WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 3.0 Respin 1 is now available via BitTorrent or ftp.

"What is the goal for White Box Linux?

To provide an unencumbered RPM based Linux distribution that retains enough compatibility with Red Hat Linux to allow easy upgrades and to retain compatibility with their Errata srpms. Being based off of RHEL3 means that a machine should be able to avoid the upgrade treadmill until Oct 2008 since RHEL promises Errata availability for five years from date of initial release and RHEL3 shipped in Oct 2003.

Or more briefly, to fill the gap between Fedora and RHEL. "

The first development release of the upcoming GNOME 2.8 has been released:
tar.gz: 179M total
tar.bz2: 127M total

www.linuxcompatible.org

ATi has released a new set of Linux drivers version 3.9.0! you can grab them Here! What's New?

Explicit regparm support for newer Redhat, Fedora and SuSE kernels VIA KT400 motherboard chipsets now recognized properly

Thanks to Rage 3D

Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official has been released
click read more for details about the distro.

The first patch for Unreal Tournament 2004 has been released.

Linux 2.6.6 has been released, again there are tons of fixes, for example, the CIFS VFS, which can be used to mount windows or samba shares via the CIFS protocol, has seen lots of improvements and fixes since the last version. The complete changelog and download links can be found on kernel.org as usual.

Linux Compatible has published a first look at Progeny Debian 2.0 with 38 screenshots

"Componentized Linux by Progeny is a new kind of Linux distribution, built as a set of interchangeable parts. The core component is an LSB 1.3 certified Linux runtime. I take today a look at an earlier developer snapshot of Progeny Debian 2.0, the first Linux distribution based on Componentized Linux."

It's official: SUSE LINUX 9.1 is now released and available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. If you live elsewhere, you can get the first taste of the new SUSE by downloading the SUSE LiveCD (formerly known as SUSE Live-Eval) from here: LiveCD-9.1.iso (610MB) or from one of the mirrors.

OpenRM Scene Graph is a developers toolkit that implements a scene graph API, and which uses OpenGL for hardware accelerated rendering. OpenRM is intended to be used to construct high performance, portable graphics and scientific visualization applications on Unix/Linux/Windows platforms.

This article is a commentary discussing why Linux is ready not only for the desktop but also for the future.

I have found Linux to be a lot friendlier in that if I encounter a problem my option is now no longer just to restart and hope for the best. I can get in the code and try to figure what happened in the first place and make sure that I don?t see it again. Also where else can you find thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people out there willing to help you out with an answer or suggestion which in turn makes you want to do the same if you can?

The first release candidate of Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD 64 has been released

Release notes:

On Wednesday, Lindows announced its official name change. Lindows new name for its international consumers will now be Linspire due to Microsoft’s win in a trademark lawsuit. Lindows willingness to compete with Microsoft has led them to lawsuit battles with the software giant globally for over two years now; pretty much since Lindows first entered the software market.

Mandrakelinux 10.0 for AMD64 Beta 2 has been released! you can grab the download links from LinuxCompatible

Jim Farnsworth take a look at the IceWM Window Manager

After all the fooling around with KDE, and Gnome, and all of the other minimalist desktops, I keep coming back to iceWM. I know of a number of people who are using iceWM but it's certainly not as popular as Gnome or KDE. So why would iceWM continue to be my desktop of choice?

This article gives some feedback as to what needs to be improved or implemented in Linux which will help define it as a desktop operating system. Topics covered include usability as far as program installation and compatibility with current Windows applications.

linuxphr3@k of Next L3vel has written an install guide which will guide you through the process of obtaining, burning, and installing Red Hat Linux on your PC:

So what exactly is this Linux that everyone is talking about? In general terms, it?s an operating system written by Linus Torvalds, a former student at Helsinki University, Finland. Linux was released under open-source licence, and since it?s release in 1991, it has come in many different distributions.

GNOME 2.6.0 has been released after some delay due to a intruder on their systems.

"In a release that marks the fruit of six months of hard work from our hackers, maintainers, translators, testers, usability team and accessibility team, the GNOME community has done it again: GNOME 2.6.0 continues the high standards in the areas of usability, accessibility and internationalisation that our users expect from the world's Free Software desktop. "

2CPU have thrown up their Linux Kernel Comparison: 2.6.4 vs. 2.4.25! Here's a snip.

Something I've been promising for a couple of months has been a comparison of Linux kernels 2.6 and 2.4. The 2.6 series has been available for awhile now but the development has been going at a very rapid pace. It seemed everytime I'd be half-way through my benchmarks, a new version would be released. In a desire to stay as current as possible, I held off until now. We'll be taking a look at versions 2.6.4 and 2.4.25 in a variety of benchmarks; both server and workstation-oriented.

Cobind Desktop takes a remarkable turn from other Linux distributions by being one of the first to include Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and Mozilla Thunderbird in their first release. Though Cobind Desktop only uses XFce and not the more popular KDE, it's entire design is based on a clutter free workspace. Flexbeta.net took the time to write up a review and conduct an interview with David Watson, Co-Founder and President of Cobind Desktop. He mentions how the entire design concept of Cobind Desktop is based on a book called the Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz, who is a professor at Swarthmore. David Watson believes that this concept can be applied to software design, and produce more usable products as a result.

After purchasing a A7N8X-E and trying to run a Knoppix based distribution on this machine, I have discovered that the NForce2 chipsets (MoBo, LAN...) doesn't run well on Linux. I googled and found this:

Linux nForce2 nvnet driver Petition

I want to request for everyone to sign this petition. If this doesn't works, well, I'll have to buy a KT600 based MoBo...