Ah, spring... when a young penguin's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of... Beta testing! Yes, spring has sprung, and so has the Beta release of Fedora 9!

Bogdan Radulescu writes "I am very pleased to announce the Release Candidate of NimbleX 2008! Since Beta there are major differences and it's the closest thing I can imagine to final version. Actually the main reason for calling it RC is the eventuality some important bug sneaked in."

Red Hat has released a beta version of the latest update to its Enterprise Linux OS, touting significant improvements to the desktop and virtualisation.

Terra Soft on Tuesday announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux v6.0, a new version of their operating system that works on, among other platforms, G4 and G5-equipped Macs. The software is available immediately for YDLnet Enhanced users; it will be published on DVD in two weeks, and public mirrors will have it available within a month.

Max Spevack writes "The first day of FUDCon is now complete. 78 members of our community spent the entire day working on many aspects of Fedora. It was an incredibly productive day, and we expect the rest of the weekend to be more of the same."

Red Hat has launched a real-time version of Linux, aimed at applications needing predictable responses.

Opinion -- Desktop Linuxes are improving so quickly that it's hard even for someone like me, who tracks operating systems the way some people track their favorite NFL team's game match-ups, to keep tabs on what's what with the latest distributions. That's even true of the major community Linux distributions: Fedora 8, OpenSUSE 10.3 and Ubuntu 7.10.

It took just three days before 54,000 copies of Fedora 8, the Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported Linux distribution, were up and running.

When a desktop Linux distribution suddenly becomes popular before even DistroWatch starts tracking it, you know you've got something special. One new Ubuntu-based distribution, gOS, has managed to capture users' attention purely by word of mouth over the Internet.

Visit our updated Fedora portal page for details of the latest features of this popular Linux distro.

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