John Combs has announced the release of GhostBSD 2.5, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system and live media with a choice of GNOME or LXDE desktops: "After months of work, the official final release of GhostBSD 2.5 is finally here! Many bugs have been fixed and many parts of....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Let's talk tiny - Tiny Core Linux 4.2 News: Mandriva and Pardus status update, Fedora packages, Gentoo zero-day packaging, Bodhi's Bloathi, ZevenOS overview Questions and answers: Clang went the compiler Released last week: Toorox 01.2012 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 12.2 roadmap New additions:....

Jörn Lindau has announced the release of Toorox 01.2012 "GNOME" edition, a Gentoo-based desktop Linux distribution featuring GNOME 3.2.1: "Toorox 01.2012 'GNOME'. A new version of the 'GNOME' edition of Toorox featuring the recent stable GNOME 3.2.1 has been finished. Some GNOME Shell extensions have been added to....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at Kororaa Linux 16 News: FreeBSD 9.0 update, testing Unity 5.0, new features in Fedora 17, interviews with Debian's Steve McIntyre and openSUSE's Frédéric Crozat, Linux Mint overview Questions and answers: SOPA and open-source software Released last week: FreeBSD 9.0,....

Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the first of the two planned release candidates for Frugalware Linux 1.6, a general-purpose distribution for desktops and servers designed with intermediate Linux users in mind: "Frugalware 1.6rc1 (Fermus) released. The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability....

Marco Ghirlanda has announced the release of ArtistX 1.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution designed for musicians and other artists, and featuring a large collection of multimedia and graphics software: "After nearly ten years of development and more than ten versions, the ArtistX 1.2 multimedia studio on a DVD is....

Stefano Fratepietro has announced the availability of the first release candidate for DEFT Linux 7, a specialist Ubuntu-based live DVD for digital forensics and penetration testing: "Finally we were able to realize a very stable DEFT Linux 7 release, solving all problems responsible for postponing the release date....

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 9.0, a desktop-oriented distribution based on the latest stable FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD development team and iXsystems are pleased to announce the immediate availability of PC-BSD version 9.0. Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, this is also the first PC-BSD which offers users....

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the third alpha release of Mageia 2: "The third development release, Mageia 2 alpha 3 is now available for tests. This is the last alpha version so we really need your input now. Major new features: ships with the latest stable....

The FreeBSD Engineering Team has announced the release of FreeBSD 9.0, a major new version of the BSD operating featuring a brand-new system installer: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which....

Kai Hendry has announced the release of Webconverger 11.0, a web browser-only specialist distribution for Internet kiosks. The new version comes with updated Linux kernel version 3.1.8, Firefox 9.0.1, and several minor security-related tweaks. From the release notes: "I'm very proud to announce Webconverger 11, with the following....

Angelo Comazzetto has announced the release of Astaro Security Gateway 8.3, a specialist distribution for firewall and gateways: "I am pleased to announce that we have released Astaro Security Gateway (ASG) 8.300 via our Up2Date distribution network. The main features of this release are Amazon Machine Images of....

Ricardo López has announced the release of Asturix 4, an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution with a custom desktop environment and many usability improvements: "The team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Asturix 4. Some of its features: a new desktop experience, we have developed a new desktop....

Andrew Wyatt has announced the release of Fuduntu 2012.1, a new quarterly update of the distribution that was forked from Fedora last year: "The Fuduntu quarterly installation ISO image (2012.1) is now available for immediate download. This release marks a shift in release numbering. Going forward, Fuduntu releases....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at VectorLinux 7.0 News: Mandriva in bankruptcy threat, latest on Ubuntu-powered devices, CentOS on CR repository Sneak Peeks: The Razor-qt desktop environment Released last week: Gentoo Linux 12.0, Porteus 1.1, FreeNAS 8.0.3 Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 9.0, PC-BSD 9.0, Linux Mint....

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at VectorLinux 7.0 News: Mandriva in bankruptcy threat, latest on Ubuntu-powered devices, CentOS on CR repository Sneak Peeks: The Razor-qt desktop environment Released last week: Gentoo Linux 12.0, Porteus 1.1, FreeNAS 8.0.3 Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 9.0, PC-BSD 9.0, Linux Mint....

John Combs has announced the availability of the third release candidate for GhostBSD 2.5, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system with a choice of GNOME or LXDE desktops and a graphical system installer: "The newest version of GhostBSD 2.5 - RC3 is now available for download. It is based....

John Combs has announced the availability of the third release candidate for GhostBSD 2.5, a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system with a choice of GNOME or LXDE desktops and a graphical system installer: "The newest version of GhostBSD 2.5 - RC3 is now available for download. It is based....

Jay Flood has announced the release of Porteus 1.1, a Slackware-based live CD with a choice of Trinity (a KDE 3 fork), KDE 4 and LXDE desktops: "The Porteus community is pleased to announce the official and final release of Porteus version 1.1. This release is available in....

Jay Flood has announced the release of Porteus 1.1, a Slackware-based live CD with a choice of Trinity (a KDE 3 fork), KDE 4 and LXDE desktops: "The Porteus community is pleased to announce the official and final release of Porteus version 1.1. This release is available in....