Chakra Linux is a new distribution based on Arch Linux. Chakra Linux comes from the people behind the KDEmod(Modularized KDE). Arch Linux is one of my favorite distribution as it offered a fast, stable distribution with the latest packages(rolling release). I used KDEmod with Arch as the customizations and modularization was better than the [...]

     MEPIS Linux, the KDE based Linux distribution, released the beta1 of MEPIS 8.5. MEPIS Linux was one of the easy to use Linux distributions besides PCLinuxOS, before Ubuntu arrived. The users who wanted to use the latest Debian’s snapshot, but afraid of all those text mode configuration tricks found MEPIS as the Debian for the [...]

     RedHat, one of the biggest contributor to open source and Linux, proved the world that the Open Source service based model is profitable. RedHat introduces all the exiting new technologies in Fedora, the community driven distribution sponsored by RedHat. These technologies will be integrated into the official RetHat distribution after they are mature enough. The [...]

     After Ubuntu gained popularity, some distributions switched to Ubuntu as their base distribution and many new Ubuntu based distributions started to appear. Most of these can be categorized based on the following criteria,

Customized based on Desktop Environment (KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc.) Customized based on country/language/religion Customized with extra applications/drivers/multimedia codecs Customized for a specific purpose [...]

     Mandriva releases a new version in every six months and this time is no exception. The team released 2009 RC1 which is scheduled for a final release on 9th October. The notable improvements from the previous 2008 Spring release are,

Automatic repository configuration and mirror selection Installer Improvements Better webcam support Option to uninstall unused localization [...]