Distro Round-up

Filed in archive Finding The Right Linux For You on April 13, 2007

Within a span of 10 days, our active Linux distro groups churned out several new distributions, either on a full release or on alpha/beta. Here's a list of some of them:

1. CentOS 5, a Red-Hat-based Server OS.

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.

2. Ubuntu 7.04 beta (Feisty fawn).
Features the Windows migration tool, virtualisation support, GNOME 2.18, OpenOffice.org 2.2.0rc3 and X.org 7.2.

3. OpenSUSE 10.3 alpha 3.

Standard features: Evolution 2.10 information manager, OpenOffice.org 2.1, SeaMonkey 1.0.99 web application suite, GIMP 2.2.13 graphics editor, abiword 2.4.5 text editor and Pidgin (formerly GAIM) 1.5 messenger

Take your pick. :)