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Lunar and network scripts

By dveatch On January 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Cogitations

From the occasional IRC chats regarding the current state of our network scripts. Alternatives have been proposed such as;

Retain the basic concepts of the current scripts and improve them to handle additional network connection types. In general just make them better than their current state. Switch to wicd. Switch to NetworkManager Switch to connman [...]

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New Look!

By Striker On January 6, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Website

Hopefully it’s quite obvious that the website has changed just a bit. This is because of our migration over to WordPress from Joomla, which was brought about due to a number of factors:

Easier to maintain once set up Easier to keep updated & migrate to new [...]

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A `lunar update` trick

By dveatch On January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Cogitations

There are many things I love about Lunar and here is a little trick that might save you some time.

When `lunar update` is run it will of course sort through the modules installed on your system and present you with an editable list. As a Lunar developer, often times I know a module in [...]

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Handling renamed modules – An idea

By wdp On October 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In the daily insanity

A few days ago we had a little discussion on IRC how to handle renamed modules (once again). Due to the renamed KDE modules a few users had a broken Box because Lunar Linux isn’t keeping track of renamed modules – So, if a module gets renamed it looks like the module got removed and [...]

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Systemd & Connman

By wdp On August 4, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In the daily insanity

I wrote about a possible switch of the init-system in Lunar Linux some time ago. Today I’ll  show you how to replace your init-system with systemd and connman in Lunar Linux.

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Updating old lunar installations: Getting rid of hal

By wdp On July 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In the daily insanity

As hal is deprecated now, most new-installations don’t have it anymore. My netbook still has it, so how do I get rid of it easily? Read on, if you want to know..

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cache database for moonbase

By wdp On February 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In the daily insanity

We’ve had a few talks regarding the use of a database to speed up some processing/end-user-tools. Let’s say “lvu search”, the module searching when issuing “lunar renew” (which should be module_expired() and run_details()). Also things like “lvu depends”. However. Lunar’s package management is as good as it is, because it’s easy. All you need to [...]

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Lunar Linux 1.6.5 (i686 & x86_64) ISO’s released

By ratler On August 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Stable Releases

Dear users,

The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.5 codename ‘Mare Ingenii’!

The last known issues with the ISO have been resolved. We added support for hybrid ISO in the last minute, which mean it’s a lot more easy to install lunar from an usb-stick from now on. The developers [...]

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Lunar Linux 1.6.5-rc1 (i686 & x86-64) ISO’s released

By ratler On July 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Release Candidates

Dear users,

The Lunar team proudly announce the release of Lunar Linux 1.6.5-rc1 codename ‘Mare Ingenii’!

This project is still alive and we don’t intend to change that!

While news and updates on our main site may have been next to nil we assure you that the wheels have been turning behind the scenes. The [...]

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Lunar Linux 1.6.4 (i686 & x86-64) ISO’s released

By ratler On December 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Stable Releases

Dear users,

The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.4 codename ‘Lacus Autumni’!

After almost two years since the last stable release it’s finally here, Lunar Linux 1.6.4. We’ve reached a new milestone, 1.6.4 is our most
polished release to date. Our hope is that everyone will enjoy it as [...]

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