Release 8.2 is based on a child focused graphical interface called Sugar, a Red Hat Fedora 9 Linux operating system and OLPC customized implementations of core software including power management, wireless drivers, NAND flash file system, Open Firmware, and other components.

XO Software Release 8.2.0 runs on the award winning XO Laptop.

Major new features in this release include:

• A updated Home view and Journal with new options for finding and organizing activities.
• An enhanced Frame for collaborating with other XOs and switching between running activities.
• A graphical Control Panel for setting language, network, and power preferences.
• An automated Software Update tool which finds the latest version of activities and updates them over the Internet.
• Integration with the School Server for backup of XOs and restore of files to the Journal as needed.
• New and updated translations for many languages.
• A new user manual shipped with the XO as an activity.
• Hundreds of bug fixes.

Download XO Software 8.2 from this site

Download NetBSD 4.0.1 from its official website

Version 7.0.1 contains a number of bugfixes and improvements. For a full list of changes, please refer to the.
Some of the changes are:

• KDE 4.1.2
• AMD64 version
• NTFS write support
• Adobe Flash 9 support (Linux -flashplugin9)
• Better WIFI support
• Updates to the System Updater

Download the new version of PC-BSD here

• Refactor port makefiles.
• Upgrade netbsd-iscsi (iscsi-target) to 20071221, fusefs-ntfs to 1.1120.

Minors changes:

• Disable firmware upgrade via WebGUI for ‘full’ installations. Use the ‘full’ upgrade mode from LiveCD instead.
• Changed boot splashscreen and WebGUI logo images.
• Try to fix AFP Time Machine problem.

Bug fixs:

• Fix bug in ‘full’ upgrade/install routine (LiveCD).
• Do not delete log files during boot process on ‘full’ installations.

Permanent restrictions:

• It is not possible to format a SoftRAID disk with MSDOS FAT16/32.
• It is not possible to encrypt a disk partition, only complete disks are supported.

Known bugs:

• If DHCP for IPv4 is used, the IPv6 statically configured DNS server will be ovverride by the IPv4 DNS server.

Download from freenas linux download page

Noticeable enhancements to Zenwalk found in version 5.0 are the numerous software updates including the latest Xorg 7.3 suite of X servers, drivers, fonts and other software packaged in a modular and easily manageable fashion. Other updates include the latest version of the Iceweasel web browser, the Icedove email client and hundreds more!

The modern and powerful Wicd wifi-browser and configure application replaces Wifi-radar, while the Intel’ (TM) wireless device firmware is provided out of the box and is installed providing the user reads and accepts the Intel license, prompted at the end on the Zenwalk install process. This new licensing acceptance scheme allows users dependent on Non-FOSS drivers and firmware to fully support their hardware without need of searching as well as identifying Non-FOSS software for purists so that they may keep their system inline with their principles.

Following tradition Zenwalk’s default desktop environment is XFCE and is now at version 4.4.2 sporting the legendary Zenwalk desktop layout with a completely new artwork design making Zenwalk 5.0 visually and functionally the most sober and elegant release to date.

Please help us to find the last bugs before we can release the final version

Have fun

JP

Download mirrors :

http://chronos.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/distributions/zenwalk/people/jp/20071226/zenwalk-5.0.iso
http://zen-repo.meticul.eu/people/jp/20071226/zenwalk-5.0.iso
http://zenwalk.linuxish.net/people/jp/20071226/zenwalk-5.0.iso
ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirrors/zenwalk/people/jp/20071226/zenwalk-5.0.iso
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/zenwalk/people/jp/20071226/zenwalk-5.0.iso

zenwalk.com

This release needs testers VERY BADLY so that Elive for Macs will stay alive.
The last release didn’t receive an adequate amount of testers.
If you download this release…report any and all problems to Thanatermesis
Mac Users with Nvidia Cards…you are NEEDED…we must work together to ensure the quality of further releases.

There have been several bug fixes on the installer and numerous other bug fixes.
The feature list is below and it is the same as the last release

Features include but are not exclusive to:

• Installer: The installer is now included and working, if you experience that the installed mode doesn’t boot, please ask on #elivemac at Freenode
• Wireless: Working good with experimental madwifi driver. WEP needs to be tested
• IR remote control: Works perfectly and with predefined actions
• Backlight and Volume keys: Works by pressing the “Fn” key in conjunction with the backlight or volume keys.
• Kernel optimized for MacBooks and patched for special hardware elements
• Games: Neverball is a very addictive 3D platform marble game, but on this version of Elive you can use the laptop to interact with the platform of the game. That means you can manipulate the marble by, “TILTING YOUR MACBOOK FROM SIDE TO SIDE!”

http://elivecd.org/gb/Main/News/_articles/67.html

Screenshot:

Elive Linux Website: http://elivecd.org

Download elive linux here 

RHEL is largely composed of free and open source software, but is made available in a usable, binary form (such as on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM) only to paying subscribers. As required, Red Hat releases all source code for the product publicly under the terms of the GNU General Public License and other licenses. CentOS developers use that source code to create a final product which is very similar to RHEL and freely available for download and use by the public, but not maintained or supported by Red Hat. There are other distributions derived from RHEL’s source as well, but they have not attained the surrounding community which CentOS has built; CentOS is generally the one most current with Red Hat’s changes.

