DistroWatch: Distributions, February 2, 2004 | Linux Today

DistroWatch: Distributions, February 2, 2004

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 3, 2004

Linux From Scratch 5.1 PRE1

“The LFS development team is proud to announce the release of
LFS-5.1-PRE1, the first pre-release of the upcoming LFS-5.1
book…”

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Puppy Linux 0.8.0

“Puppy version 0.8.0 released. Version 0.7.9 was compiled on a
Redhat 8.0 system, and this version is completely rebuilt based on
the uClibc C library and a custom root filesystem…”

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Kalango Linux 1.0

“Slightly delayed, Kalango 1.0 final is released. Based on
Kurumin 2.05, some of the changes since the release candidate 1
include: added Samba, Swat and Smbfs; replaced Kword and Kspread
with Abiword and Gnumeric…”

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KANOTIX 01-2004

“Kernel 2.4.24 with XFS, forcedeth and device mapper patches;
ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off
respectively nodma)…”

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