Debian 5 Lenny Available!
It has been 22 months since developers started on the new version of Debian, code name Lenny. With most distros releasing every 6 months this is a distro with a different course. One of the things that separates Debian 5 Lenny from other distros is that it supports over 23,000 applications. That is 5 DVDs [...]
Puppy 4.1: What’s Not to Like?
I have used Puppy in the past, over a year ago, and I thought it was OK…just OK. Now you have to realize that Puppy is a small form distribution which is designed to use minimail resources and at the same time provide all of the functions that a Desktop user would want. All that [...]
Debian 4.0r5 Released With Security Update
The fifth release of Debian 4.0r5 condenamed “Etch” was released today. The new release corrects security related issues of the stable release. Security improvements include vulnerability fixes to more than 20 packages, many improtant bug fixes and more. The Debian 4.0r5 release notes state that this release is not considered a completely new version more [...]
KDE Default on Mandriva 2009
Mandriva 2009 brings quite an interesting selection of changes including KDE 4.1.2, Gnome 2.24, OpenOffice 3.0, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, and the Linux kernel 2.6.27. Mandriva 2009 includes KDE as its default desktop offering a strong representation of the new KDE 4.1.2 along with some cutting edge features. These KDE features include Phonon multimedia framework, advanced [...]
