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Conectiva Linux 7.0 is Out

Posted by michael on from the penguins-in-the-rain-forest dept.

rsd writes: "Conectiva Linux 7.0 is out. Here is the original announcement. And here is the babelfish translation. They are already shipping Portuguese box and will start the english soon. However the CDs (iso for what matter) are available in english already. Their main ftp server is overcrowded. Hoever, Rik VanRiel provided us with a really fast server. I will not describe every feature on it but the main change is the Synaptic tool, which in my opinion is the best APT frontend ever written."

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  1. A standard packaging system and a great front end. by Nailer · · Score: 5, Informative

    What makes this one different from other Linux distributions?

    It combines the Linux Standard Base packaging system, RPM 3.05, with the most well known automatic software installation frontend, APT, a tight set of packaging guidelines, and a nice GUI for APT called Synaptic.

    Also, most people don't live in North America or speak English, and internationalization for most general purpose distributions is quite poor.