Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast Linux
distribution for x86, PowerPC, Sparc, and Sparc64
that’s geared towards Linux power users. Unlike
other distros, it has an advanced package
management system called Portage. Portage is a
true ports system in …

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Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast Linux
distribution for x86, PowerPC, Sparc, and Sparc64
that’s geared towards Linux power users. Unlike
other distros, it has an advanced package
management system called Portage. Portage is a
true ports system in the tradition of BSD ports,
but is Python-based and sports a number of
advanced features including dependencies,
fine-grained package management, "fake"
(OpenBSD-style) installs, path sandboxing, safe
unmerging, system profiles, virtual packages,
config file management, and more.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements

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Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small (50KB), powerful,
and really fast Web server for Linux. It uses a
hybrid networking model based on epoll and
threads, which makes it scalable and capable of
attending thousands of clients per second.

Changes: This release works on NetBSD and fixes a lot of memory
leaks.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor bugfixes

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YOS is a compact, personalized, and optimized OS
with support for apt-rpm and tgz packages, with
1200 packages carefully selected and compiled for
speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware
detection system which should detect most modern
hardw…

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Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.

Changes: In this version, fine-grained netlink classes and permissions
were merged, as was support for new policy layout and
multiple policies. There are centralized per-user
default_contexts, and userspace AVC documentation and
man pages. The updated userland patches from the Fedora
Core devel tree were merged, as were enhancements to
fixfiles and restorecon, many policy patches, an updated
version of setools, and an updated version of slat.

Release Tags: NSA, Minor feature enhancements

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YOS is a compact, personalized, and optimized OS
with support for apt-rpm and tgz packages, with
1200 packages carefully selected and compiled for
speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware
detection system which should detect most modern
hardw…

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PostgreSQL is a robust relational database system with more than 20 years of active development that runs on all major operating systems. It is fully ACID compliant, and has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL92 and SQL99 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, and ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.

Changes: Several very large features are included in this release. The aim is for this release to be as rock solid as possible, but at least one of the features added involved such changes that may warrant a bit of extra testing post-release before deploying it in production.

Release Tags: Development, Major feature enhancements

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Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.

Changes: This release fixes broken NFS in 2.6.8.

Release Tags: 2.6, Major bugfixes

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Debian is an operating system for your computer that consists only of Free Software. It uses the Linux kernel, and a large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from GNU, which are also free. It comes with thousands of packages.

Changes: This is not an official release of Debian Sarge, just
a Debian-Installer beta release.

Release Tags: Debian-Installer, Major feature enhancements

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