Lunar Linux » Moonbase https://lunar-linux.org It's out of this world! Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:21:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.3 We are still very much alive https://lunar-linux.org/2017/10/18/we-are-still-very-much-alive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-are-still-very-much-alive https://lunar-linux.org/2017/10/18/we-are-still-very-much-alive/#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2017 07:07:20 +0000 http://www.lunar-linux.org/?p=576 Hello!

We have received many questions as of late if the Lunar Linux project is still alive; the short answer to that is YES! Of course we can’t deny the fact that we are a little short on manpower right now, but packages are getting updated pretty much every day. If you want to track the [...]]]> Hello!

We have received many questions as of late if the Lunar Linux project is still alive; the short answer to that is YES! Of course we can’t deny the fact that we are a little short on manpower right now, but packages are getting updated pretty much every day. If you want to track the package updates, head over to our GitHUB page.

Work is also ongoing to release a new official ISO, but we don’t have a firm release date set. While waiting for the official release we have been producing daily ISO’s that can be used until then, after all it’s only used to bootstrap your installation; Lunar Linux is as you know a rolling release distribution. The daily ISO’s can be found here.

Don’t hesitate to join our IRC channel #lunar on freenode if you have any questions, or if you just want to hang out with some nice people!

- The Lunar Team

]]> https://lunar-linux.org/2017/10/18/we-are-still-very-much-alive/feed/ 0 glibc update https://lunar-linux.org/2007/11/18/glibc-update/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glibc-update https://lunar-linux.org/2007/11/18/glibc-update/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:53:37 +0000 http://www.blogs.lunar-linux.org/2007/11/18/glibc-update/ Hello dear community,

as of right now lunar is shipping the latest available glibc with its moonbase. It tooks some time, yet .. we managed to make it count. From now on, glibc comes bundled with a new language choser giving you the opportunity to chose from all currently supported languages including UTF-8 based locales [...]]]> Hello dear community,

as of right now lunar is shipping the latest available glibc with its moonbase. It tooks some time, yet .. we managed to make it count. From now on, glibc comes bundled with a new language choser giving you the opportunity to chose from all currently supported languages including UTF-8 based locales (which has been missing from lunar ever since).

Along with it we’re rolling out updates to several key core components like binutils, udev and hal .. some of them are being patched to work with the latest glibc. Others had to have the newer glibc ready in order to work correctly.

Also shipping is a brand-new kernel-headers-2.6 module including the latest headers from 2.6.23. It comes in both flavours, x86 and x86_64.

This update also marks the end of the linux-2.4 kernels in moonbase. The newer glibc does not work with the old 2.4.x based kernel series. So IF YOU’RE RUNNING LINUX 2.4.X PLEASE PUT GLIBC ON HOLD! In the end you’re not going to get around migrating to 2.6.x .. but its going to buy you some time.

All updates have been tested back and forth .. yet, I’m pretty sure there are bugs going to pop up here and there. Please make use of our bugtracker if you think you encoutered one.

All in all this has been a great team effort and I’d like to thank each and every member of our team for putting his/her spare time into it.

Thank you and have fun with the new glibc!

Cheers,

For the Lunar Linux Development Team, Moritz ‘Moe’ Heiber

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Updating from the previous version in moonbase should be handled automatically by lunar update.

However, there are 2 caveats:

If, after updating, your mouse is not working, please recompile xf86-input-mouse via lin xf86-input-mouse. Restart X afterwards. The current NVIDIA driver (100.14.11) [...]]]> XOrg has been updated in moonbase to version X11R7.3

Updating from the previous version in moonbase should be handled automatically by lunar update.

However, there are 2 caveats:

  1. If, after updating, your mouse is not working, please recompile xf86-input-mouse via lin xf86-input-mouse. Restart X afterwards.
  2. The current NVIDIA driver (100.14.11) does not support XOrg 7.3
    • To bypass this problem you can add the -ignoreABI argument to the startx command, or have your login manager pass it to X.
    • NOTE: It may be a good idea to disable the composite extension until the next release.

