OpenSuse 11, Fedora 9 alphas top new releases
Another week has slipped by with a good handful of Linux releases being announced. In case you missed them the first time around here again are some of the more interesting: OpenSuse released a second alpha version of the forthcoming OpenSuse 11.0.
The Fedora project also released an alpha version this past week, this time for the upcoming version 9 of the community distribution. Things to look out for in Fedora 9 alpha include: Gnome 2.21, KDE 4.0, Firefox 3 Beta 2 and support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install.
The past week also saw Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 being released. YDL 6.0 runs on Apple G4 and G5 machines, Sony’s PS3 and some IBM systems. YDL includes E17 & Gnome by default and KDE as an option.
Other distros released this week include: BlueWhite64 12.0 r1 an unoffical port of Slackware to 64-bit architectures, Pioneer 3.1 with its seven-year life cycle, and NimbleX 2008 beta, a lightweight distro based on Slackware.
