Linux Weekly Roundup Sunday 14th August 2011

Welcome to the weekly Linux round-up for Sunday August 14th 2011. We'll start off with Distrowatch news, and I've been following Pinguy on the weekly rankings which climbed to number 18 and presently sits at number 20. I'm quite shocked it has not risen  any higher, but its still early day for the distro yet. Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Gentoo and Debian take up the top 5 spots, interestingly I have not tried Gentoo yet and will make sure I try it out for the site as soon as possible. There is a distro called dyne:bolic which is at 15, which is apparently a CD based OS able to manipulate audio and visual broadcasts. Based on Ubuntu it'd be interesting to hear more about this distro.

In other news, both Puppy OS and Ultimate Edition have new releases out this week and although they are a different end of the Linux scale in terms of content and usability, both are well worth trying out if you are looking for something different in the Linux World. Puppy is a super light-weight OS with great stability and Ultimate Edition is yet another Ubuntu based package with some very sexy tweaks.

Adobe has released Flash 11Beta 2 which is said to be more stable and faster than previous versions. However, if you're a Linux user experiencing difficulties with Flash websites I advise you to use Pinguy OS as it handles Flash with no problems at all. Both 32 and 64 bit versions are available and can be downloaded from Adobes website.


Finally, there have been even more changes to the up and coming Ubuntu 11.10. Its going to be slicker, sexier, quicker, more stable and more fun than ever before and I for one am really excited about trying it out. A review for the new OS will be on the site within a few days of its release.

Mark Adams
August 14th 2011