Lars Wirzenius and Russ Allbery have posted an essay calling for changes in how the Debian release cycle works; it is mostly aimed at reducing the length of freezes to something close to zero. "The fundamental change is to start keeping our "testing" branch as close to releasable as possible,...

All versions of Ubuntu 11.10, the desktop version of Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, and the server edition of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS reach their end of life today. Canonical recommends users upgrade as soon as possible...

Martin Maurer has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Proxmox 3.0 "Virtual Environment" edition, a Debian-based distribution designed for running virtual appliances and virtual machines: "We just released Proxmox VE 3.0 RC1 (release candidate). Its based on the great Debian 7.0 release (Wheezy) and introduces....

Antoni Norman has released an initial alpha build of Pinguy OS 13.04, a an Ubuntu-based distribution with a customised GNOME 3.8 desktop: "Pinguy OS is still being activity worked on. There has been a release for 12.10 and a 13.04 release is being worked on at the moment.....