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Fedora 11 Review

Tue, 2009-06-16 10:14

Fedora is a distribution of Linux designed to provide access to the latest open source and free software in a form that's stable, easy to manage, and secure. The biggest of the Fedora Project's offerings, Fedora's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source content. Fedora tries to lead, rather than following, and is seeking to improve and spread free code and content. On June 9, only six months after the release of Fedora 10, Fedora 11 has come onto the scene. Here's a look at some of the major features of this version of the distribution.

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Fedora 11
Author: CoolGoose

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

Sun, 2009-02-15 17:18

From the announcement:

The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.
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This release includes numerous updated software packages, such as the K Desktop Environment 3.5.10 (KDE), an updated version of the GNOME desktop environment 2.22.2, the Xfce 4.4.2 desktop environment, LXDE 0.3.2.1, the GNUstep desktop 7.3, X.Org 7.3, OpenOffice.org 2.4.1, GIMP 2.4.7, Iceweasel 3.0.6 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Firefox), Icedove 2.0.0.19 (an unbranded version of Mozilla Thunderbird), PostgreSQL 8.3.6, MySQL 5.0.51a, GNU Compiler Collection 4.3.2, Linux kernel version 2.6.26, Apache 2.2.9, Samba 3.2.5, Python 2.5.2 and 2.4.6, Perl 5.10.0, PHP 5.2.6, Asterisk 1.4.21.2, Emacs 22, Inkscape 0.46, Nagios 3.06, Xen Hypervisor 3.2.1 (dom0 as well as domU support), OpenJDK 6b11, and more than 23,000 other ready-to-use software packages (built from over 12,000 source packages).

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