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Distributions


Please note that security updates from the various distributions are covered in the security section.

News and Editorials

Conectiva hires Andrew Clausen. Conectiva has announced the addition of Andrew Clausen to the Conectiva payroll. Andrew is an Australian developer, currently also a student at University of Melbourne, who is working on the GNU Parted project (partition editor). The hiring was done, therefore, in order to show support for free software development. Of course, in choosing to support GNU Parted, as opposed to the Mandrake DiskDrake facility or other such projects, Conectiva is also making a choice in how they wish to distinguish their distribution from others.

Conectiva also currently employs Rik van Riel, one of the Linux kernel hackers. In hiring free software developers solely for the purpose of supporting their ongoing work, Conectiva is following in the footsteps of Red Hat, SuSE and other major Linux distributors.

Linux-Mandrake to be bundled with AZZA motherboards. The announcement that Pro Team Computer Corporation will now be bundling a copy of Linux-Mandrake with each Pro Team "AZZA" motherboard that is sold caught our eye this week. Something like 720,000 motherboards with Linux-Mandrake are expected to be shipped over the coming year.

If this seems unusual to you, remember the announcement of the Gentus Linux distribution, covered in the February 24th, 2000 Distributions Summary. Gentus is a Linux distribution from ABIT Computer Corporation, a hardware manufacturer and retailer of "mainboards and video cards". Given this trend, perhaps all hardware purchases will eventually come with their own Linux distribution -- though it isn't really clear what benefit this would give to the customer!

Bastille Linux

Progress on Bastille Linux 1.1.0 continues with the latest release of prepatch 10, containing small fixes to the IPCHAINS module.

Build Your Linux Disk

A CVS repository for BYLD is now available, along with bug tracking, a mailing list and a patch manager, as of the announcement for the latest version, 1.0alpha3.

Caldera OpenLinux

Caldera extends free support to Europe. Caldera has announced free phone and email support in German, French, Italian and English for its customers in Europe. This is the limited, 30-day phone and 90-day email support provided with the purchase of Caldera OpenLinux.

cLIeNUX

Rick Hohensee has got http://www.clienux.com/, the new web-site for cLIeNUX, on-line. Check our March 2nd Distributions Summary for more information on cLIeNUX.

Conectiva

Reprise of Conectiva Linux 5.0 Review (Linux in Brazil). Augusto Campos has kindly pointed out that the review (in Portuguese) of Conectiva Linux 5.0 that appeared in the June 1 LWN has been translated to English by Claudio Matsuoka.

Coyote Linux

The first release candidate for Coyote Linux 1.20 has been announced. Coyote Linux is a single-floppy, firewall/router. It is planned as the operating system for the Coyote Firewall Appliance. A new company, Prairie Wolf Software, has been spun off and is the new owner of Coyote Linux (originally owned by Vortech.net).

Debian

New Debian maintainers. James Troup fired off lists of information on new Debian maintainers on both June 1 and June 7th. In total, seventeen new maintainers were introduced.

LSB conference. Dale Scheetz will be representing Debian at the upcoming Linux Standards Base conference, June 14th through the 16th, He sounds optimistic about the results. "I'm really looking forward to this conference. Much good progress has been made and I look forward to more success at this meeting."

Linux-Mandrake

Linux-Mandrake 7.1 released. MandrakeSoft has announced the release of Linux-Mandrake 7.1. It's now available for download from the various mirror sites worldwide. See the new features list to see what goodies have gone into this release.

Linux-Mandrake 7.1 for Sparc beta released. MandrakeSoft has announced the release of the beta version of Linux-Mandrake 7.1 for the Sparc and UltraSparc architectures.

LuteLinux

LuteLinux 1.0.2 has been announced.

Slackware Linux

Slackware is quickly moving towards a new beta release. As part of that process, large updates have been merged into the current tree. To quote from the Slackware web-site:
mmm... GUI Packages!

In an amazing feat of near super-human skill and endurance, Patrick Volkerding has just merged all of the following into Slackware-current!:

  • GNOME 1.2
  • Enlightenment 0.16.4
  • Window Maker 0.62.1
  • Sawfish 0.27.2
We know how everyone loves yummy new GUIs, and now they're just an installpkg away!
If you check out the ChangeLog, you'll also get the benefits of Patrick's comments on Gnome 1.2 and KDE 1.90.

Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh


June 8, 2000

Please note that not every distribution will show up every week. Only distributions with recent news to report will be listed.


Leading
Caldera OpenLinux
Debian GNU/Linux
Linux-Mandrake
Red Hat
Slackware
SuSE
TurboLinux

Also well-known
ASPLinux
Best Linux
Conectiva Linux
e-smith

Progeny
Rock Linux

Non-technical desktop
easyLinux
Icepack Linux
Independence
LibraNet
Redmond Linux
WinSlack

Education
Boston University
kmLinux
LinuxFromScratch
OpenClassroom
Red Escolar

General Purpose
Alzza Linux
aXon Linux
Bad Penguin Linux
BearOps
Black Cat Linux
BluePoint Linux
BYO Linux
CAEN Linux
Cafe Linux
ChainSaw Linux
Circle MUDLinux
cLIeNUX
Complete Linux
Console Linux
Corel Linux
CRUX
Darkstar Linux
DLite
easyLinux
Elfstone Linux
ESware Linux
Eurielec Linux
eXecutive Linux
Fried Chicken
FTOSX
FullPliant
Gentoo
Go!Linux
HA Linux
Halloween Linux
HispaFuentes
IceLinux
Ivrix
ix86 Linux
J-LINUX
JBLinux
Jurix
KRUD
KSI-Linux
Lanthan Linux
Laonux
LASER5
Leetnux
Linpus Linux
Linux Cyrillic Edition
Linux MLD
LinuxOne OS
LinuxPPP
Linux Pro Plus
Linux-SIS
LNX System
LoopLinux
LSD
Lute Linux
MageNet
Mastodon
MaxOS
minilinux
MSC.Linux

NoMad Linux
Omoikane GNU/Linux
PingOO Linux
Plamo Linux
PLD
Project Ballantain
PROSA
Rabid Squirrel
Repairlix
Root Linux
Scrudgeware
Serial Terminal
Sorcerer
spyLinux
Stampede
Stataboware
TechLinux
TimeSys Linux/RT
Tom Linux
Trinux
Turkuaz
Ute-Linux
VA-enhanced Red Hat
Vine Linux
Virtual Linux
WholeLinux
WinLinux 2000
XTeamLinux
ZipSpeak

Country-specific
Argentina
GNU/Linux Ututo
Britain
Definite Linux
Eridani
China
COSIX
Red Flag
France
Linux/MNIS
Italy
LinuxEspresso
Madeinlinux
Vedova
Spain
Linux Esware
Thailand
Kaiwal Linux
Thai Linux Extension

Related Projects
Chinese Linux Extension

Historical (Non-active)
Dualix
Gentus
Giotto
MCC Interim Linux
OS2000
Storm Linux


 

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