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Ubuntu.com reports - Significant changes affecting the installer and live CD include: A much improved version of Espresso, the live CD based installer is included. A new default theme has been included. A range of ATI cards which were previously unsupported are now supported. New development version of GNOME is included.

Once again OSDir takes the latest Ubuntu Flight for a ride in their Ubuntu Linux 6.04 Alpha 5 Screenshot Tour. You don't want to miss this one!

Mandriva Club reports - The second beta of Mandriva Linux One 2006, our new installable live CD, is now available... One is a fully-functional live CD, like the one included in Mandriva Linux 2006 Discovery or the old Move, but it also includes a wizard which quickly and easily installs One to the hard disk from within the running system. From then on you can use it just like a normal installed Mandriva system.

Join OSDir as they install Mandriva with the One LiveCD in their Mandriva Linux One 2006 Beta 2 Screenshot Tour.

DistroWatch reports - The ParallelKnoppix live CD has been updated. What's new? Open MPI at version 1.0.1, the pi example for C shows how to use it; mpich.tar.gz is included in the 'Examples' directory, this shows how to compile and install software on a running cluster, and lets you run a very cool parallel Mandelbrot set plotter; Ganglia removed for the time being; missing MPITB source included; montecarlo.m does dynamic load balancing and is robust to node failure; tutorial updated.

OSDir captured ParallelKnoppix 2006-02-20 nicely in their recent Screenshot Tour.

DistroWatch reports - The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.4rc1. A list of changes since 0.4pre2: created a package synchronization client and daemon (syncpkg and syncpkgd) to update packages faster; implemented 'fwcpan', a new tool to install any CPAN module; split OpenOffice.org, now all language packs and dictionaries can be installed and removed separately; more than 80 new packages: Xgl (with a step by step howto), Beagle....

OSDir took this Frugalware release for a spin in their Frugalware Linux 0.4 RC1 Screenshot Tour.

Screenshots are available of Mandriva's One 2006.0 Beta, following today's release announcement.

"This live CD is a complete Mandriva Linux system, which you can use directly from the CD or install on your hard drive. It includes OpenOffice.org, KDE, Firefox, GIMP, Amarok..."

Hot on the heels of Gentoo's announcement of their 2006.0 release, OSDir has published a Gentoo 2006.0 Screenshot Tour which give us a walk-through of installing Gentoo with the first ever Gentoo Linux LiveCD.

DistroWatch reports - This week brings us Dapper Flight 4, the fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 6.04 - The Dapper Drake. Dapper Flight 4 is the product of over 3 months of tremendous effort to mold the latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer into a coherent easy to use whole.

OSDir captured this hot release is their Ubuntu Linux 6.04 Alpha 4 Screenshot Tour.

Welcome to our issue number 29 of Fedora Weekly News.

Wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu states - The aim of the Xubuntu community project is to provide a nice Ubuntu desktop experience (even on older hardware) by using Xfce4 as the desktop environment and GTK+ 2 applications wherever possible. Xfce4 has been supported in Ubuntu's universe by the MOTUXfce team since Hoary and Breezy. For Dapper we want to go one step further and make Xubuntu a sibling of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu by having install and live CD images generated for it. We haven't decided on a release date, but it should be as close as possible to Dapper's and should use the latest stable Xfce 4.X code (hopefully 4.4 will be release by then)

OSDir has some nice shots of Xubuntu 5.10.

DistroWatch reports - The development of Fedora Core 5 has finally begun: The Fedora Project announces the first release of the Fedora Core 5 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and PPC/PPC64 architectures. Beware that Test releases are recommended only for Linux experts/enthusiasts or for technology evaluation, as many parts are likely to be broken and the rate of change is rapid. Notable features of FC5 Test1: Modular X.Org; vastly improved Asian language input support with SCIM; kernel based on 2.6.15-rc1; GCC 4.0.2; GNOME 2.12; KDE 3.4.92; Xen 3.0 snapshot for i386; improved Open Source Java...

OSDir has some great shots of Fedora Core 5 Test 1.