Samuel

Update

As of today (19/09/2007) the NVIDIA driver (version 100.14.19) is compatible with XOrg 7.3, the -ignoreABI is no longer needed

]]> https://lunar-linux.org/2007/09/10/xorg-updated-to-73/feed/ 0 C++ support added to distcc and ccache https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/18/c-support-added-to-distcc-and-ccache/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=c-support-added-to-distcc-and-ccache https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/18/c-support-added-to-distcc-and-ccache/#comments Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:55:39 +0000 http://www.blogs.lunar-linux.org/2006/12/18/c-support-added-to-distcc-and-ccache/ Dear Lunar users,

I'm glad to announce that C++ support has been added to distcc and ccache. This means that you can now benefit from C++ compile results being cached as well as C++ builds being distributed among your machines.

These features can be enabled by running lunar optimize and switching on distcc, ccache [...]]]> Dear Lunar users,

I'm glad to announce that C++ support has been added to distcc and ccache. This means that you can now benefit from C++ compile results being cached as well as C++ builds being distributed among your machines.

These features can be enabled by running lunar optimize and switching on distcc, ccache and setting up parallel makes. Should be pretty self-explanatory once you're in the optimization menu.

 If you hit any problems just let me know. There are still a lot of modules out there which do not work with parallel makes but are not marked according.

Kind regards,

Jannis 

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to let you know: For the recent updates to ‘coreutils’ you HAVE TO update your coretools (lunar/theedge) first in order for the update not fail because of chmod and chown being lost in the process.

chown and chmod have recently been added to the so called ‘protected’ list thus they are now preserved [...]]]> Hello community,

to let you know: For the recent updates to ‘coreutils’ you HAVE TO update your coretools (lunar/theedge) first in order for the update not fail because of chmod and chown being lost in the process.

chown and chmod have recently been added to the so called ‘protected’ list thus they are now preserved throughout upgrades and your machines should not be rendered useless incase your coreutils are being updated.

If that is the case please extract chown and chmod from a working cache copy (located in /var/cache/lunar/) or grab them directly from /usr/src/coreutils-$VERSION and put them into /bin. Once that is accomplished please update your coretools first and relin coreutils afterwards.

We are sorry for inconvenience and hope that this hasn’t caused too much agony for all of you.

Regards,

Moritz aka Moe

]]> https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/17/update-to-coreutils/feed/ 0 New Madwifi-svn module / CVS module to be phased out https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/14/new-madwifi-svn-module-cvs-module-to-be-phased-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-madwifi-svn-module-cvs-module-to-be-phased-out https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/14/new-madwifi-svn-module-cvs-module-to-be-phased-out/#comments Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:57:08 +0000 http://www.blogs.lunar-linux.org/2006/12/14/new-madwifi-svn-module-cvs-module-to-be-phased-out/ Hey everybody,

I added a madwifi-svn module to the moonbase. It is going to replace the madwifi-cvs module in a week (means the cvs modules is going to disappear and there’s only going to be the svn module). Also, the stable version of the madwifi wireless driver has been added as well named madwifi. It [...]]]> Hey everybody,

I added a madwifi-svn module to the moonbase. It is going to replace the madwifi-cvs module in a week (means the cvs modules is going to disappear and there’s only going to be the svn module). Also, the stable version of the madwifi wireless driver has been added as well named madwifi. It is supposed to provide people with a stable alternative to the bleeding edge svn driver. Unfortunately, the stable driver is semi-broken with the current kernel so if you are considering an upgrade please use the svn module for the time being. Once the stable driver recieves an update we’re going to test and probably bump it so everyone can use it.

Everyone is strongly encouraged to update to the newer madwifi driver. It contains fixes of a whole year that the (dead) cvs version hasn’t recieved (and probably never will).

Enjoy!

Moritz aka Moe

]]> https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/14/new-madwifi-svn-module-cvs-module-to-be-phased-out/feed/ 0 New DRM module for XOrg 7.x https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/01/new-drm-module-for-xorg-7x/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-drm-module-for-xorg-7x https://lunar-linux.org/2006/12/01/new-drm-module-for-xorg-7x/#comments Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:45:01 +0000 http://www.blogs.lunar-linux.org/2006/12/01/new-drm-module-for-xorg-7x/ Hello community,

I just added a new module to the moonbase called ‘drm-git’. It replaces the obsolete ‘libdrm-cvs’. Both modules have the sole purpose of providing the kernel interface modules for the direct rendering manager X uses to enable your video card’s 3D acceleration. So if you happen to have libdrm-cvs installed its going to [...]]]> Hello community,

I just added a new module to the moonbase called ‘drm-git’. It replaces the obsolete ‘libdrm-cvs’. Both modules have the sole purpose of providing the kernel interface modules for the direct rendering manager X uses to enable your video card’s 3D acceleration. So if you happen to have libdrm-cvs installed its going to get removed on the next run and you will have to install drm-git instead to get a fully accelerated X environment again.

