New DRM module for XOrg 7.x

By On December 1, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

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 [...]

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Xorg X11R7.1

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

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 [...]

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udev update to 101

By On October 8, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In General

udev has been updated in moonbase yesterday. Its been tested extensively, features a new rules patchset that is ment to provide a wider range of compatibility and effectiveness considering the hotplug and coldplug stages of every Lunar installation.

Right now we don’t expect any error to turn up but of course we are just human [...]

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lunar-linux is moving to XOrg 7

By On June 19, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Modules

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 [...]

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ERRATA: 1.6.0 – non-configured kernel sources

By On April 20, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Announcements

Hi,

The 1.6.0 ISO has a minor flaw in the installation procedure that doesn’t correctly configure the kernel sources in /usr/src/linux.

People who wish to compile XOrg or any other module that requires kernel sources will be unable to with out doing the following:

$ make -C /usr/src/linux prepare

this correctly creates /usr/src/linux/include/version.h, and should [...]

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Lunar-1.6.0-i686 Install ISO “Indium Antomonide” released

By On April 6, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Announcements

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 [...]

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Lunar-Linux Last.FM Group

By On March 12, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In General

Lunar-Linux now has a Last.FM group. If you are a user of Last.FM and wish to join our group, please do so!

Group Weblink: http://www.last.fm/group/Lunar-Linux

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1.6.0-i686-rc3 released

By On February 7, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Release Candidates

Hi,

Here is the third Release Candidate for the final 1.6.0-i686 series
Installation ISO. As with rc1 and rc2, this is a testing release and
approaches the quality we are looking for in the -final release. A
lot of small bugs in rc1 and rc2 have been addressed making this an
[...]

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1.6.0-i686-rc2 released

By On January 26, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Release Candidates

Here is the second Release Candidate for the final 1.6.0-i686 series ISO. As with rc1, this is a testing release and approaches the quality we are looking for in the -final release. A lot of small bugs in rc1 have been addressed making this an extremely useful release.

Specifically, this release backups all packages to [...]

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1.6.0-i686-rc1 released – 2.6.14.5 + nptl

By On January 5, 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Release Candidates

Here is the first Release Candidate for the final 1.6.0-i686 series ISO. The major changes in this release are that glibc is now nptl-enabled and the SATA install code has been rewritten to discover more discs properly. The release is based on the installer
code of the 1.5.x ISO series but brings you a [...]

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