DistroWatch: Distributions, March 1, 2004 | Linux Today

DistroWatch: Distributions, March 1, 2004

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 2, 2004

Feather Linux 0.3.7

“Added betaftpd, gqcam, e3, lua, ettercap, wavemon, wmsetbg,
iptables (no firewall config script as yet); made some changes to
sndconfig; removed the ‘nolisten tcp’ option for the Xvesa and
Xfbdev servers…”

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ByzantineOS 20040229

“Build with LFS-5.0 (latest buildsystem + CVS); Mozilla-1.6;
busybox-1.00-prer8; Java(TM) Plug-in 1.4.2_03; mplayerplug-in-2.40;
XMMS-1.2.10; Gaim-0.75…”

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UHU-Linux 1.1

“Consistent menu system for 11 different window managers
containing all the available applications; new look: Bluecurve
theme adopted from Red Hat / Fedora; installer and UHU Control
Center rewritten in perl-gtk2; reworked file system layout for
XFree86…”

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Puppy Linux 0.8.3

“Puppy now has Gicq, a ICQ client, and Gequel, a MySQL client.
Gyach, a Yahoo chat client, has returned. This is version 0.9.7,
the latest, that fixes the Yahoo login problem (Yahoo had changed
their protocol)…”

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Arch Linux 0.6

“Arch Linux 0.6 (Widget) is released! We’ve made a lot of
improvements over the last seven months, and hope you enjoy our
efforts. We’ve seen a surge of activity in the Arch community, and
it’s resulted in more documentation, a huge increase in packages,
and tons of useful information in our forums…”

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