Download
Currently available via Bittorrent and via http, ftp and rsync from
Georgia Tech Software Library (GTlib), USA. Links are at the download page.
x86_64 version is available only via Bittorrent.
Release Plan
The installation environment appears to be good and if no defects are found in it,
we will just release individual fixed packages and start building Always Current
releases. When it looks like there are no defects left caused by Lineox, we will
tag that release as Final. So if there are no big surprises, you can install this
release candidate, install the updates and have as good system as installed from
the final release.
Bugs
Read the file README-LINEOX
from the first CD for known issues at the release time.
There is possibly something wrong with the package order on the disks. If full
installation is done, disks 3 and 4 have to be inserted twice. The order is 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 3 - 4.
This is of course a very minor annoyance and might be intentional (order is generated by pkgorder tool
from anaconda-runtime package) and might save disk changes in other types of installations.
New bugs
Please give feedback!
file-4.10-2.i386.rpm
There is a new build which fixes "file: could not find any magic files!" problem.
The version number is the same and there are no changes in the sources, the new
version was just rebuilt on a different environment. Update with:
rpm -U --force http://www.lineox.net/4.0RC1/updates/i386/RPMS/file-4.10-2.i386.rpm
pkgconfig-0.15.0-3.i386.rpm
Similar to the one above. "pkg-config --list-all" should produce a long listing,
broken version doesn't. Update with:
rpm -U --force http://www.lineox.net/4.0RC1/updates/i386/RPMS/pkgconfig-0.15.0-3.i386.rpm
gamin-0.0.17-4.i386.rpm and gamin-devel-0.0.17-4.i386.rpm
Similar to the one above. New version makes Gnome run a lot faster. Update with:
rpm -U --force http://www.lineox.net/4.0RC1/updates/i386/RPMS/gamin-0.0.17-4.i386.rpm
rpm -U --force http://www.lineox.net/4.0RC1/updates/i386/RPMS/gamin-devel-0.0.17-4.i386.rpm
gnome-session-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm
RC1 has gnome-session taken from beta version because updated version build was broken.
This is fixed now and you can update with:
rpm -U http://www.lineox.net/4.0RC1/updates/i386/RPMS/gnome-session-2.8.0-5.i386.rpm
Some broken dependencies
After full installation:
# apt-get check
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
firstboot: Depends: up2date (>= 4.3.38) but it is not installable
perl-Net-DNS: Depends: perl(Win32::Registry) but it is not installable
perl-libwww-perl: Depends: perl(Authen::NTLM) but it is not installable
Depends: perl(Win32) but it is not installable
Depends: perl(around) but it is not installable
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Fix will be provided later.
Bug reporting
Please join the
General Lineox Linux development discussion mailing list.
Updates
Before we set up apt and yum repositories, use rpm. Currently there are the following
updates:
kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.i686.rpm
Install kernel packages with:
rpm -i http://www.lineox.net/4.0RC1/updates/i386/RPMS/<package-name>
Updating 4.0 RC1 to 4.0 Final
There is a script
available which updates all the changed packages.
TODO
yum support should be added to installation disk(s) (generate headers).
Because apt-get and synaptic are the preferred package managers, this was not
so important issue.
x86_64 Version
x86_64 version has no known program related issues and it already has the new (2.6.9-5.0.3)
kernel. Other issues include trivial matters like no release notes available from installation
program.
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