Arch Linux 0.7 (Wombat)

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scarecrow

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I will try to be brief: Best binary Linux distribution out there by far, and this new version is a killer. It has:
Kernel 2.6.10 (vanilla with ACPI patch for notebooks and the latest bugfixes applied).
KDE 3.3.2 (3.4.0 beta1 also available from the "unstable" branch).
Gnome 2.8.2
XFCE 4.2
OpenOffice 1.1.4 (2.0 preview 69 also available from unstable).
Plus many other packages, mostly bleeding edge.
http://www.archlinux.org/download.php
Installation is not difficult (rather easy, if you are familiar with Slack or older Debians), but not trivial either (some configuration files need editing after installing the packages), so the documentation should be handy:
http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html

It is an i686 optimized distro, which means that it will not work with old hardware (although it will work, but of course in 32-bit mode with most 64-bit CPU's and systems).
 
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VILLA21

VILLA21

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More or less the same features of the upcoming Mandrake 10.2.

Mandrakelinux 10.2 Beta new features:
* kernel 2.6.10
* Glibc 2.3.4 and gcc 3.4.3
* New KDE 3.3.2 is compiled with the '-fvisibility=hidden' option of gcc to accelerate the linkage step at the program start (this option hides all the internal symbols of the application and eases the linker work to start the binary), the latest version of Gnome, 2.8.1, as well as GTK 2.6.1.
* New features during the installation procedure, including a new, more efficient package-processing algorithm and the capability to copy all packages to the hard drive before installation completion.
* Installation may boot from a USB key
* Mozilla-firefox replaces Mozilla
* Gimp 2.2, cdrecord 2.01.01a21 with DVD+R Dual Layers support, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, Postgresql 8.0, MySQL 4.1.9
* new tool: Drakstats
Still got MD10.0, it"s doing pretty good for a newbie linux like me, what do u think?
 
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