The Fedora 13 "Goddard" Alpha is here, the first step towards the final release due in May. The Linux distro comes with a lot of new features and updates catering to all user groups, regular users, developers and system administrators. Ease of use was a main focus and Fedora 13 comes with automatic printer drivers and language packs installation, saving the users quite ... (read more)

The SME Server development team has released not one but two testing versions of upcoming releases, SME Server 7.5 RC1 and SME Server 8.0 Beta 5. The release candidate version, SME Server 7.5 RC1, is mostly a bug-fixing build, while SME Server 8.0 Beta 5 also comes with a couple of bigger changes.

"The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next major release of SME Server," SME Server dev... (read more)

The PCLinuxOS development team announced on March 6th the first Beta release of the upcoming PCLinuxOS 2010 Linux operating system. With a customized version of KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 on board, PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 is powered by Linux kernel 2.6.32.8 with the BFS scheduler, for an amazing desktop performance on modern 32-bit computers... (read more)

The Frugalware development team has announced the release of Frugalware 1.2, the 12th stable release of the Linux distribution. Frugalware 1.2 comes with only a number of bug fixes from the second release candidate, but there are some pretty big changes from the previous stable release, Frugalware 1.1. The biggest update is the move to KDE 4 code based on the agi... (read more)

Welcome to the 87th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: Tiny Core Linux 2.9, PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 GNOME, Elive 2.0 and SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC2. In other news: CodeWeavers announced the revamped CrossOver 9.0 application for Linux users; KDE cooked and delivered the first maintenan... (read more)