Round up time again, and this week we’ve got some of the usual suspects, but some fresh faces to mix it up as well.

April 13

• Sabayon Linux 4.1 “GNOME” Edition According to Sabayon’s website, this release is “Dedicated to those who like order over chaos, to those who like simplicity over complexity, to those who think that less is more, to those that just want more for less.” Sabayon 4.1 “GNOME” edition is based on Sabayon 4 LiteMCE and features a halved hard disk footprint, a custom 2.6.29.1 kernel, ext4 as the default filesystem, GNOME 2.24 (2.26 will be available through Entropy as soon as it is available), OpenOffice 3.0.1, Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.8.2, X.Org 7.4, multimedia applications (audio, video, dvd ripping, file sharing), XBMC 8.10, Entropy package manager 0.52.8. Check out the full release announcement and download links here.

April 15

• gNewSense 2.2 gNewSense is a fully free GNU/Linux distribution packed with GNOME, a full office suite, web browsers, the full GNU developer toolchain, GNU Emacs, a variety of compilers, debuggers and more. Version 2.2 brings several improvements: “the installer now supports two more filesystems, GLX re-introduced, changed description of -updates and -backports in “Software Sources”, use linux-image-generic instead of linux-image-386, lsb_release output corrected, GNU Icecat repo available via Software Sources. You can read the release annoucement and catch the download links here.

April 16

• Ubuntu 9.04 RC “Jaunty Jackalope” is finally in release candidate stage and is considered “complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user”.  New for 9.04 desktop edition are it faster boot times and a new notification system similar to Growl for OS X; the server edition has built-in Eucalyptus for cloud computing and an improved mail server integration stack based on postfix and dovecot; finally, the netbook remix edition has a new user interface designed for smaller netbook screens. Check out the announcements here or check out the full release notes here (including upgrade instructions).

April 17

• NetBSD 5.0 RC4 NetBSD 5.0′s fourth release candidate is now available. Important changes since RC3 include: “added the RLIMIT_AS resource, which limits the total address space available to processes; improved NFS server stability; FFS improvements; a fix for a pf(4) DoS;  re(4) now works with the RealTek 8111C, which is found on many current motherboards with Intel chipsets”. You can find the full release notes here.
• SliTaz GNU/Linux 2.0 SliTaz is a lightweight, fast distro that runs completely in memory from removable devices like USB drives and CD’s. From SliTaz’s website: “Based on Version 1.0 (published 22 March 2008), SliTaz comprises of 1400 (up 900) software packages easily installable via the “Tazpkg” package manager. The LiveCD can be fully configured to taste, to easily create a custom distribution specifically for tasks such as multimedia, graphics or development. Some of the new features in this release include: Better hardware support for wifi, windows drivers, NTFS and low memory systems (through flavors); Easier customization to roll your own distro; Web Boot support; Openbox replaces JWM as the window manager; More tiny graphical utilities for administration, setting preferences, system upgrade, etc”. Read the full release notes here or skip straight to the download.
• FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 In addition to Ubuntu, FreeBSD’s 7.2 release also hit release candidate status this week. Check out the release notes here.

April 18

• Wolvix GNU/Linux 2.0.0 Wolvix is a desktop oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware featuring the Xfce desktop environment and applications for development, graphics, multimedia, network and office. Changes from Beta1 are minor, but have addressed some bugs. Check the release notes for details.

April 19

• FreeNAS 0.69.1 The FreeBSD based NAS operating system FreeNAS announced the release of 0.69.1. Major changes in this release are – Upgrade Samba to 3.0.34;  Upgrade ProFTPD to 1.3.2; Upgrade mDNSResponder to 1.08.6; Upgrade lighttpd to 1.4.22; Upgrade cdialog to 1.1.20080819; Upgrade e2fsprogs to 1.41.4; Upgrade nut to 2.4.1; Upgrade transmission to 1.51; Upgrade fusefs-ntfs/ntfs-3g to 2009.2.1; Upgrade 3Ware serial ATA RAID controller driver to 9.5.1; Upgrade bash to 4.0.10. There are also many more minor changes that are too numerous to list. Check out the release notes for all the changes.