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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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..
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Welcome to the official Lunar Linux website! Lunar is a source-based distribution for 32 and 64bit Intel or AMD systems with simple, yet powerful package management and system administration tools. If you want a flexible system built from source that is easy to install and maintain, you should try Lunar!Screenshots
Recent Comments
- wdp on New Look!
Updated Modules- gimp: The BUILD is not needed anymore.
- lvm2: version bumped to 2.02.90.
- gimp: version bumped to 2.6.12.
- fvwm: version bumped to 2.6.4.
- automake: version bumped to 1.11.3.
- distcc: Fleshing out the DEPENDS and adding a BUILD to disable-Werror.
- tbb: Moving from zbeta to libs.
- medit: Version bump to 1.0.5 and moving to editors section.
- bcrypt: Moving to crypto.
- TECkit: Moving to doc-tools.
Recent Bugs- 0000463: cannot boot after lunar -v update
- 0000504: glib-2 not can be compiled without Python
- 0000499: cannot install X stuff - it stops at mesa-lib for wrong python libs
- 0000483: openbox not installable (configure script aborts)
- 0000453: qtscriptgenerator-0.1.0 fails to build
- 0000479: gtk+-2/gdk-pixbuf
- 0000496: clucene not install
- 0000486: vala won't compile if vala is not installed
- 0000497: kdebase4-runtime not installable
- 0000502: Cannot Compile Kernel




