Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 3: New Notifications and Ext4
Jan 20, 2009Canonical has released its third alpha version of Ubuntu 9.04. It brings a few new features to test, including notification settings in the user interface and the much publicized ext4 filesystem support.
more »Canonical's Launchpad to be Open-Sourced
Jan 19, 2009Canonical, the company behind the Linux distro Ubuntu, will open-source the software development platform Launchpad.
more »Bugfixes for ALT Linux
Jan 16, 2009The new edition of the Russian distro comes with bugfixes for the network manager, default printer settings and an updated version of OpenOffice 3.0.
more »New address for Fedora mailing lists
Jan 15, 2009Fedora is to change the address of its mailing lists from fedora-*redhat.com to lists-*fedoraproject.org.
more »Ubuntu 9.04 Supports Ext4
Jan 13, 2009Since its addition to Kernel 2.6.28, the ext4 filesystem can be manually installed in the upcoming Ubuntu release.
more »Easy Peasy 1.0 Released
Jan 07, 2009The Ubuntu Eee Linux variant optimized for netbooks is now known as Easy Peasy. Version 1.0 is on the same level as Ubuntu 8.10.
more »Votes Are in: All Clear for Debian Lenny
Jan 07, 2009Debian developers have determined the outcome: proprietary components are acceptable, paving the way for Lenny, the next free distro of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.
more »openSUSE 11.1 DVD INLAY
Jan 07, 2009more »
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