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The Ubuntu Foundation has been launched. Here the press release:

08 July 2005

Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical Ltd, founders of the popular Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, have today announced the creation of The Ubuntu Foundation with an initial funding commitment of US$10m.

The Ubuntu Foundation will employ core Ubuntu community members to ensure that Ubuntu (www.ubuntu.com) will remain fully supported for an extended period of time, and continue to produce new releases of the distribution. As a first step, the Foundation announces that Ubuntu version 6.04, due for release in April 2006, will be supported for three years on the desktop and five years on the server.

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GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform 2.10.2 has been released:

The second point release off the stable 2.10.x branch of GNOME is now officially released. This release has seen continued work to eliminate memory leaks, plain bugs and in general improve and polish the stable series of GNOME. Thanks to all who contributed patches, documentation, translations and input to get issues resolved.

The software is available on your nearest FTP mirror:

Bindings:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/bindings/2.10/2.10.2/sources/
Desktop:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.10/2.10.2/sources/
Platform:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/platform/2.10/2.10.2/sources/

Issues should be filed in bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

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Some nine weeks after the official release of SUSE LINUX 9.3, an installable DVD image of the product has been released to SUSE's download mirrors. SUSE is one of the leading Linux distributions on the market; its latest release is compiled from over 1,000 popular software packages.

SUSE LINUX 9.3 Released to Mirrors

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CentOS-4/alpha 4.1beta has been released. Here the announcement:

I've always been kind of on/off with alpha. Remember making some kind of debian/alpha installer back -97ish. Lately (like past 2 years), i've been compiling SRPMS on alpha too from time to time.

Most of my alpha hardware was pretty much ancient crap, so i wasn't quite confident pushing anything out to public as i wasn't able to test even if EV6 would be ok. Little over week ago i got a AlphaServer ES45, which was the turning point on this all (i thank you whom gave me this box once again even tho i cannot reveal any names).

There is lot to personally thank for AlphaCore project as some of the patches i got directly from that work, would have been nasty for me to spot out. I just don't feel that building FC3 for alpha is enought and will be long term maintainable.