LinuxSnap for Tuesday 8/27/13
Latest Distro Releases
Manjaro 0.8.7
The Arch-based distro Manjaro has hit version 0.8.7. Manjaro Linux 0.8.7 is available in both OpenBox and XFCE editions. The official release announcement highlights some of the new features:
- Kernel: 3.4.59 LTS
- Xorg: 1.14.2
- Webbrowser: Firefox 22.0.1
- Email Client: Thunderbird 17.0.8 (XFCE only)
- Media Player: VLC 2.0.8a,
- Package Manager: Pamac 0.7.5.2 (XFCE), Octopi 0.2.0 (Openbox)
- Whisker Menu 1.1.1 (XFCE only)
- Mint Display Manager 1.3.1 (XFCE only)
- Slim Display Manager 1.3.5 (Openbox only)
- Manjaro Settings Manager 0.1.2
- Live-Installer 0.8.7
- Minimalistic XFCE 4.10 Desktop (XFCE only)
- Minimalistic Openbox 3.5.0 Desktop (Openbox only)
- PA-mixer replaced pn-mixer and volumeicon
- Better pulseaudio support
- Latest free and proprietary drivers
Articles of Interest
Nginx, the popular open-source Web server, goes commercial – zdnet.com
Ballmer’s Exit Marks the End of an Era at Microsoft – eweek.com
Today in Linux History
Linux Mint 1.0 Released (2006)
On August 27th, 2006, the first major version of Linux Mint was released, Linux Mint 1.0. Linux Mint 1.0 was based on Kubuntu 6.06.
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