LinuxInstall.org 1.0
North Hills, CA — January 12th, 2003 —
LinuxInstall.org 1.0 is based on Red Hat Linux 8.0 with Personal
Desktop Packages including Mozilla Web Browser, Evolution Mail
Client, OpenOffice.org Office Suite. It also comes with latest
kernel as of 2003-01-07 and latest software updates as of
2003-01-07. The main features are auto hardware detection, auto
root account creation, auto hard drive partition, auto network
setup using DHCP and auto package selection. Since it does not ask
any questions during installation, the process is completely
automated and it only takes about 15 minutes. Best of All, it’s all
in ONE CD!
For more information, visit http://linuxinstall.org
Thomas Chung
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LinuxInstall.org Project
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Ydesktop Release Candidate 3
Yoper Limited (http://www.yoper.com), the New Zealand Linux
company, is proud to announce Release Candidate 3 of Ydesktop, the
first part of Your Operating System that Yoper Limited (“Yoper”) is
developing.
Yoper’s unprecedented success culminates in this last release
candidate before release of the Ydesktop Pack 1.0. Tens of thousand
of former Non-Linux and Linux users alike have successfully adopted
Ydesktop as their main OS since its launch 5 weeks ago. This new
release is a major milestone, since it integrates the latest Linux
font technology and makes this OS the best looking and the fastest
Linux ever.
“Pre-order Ydesktop Pack 1.0 now, which is based on this release
candidate.
A reminder of what Ydesktop is:
- The best OS you have ever tried. High Performance Operating
System (optimized for 686 and higher). - Not a general purpose distribution, but a compact OS with
ability to use packages from all other major OS’s. (rpm and tgz
native, deb-support via ‘alien’) - The binaries we distribute are built from scratch using the
latest original vanilla sources. - Uses the best features from other Operating Systems including
hardware autodetection.
The following are the changes in details:
- USB recognition fix and USB keyboard support during
install - Upgrade to latest Software including kde-3.1.rc6 and XFree
4.3-rc - Fontfix and support for Xft2 for all shipped applications
- NVIDIA fix and support for Geforce4
- Foomatic based printers fix
- Mouse wheel support
- Kbear Bugfix
- Mozilla 1.2.1 upgrade with Xft2 support
- Lots of small fixes
- pkgconfig-0.14.0
- mozilla-source-1.2.1
- cups-1.1.18
- cdrecord-2.0
- qt-x11-free-3.1.1
- eject-2.0.13
- samba-2.2.7a
- distcc-0.15
- sed-4.0.5
- gpm-1.20.1
- db-4.1.25
- inetutils-1.4.2
- iptables-1.2.7a
- man-pages-1.54
- openssl-0.9.7
- xsane-0.90
- binutils-2.13.2.1
- kbear-2.1
- kde-rc6
- dhcpcd-1.3.22-pl4
- prelink-20021002
- libelf-0.8.2
- Xfree86-4.3-rc
- xmms-1.2.7
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Blue Linux 1.0
Hillsborough NC – January 13 2003 Today Linux
for Education is very pleased to announce the release of Blue Linux
1.0 Final. This release brings the base system and development
platform to the public in a stable version. Included in Blue Linux
is Adobe Acrobat Reader, Real Player, Flash, Fully anti-aliased KDE
3.0.4 and more.
“With this release we bring a easy to install and configure
Linux operating system for Intel based systems, we hope to have a
release for the Macintosh systems shortly. This release is
available on our ftp servers, to download Blue Linux or for more
information see http://www.bluelinux.org/
“We have put a feature freeze on the 1.0 releases due to the
massive movement to move to 2.0 which will be a complete redesign
of Blue Linux. Blue Linux 2.0 will comply with the current Linux
Standards (LSB/FHS). We will be actively pursuing bugs that may pop
up in Blue Linux 1.0 and will constantly monitor its use.
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OfB.Biz: New GNU/Linux Distribution Appears from Red Hat
Veteran [Ark Linux]
“Former Red Hat employee Bernhard ‘Bero’ Rosenkraenzer has
resurfaced, after leaving Red Hat last fall, with a brand new
GNU/Linux distribution meant for the average user. According to the
distribution’s web site, ‘The Ark Linux distribution is based
primarily upon a Red Hat Linux 7.3 / 8.0 foundation…'”