Fedora Core 5/6 Live-Spins Released

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the release of a new Live-Spin CD and DVD ISO image of Fedora Core 5. These Live-Spin ISOs are based on Fedora Core 5 and all updates released as of August 21st, 2006. Also available at this time are "pristine" FC6T2 Live ISO images from the initial FC6T2 release. The new Fedora live CD and DVD images are only available for the i386 architecture.

Gentoo Linux 2006.1 Unleashed.

The Gentoo Release Engineering team proudly announces the release of Gentoo Linux 2006.1, the second release of the year. Building on the strengths of previous releases and featuring all of Gentoo's well-documented flexibility, performance and portability, this release is now available on all supported architectures. Download locations and info here. Enjoy...

Linspire's "Click 'N Run" is free

Popular One-Click Digital Software Management System Now Free for Desktop Linux Users

Linspire, Inc., developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the free community desktop Linux operating system, announced the immediate change in pricing for its popular CNR ("Click 'N Run") Service from an annual subscription fee based offering to a completely free service. [Link]

openSUSE 10.2 Features and Roadmap Released

Andreas Jaeger has posted a list a description of the goals for the openSUSE 10.2 release and what features you can likely expect. Also the complete roadmap leading to a release in early December.

Firefox 2 Beta 2 RC2 Released

It's not official, but Firefox 2 Beta 2 RC2 (Release Candidate 2) is now available. You can download it here. Enjoy...

CM1 - The Children's Machine 1 - OLPC Laptop new Name

Its official, the One Laptop Per Child's initial computer will be called the CM1 - The Children's Machine 1. It's latest cpu specs is 400Mhz AMD Geode processor with 128MB of DRAM, built-in wireless support, and 512MB of flash memory for internal storage. It is manufactured by Chinese hardware company Quanta in Changshu, Jiangsu Province, China.

Update: It is now called 2B1 not CM1!

Slackware 11.0 RC3 Released

Release Candidate 3 of Slackware 11.0.0 is is now available. Changelog here.