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LONDON, October 15, 2007 – Canonical Ltd. announced today the upcoming availability of version 7.10 of the Ubuntu Server, Desktop, Kubuntu and Edubuntu Editions. All will be available for free download on Thursday 18 October. Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu makes no distinction between community and enterprise editions, Ubuntu 7.10 is our best work and is available freely to all. Ubuntu has consistently ranked #1 in reviews of security update responsiveness and effectiveness. The Ubuntu platform is fully certified and supported, making it a secure choice for users looking to explore, deploy and enjoy Linux. Ubuntu 7.10 brings together the best open source and free software available in a stable, robust environment that ‘just works’.

‘We are privileged to have millions of users running Ubuntu every day”. commented Jane Silber, COO of Canonical UK. ‘This gives us great insight into what they want from a free, Linux-based platform. Ubuntu 7.10 is another milestone in delivering on these requirements on the desktop and server.’

Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Edition adds an enhanced user interface, improved hardware support, multiple monitor support and integrated desktop search. Additional information is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-desktop710.

Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition features improved functionality, manageability, pro-active security and hardware compatibility and delivers a rapid deployment platform for developers and businesses. Additional information is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-server710.

New versions of Kubuntu and Edubuntu, derivatives of Ubuntu aimed at KDE enthusiasts and the education community respectively, are also being released at the same time. Additional information is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-family710.

About Canonical and Ubuntu

Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is headquartered in Europe and is committed to the development, distribution and support of open source software products and communities.

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users around the world. Ubuntu will always be free to download, free to use and free to distribute to others. With these goals in mind, Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system, and is the centre of a global open source software ecosystem. For more information visit www.canonical.com or www.ubuntu.com.

Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and their associated logos are all registered trademarks of Canonical Ltd.

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.0. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.0, Evolution-2.8, Firefox-1.5, Thunderbird-1.5, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

Links:
Release Announcement

Documentation: CentOS 5

Screenshots

Reviews:
Linux.com

Release Notes: CentOS | Upstream

Download: i386 | x86_64

Puppy Linux, started by Barry Kauler, is a small (28-72M), fully featured Linux distribution.

Puppy Linux Trivia

• Puppy will easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
• Booting from CD, Puppy will load totally into RAM so that the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
• Booting from CD, Puppy can save everything back to the CD, no need for a hard drive.
• Booting from USB, Puppy will greatly minimise writes, to extend the life of Flash devices indefinitely.
• Puppy will be extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
• Puppy will boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
• Puppy will have all the applications needed for daily use.
• Puppy will just work, no hassles.
• Puppy will breathe new life into old PCs

Blindingly fast, incredibly powerful, amazingly tiny…

These are extraordinary goals, yet Puppy achieves them all. Obviously, some objectives have qualifications, for example, to load totally into RAM the PC must have either 128M RAM or failing that a swap partition. Also, the “will just work, no hassles” objective is a work-in-progress!

One thing to be very much aware of is that Puppy is incredibly small. After all, to load totally into RAM and run from there, Puppy has to be small. The live-CD is about 28-72M, yet “every” applications you need is there — I’m quite serious — it doesn’t seem possible but it is. Furthermore, as everything runs in RAM, there are no delays and the speed is nothing short of astounding. Download Puppy / Get CDs

Puppy 2.15CE project has been launched!

“The next release of Puppy is going to be 2.15 Community Edition, incorporating improvements and ideas that Puppy enthusiasts want. Official releases of Puppy are created by me, and everything gets filtered through me, which is good from the point of view of maintaining a unified development of Puppy. However, now is the opportunity for users to have a more direct input to the final product.

Here is a forum thread, supervised by WhoDo:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15529

Note, I’m still here, and will test the alphas/betas on all my hardware and also offer suggestions and contributions.”

Alpha release will be available this weekend 23/24 Feb:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15674

Prepare to be amazed!

Previous Community Editions
Puppy 109CE
Puppy 2.03CE (Puppy with Open Office)

Website: http://www.puppylinux.org