: Mythbuntu 8.10 alpha 4. It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu....

Jürg Billeter has announced the release of paldo GNU/Linux, a hybrid (source and binary) distribution for the desktop with a custom package management system: 'We are pleased to announce the release of paldo 1.15 with many bug fixes and updates. It features the latest stable GNOME 2.22.3 desktop,....

Urs Beyerle has announced the release of the Live CD/DVD edition of Scientific Linux 5.2, a Red Hat-based distribution enhanced with scientific and educational software: 'Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.2 has been released for i386 and x86_64 architectures. New feature: changes can be stored persistently on a storage....

With the 2008 Olympic Games now in full swing in Beijing, China's most prominent Linux vendor, Red Flag, has announced the availability of a special 'Olympic' edition of Red Flag Linux. This is a preview of the upcoming stable release 7.0. The product is an installable live CD....

The fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' is ready for testing: 'New features: X.Org server 1.5 brings much better support for hot-pluggable input devices such as tablets, keyboards, or mice; Linux kernel 2.6.26; encrypted private directory; guest session - the GNOME user switching applet now provides....

The current stable Ubuntu combined with the latest Enlightenment 17 - that's OpenGEU 8.04, whose first beta was announced yesterday: 'The i386 beta live CD of OpenGEU 8.04 'Luna Crescente' is here. Download it, seed it, spread it and install it if you don't have OpenGEU yet. Or....

ClarkConnect 4.3, a specialist server and gateway distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has been released: 'ClarkConnect Server and Gateway Community edition 4.3 is now available. What's new? The Office edition and Enterprise edition products have now merged! Unlimited mailboxes are now included in the Enterprise edition....

Randy McMurchy has announced the availability of the third release candidate for Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 6.3, an online book providing instructions for extending a base Linux From Scratch (LFS) system into a more complete desktop or server distribution: 'The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce....

Miklós Vajna has announced that the first release candidate for Frugalware Linux 0.9 is now ready for testing: 'The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release. A list of changes since 0.9pre2:....

xPUD is a specialist edition of PUD GNU/Linux, a minimalist Debian-based Linux live medium designed primarily for USB storage devices. A new development version of xPUD was released yesterday: 'We're glad to release a development version of xPUD. In fact, this is a 'lite' edition compared to the....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: Meet LoLiTa - the Linux user's group of French Polynesia News: openSUSE KDE3 live CDs, Debian 5.0 and Fedora 10 features, mixed fortunes for Linspire and Freespire, updates on Foresight KDE and PC-BSD, 'divorce' at Blastwave.org Released last week: Musix GNU+Linux 1.0R2R5,....

The Elive development team has released an updated unstable version of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 window manager: 'The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of a much improved development version of Elive. This version includes a new installer with better and....

Manuel Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.234, a minimalist firewall distribution based on FreeBSD: 'I've decided to create one more release in the 1.2x stable branch to add source port randomization (for both NAT and the DNS forwarder). This is a recommended upgrade for all 1.2x....

Here is a new option for the fans of Slackware Linux and the GNOME desktop - Zenwalk Linux 5.2 'GNOME' edition. A first beta build was released earlier today: 'We are proud to announce that Zenwalk GNOME 5.2 beta is ready for testing. Based on Zenwalk current, it....

Volker Theile has announced the availability of the second beta release of FreeNAS 0.69, a tiny FreeBSD-based operating system which provides free Network-Attached Storage (NAS) services. What's new? 'Upgraded e2fsprogs to 1.41.0, NTFS-3G to 1.2531, Samba to 3.0.30, rsync to 3.0.3; added 'perms' and 'xattrs' parameter to rsync....

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced a new stable release of Musix GNU+Linux, version 1.0R5, a Debian-based distribution designed primarily for musicians and other creative artists: 'The Brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges tells us that he has finished the last Musix GNU+Linux 1.0 stable version on CD, a 100% free....

The developers of gOS Linux have released what they call a 'Gadgets' edition of their product, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a variety of Goolge Gadgets and other desktop enhancements: 'gOS 3 'Gadgets' instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, introducing over 100,000 possible iGoogle and Google....

Paul Sherman announced the release of Absolute Linux 12.1.05, a light-weight, Slackware-based distribution featuring the IceWM window manager: 'Big change is with the installer, 'Autoinstall' option that takes care of drive partitioning along with the Lilo setup, making install much easier for new-comers to Linux and/or text-based installation.....