Archive for the 'Linux' category

CentOS 4.7 Announced by Johnny Hughes

Johnny Hughes announced yesterday the launch of CentOS 4.7 for i386 and x86_64 architectures, the “Community ENTerprise Operating System”. CentOS is built from RHEL’s sources and CentOS 4.7 was born from the recompilation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.7 source code. Its “updates” repository has the latest packages till September 12th. Talking about updates, probably [...]

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Wine 0.9.59: Consume with moderation!

The guys at WineHQ have been serving up a lot of new ‘varietals’ of their application in recent months, particularly after receiving sponsorship from Google. With an average of 2 or 3 new upgraded versions per month, the developers released Wine 0.9.57 and 0.9.58 last month, and just yesterday they brought us Wine 0.9.59. For [...]

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Dreamlinux 3.0 RC3 Hits The Web

Dreamlinux is a modern and modular Linux system that can be run directly from a CD and optionally be easily installed onto your hard drive. See the OSLiving Archive entry for a quick overview. The dev guys from Dreamlinux brought us the third release candidate for Dreamlinux 3.0, with the gnome-applets revised and a better [...]

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