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Post subject: sidux 2007-01 preview 1
 Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 09:13 PM
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It's been a while since our latest status report, now I have the pleasure to announce the first public preview for sidux 2007-01. Please note this is not the final release. The full featured final release of sidux-2007-01 "Χάος" will be ready in 1-2 weeks (i686 and amd64), intermediate xdeltas will be provided as needed until then.
This release mostly is a proof of concept for the sidux building environment, the co-operation of our teams and to discuss the final packages list with our users - now is the time to discuss and lobby for meta tasks to install additional software for the final release. It's completely based on Debian Sid and enriched & stabilized with sidux own packages and scripts. It comes with kernel 2.6.19.2, which is based on the most recent vanilla kernel together with several patches for improved hardware support. Other special purpose kernels are available from the sidux servers and will be accompanied by experimental 2.6.20-rc variants for testing soon.
Now to the interesting topics, like what's on the menu for now:
- amd64 (AMD64, Intel Core2, newer 64 bit capable Pentium 4 CPUs (watch for the "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo or use infobash -v 3) and i686 (pentium pro/ pentium II or newer).
- debian sid, up to date as of 2007-01-24 19:00 UTC.
- kernel 2.6.19.2 (smp, voluntary preemption).
- minimal, but fully functional KDE 3.5.5 (en + de).
- completely overhauled live mode.
- largely adapted installer.
- new graphical installer frontend.
- netcardconfig can cope with wpa/ wpa2 again.
- offline manual for en + de directly on the disc, online manuals for more languages online at http://manual.sidux.com/; a big thank you goes to the documentation and translation teams!
- a completely new ISO creation process written from scratch in a clean room environment.
What hasn't made it into the preview yet:
- merging the great artwork from Cathbard and cleary hasn't happened completely yet, it will appear until the final release.
- we're working with a small package list for now, to ease up testing, further xdelta patches and to leave some headroom for discussions which of your package wishes can become part of the final ISO.
- we cannot provide an updateinstall due to largely changed technical concepts in favour of providing a clean debian sid based system.
- the preview contains only DFSG free software, this affects hardware support for devices that need non-free components, such as firmwares (see below).
Hints for hardware with non-free needs:
(after adding contrib/ non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list and ensuring internet access)
- ATi Radeon graphics: 3d acceleration for older cards up to r35x should work, newer Radeon X1xxx cards need non-free drivers for accelerated performance, please use get-sidux-binary-gfx to fetch install scripts for these cards.
- Atheros/ "madwifi" wlan: m-a a-i madwifi.
- Atmel AT76c50x 11 MBit/s wlan: apt-get install atmel-firmware
- AVM ISDN/ ADSL PCI/ USB Karten: AVM's closed source driver are not compatible with kernel 2.6.19.x yet, please download kernel 2.6.18.x (http://sidux.net/files/kernel/) for now and use m-a a-i avm.
- Broadcom/ bcm43xx wlan: apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter.
- Eagle USB ADSL modem: fetch the firmware from http://eagle-usb.org/ueagle-atm/non-free/ and place it under /lib/firmware/.
- DVB firmwares for various full featured DVB TV cards (most budget cards won't need this): fetch the needed firmeware (check dmesg) from http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/ and place it under /lib/firmware/.
- hostap based 11 MBit/s wlan with loadable firmware (e.g. D-Link DWL-520 rev. E1 and others): http://www.oakcourt.dyndns.org/~andrew/dwl520e1.html
- Intel ipw2100, 11 MBit/s wlan: fetch the firmware from http://ipw2100.sf.net/ and place it under /lib/firmware/.
- Intel ipw2200, 54 MBit/s wlan: fetch the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net/ and place it under /lib/firmware/.
- Intel ipw3945, 54 Mbit/s wlan: apt-get install ipw3945d firmware-ipw3945
- Intersil prism54, 54 MBit/s wlan: fetch the firmware from http://prism54.org/firmware/ and place it under /lib/firmware/.
- nVidia graphics: 3d acceleration isn't possible with free drivers yet, please use get-sidux-binary-gfx to fetch install scripts for these cards.
- Texas Instruments ACX100 (22 Mbit/s)/ ACX111 (54 MBit/s) wlan, fetch the firmware from http://acx100.erley.org/acx_fw/acx1xx.htm and place it under /lib/firmware/.
- ZyDAS zd1202 11 MBit/s wlan: apt-get install zd1201-firmware
- ZyDAS zd1211 54 MBit/s wlan: fetch the firmware from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=129083 and place it under /lib/firmware/.
