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OpenSUSE 10.3 Alpha Development Released


Andreas Jaeger has announced the availability of the third alpha release of openSUSE 10.3: "I'm glad to announce the third public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3.The following are some highlights of Alpha3 compared to Alpha2: on x86_64: Firefox is now a 64-bit package and uses nspluginwrapper to handle 32-bit i386 plugins if needed; AppArmor uses now a new parser; the kernel patches have been reworked completely; GNOME 2.18 mostly integrated; update to kernel 2.6.21-rc6; new openSUSE updater running natively under GNOME; further fixes for using libata by default for IDE devices; new YaST ftp-server module; the package manager handles more than one CD/DVD drive." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details and known bugs. The new DVD images are available for download
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Finally Debian 4.0 Arrives

Debian Community released DEBIAN GNU/Linux 4.0 having code name "ETCH" on April 8 2007. Debian 4.0 supports 11 processor architectures and includes a choice of three major desktop environments: KDE, GNOME, and Xfce(GNOME 2.14, KDE 3.5.5a, Xfce 4.4 desktop). OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a and GIMP 2.2.13 are also included in this distro. Servers such as MySQL, Apache are also available.

Note that Debian is on of the most popular linux distos available today...Many derivations of this are available today. Try it if you support free software movement.

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