Sorry for being a little late this week. We have a slew of*BSD releases plus a few other linux distros to cover this week…

April 26

• DragonflyBSD 2.2.1 Missed this one last week, so I decided to include it since it has some key changes. The HAMMER filesystem is now considered production-ready, major stability improvements were added, new drivers, much better pkgsrc support and integration, and a brand new release infrastructure with multiple target options.

April 28

• elive 1.9.26 The elive guys announced a new development release that features faster booting, easy MP3/OGG conversion via right-click, and some other fixes.

April 29

• NetBSD 5.0 The NetBSD project announced a major release this week. This release includes improved SMP performance and scalability, preview of metadata journaling for FFS file systems (known as WAPBL), the jemalloc memory allocator, X.Org instead of XFree86 on a number of ports, the Power Management Framework, ACPI suspend/resume support on many laptops,  Xen 3.3 support for both i386 and amd64,  and much much more. Full release notes.
• Mandriva 2009.1 Spring We’ve covered the betas and the RC’s here earlier and now Mandriva has the final version of their 2009.1 release. Major desktop software updates include KDE 4.2.2, GNOME 2.26, and X.org 1.6.
• Sabayon Linux 4.1 KDE The Sabayon project announced version 4.1 KDE based on Sabayon 4 LiteMCE. This release has ext4 as the default filesystem, KDE 4.2.2, halved the default disk footprint, kernel 2.6.29.1, and much more.
• Calculate Linux Desktop 9.5 Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based desktop featuring KDE. Their new release includes install on ext4 support, simplified installation, OpenRC service management system, and many other additions/changes.

April 30

• Kiwi Linux 9.04 Kiwi Linux is an Ubuntu-based distro that aims to make an even easier to use distribution to help people make the switch from other OSes. This version includes GUI for pppoeconf and support for Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem firmware, no Evolution on the install disk, Flashplugin-nonfree and gstreamer codecs for restricted audio and video formats, libdvdcss2 for encrypted DVD playback, a graphical  tool for restoring GRUB boot menus lost after installing other OSes, and all the other great packages that come with standard Ubuntu 9.04.

May 1

• OpenBSD 4.5 The OpenBSD team announced the new release of their great BSD distro last week. This release includes support for xscale-based gumstix and ARM-based OpenMoko platforms, lots of new/improved hardware drivers, OpenSSH 5.2,  and much much more.