Another small week of distribution releases, perhaps they ate too much at the Memorial Day barbecues?

May 25

• Nexenta Core Platform 2 Nexenta, the OpenSolaris kernel/Ubuntu userland cross, has announced the next release of its core platform. The new features include OpenSolaris build 104+, 13000 packages in the package repository, thanks to community-driven efforts, the repositories now include xorg, xfce4, and gnome-core, an Ubuntu 8.04 base, and many more.

May 26

• Astaro Security Gateway Beta 7.500 The Astaro team announced the latest beta release of their Security Gateway distribution. New features include a new version of their IPS engine, scaling massively with multi-core CPUs/appliances, clicking interfaces on dashboard to see “what’s happening on my network right now”, detailed packet/firewall reports, detailed IM/P2P reports, and quite a few other features. They expect the testing period to run from May 29 – July 15. I’ve tinkered with the home version of the ASG in the past and have been rather impressed but in the end decided to move away from it since it was far more than I needed for my home network. Some of these new features may make me reconsider installing it in a VM and hooking up my passive tap interfaces to it to see what it finds.
• Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” The Linux Mint team has announced the availability of release 7 codenamed “Gloria”.  This version is based on Ubuntu 9.04 and includes kernel 2.6.28, Gnome 2.26 and Xorg 7.4 with all the great Linux Mint usability/ease of use customizations. Check out the full list of whats new.

May  27

• PC/OS Open64 Workstation 10 The PC/OS team has announced the release of  Open64 Workstation 10, their version that is specifically targeted towards 64-bit hardware. New features include XFCE 4.6, OpenOffice.org 3.1, QT 4, Monodevelop, plus much more.
• CentOS 5.3 i386 Live CD This live CD release of CentOS 5.3 follows the standard release of CentOS 5.3. The removed packages to make it fit in the 700 MB cd limit were k3b, scribus, and emacs.

May 29

• Calculate Linux Desktop 9.6 KDE The Calculate Linux team has release the KDE version of their 9.6 desktop. New features include Wicd for graphical network configuration, KDE 4.2.3, kernel 2.6.28.10, OpenOffice.org 3.0.1, X.Org 7.4, plus a few other changes.