Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 218

The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Fedora 18 Alpha, Mandriva Linux 2012 Alpha and Snowlinux 3 E17. In other news: Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) reaches end of life (EOL) on October 28th, 2012; Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) will have support for Secure Boot via GRUB2. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about Linux kernel 3.6 RC6, Sabayon Linux 10, Brasa OS 1.0, Hanthana Linux 17, Vala 0.17.7, Cr OS Linux, Superb Mini Server 2.0.0, Cheese 3.6 RC, Clutter 1.11.16, Nautilus 3.6 RC, Tails 0.13, Cinnamon 1.6, Nikki and the Robots, GeeXboX 3.0, Slackware 14.0 RC5, Shotwell 0.13.0, Midori 0.4.7, Suse Manager 1.7, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 Beta 2, GNOME Shell 3.6 RC, GNOME 3.6 RC, Calibre 0.8.70, GCC 4.7.2, Manjaro 0.8.1, NetBSD 6.0 RC2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 Beta, and much more. For this week we've also prepared a nice review for the Uplink game. The weekly ends with the video clip of the week, the updated Linux distributions, as well as the development releases.

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