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Since our ISO is pretty outdated right now (work has begun on a new release, yet, there is no release date in sight.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 and [...]

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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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1.6.2-beta1 (i686) ISO Released

By On July 29, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Beta Releases

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 [...]

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Attention! Huge update

By On April 5, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Announcements

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I just commited a huge update to the way Lunar Linux handles its
most vital init scripts. From now on, a module named ‘lunar-init‘ is going to hold some of the [...]

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Lunar 1.6.1 installer iso “Moose Drool” released for i686 and x86_64

By On February 18, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Stable Releases

Hi,

With great pleasure we release “Moose Drool”, also known as the Lunar-Linux 1.6.1 Installer ISO in to the public.

This ISO is partially a refreshed installer for i686, but it is also our first stable ISO for x86_64. The x86_64 installer ISO thus marks the true final entry for Lunar Linux as a multi-arch [...]

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C++ support added to distcc and ccache

By On December 18, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

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 [...]

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Update to coreutils

By On December 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

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 [...]

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New Madwifi-svn module / CVS module to be phased out

By On December 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

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 [...]

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