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New Look!

Striker — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:41:07 +0000

Image by Adriano Gasparri via Flickr

Hopefully it’s quite obvious that the website has changed just a bit. This is because of our migration over to WordPress from Joomla, which was brought about due to a number of factors:

Easier to maintain once set up
Easier to keep updated & migrate to new versions
Better selection of ready-made themes and plugins

Our site has been rather stale for a time, as we had not seen a fresh post since August, 2010 for the release of 1.6.5 however this was largely due to the main site only being used for news announcements and releases. Since our development team is rather small and the nature of Lunar-Linux’s moonbase of rolling updates without the need of a full release, new articles on the site had been few and far between. To liven things up, we decided it would be nice to have developers or users contribute articles by turning our main site into a “planet” of sorts.

As you will see (or already have), posts will be aggregated from other blogs belonging to our developers and perhaps a few users. The first of which is Jean Bruenn, also known as “wdp” in our IRC channel who is a long-time contributor, mirror provider, and now one of our developers. Jean’s personal blog is where most of his posts originate, along side his own musings.

We are aware of some known issues about the migration. We weren’t able to bring over comments, but there were not many to begin with, so this should not be too much of a concern. Some articles or pages may have formatting issues, but we should be cleaning those up soon. Also of note, some new redirects have been made, some removed, others changed. Should you spot any issues that need our attention, please submit a bug report (yes, the website is on there) and let us know.

Lastly, if you would like your very own blog here, drop us a line on the mailing lists, or via IRC.

Website Translations

Striker — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:51:58 +0000

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 even menu items), we will certainly be interested in them. You can either send them via email directly to me at striker@lunar-linux.org, send them to our mailing lists, or stop by IRC and give us a link.

Joomla! 1.5.x Migration

Striker — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:10:53 +0000

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 nearly as flexible as the addon we found. As for comments, I’m not sure if they exist in 1.5.x or not. I will look for a suitable replacement if they do not exist.

If any hiccups are noticed on the site, please let us know via the mailing lists or via IRC. Thanks!

Edit: Apparently there still are no article comments (seriously, how can that not be useful?)…Also, I do plan on migrating our old theme over, however it will need to be rewritten for 1.5.x compatibility.

Edit²: I’ve installed a comment addon which seems to work. Please contact us if you’re unable to post comments (keep in mind they ARE moderated first, so they probably wont appear right away).

Edit^III: We decided to keep the theme and just tweak it instead.

Mandatory server updates

moe — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:47:25 +0000

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 fully functional again. Thank you for bearing with us.