The final version 8.0 of FreeBSD is out.

Some new stuff:

New USB stack - HPS

DTrace is completely adapted to work with FreeBSD

Xen Dom-U and Sun VirtualBox are now supported

NFS 3/4 can work with Kerberos and ACL 8.1

FreeBSD 8.0 supports the following architectures: PPC G5, Power 3/4, UltraSparc III, support for ARM/XScale is similar.

The new version can be downloaded here: Click me!

Unfortunately the last year was really hard for us in developing the website so it became a bit outdated :( However this is something we love to do so with new power we are begining the work on it again and in few months it should become up to date open source portal. At the moment there are many things we have to do and implement. Probably many of the pages have issues so we will be glad if you share any bug you find on the osguides.net. The work continues and we hope you like the new style. You can press Read More to check on the changes we made and we are going to make in future.

Firefox 3.5 was just released. It promises to be much better then the old version.

What's new:

- Available in more than 70 languages.
- Support for the HTML5 video and audio elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, canvas text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

Release notes: Mozilla.com
Download: Mozilla.com Download Firefox

Karanbir Singh has announced the release of a live CD edition of CentOS 5.3, a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.3 i386 live CD. This CD is based on our CentOS 5.3 i386 distribution. It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software: OpenOffice.org 2.3.0, Firefox 3.0.6, Thunderbird 2.0.0.18, Pidgin 2.5.5, XChat 2.6.6, GIMP 2.2.13. It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools: Memtest86+ 1.65, full set of LVM and RAID command line tools, Nmap and NMapFE, Traceroute, Samba 3.0.33 with CIFS kernel support to connect to Windows file shares, system log viewer, GUI hardware device manager. The following packages were removed to reach the 700 MB target: Emacs, K3b, Scribus."

Release notes: Click me
Download: CentOS-5.3-i386-LiveCD.iso 691MB

Source: DistroWatch.com