HEAR, HEAR! Lunar Linux 1.6.4-beta1 codename ‘Lacus Autumni’ just became available, so grab it while it’s hot!

We encourage everyone to give the latest ISO a test spin, your feedback is invaluable to us. With your help we will make Lunar even better!

We know it has been a long wait for a [...]]]> Dear users,

HEAR, HEAR! Lunar Linux 1.6.4-beta1 codename ‘Lacus Autumni’ just became available, so grab it while it’s hot!

We encourage everyone to give the latest ISO a test spin, your feedback is invaluable to us. With your help we will make Lunar even better!

We know it has been a long wait for a new ISO to become available that fixes all the problems using the old ISO’s, so wait no further! The 1.6.4 stable release is
just around the corner and we hope it will please everyone. As mentioned in our previous announcement XOrg and Xfce4 had to be removed from the ISO, as it was just not
worth the effort to maintain them. Instead we can put that effort into further improving our installer and ISO quality.

New features in 1.6.4

• Working software raid configuration
• Improved language selection
• Installation from a USB stick or other media
• Ships with kernel 2.6.27!
• ReiserFS, XFS and JFS are now also built-in with the precompiled kernels

Please try the new ISO and give us feedback through the bugtracker. You can also inform us directly on IRC and via our mailing lists, though the bug tracker is preferred.

Summary of changes since 1.6.4-alpha3:

• Fixed an issue with swap partitions showing up twice in fstab if more than one was added
• Added a feature to list what filesystem type you chose for the assigned partition
• We now disable /tmp on tmpfs if the user add a /tmp partition
• Precompiled kernels will now get registered as installed
• As mentioned the default kernel config now includes xfs, jfs and reiserfs as built-in
• Software raid fixes
• All modules refreshed
• Kernel 2.6.27 added
• Module freetype2 removed
• A few ‘luser’ bugs were fixed that caused various issues creating groups for a new user
• A ‘lservices’ bug fixed, it’s now again possible to enable/disable services

Known issues:

No known issues at this time

Download here:

Mirror(s)

• http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.4-beta1-i686.iso.bz2
• http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.4-beta1-x86_64.iso.bz2

MD5sums

• http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.4-beta1-i686.iso.bz2.md5
• http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.4-beta1-i686.iso.md5
• http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.4-beta1-x86_64.iso.bz2.md5
• http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.4-beta1-x86_64.iso.md5

We’re happy to announce the first beta release of a new series of lunar-linux
installer ISO’s. Our new ISO’s will be as easy to install as 1.6.1, but pack an extra punch: This series of ISO’s preinstalls a basic Xfce4-4.4.1 desktop with XOrg-7.2, together with firefox, Thunderbird, pidgin, audacious, gimp and a few [...]]]> Hi,

We’re happy to announce the first beta release of a new series of lunar-linux
installer ISO’s. Our new ISO’s will be as easy to install as 1.6.1, but pack an extra punch: This series of ISO’s preinstalls a basic Xfce4-4.4.1 desktop with XOrg-7.2, together with firefox, Thunderbird, pidgin, audacious, gimp and a few other basic desktop utilities.

We hope to make it easy for everyone to both enjoy playing and learning from a true source distro environment and both be productive quickly. The extra applications will give new users a fast start and should install easily on most (even brand new) hardware with the 2.6.22.1 kernel, but also give the user a welcome feeling on a freshly installed lunar-linux system.

At 585MB, this is a remarkable ISO that provides a great desktop installation to start with. I myself enjoyed testing this ISO on new systems, where even the wireless and 3D (open source radeon driver) worked without any other user interaction except for the command `startxfce4`. Hopefully you are as lucky on your hardware

download it here:

• Mirror
• lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.bz2 [HTTP]

• MD5sums
• lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.bz2.md5
• lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.md5