Upcoming releases: Mandriva Linux 2009 Beta 2, openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2.Released last week: Scientific Linux 5.2 "Live CD/DVD", ClarkConnect 4.3.News: Slackware tests KDE 4.1, Fedora suffers from update outage, attackers crack, interviews with Ubuntu's Scott Remnant and gOS's David Liu, Zypper tips and tricks.Reviews: Mandriva Flash 2008.1 on ASUS Eee PC 900.Finally, after a short break, we have resumed adding new distributions to the DistroWatch database - one of the new ones introduced last week is FaunOS, an interesting Arch Linux-based desktop distribution optimised for USB Flash drives. Also in this week's issue, links to two excellent interviews with Ubuntu's Scott Remnant and gOS's David Liu. In the news section, Slackware introduces KDE 4.1 into the development tree, Fedora hints at a major problem with its update infrastructure, and Linux Mint suffers from a crippling attack on its web site. Does it really work "out of the box" as claimed? Read on to find out. In this week's issue we take a first look at Mandriva Flash 2008.1, one of the first distributions with official support for the ASUS Eee PC. Welcome to this year's 33rd issue of DistroWatch Weekly! The explosion of low-cost, ultra-portable laptops that started to appear in computer stores is a dream come true for many technology enthusiasts and free software developers who are keen to offer solutions for the new computer class.
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