We will check if we can provide packages for at least some of these devices, but the legal status isn't necessarily easy.
This is still a preview, please help us to improve the final release with testing an reporting all issues you encounter, especially:
- the new graphical installer.
- boot cheats like fromiso, toram.
- new installer for nvidia & ati gfx drivers.
- operations with SCSI or S-ATA optical drives.
- general operations as a whole.
Roadmap
sidux-2007-01 "chaos" - calender week 5-6 2007
sidux-2007-02 "tartarus" - calender week 16-17 2007
sidux-2007-03 "gaia" - calender week 27-28 2007
sidux-2007-04 "eros" - calender week 40-41 2007
sidux-2008-01 "nyx" - calender week 3-4 2008
sidux-2008-02 "erebus" - calender week 15-16 2008
Disclaimer:
This is experimental software. Use at your own risk. The sidux project, it's developers and team members (all represented by the sidux Foundation, Inc) cannot be held liable under any circumstances for damage to hardware or software, lost data, or other direct or indirect damage resulting from the use of this software. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you are not permitted to use or further distribute this software.
Download URLs, please give the mirrors some time to synch:
http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/sidux/preview/ (Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Germany)
ftp://ftp.spline.de/mirrors/sidux/ (Freie Universität Berlin/ Institut für Informatik, Germany)
Special thanks go to the whole sidux development team:
Joaquim Boura (x-un-i)
Roland Engert (RoEn)
etorix
Bernard Gray (cleary)
Andreas Hausmann (Bodhi)
Chris Hildebrandt (slam)
Ralph Hokanson Jr. (piper)
Harald Hope (h2)
Kel Modderman (kelmo)
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (slh)
Ferdi Thommes (devil)
Horst Tritremmel (hjt)
Niall Walsh (bfree)
Trevor Walkley (bluewater)
Andreas Weber (webera)
and many more
Thanks for making this possible:
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann (slh) |
Last edited by slh on Feb 22, 2007 - 04:14 PM; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 09:29 PM
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Yes, bravo all of you. I'm downloading now, I can only smile.  |
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 09:37 PM
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Χάος. Great name, great distro. Thank you for this preview!
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 09:39 PM
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just completed translating the shorter version of the "preview news" to russian... 
great work! you made a lot of people lucky this day...
24.01. = sidu-X-mas |
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 09:40 PM
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 09:46 PM
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This night I won't get any sleep. Just downlooading now.
Thanks to all of you.
Gruß
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 09:56 PM
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Fantastic.
I just love the names from Greek mythology.
According to Hesiod in his Theogony (11.116-138), "From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night Nyx; of Night were born Aether being the bright upper atmosphere and Day Hemera, whom she conceived and bore from union with Erebus her brother".
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/n/nyx.html
Edit: For those that want more info, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony |
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Last edited by anticapitalista on Jan 24, 2007 - 10:50 PM; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 10:19 PM
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Congrdulations!!!
What's about a torrent share?
Bye
Gregor |
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Laptop: Linux 2.6.23.8-slh-smp-2 i686 sidux 2007-02 - Τάρταρος, Intel Celeron M 1496.358 MHz
Desktop: Linux 2.6.23.1-slh-smp-19 i686 sidux 2007-01 - Χάος, Intel Pentium 4 2992.772 MHz
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 10:23 PM
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24.11.06 ... 24.01.07 - for Guiness Book  |
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So long
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"Was unserer Welt fehlt, ist nicht Öl, sondern mehr Toleranz"
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 10:23 PM
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Well done folks, dowloading now, install later tonight in a partition I've been saving, I'm amazed you got something out before the end of january...cool, what a team.
cheers kstevek |
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 10:58 PM
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Great work team!
Thank you |
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Post subject: Writing from the newly installed sidux
Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 11:07 PM
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I think it took less than 15 minutes from the cd was burned to boot the livecd, install to hd and boot again, I'm writing this from the new hd installation. So far everything went very smooth, easy and quick, havn't had time to check anything else than the browser and internet. I say bravo again and fantastiskt, rekordsnabbt, superbra och jätteroligt.  |
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Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 11:24 PM
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grefabu wrote:
What's about a torrent share?
Hey, after all this is FOSS - just set it up yourself |
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Post subject: RE: Writing from the newly installed sidux
Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 11:26 PM
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| wOOT! Awesome job, downloading now can't wait to install it over my screwed up etch install. |
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Post subject: RE: Writing from the newly installed sidux
Posted: Jan 24, 2007 - 11:50 PM
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| Thank you to all the people that have made this preview available so quickly. I will be installing as soon as I can. |
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