Monthly Archives: March 2013

03/31 Manjaro 0.8.5-rc2

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Manjaro Linux is a desktop-oriented, user-friendly distribution based on Arch Linux. Some of its more pronounced features include an intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers, and extra desktop configuration options. Manjaro Linux comes … Continue reading →

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03/31 Mageia 3-beta4

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Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. Unlike Mandriva, which is a commercial entity, the Mageia project is a community project and a non-profit organisation … Continue reading →

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Development Release: Mageia 3 Beta 4

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Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of the fourth and last beta release of Mageia 3: "After all the delays in our Mageia 3 planning, we’re very pleased to be able to announce the beta 4 release. Packagers and the … Continue reading →

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03/30 Salix 14.0-rc1 (KDE)

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Salix OS is a Slackware-based Linux distribution that is simple, fast, easy to use and compatible with Slackware Linux. Optimised for desktop use, Salix OS features one application per task, custom package repositories, advanced package management with dependency support, localised … Continue reading →

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03/30 gnucash 2.4.12

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GNUCash: an open source personal finance suite

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03/30 Clonezilla 2.1.1-12

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Clonezilla Live is a Debian-based live CD containing Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning software similar to Norton Ghost. It saves and restores only used blocks in hard drive. With Clonezilla, one can clone a 5 GB system to 40 … Continue reading →

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03/30 ALT 6.9.0-20130328

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ALT Linux was founded in 2001 by a merge of two large Russian free software projects. By the year 2008 it became a large organization developing and deploying free software, writing documentation and technical literature, supporting users, and developing custom … Continue reading →

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03/30 GParted 0.15.0-3

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GParted Live is a business card-size live CD distribution with a single purpose – to provide tools for partitioning hard disks in an intuitive, graphical environment. The distribution uses X.Org, the light-weight Fluxbox window manager, and the latest 2.6 Linux … Continue reading →

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03/29 sqlite 3.7.16.1

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SQLite: an embeddable SQL engine in a C library

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03/29 Elive 2.1.33

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Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. Besides being pre-configured and ready for daily desktop use, it also includes “Elpanel” – a control centre for easy system and … Continue reading →

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