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Lunar Linux 1.7.0 (i686 & x86_64) ISO’s released

Ratler — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:55:04 +0000

Dear all,

You better believe it, the day you all have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.7.0 codename ‘Sinus Successus’.

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes Lunar Linux is back with a vengeance; a lot of overhauling have been done all over the core tools, packages, installer and the ISO-builder. Even though our journey to reach this milestone have been a long one we hope that the changes and quality improvements we’ve made was worth the wait. So what are you waiting for? Go grab a copy of Lunar Linux while it is hot!

- The Lunar team

New features in 1.7.0

Out with sysvinit (gasp!) in with systemd (wth?!)
Kernel 3.16.3, gcc 4.9.1 and glibc 2.19
Added support for btrfs filesystem
Grub2 or lilo, pick your poison
Improved installer
Now with initrd support
A bunch of updated modules!

Give us feedback through the bugtracker. You can also inform us directly on IRC and via our mailing lists.

Download here:

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Lunar Linux 1.7.0-rc2 (i686 & x86_64) ISO’s released

Ratler — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 20:40:17 +0000

Dear all,

Some might have believed we were down for the count, but on the contrary we have actually been quite busy working on the core of Lunar (and with our lives). Four very long years has passed by since our last release. Yet there have been a few adventurous souls still brave enough to try the old 1.6.5 release and get it up to date; it wasn’t an easy journey but some eventually made it through and learned a lot in the process.

With that said the Lunar team is extremely proud to announce the release of Lunar Linux 1.7.0 Release Candidate 2 codename ‘Sinus Successus’!

- The Lunar team

New features in 1.7.0

Out with sysvinit (gasp!) in with systemd (wth?!)
Kernel 3.16.2 and glibc 2.19
Added support for btrfs filesystem
Grub2 or lilo, pick your poison
Improved installer
Now with initrd support
A bunch of updated modules!

Give us feedback through the bugtracker. You can also inform us directly on IRC and via our mailing lists.

Download here:

ISO’s

SHA1sums

Lunar Linux 1.6.5 (i686 & x86_64) ISO’s released

Ratler — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:56:43 +0000

Dear users,

The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.5 codename ‘Mare Ingenii’!

The last known issues with the ISO have been resolved. We added support for hybrid ISO in the last minute, which mean it’s a lot more easy to install lunar from an usb-stick from now on. The developers are currently brainstorming and voting on ideas to further improve the state of Lunar, an announcement about this will be made later. We also plan to let our users, yes you, to chip in with ideas that will be up for voting within our community, but more on that later. Enjoy the release of Lunar 1.6.5!

- The Lunar team

New features in 1.6.5

Based on kernel 2.6.35.3 and glibc 2.11.2
Hybrid ISO support
Added support for EXT4 filesystem
Added option to change preferred /etc/fstab style; UUID, LABEL or device name
Openssh and screen is now part of the LiveCD to allow remote assistance during install

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:

Isolinux updated
All modules refreshed
Custom compilation of the kernel during install should once again be working
Pre-compiled kernels now properly generate an install and md5sum log
Added modules: yasm, gperf, libusb-compat, usbutils, xz, gmp, mpfr, cron-common, logrotate, rsyslog, iwlwifi-3945-ucode, iwlwifi-4965-ucode, iwlwifi-5000-ucode, screen, slang and mc
Removed modules: mktemp, lard and device-mapper
Grub2 tarball is available on the LiveCD for manual install
Fixed a few minor bugs with the installer
Rsyslog is now the new default syslog daemon
Wireless firmware available on the liveCD

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Lunar Linux 1.6.4 (i686 & x86-64) ISO’s released

Ratler — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:02:59 +0000

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 much as we’ve done making it. The effort of improving our installer and iso
will of course continue. Stay tuned next year for some exciting new features that are in store for Lunar!

We would like to wish everyone a happy new year!

- The Lunar team

New features in 1.6.4

Working software raid configuration
Improved language selection
Installation from a USB stick or other media
Ships with kernel 2.6.27.10!
ReiserFS, XFS and JFS are now also built-in with the precompiled kernels

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-beta1:

Isolinux updated
All modules refreshed
Kernel bumped to 2.6.27.10
Installer will now skip the ‘swap file’ step if a swap partition was added
USB modems in the precompiled kernel have been disabled since they require firmware images that we don’t supply
Added lsb-release

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1.6.2-beta1 (i686) ISO Released

sofar — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:46:25 +0000

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

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

sofar — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:34:15 +0000

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 distro. This ISO comes with gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6, linux-2.6.20, perl-5.8.8, and other rock solid base components.

Allthough the x86_64 ISO is purely 64-bit only now, we’re working behind the scenes to enable multilib, so stay focused for more news on that. This will also be the last iso with gcc-3.x. Future ISO’s will move to gcc-4.x and an updated glibc. Many more new things are to come!

Download it here:

i686: [257MB]

x86_64: [260MB]

Changelog:

ChangeLog.iso

Enjoy,

Auke Kok

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

sofar — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 04:31:23 +0000

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

Lunar ISO 1.5.1 i686+i386 released

sofar — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:34:22 +0000

Dear all!

after 3 weeks of heavy QC, a new lunar installation ISO, named
1.5.1 – “Gallium Arsenide” is released. This is the first release ever where
two different lunar ISO’s are released simultaneously. Once for i686 and one for older (up to i386) machines

i686 download (240mb)
i386 download (205mb)

The changelog is here: http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/ChangeLog.iso

This version fixes a few bugs with missing files in /etc/, and adds
support for displaying normal device names (/dev/sda, /dev/hda3 etc) in
the entire installer. Also, there are now proper default choices in the
language, font, charmap etc. menus to guide you. The network now starts
by default after installation.

The package list has been modified a bit and now includes wireless_tools,
lard as logging daemon, and xfs and reiserfs installs are now tested OK.
Plenty of minor adjustments were also made that are too countless to number.

Please make sure you verify the md5sums after downloading the iso. Here
are the URL’s of the ISO:

http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.1-i686.iso.bz2
http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.1-i686.iso.bz2.md5
http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.1-i686.iso.md5

http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.1-i386.iso.bz2
http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.1-i386.iso.bz2.md5
http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.1-i386.iso.md5

enjoy!

sofar