DistroWatch reports - PCLinuxOS 0.92 has been released: On behalf of the PCLinuxOS engineering team, I'm happy to announce that PCLinuxOS 0.92 is now available for download. PCLinuxOS 0.92 features an updated 2.6.12 kernel, hotplug has been moved to udev to provide faster boot times. The fabulous KDE has been updated to version 3.4.3. KOffice replaces OpenOffice.org on the live CD. OpenOffice.org 2.0 can be installed after a hard drive install. X.Org has been updated to X.Org cvs. Approximately 400 package updates brings PCLinuxOS 0.92 up to date with the latest open source applications.

OSDir has some sweet shots of PCLinuxOS 0.92.

DistroWatch reports - Ufficio Zero is an Italian Linux distribution optimised for use in office environments. Version 0.6 is a brand new release - now based on Ubuntu instead of Arch Linux which was used as the base for all previous versions. Other changes included the following: added simple scripts for downloading and installing non-distributable software, e.g. media codecs, Flash player, Java; included a graphical network configuration dialog; added scanner support; automatic hardware detection and configuration.

OSDir has some nice shots of Ufficio Zero 0.6.

DistroWatch reports - rPath Linux is shifting closer towards its first stable release: rPath Linux 0.99.0 (Beta) available. rPath Linux 0.99.0 is a lot like rPath Linux 0.70, only with fewer bugs. In particular, automount works with GNOME; OpenOffice.org has working dependencies; and firstboot, GIMP, and GDM runtime requirements have been fixed so that they will work even if group-gnome is not installed.

OSDir has put together some nice screenshots of rPath Linux 0.99.0.

DistroWatch reports - The first release candidate of SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 is ready for testing: Yes, it's the third birthday of the MEPIS Project and SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 rc1 is available in the testing subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site and public mirrors. SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 is expected to be final in one to two weeks. Some of the applications included in SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 are X.Org 6.8.2, KDE 3.4.2, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.0.7, and Skype 1.2.0.18.

OSDir has some nice screenshots of SimplyMEPIS 3.4-1 RC1.

DistroWatch reports - A new major version of Damn Small Linux has been released. From the changelog: new kernel 2.4.31 and modules; new 64 cloops; new prism2 support; updated ndiswrapper support; new autodetected LT winmodems;

OSDir has put together some nice screenshots of Damn Small Linux 2.0.

Lists.ubuntu.com announced - Flight CD 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Dapper development cycle, as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Dapper.

OSDir has some nice screenshots of Ubuntu Linux 6.04 Flight 1.

DistroWatch reports - Nexenta OS is a new hybrid distribution based on the OpenSolaris kernel combined with GNU and Debian software packages. The project's first alpha release was announced earlier today: Nexenta OS (elatte) Alpha 1 is now available for download. This release contains 6 ISO images: live CD, install CD, and 4 source CDs.

OSDir has some nice shots of Nexenta OS Alpha 1.

DistroWatch reports - Third alpha release of SUSE Linux 10.1 has been announced and is ready for download. The most important changes include the following: "Update to KDE 3.5 RC1; update of GCC to the current 4.1 development version; removal of linuxthreads support; NetworkManager will be the new way of managing changing network interfaces, Kinternet is now in maintenance mode; update to Linux kernel 2.6.14.2

OSDir has put together some screenshots of SUSE Linux 10.1 Alpha 3.

Lists.ubuntu.com announced - ..this release does feature a few installer improvements which some people may find useful (many synced from Debian), including: FAT filesystems may no longer be mounted in places which will break the system (#5374, #6441), The timezone question has been overhauled, is now asked before base system installation, and will no longer be asked at all for countries with only one meaningful modern timezone, Improved SMP kernel detection (for netboot or DVD installations), Various improvements to installer log file management and Writable CD/DVD devices are now properly excluded from the partitioner.

OSDir has some sweet shots of Kubuntu Linux 6.04 Flight 1.

Sun.com states - What if your desktop were actually a 3D environment? What if your CD or movie database becomes a 3D jukebox? Project Looking Glass is based on Java technology and explores bringing a richer user experience to the desktop and applications via 3D windowing and visualization capabilities. Interested?

OSDir has some nice shots of Project Looking Glass.