2007-02-07 NEW • Development Release: rPath Linux 2.0 Alpha 2

Michael K. Johnson has announced the second alpha release of rPath Linux 2.0 for i386 and x86_64 processors: "The second development snapshot in the rPath Linux 2 Alpha release process has been made available. Most of the software included in the distribution has been updated, and it has been completely rebuilt from source since the first development snapshot. This includes latest X from X.Org and latest GNOME. There are many known issues in this snapshot: installation on at least some Thinkpad T43 models is known not to function; package selection has not yet been implemented in the installer - installation will require approximately 4GB and you cannot reduce this by de-selecting packages." Please read the full release announcement for more information. Download: rpl-devel-20070124-x86-disc1.iso (700MB), rpl-devel-20070124-x86-disc2.iso (584MB).

2007-02-07 NEW • Distribution Release: Ubuntu Christian Edition 2.1

Jereme Hancock has announced the availability of Ubuntu Christian Edition 2.1: "We are pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu CE v2.1 (Edgy). The main focus of this release was to enhance the DansGuardian GUI. There have been many user requests for a more polished DansGuardian GUI with the ability to easily disable the filtering. With this release we have accomplished just that. There have also been some new program additions. This release includes the BibleMemorizer program which uses the Sword modules that come with GnomeSword." Read the rest of the release announcement for further details. Download: Ubuntu_6.10_i386_Christian_Edition_v2_1.iso (699MB, MD5). On a related note, the older "Dapper" branch of Ubuntu Christian Edition has been updated to version 1.5.2.

Robert Lange has announced the second beta release of VectorLinux 5.8 Live edition: "The Vector development team is proud to announce the release of VectorLinux 5.8 Standard Live beta 2 and the eye-candy spectacular Beryl Live beta 2. This is a bug-fix release with new bootloader options (GRUB), some fixes to the hard drive installer and other minor fixes. These live CDs demonstrate all that is making the 5.8 VectorLinux release famous, like browser plugins, SeaMonkey, Firefox and Opera, the newest Xfce desktop, The GIMP and Xara LX, AbiWord and Gnumeric, wireless drivers and configuration tools, support for read and write to NTFS, and lots of fun and games. The Beryl edition features X.Org 7.1 and Emerald packages." Here is the full release announcement. Download: VL5.8-std-LIVE-beta2.iso (687MB, MD5), VL5.8-std-LIVE-beryl-beta2.iso (686MB, MD5).

A new stable version of EnGarde Secure Linux has been released: "Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.12. What's New? A new SELinux policy boolean: httpd_write_content_dir; updated PCI tables and hardware detection system, which allows for much better detection of more recent hardware; several reliability improvements to the Guardian Digital Secure Network Update Agent; new Samba packages; PHP packages rebuilt with --enable-mbstring; several new packages such as libsemanage, Openswan, and Subversion were added; the latest stable versions of MySQL (5.0.33), Apache (2.2.4), BIND (9.3.4)...." More details in the release announcement. Download: engarde-community-3.0.12.i686.iso (630MB, MD5), engarde-community-3.0.12.x86_64.iso (629MB, MD5).