This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature: An overview of Ubuntu 9.10 variants News: Lubuntu update, upgrading openSUSE and Mandriva development releases, future of Puppy Linux, Phoronix Test Suite live DVD Questions and answers: The best "base" distribution Released last week: Ubuntu 9.10, ALT Linux 5.0 Upcoming releases: Mandriva....

CAINE (Computer Aided INvestigative Environment) is an Ubuntu-based live CD offering a complete forensic environment in a friendly graphical user interface. The project released its 1.0 version earlier this week. Some of the main features of the new release include: "WinTaylor - a forensic front-end for Windows environments;....

Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml 2009.10, a bootable, Debian-based live CD featuring a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of text tools: "The new stable version 2009.10 was just released. New features: 'vesamenu' bootsplash - provides an easy-to-use boot selection menu;....

Phil Miller has announced the availability of a new development build of Chakra, an Arch Linux-based distribution and live CD with the latest KDE and a graphical system installer: "Today we are pleased to announce a development release named 'Crush' of our very own Chakra live media. It....

Ubuntu Rescue Remix is a small live CD that provides some of the best free and open-source data recovery and forensics tools available. Today Andrew Zajac announced the release of a new version: "Version 9.10 of the very best free/libre open-source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu....

Alexey Rusakov has announced the release of ALT Linux 5.0 "Ark" and "School" editions: "ALT Linux announces public availability of two products based on Platform Five: ALT Linux 5.0 Ark, a suite designed for making integrated solutions, and ALT Linux 5.0 School, a suite that is targeted at....

Edubuntu has been labelled as "discontinued" ever since it became just an add-on to Ubuntu rather than a complete, installable operating system. As of yesterday, its status is once again "active": "For the past few releases, it has been an add-on CD to Ubuntu. Our users have made....

Joe Brockmeier has announced the availability of the second and final release candidate for openSUSE 11.2: "This is it folks! We're almost there for openSUSE 11.2. Time to grab the final 11.2 release candidate and shake out any remaining bugs to get the lizard ready for release. This....

Mythbuntu 9.10, a distribution designed for home theatre systems and featuring MythTV, has been released: "Mythbuntu is built upon the base of Ubuntu and thus has all the features of Ubuntu. Features: Mythbuntu Control Centre - used to modify settings on a Mythbuntu system that are not necessarily....

Ubuntu Studio 9.10, an Ubuntu sub-project a featuring a real-time kernel and a large variety of audio, video and graphics editing applications, has been released: "The Ubuntu Studio team is proud to announce its sixth release: Ubuntu Studio 9.10 'Karmic Koala'. With this release, which you can download....

Xubuntu 9.10, an Ubuntu variant featuring the latest Xfce desktop, is now also available: "Xubuntu 9.10, code-named the 'Karmic Koala', is the latest and greatest version of Xubuntu. It integrates the latest Xfce desktop release with the high-quality and feature-rich core of Ubuntu, resulting in a light-weight and....

Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 9.10, the latest version of the project's flagship operating system for desktops, laptops and servers: "Ubuntu 9.10 brings changes small and large that all have a common purpose - to make Ubuntu the most user-friendly operating system available. Ubuntu 9.10 features....