Hi,
With great pleasure we release "Indium Antimonide", also known as the Lunar-Linux 1.6.0-i686 Installer ISO in to the public. After over half a year of work on our first 2.6.x kernel based ISO series, it is finally ready, and ready it is!
This is a major step forward from the 1.5.x series releases, adding a lot of features to Lunar-Linux installs, such as SELINUX, NPTL threads, udev, and more 2.6-kernel related improvements to the Linux OS.
This release also adds the user-friendly installer and refines it greatly. It adds better hardware recognition and module loading options, an easier way to setup compiles against kernel sources and headers, and easier compile optimization management with a completely pluggable package management tool. The installer is now also capable of installing and initializing software RAID.
This ISO comes with gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6, linux-2.6.16, perl-5.8.8, and other rock solid base components. New packages on this ISO are wipe (secure data deletion), foremost (arbitrary data recovery tool), lftp (popular request), a full vim, ethtool and dmidecode (for network and hardware diagnostics).
The installer allows you to install pre-compiled kernels suitable for most systems, and offers a wide choice, such as server-optimized kernels, minimal, and desktop-lowlatency ones. Alternatively the user can compile a kernel himself as with older releases. The installer now also provides a fully configured kernel source tree.
Bittorrent:
lunar-1.6.0-i686.iso.bz2.torrent
download:
lunar-1.6.0-i686.iso.bz2 (254M)
md5sums:
lunar-1.6.0-i686.iso.bz2.md5
lunar-1.6.0-i686.iso.md5
changelog:
ChangeLog
Future work now concentrates on bringing an updated 2.4-based ISO installer, and a x86_64 enabled one. Stay tuned for news on progress with that.
Special thanks to the Lunar Team for making rock solid packages. Kudos to my former employer for letting me go that easy, my wife for bringing me to this new exciting place in the world and paying the bills for the first three months while I worked on the foundation of this ISO, and my new employer for paying me to work on Linux. This last half year has been crazy, and it has been the best, thanks to all of you!
Enjoy,
Auke Kok
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