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Fedora 12 and LXDE environment

Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 December 2009 11:30 Written by Michele Petrecca Tuesday, 08 December 2009 11:29
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LXDE (a.k.a. Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), is an extremely fast and energy-saving desktop environment. It is maintained by an international community of developers and comes with a beautiful interface, multi-language support, standard keyboard shortcuts and additional features like tabbed file browsing. LXDE is not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim. A main goal of LXDE is to keep computer resource usage low. It is especially designed for computers with low hardware specifications like netbooks, mobile devices (e.g. MIDs) or older computers. Fedora 12 LXDE spin (see here some screenshots) is available for download here.
 

Distribution Release: Zenwalk Linux 6.2

Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:35 Written by chna1991 Monday, 09 November 2009 20:14
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Emmanuel Bailleul has announced the release of Zenwalk Linux 6.2 "Core" edition, a minimal Zenwalk distribution without any graphical servers intended as a starting point for building a custom desktop or server system: "Zenwalk Core 6.2 is ready! Like the plain 6.2, Zenwalk Core 6.2 is mostly new code (nearly all packages have been updated), and the base system has been slightly modified (ext4, kernel 2.6.30.5). The switch to LZMA for package compression has reduced the overall size of the ISO image to 170 MB. Here's a summary of important changes: Kernel 2.6.30.5; LZMA compression for packages; ext4 as main file system; faster boot (tuned init scripts); bus auto-detection in the installer (will choose appropriate kernel depending on the architecture, SATA, PATA, SCSI); latest development tools... In brief, all you need to create a personalized build platform, your favorite desktop environment or a clean and secured server machine."
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Distribution Release: Mandriva Linux 2010

Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 November 2009 17:36 Written by chna1991 Thursday, 05 November 2009 14:58
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Mandriva Linux 2010 has been released: "Mandriva is proud to introduce its brand new release: Mandriva Linux 2010, code name 'Adelie'. Included in this new release, 'Smart desktop' technology, coming from a European research project. Your desktop is tasks oriented. Organize your personal data (mails, documents, images, videos). Notate it, add your comments and tags. Now your data is easy to find through your projects. Boot time has been improved again. Mandriva Linux 2010 comes with 3 brand new designs - choose the one you prefer. You can also choose one of the 11 extra backgrounds contributed by community members."
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Development Release: Ubuntu 9.10 RC

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00 Written by chna1991 Thursday, 22 October 2009 19:01
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Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the one and only release candidate for Ubuntu 9.10, code name "Karmic Koala": "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop and Server editions, Ubuntu 9.10 Server for UEC and EC2, and the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop edition improves on the work of 9.04 to get you going faster, with improved start-up times and a streamlined boot experience."
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Development Release: openSUSE 11.2 RC1

Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 00:00 Written by chna1991 Friday, 16 October 2009 18:41
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Michael Löffler has announced that the first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2 is now ready for testing: "Today we're happy to announce the first release candidate for openSUSE 11.2. This release includes quite a few bug fixes and several updates, including GNOME 2.28 final, Linux kernel 2.6.31.3, and many others. What's new in openSUSE 11.2? The new version includes the latest versions of all kinds of software and delivers: live version upgrade - no need to stop working while upgrading from openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2; support for several social networks like Facebook, Twitter and identi.ca; running openSUSE from an USB stick." Read the rest of the release announcement for more information and known issues.
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