DistroWatch: Distributions, October 24, 2004 | Linux Today

DistroWatch: Distributions, October 24, 2004

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 25, 2004

Mandrakelinux 10.1 RC1 (PPC)

“Three 700MB images this time, so a few more packages included.
New in RC1: mostly in sync with 10.1/x86; airport support enabled;
ghostscript and libpng problems should be fixed; several other
packages like apache and php modules updated; OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
final…”

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SLAX 4.2.0

“New special SLAX editions released: ‘Kill-Bill’ edition with
WINE and DosEMU, ‘Popcorn’ edition with XFce and Mozilla,
‘Professional’ edition with GCC, more comming soon! Added Linux
kernel 2.4.28-pre4 with SATA support; added some missing cheatcodes
to cheatcodes.txt on the CD; added ‘toram’ boot option, a synonym
for copy2ram; added X.org 6.8.1, KDE 3.3.1, KOffice 1.3.3…”

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ASPLinux 10 Beta

“The new version is based on Fedora Core, which the company
considers to be the highest quality distribution with frequent
updates. The major components are: Linux kernel 2.6.8, glibc 2.3.3,
GCC 3.3.3, Xorg-X11 6.8.1, GNOME 2.8.0, KDE 3.3.0, Mozilla 1.7.3,
Evolution 2.0.2…”

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vnlinuxCD 9.3

“A new version of vnlinuxCD, a Vietnamese live CD based on
Mandrakelinux, has been released. This version includes kernel 2.6,
GNOME 2.4 (as the default desktop environment), OpenOffice.org 1.1
office suite (with AbiWord and Gnumeric also present),
pre-configured multimedia plugins, and the graphical user interface
in Vietnamese…”

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SUSE LINUX 9.2 Live CD/DVD

“his directory contains three different versions of Live media
for SUSE LINUX Professional 9.2. LiveDVD.iso: the LiveDVD that
comes with both GNOME and KDE desktops and a number of popular
applications. LiveCD-Gnome.iso: This is LiveCD with only GNOME.
LiveCD-KDE.iso: This is a LiveCD with only KDE…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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