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Fedora 11 preview

Fedora 11 Alpha came out a month ago, 2 days later than the initial schedule, and it has recently entered its “Feature Freeze” state.
Codenamed Leonidas, Fedora 11 is due to be released on May 25th and it includes a large number of new features (most of them have already been approved).
I’ve been using Fedora for [...]

Parted Magic 3.7

Yet another Slackware-based Linux distro! Parted Magic, aka “The Linux CD Partitioning Tool”, is a Live OS packed with recovery tools that you can use to troubleshoot your system.

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3rd release this year (2nd this month)
maintenance release (a few bug fixes and several updated packages)
different versions available (ISO, HDD, PXE, USB, GRUB4DOS) – all i386
small size [...]

RIPLinux 7.7

Don’t worry, Linux is not dead yet. And the $TITLE is not about a new RIP implementation on Linux. The name stands for Recovery Is Possible and it’s in fact a Slackware-based Live OS.
It can be used for various tasks like maintenance, troubleshooting, rescuing an installed system, or even as a Live OS for browsing [...]

Is this the future of Linux?

I’ve been planning on writing a post about iMagicOS ever since version 2009 came out. I was surprised to see that someone could launch such a poor product and ask money for it. However, I was determined to just let it go, thinking that the developers were probably young, unexperienced and maybe too enthusiastic and [...]