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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 302, 11 May 2009

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DistroWatch; By Ladislav Bodnar, Caitlyn Martin and Chris Smart 		Mail this story
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Welcome to this year's 19th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! With mobile computing being the next operating system battleground, it's hardly surprising that many industry players are focusing on these increasingly popular devices. One of the most promising among them, Moblin, has been through some major changes recently, both in terms of ownership and development goals. Read our feature story for the roundup of its recent past and probable future to learn more about the project. In the news section, Debian ditches the GNU C Library in favour of the more flexible Embedded GLIBC, Fedora finalises all features for the upcoming Leonidas release which includes delta support for RPMs, Slackware switches to packages compressed with LZMA compression mechanism, and the Ubuntu community looks to create yet another derivative based on the LXDE. Finally, don't miss our tips and trick section which provides a step-by-step guide of upgrading a stable Mandriva Linux 2009.1 to the latest Cooker, Mandriva's bleeding-edge development branch. Happy reading!

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Comments (4)

caitlyn ·
I'll be writing most or all of DistroWatch weekly over the next two weeks. Yep, it's a shameless plug.
montezuma ·
Good one caitlyn. Congrats. Watch out for the comments section, there are some pretty unruly folks in there ;-)
caitlyn ·
Yes, I know about the comments. I wrote DWW for three weeks late last year as well. Let's just leave it at that.
jacog ·
lol u sux ubuntu jonty jacklop r teh rawxingest & ur review r teh suxx

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