This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
- Reviews: A grand overview of popular desktop distributions
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| Average | 8.75 | 8.5 | 7.75 | 6.5 | 9 | 6 | 7.25 | 8 |
- News: Ubuntu “Hardy Heron”, openSUSE Weekly News, Mandriva Flash and Linutop,
- Fedora release history, interview with Eric Sandall from Source Mage, Foresight 2.0 plans
- Released last week: CentOS 5.1, Damn Small Linux 4.1
- Upcoming releases: Frugalware Linux 0.8 Pre 1
- Donations: MEPIS receives US$300
- New additions: Vixta.org
- New distributions: Jazz Linux, Pendrive Linux, ZXMameCD
- Reader comments
Read more in this week’s issue of DistroWatch Weekly….