CentOS 5.0 released

Release for CentOS-5 i386 and x86_64

New features highlights :

• These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.0, Evolution-2.8, Firefox-1.5, Thunderbird-1.5, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.
• Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.
• Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

CentOS website
CentOS 5.0 Release announcement
Distrowatch: CentOS

Microsoft 64-bit website refresh

It looks like Microsoft has updated it's 64-bit section.

Microsoft 64-bit Computing Overview

Debian 4.0 released for AMD64

The new Debian 4.0 release of today officially supports AMD64 :

A total of eleven architectures are supported including: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386) and IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm), IBM S/390 (s390) and – newly introduced with Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 – AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64).

New features include :

• Linux kernel version 2.6.18
• GNOME 2.14
• Xfce 4.4
• OpenOffice.org 2.0.4a
• Evolution 2.6.3
• the GNU C library, version 2.3.6
• the GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 as default compiler
• language interpreters: Python 2.4, PHP 5.2
• web servers: Apache 2.2, fnord 1.10
• database servers: MySQL 5.0.32, PostgreSQL 8.1

Release Notes
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released
Distrowatch entry : Debian
OSNews : Debian 4.0 released
Debian 4.0 (etch) review