What’s that? It is now May and it has been for a few days… Better do this post then!

News from the world of distributions:

• This relatively unknown distro got a release…. (Raring Ringtail)
• Although there might be a lack of co-operation between them and Debian
• Fedora 19 was slightly delayed.
• openSUSE is doing lots of ARM stuff.
• Debian Wheezy should be released soon…
• Sabayon is rolling out systemd.
• What is the best distro? If you can access Linux Format, you will see… (Arch was runner up in the power-distro section.
• And here is how to choose a distro that suites you… I got Arch even without demanding pacman, but Qubes OS and Slakel were close runners up. Never heard of them!
• DragonFly BSD 3.4 was released using GCC-4.7.
• An interesting addition of the /extra hierarchy by Chakra.

Software releases and news of interest:

• A remote desktop backend was merged into Wayland
• Speaking of Wayland, it got updated.
• Google forks Webkit in a Blink (was my pun better than the articles?)
• R-3.0.0 was released. Grab it from the Arch [testing] repo.
• Chakra released Alpha 2 of the Akabei package manager
• A project to set-up a lightweight KDE desktop.
• GDB 7.6 added AArch64 support.
• The Open Build Service 2.4 was released with supports PKGBUILDs… although I’m sure I posted it did before in one of these.
• A talk about Glibc development.
• Another attempt as SELinux on Arch
• Clang is C++11 complete when 3.3 gets released.

And some fun stuff to finish:

• The value of case badges. My laptop has an Apple logo, so that must really boost speed given the price it adds.
• A simple game of 22 vs 11.
• The revenge of the game developer.