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Parted Magic 2.0 is a 42MB Live CD/USB/PXE with the main goal of providing disk drive partitioning software. This new edition of Parted Magic 2.0 is designed for use on x86 hardwares and was released two days before this year's Valentine's Day. This GPLed specialized Linux distro is currently ranked at number 60 at DistroWatch.com. It originates from the U.S. and it is based on the Linux From Scratch. The easily noticeable new features, besides the new Linux kernel 2.6.23.13, Xfce 4.4.2, X.Org 7.3 and various other software updates , are the availability of Firefox 2.0.0.4 and the simple but capable Start Network tool. You need to run the Start Network tool in order to fire up you LAN interface before you can run Firefox or proceed to the online Parted Magic and Test Disk documentation.
This is a very easy-to-understand migration guide for Joomla! Content Management System which I found while googling. Joomlashine.com has published its own version of guide on how to migrate from Joomla! 1.0 to Joomla! 1.5. If you find it difficult to grasp the content of the official guide published by Joomla.org, this guide is for you!
The latest offering from Terra Soft is the much-awaited Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 for the PowerPC architecture. The hardwares supported by Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 are Sony PS3, Apple iBook G4, Apple iMac G4, Apple iMac G5, Apple PowerBook G4, Apple Power Mac G4, Apple Power Mac G5, Apple Xserve G4, etc. Since Yellow Dog Linux 6.0 is based on CentOS, it also offers an enterprise-quality operating system to home users. It uses the lightweight E17 and Gnome for its graphical interface. KDE is also available. Read the details here. It can be purchased from here. [Update:- The torrent is now available at LinuxTracker.org]
Techalign, Inc from Wyoming has just released its Pioneer Linux 3.1.0.0 yesterday which is based on the famous Kubuntu 7.10: Pioneer Basic for workstation, Pioneer Stagecoach for workstation & server and it's enterprise server called MigrationSERVER. This commercial outfit provide support for those who buy its commercial version of Pioneer Linux. Of course it can be downloaded for free too, from here. The commercial version will have the Electricity program which will enable you to run Windows softwares, and many more value added application softwares for Windows users like Nero Linux 3, etc. There are also a lot of popular programs/codecs/driver which are available through Automatix. You can also purchase a very affordable PC with pre-installed Pioneer Linux 3.1.0.0 from Techalign itself or its partners across the U.S. and Canada.
Another desktop-oriented Slackware-based Linux distribution called Absolute 12.1.0 Beta 3 has been released! This a DistroWatch chart-topper installation CD distribution which focus on ease of installation. As it uses IceWM as window manager and ROX_Filer as file manager, it is very lightweight on hardware resources. Thus, it can cope with a Pentium II with only 128MB of RAM. You can download it here either in iso or zip format. By the way, this is the package list.
NimbleX is a Slackware-based Linux live CD distribution from Romania. It is a wonderful distro because it remains light and fast despite using KDE as its desktop environment. Amazingly this experience is brought about by a small-sized iso file of only 200MB. If you need a smaller iso, the sub100 edition is also available with KDE! This project has also made headlines being one of the very few to offer the online customization of the iso with the help of its Custom NimbleX Live CD generator, before downloading the customized iso from its portal. All these are for free but kindly donate to the project to keep it alive! It is also easily made to run from pendrives and usbkey and of course NimbleX has also been designed to be easily extendable in functionality. With this new developmental release of NimbleX 2008 Beta, it boasts 9 desktop environments :- KDE, E17, E16, Xfce, IceWM, EDE, Fluxbox, OpenBox and TWM. It can be downloaded here. Amazingly it is still about 200MB in size! Besides the plethora of desktop environments to choose from, the new version of NimbleX 2008 Beta has been designed to make customization even easier than before! This is the package list of NimbleX 2008 Beta. User is root and password is toor.
I enjoy using Slax Linux which is a live CD based on Slackware. It's slim and its KDE desktop is also swift. Here is a HowTo at PolishLinux.org on how to put Slax 6 (RC) on pendrives. If you can remember the last iso image released by the Slax team was Slax 6 rc7 back in November 2007.
The two and half years old Joomla! project has finally released its long-awaited major version, Joomla! 1.5 on 22nd of January 2008 with a code name of Khepri. If you haven't heard of Joomla!, it is an award-winning open source Content Management System(CMS). It is a very popular PHP-based CMS and it has been widely adopted by individual and corporations(large and small, governmental or NGO) due to its ease of use.
