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

By 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 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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1.6.4-beta1 (i686 & x86-64) ISO released

By On October 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Beta Releases

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 [...]

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1.6.4-alpha3 (i686 & x86-64) ISO released

By On September 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Alpha Releases

Dear users,

We are happy to announce that Lunar Linux 1.6.4 is coming closer to a release, 1.6.4-alpha3 codename ‘Lacus Autumni’ is available for testing.

It has been a long wait, but finally a new release is in the works that will correct all the issues installing Lunar using the old ISO’s. We have also [...]

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Website Translations

By On September 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Website

As some may have noticed, we’ve added some translation icons to the website. Right now, they don’t do a lot since not much of the website is actually translated, but we will get to them as we can.

If you are able to do translations and you would like to contribute an article translation (or [...]

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Joomla! 1.5.x Migration

By On September 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Website

We have just migrated our website to Joomla! 1.5.x as some people may have already noticed.The update went fairly smoothly, but we have lost some functionality that was provided by 3rd party modules; namely Polls and Comments.

Polls do exist in some rudimentary form in Joomla!, however we replaced them before because they were not [...]

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Lunar Linux ISO install guide

By On July 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In General

Note: This guide only applies to 1.6.2 or lower.

Since our ISO is pretty outdated right now (work has begun on a new release, yet, there is no release date in sight. Its going to be ready ‘when its done’ ™) it does require a special kind of way to install it properly. This guide [...]

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Mandatory server updates

By On February 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Announcements

Our main server is currently undergoing mandatory maintenance. Please be patient and bear with us until our administrative squirrels (well, just one squirrel actually) have completed their nutty works.
This note is going to get updated once everything is resolved.

Thank you.

UPDATE: The squirrels are done and our main server is up [...]

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glibc update

By On November 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

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 [...]

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XOrg updated to 7.3

By On September 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

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:

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) [...]

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