22 posts tagged “distro”

Pardus is a Turkish GNU/Linux distro.

Pardus aims to

• provide full Turkish support by making the character structure compatible to Turkish (UTF-8 compatibility) and by making all the messages and documents visible to users into Turkish.
  
• ensure that it is an operating system which can be installed and used more easily than the existing Linux distributions and other competitive operating systems.
  
• to be designed in a modular configuration which can achieve the required flexibility and high performance with a task-based and human-focused approach rather than a tool-based and technology-based one.

Pardus links:

• home page http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/info.html
• wiki http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Main_Page
• flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/pardus/
• frappr http://www.frappr.com/pardus
  
• ftp ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/
• svn http://svn.pardus.org.tr/
• bugs http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/
• mail list http://liste.pardus.org.tr/pardus-announce/2008-June/000037.html

OpenSolaris CDs are now free-libre-open and free-of-charge !

OpenSolaris 2008.05 for x86 is available to use free of charge and we can send you a CD at no extra cost.

The delivery time may vary depending on your location, so you should consider downloading the CD image if you have a fast Internet connection.

The OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD makes it simple to boot to a fully functional desktop environment, including Firefox and Thunderbird, without the need to install onto your system. After familiarizing yourself with the OpenSolaris environment, you can then choose to install it onto your disk.

Once installed, you can connect to the OpenSolaris Package Repository to install additional software at OpenOffice.org

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gobuntu

The new "Free software only" installation option in the normal Ubuntu (press F6 in the boot menu twice) basically achieves what Gobuntu is aiming for, as long as the general goal of having "clean" main and universe repositories is fulfilled (which is goal of the Ubuntu as a whole).

Given that many goals Gobuntu has are goals of Ubuntu in general also, and the fact that gNewSense is anyway doing the work that can also benefit Ubuntu (knowledge of problematic packages), the mission of Gobuntu is a bit up in the air.

Mark Shuttleworth on Rethinking Gobuntu

The "current and future" thread on this list has got me thinking. 
Perhaps we really are on the wrong track, that the only way to meet the 
needs of the gNewSense folks is to have completely different source 
packages to Ubuntu. If that is the case, then I think it would be better 
to channel the energy from Gobuntu into gNewSense.

PCLinuxOS | The distro-hopper-stopper

Not only a great catchphrase but a great selection of support sites as well !

• http://www.pclinuxos.com/
• http://pclinuxoshwdb.com/index.php
  
• http://www.mypclinuxos.com/doku.php
• http://www.linfx.com/
• http://www.lortal.org/software.html
• http://beautification.mypclinuxos.com/cpg/
  

The Red Hat Enterprise SRPMS and Enterprise Update SRPMS can be found at

• ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/
• ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/
  

The objective of the ADIOS project is to quickly and easily download a consistent operating system environment onto laboratory PCs.  The ADIOS environment provides students with administrative privileges required to perform advanced exercises in Network and Systems Administration.

We needed a way to download a pre-installed version of the operating system onto the PC in the laboratory.  There are many tools available to do this, but the ADIOS project uses a web server to deliver the Operating System images. 

The ADIOS setup image is used to install operating systems onto disk partitions.  It also copies the OS images from disk to disk to reduce network traffic.  The ADIOS image was ported onto CDROM for students to use at home.

ADIOS-SELinux is a separate boot CD for running NSA Security Enhanced Linux. Additional software is available on the DVD version of ADIOS.

http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/download.html

rPath webinar archive

http://www.rpath.com/corp/webinars.html

• Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance: The Intelligent Way to Deliver Business Intelligence Software
• How to Achieve Efficient Software Appliance Production with Agile Methods and Distributed Resources Using rPath's rBuilder™ and GlobalLogic Velocity™
• How Digium Makes the Phones Ring Off the Hook for the Asterisk Appliance
• Using Software Appliances to Deliver SaaS Value -- Minus the Headaches
• Zimbra (now Yahoo ?) Software Appliance Case Study

http://www.rpath.com/corp/webinars.html

There is a technote that explains how you can use rPath GNU/Linux or Foresight GNU/Linux and the Firefox web browser to access WebEx  Use the process described in this guide to prepare your rPath Linux computer for use with WebEx. The process involves installing a Java runtime environment and some additional libraries for compatibility.

After installation, you can test WebEx by visiting their live demonstration site, or by using rPath's trial installation as detailed in the Resources section of this document.

rPath Building Linux Software with Conary

rPath technology

• http://www.rpath.com/technology/building/index.html
• http://www.rpath.com/technology/building/bestpractices.html

rPath wiki

• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary:Recipe_Templates
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary:Directory_Path_Macros

rPath

• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/

Foresight

• http://issues.foresightlinux.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa

I have just tried CentOS 5 and am a bit disappointed

1. The LIVE-CD gives me a blank screen on my IBM Thinkpad
2. The INSTALL-DVD still doesn't have a graphical installer
3. I asked for a desktop build and (unless I misread something) its only created a root user and I first have to log in as that

I'm afraid I'm going to stick with gNewSense & Xubuntu for the moment at least for my desktops and notebooks !