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A new stable version of GParted LiveCD, a Debian-based specialist distribution with a collection of hard disk management utilities, has been released.

FreeBSD 6.4, a new stable version of the project's legacy 6.x branch, has been released: "The FreeBSD Release Engineering team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE.

At this time 6.4-RELEASE is expected to be the last of the 6-STABLE releases. Some of the highlights: new....

Wine today announced the official launch by end of the final version 1.1.9 of the Wine project, the platform that enables running Windows applications on Unix-based systems, such as Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or Mac OSX.Already considered a date for releasing the first stable version of Wine, although in the end was delayed a few more days.

OStatic: "The Ubuntu project says that the initial alpha release of Ubuntu 9.04 (the "Jaunty Jackalope") could be available for testing in less than twenty-four hours.

Yes, that's a little less than a month after the current, stable version, "Intrepid Ibex" was finalized and formally released."

Was released, another five have already updated the stable branch of Debian 4.0, also known under the code name Etch.

BSDanywhere is a new live cd, based on OpenBSD Unix. It allows you to run Unix on your PC, without any configuration or installs.

It features a graphical interface (Enlightement 17), a good collection of software and automatic hardware detection.

It's first stable version has just been released.

Debian project leader Steve McIntyre has dismissed claims that the next stable version of Debian – codename Lenny – could be delayed until June 2009.

A new stable version of GParted LiveCD, a specialist, Debian-based live medium featuring a popular hard disk partitioning tool, has been released.

From the release notes: "Comes with GParted 0.3.9; based on Debian 'Lenny' as of 2008-10-01; Linux kernel 2.6.26; package hfsprogs was added; three boot parameters were....

The PC-BSD team proudly announced, a few hours ago, the immediate availability of the final release of PC-BSD 7.0, dubbed Fibonacci Edition.

Being based on the stable version of FreeBSD 7.0, and powered by the popular KDE 4.1.1 desktop environment, PC-BSD 7.0 will offer you a modern, reliable and fast BSD operating system.

The primary reason is that once the Stable version of Debian is set, so are the packages that come with it.

Even though they get security fixes and bug patches, you'll be stuck with, let's say OpenOffice 2.0 when others are "enjoying" version 2.4.