CentOS’ preferred software updating tool is based on yum, although support for use of an up2date variant exists. Each may be used to download and install both additional packages and their dependencies, and also to obtain and apply periodic and special (security) updates from repositories on the CentOS Mirror Network.

CentOS can be used as an X Window System based desktop but, like RHEL, is targeted primarily at the server market. Some hosting companies rely on CentOS working together with the cPanel Control Panel

Versioning scheme

CentOS version numbers have two parts, a major version and a minor version. The major version corresponds to the version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from which the source packages used to build CentOS are taken. The minor version corresponds to the update set of that Red Hat Enterprise Linux version from which the source packages used to build CentOS are taken. For example, CentOS 4.4 is built from the source packages from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 update 4. CentOS refers to the source as “PNAELV” (Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor), which is an acronym referring to Red Hat, coined in response to questions raised by Red Hat’s legal counsel in a letter to project members regarding possible trademark issues.

Release history

• The first version of CentOS, CentOS 3 build4-rc0, was released in the end of 2003. CentOS 3.1 (version 3, quarterly update 1) was released on March 19, 2004.
• CentOS 2, based on version 2.1 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, was released on May 14, 2004.
• CentOS 4.0, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4, was released for the i386 architecture and for the IA-64 architecture on March 1, 2005.

• CentOS 5.0, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5, was released on April 12, 2007.

Architectures

CentOS supports the same architectures as Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

• Intel x86-compatible (32-bit)
• Intel IA-64 (Itanium 64-bit)
• x86-64 (64-bit, AMD’s AMD64 and Intel’s Intel 64)
• PowerPC/32 (Apple Macintosh PowerMac running the G3 or G4 PowerPC processor) (”beta” support)
• IBM Mainframe (eServer zSeries and S/390)

Additionally, CentOS supports two architectures not supported upstream:

• Alpha
• SPARC (”beta” support)

CentOS linux website: http://www.centos.org

Download CentOS linux here

Arch Linux

Arch Linux uses a “rolling release” system, with new packages provided daily. Its package management permits users to keep systems up-to-date easily. Rather than encouraging users to move between discrete releases, Arch Linux releases are simply snapshots of the current set of packages, sometimes with revised installation software. The first release, 0.1 (codenamed Homer), appeared on March 11, 2002, and the latest is 2007.08 (Don’t Panic), released on August 5, 2007

Package management
Arch Linux is primarily based on binary packages. These packages are managed using the Pacman package manager, which handles package installations, upgrades, removal and database queries. The packages for Arch Linux are obtained from the Arch Linux package tree. Currently there exist five different repositories: current, which contains all the packages needed to set up a base Linux system; extra, which holds packages not required for the base system, mostly alternatives for packages in current; unstable, which has packages for programs in development; testing, with packages that have pending bug reports or may be unreliable; and community, which contains packages put together by Arch Linux users and contributors. In addition to these official repositories, a number of user-contributed repositories exist, often with customised or newer versions of the standard software packages.

Packages are created using the Arch Build System (ABS). This ports-like package management system consists of repositories of shell scripts and other files which enable packages to be customised and built from source, including rebuilding the entire system using modified compiler flags.

Downloads:
http://www.archlinux.org/download/

Since 64 Studio is distributed with a free software license, anyone with a 64-bit computer can install it on their computer (in place of or alongside the well-known Windows operating system). An alternative installer is available for systems with 32-bit processors.Differences with Debian
The major differences between this distribution and basic Debian are a custom kernel with realtime patches applied, some pre-configuration and a custom package selection designed to meet the needs of creative desktop users. Other packages may also be modified to some extent, as are the basic GNOME desktop themes.

Releases
The project released the first beta of 64 Studio, version 0.9.0 code-named ‘Toe Rag’, on the August 1, 2006. The release was named in honour of the all-analogue Toe Rag Studios in London, England.

After eighteen months of development, the project made its first stable release available for free download on 2006-11-29. It is named Olympic in recognition of the work of Glyn Johns and Eddie Kramer at Olympic Studios in London.

The second stable release, version 2.0 codename ‘Electric’, was announced on 27th July 2007. This latest release is named after Electrical Audio, the studio founded by sound engineer Steve Albini in Chicago, USA.

Downloads:

US Mirrors

ftp://ftp-osl.osuosl.org/pub/64studio/

http://download.linuxaudio.org/64studio/

Thanks to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab and Linuxaudio.org for providing these download mirrors.

UK Mirror

http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/64studio.com/installer/

ftp://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/64studio.com/installer/

This mirror is provided by the Computer Science department at the University of Kent - thanks! We would also like to thank the JISC National Mirror Service, which provided 64 Studio mirrors until its closure in July 2007.

64 Studio Linux website: http://www.64studio.com