ATTENTION: THIS DOES NOT APPLY IF YOU ARE USING THE NVIDIA OR FGLRX DRIVER! DO NOT lin mesa-lib! You don’t need it as the binary drivers you use provide the kernel modules on their own.

Alongside with this update comes a libdrm (regular version) update and a slight mesa-lib modification (which shouldn’t effect anyone actually). Although, if were using the mach64 or r300 driver provided by mesa-lib you will not be able to do that until the next mesa release since the drivers are temporarily disabled. I’m sorry for that inconvenience but they just do not compile.

Enjoy.

Moritz Heiber
Lunar Linux Development Team

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This version was tested extensively and updating from X11R7 should be a no brainer. (just let lunar update handle it). For updating from X11R6.x series i point you to the forums and the wiki.
When you face problems do not hesistate to file a [...]]]> XOrg7 has been updated in moonbase to version X11R7.1.
This version was tested extensively and updating from X11R7 should be a no brainer. (just let lunar update handle it). For updating from X11R6.x series i point you to the forums and the wiki.
When you face problems do not hesistate to file a bug in our bug-tracker
gr,S.

]]> https://lunar-linux.org/2006/10/17/xorg-x11r71/feed/ 0 lunar-linux is moving to XOrg 7 https://lunar-linux.org/2006/06/19/lunar-linux-is-moving-to-xorg-7/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lunar-linux-is-moving-to-xorg-7 https://lunar-linux.org/2006/06/19/lunar-linux-is-moving-to-xorg-7/#comments Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:29:53 +0000 http://www.blogs.lunar-linux.org/2006/06/19/lunar-linux-is-moving-to-xorg-7/ Hi,

I’ve just released the xorg-7.0 tree in the zbeta section of moonbase.

Many of you know Moe and me have been working on this first release for X11R7 for quite a long time.

Before you type in `lin XOrg7`, I’d like to point you to the documentation page in the lunar-linux wiki . [...]]]> Hi,

I’ve just released the xorg-7.0 tree in the zbeta section of moonbase.

Many of you know Moe and me have been working on this first release for X11R7 for quite a long time.

Before you type in `lin XOrg7`, I’d like to point you to the documentation page in the lunar-linux wiki .

Read that page before you install XOrg7 on top of XOrg. If you do not follow those instructions… you’re on your own

Right now installing XOrg7 on a clean lunar-linux box will be rather flawless.

Migrating from XOrg though, is rather untested. Still we assume if you follow the instructions on the mentioned wiki page you should be able to upgrade.

I’d like to point you to the XOrg-7 forum thread and the bug-tracker tool for pointing out bugs, enhancements and/or recommendations.

 

Cheers, Samuel

]]> https://lunar-linux.org/2006/06/19/lunar-linux-is-moving-to-xorg-7/feed/ 0 Changes to thunderbird and removal of linux-2.6-inotify https://lunar-linux.org/2005/09/17/changes-to-thunderbird-and-removal-of-linux-26-inotify/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changes-to-thunderbird-and-removal-of-linux-26-inotify https://lunar-linux.org/2005/09/17/changes-to-thunderbird-and-removal-of-linux-26-inotify/#comments Sat, 17 Sep 2005 22:03:13 +0000 http://www.blogs.lunar-linux.org/2005/09/17/changes-to-thunderbird-and-removal-of-linux-26-inotify/ Hello community,

just to let you know, I’ve just been taking out enigmail support of the thunderbird module since it doesn’t work anymore. If you wish to use enigmail with thunderbird in the future you will have to install it manually using the packages from http://enigmail.mozdev.org.

We apologize for the inconvenience but [...]]]> Hello community,

just to let you know, I’ve just been taking out enigmail support of the thunderbird module since it doesn’t work anymore. If you wish to use enigmail with thunderbird in the future you will have to install it manually using the packages from http://enigmail.mozdev.org.

We apologize for the inconvenience but there’s hardly anything we can do about thunderbird’s messed up code ;-)

Also, I’m about to remove the ‘linux-2.6-inotify’ kernel as the patches that were applied to the referred module have been merged with the main kernel tree and therefore are no longer needed.

Thank you for your ongoing support!

Cheers,

Moritz aka Moe on behalf of the Lunar Linux Team

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