Linux news

2008 08 28

Debian 5.0 Live CDs Take Shape (Now Beta)

Debian Live Lenny Beta1

The Debian Live team[0] is pleased to announce the first beta of Debian Lenny's Live images.

http://s5h.net/u?z9ff6
Recent: New Debian GNU/Linux Update

A new Debian GNU/Linux Update was released a few weeks ago - well, actually one and a half new updates, to be precise. I just got around to giving it a try, and I'm pleased and impressed. The new release is 4.0r4a, and it incorporates security updates and bug fixes. At the same time, they have released what they call an "etch-and-a-half" release, which adds support for new hardware to their current stable release, largely by updating to a newer Linux kernel (2.6.24 instead of 2.6.18). Given that Debian tends to be VERY conservative about updates to stable versions, this is a big step forward.

http://s5h.net/u?z01bcb
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 updated with support for newer hardware

The Debian project is pleased to announce the fourth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codename etch).

http://s5h.net/u?z674ae
Debian looks to launch lenny in Sept.

The Debian project's maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the "testing" or "Lenny" tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes's checklist for September 2008: "Release lenny!"

http://s5h.net/u?z99272
Deploying KDE [+Debian GNU/Linux] to 52 million young people

By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be fully deployed and in active use. By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs serving some 52,000,000 students.

http://s5h.net/u?z07c9
Feeling the heat at Microsoft

If I ask you who is Microsoft's biggest competitor now, who would it be? Ballmer: Open...Linux. I don't want to say open source. Linux, certainly have to go with that.

http://s5h.net/u?z31fcb