Last December I wrote about the Slax Community Remix on Distrowatch. At the time of writing the latest release of this dedicated community of Slax enthusiasts was v09. This now seems to have become the stepping stone on the way to the first official release 1.0 of the new Porteus Project and an updated v09 was released on 13th January. A website has been launched with documentation, FAQ's and download section as well as a forum.

You can assist in deciding which distributions to review next. This includes specialist live CD tools like Backtrack for computer forensics or network analysis, and I´ll work my way down the list.
Feel free to leave other suggestions in the comments box below, but please note I am not a fan of anything *buntu, because I feel they get enough coverage already. Thanks for taking part.

The poll is now closed, but feel free to leave a suggestion in the comments anyway.

Further to the 'UK government committed to open source' article linked to on Tuxmachines.org, I received an email invite a couple of days ago to an Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) event of the British Computer Society. This group considers adoption of open source across HM government. Something seems to be moving. If you´re in the UK and the topic is interesting enough why not attend, I know I´m going. You can read more on http://ossg.bcs.org/. The two events are held at BCS offices in Central London.

Archbang and a few others use SLiM, the Simple Login Manager, by default, which keeps things lean because SLiM does not have the dependency requirements of GDM or KDM. Actually the only dependencies are X11, libpng, libjpeg and freetype. It´s a great manager for desktop environment/window manager independent login, but does not support remote login functionalities. Themes however are supported and several are included from the start.

Blimey, this Will guy is pumping them out. I suppose he subscribes to the old adage release early, release often. To stay in the news or just to find and fix things. So only a few days after 2011.1 we already have another version, and with new looks as well. A bit like Absolute Linux with its endless point releases. Looks are even more like Crunchbang now, which isn´t a bad thing. I´ve always liked his sci-fi theme in 2010.9 and the recent fantasy styling with the broad sword in 2011.1. Dark is ok unless it impairs legibility, so I generally don´t use it as an overall theming option, but for the background it´s fine.