In Portugal, Caixa Magica is reported to be popular as it is often deployed in offices and schools. Its latest release is now based on Mandriva instead of SUSE. I wonder how this would affect how people would accept it. Other things that came with the latest release:

support for proprietary drivers such as ATI and NVIDIA
support for suspend on notebooks
20,000+ software in the repositories
APT and Synaptic package managers
Linux kernel 2.6.29
GNOME 2.26.1
KDE 4.2.2
X.org Server 1.6.1
OpenOffice.org 3.0.1
Firefox 3.0.10

Kudos to the Caixa Magica team for releasing v. 14! They have become successful in making a distro their own …read more

Just 9 more days before its release, I am sure Fedora users are more than excited to get the distro up and running on their computers. If you’re one of the brave ones who will try the pre-release version, here’s the link to the download page of all the options you’ve got for downloading Fedora 11’s pre-release version
PlanetOSS even has a review of Fedora 11’s pre-release. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols listed down Fedora’s 5 best features even.
On the best features list, I saw that the fast boot up time was included. I saw that on one of the tweets …read more