Oct 31
October is gone and so is its Linux bonanza — waiting for Fedora 9 to be released.
October was a very generous month as far as the delivery of new releases Linux releases of every kind is concerned: big and small, old and new, desktop, service or maintenance use. Every party was represented.
Among the major players updated this last month were OpenSuse, Mandriva and the much anticipated Ubuntu which came along introducing Gobuntu, a new free-software-only family member.
The minidistro scene was just as busy with Puppy Linux 3.0 and Damn Small Linux 4.0 as well as high efficiency oriented distros for legacy hardware such as Absolute Linux 12.0.7, ZenWalk 4.8 and Mepis Antix 7.0.
Architecture oriented distros had a few field days of their own with Yoper Linux 3.0.1 released in the 32-bit front and Slam64 on the 64-bit.
And there was no shortage of brand new distros: Gobuntu, Granular Fireworks 2007.
The month was fraught with great Linux news. Quality, quantity, variety, there was something for every taste, even disappointments as it turned out that the countdown in the Fluxbuntu website as for site redesign instead of release.
But, alas, October is over and with no other major release in schedule for the near future (excepting one) all I can say is: I’m waiting for Fedora 8 to be released the next Nov. 8th.
