Ferdinand Thommes has announced the release of siduction 13.1.0, a Linux distribution based on Debian's (once again unfrozen) "Unstable" branch. This is the project's first release that also includes an edition with GNOME 3. From the release notes: "We are very happy to present to you the final....

Paweł Pijanowski has announced that the first beta release of SparkyLinux 3.0, a lightweight distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch, is available for download and testing: "SparkyLinux 3.0 beta 1, code name 'Annagerman', is ready for testing. SparkyLinux 3 provides a few big changes, such as: over 20....

While the rest of Linuxdom was reading of the Debian 7.0 and Mageia 3 releases, the OpenMandriva gang have been hard at it trying to get their new distribution some attention. The OpenMandriva name was made official and an alpha was released into the wild. On May 6, João Patrício announced that the decision that an official name for the community Mandriva/ROSA distribution. As predicted, and is now obvious, OpenMandriva...

While it is not an official Debian release, the Debian GNU/Hurd team has announced the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2013. GNU Hurd is a Unix-style kernel based on the Mach microkernel and Debian GNU/Hurd makes much of the Debian system available atop that kernel. Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for...