[DISTRIBUTION] Paldo-Linux.

[Amnon82]

thx for the flowers. today my second xfce-installer-cd goes online. I improved much stuff there. It has now more multimedia-stuff on it:

k3b, vlc, xine, smplayer, avidemux, streamtuner, gtk-recordmydesktop

Also I preconfigured it new:

http://www.paldo.org/~amnon/screens/paldo-xfce-installer-cd-1.10-20070512.png

It is avaiable in 32bit and 64bit

Also some flash-news:

A KDE flavored Installer-CD will come also ...

get the new installer-cd isos (http://www.paldo.org/index-section-packages-page-installercd.html)

[danpos]

@Amnon82

I did download your last build for x86 (Paldo 1.10 / XFCE 4.4.1) and ran it on my box (AMD A64) as liveDVD and the boot was fine. The desktop initialization was good as well (very good detection of my NVidia Geforce 6200, the 3D driver was loaded correctly). At first, it's a good release.

Points that must be improved:

1. A bootsplash with options to set up language / vga resolution / others kernel parameters for boot (obviously setting language up brings locales up as well);

2. More administrative tools (I mean GUIs for these ones).

Regards,

[Amnon82]

k. I'll do that. It is on my todo list. I only must find a way to do that, cos the project-leaders have this not so in the mind.
I installed a app called xkmap. Type xkmap in a terminal and you can setup the layout in xfce.

[danpos]

@Amnon82

I did it when I ran it as liveDVD (as a matter of fact I could have do it through xorg.conf itself but it was good have xkmap available). The question about locales must be in more higher priority IMHO.

Regards,

[Amnon82]

paldo has a realy short community. Some geeks coding a linux from scratch. As I joined the project and coded the installer for it more people tried paldo out. Without my installer only geeks tried to test it.

Now I released a developer edition. Also there are all the supported languages on it. You have still to use xkmap or gdm to change the language or keyboard layout.

I hope my self that I find a good solution to change the language during bootup. I even wrote into the systemrescuecd forum (http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1502) for their script. Maybe I got lucky ...

[danpos]

I hope so. :)

Keep up the good work, mate.

Regards,

[Amnon82]

The project-leader will take a look on the script if he has time. Atm the packagemanager got rewritten for a GUI. So this has more priority than locals.

[Amnon82]

new kde-livecd.iso will be online soon. There you can setup the language (via kde setup) and keyboard layout (via xkmap from desktop). Added also brasilian language.

[danpos]

@Amnon82

Thanks for the update, it seems very good. I'll take a look at it soon.

Regards,

[Amnon82]

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/4287/kde356desktopbu4.th.png (http://img329.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kde356desktopbu4.png)

well I had some troubles but the first working iso should be online today.

[Amnon82]

We now added the language selection to the grub menu. So you can have paldo translated also in the livecd mode. You can test it with the livecd image. Atm I don't have a installercd image with this feature cos I'm porting the pascal-build of my installer to java6.
I hope I'm ready with a paldo 1.11 beta iso this weekend.

[prOnorama]

Well I was curious so I tried the Paldo Live CD (stable) but unfortunately it didn't work (hanged during booting)

Knoppix Live CD/Kubuntu Live both work

[Amnon82]

Testing is the new build. This one should boot. We develop new stable releases with the testing branch. Try that one.

[prOnorama]

That sounds a bit cryptic. Isn't a new stable version usually released after a test version? :confused:

Anyway I will give it a shot again when there's a new stable ;)

Cheers

[shevegen]

Hey Amnon make a link to paldo homepage in your sig or at footer? ;)

prOnorama i think thats what he meant, even though its not quite clear what he wanted to say :)

[Amnon82]

Our stable releases get released every 3 month. Paldo 1.11 will have my installer in it. To see the progress of the build which will be released soon as stable download the testing releases. I'll upload a new Installer CD tonight with a new build of my installer. This ISO will add the features of the LiveCD testing Jürg uploaded yesterday.

Difference between stable and testing:

Testing uses the stable packages
In testing branch we add new packages and test them for next stable release
The kernel is newer in testing
Most bugs are faster fixed in testing but critical get also fixed in stable
Almost all paldo user using testing branch

[Amnon82]

I'm happy to present you the first preview of version 1.11.

These discs have language selection via grub menu. Followed languages are supported: english, french, german, italian, polish, portuguese, spanish and turkish

Also it might have the last pascal-build installer. We are porting the installer to vala. Hope we (I and Juerg) will have the first vala-build of the installer ready next weekend.

You can download the new ISOs here:

Latest x86 testing Installer CD (Paldo 1.11 - Gnome 2.18.2 flavored)
Image Size: 643.3 MB
Build Date: 23 Jun 2007 21:05:34 CEST
Build Host: amnonspc.paldo.org

paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-23-0849.iso (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-23-0849.iso)
paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-23-0849.md5 (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-23-0849.md5)
paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-23-0849.packages (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-23-0849.packages)

Latest x86_64 testing Installer CD (Paldo 1.11 - Gnome 2.18.2 flavored)
Image Size: 583.7 MB
Build Date: 23 Jun 2007 21:07:21 CEST
Build Host: amnonspc.paldo.org

paldo-installer-cd-x86_64-testing-2007-06-23-1707.iso (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/paldo-installer-cd-x86_64-testing-2007-06-23-1707.iso)
paldo-installer-cd-x86_64-testing-2007-06-23-1707.md5 (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/paldo-installer-cd-x86_64-testing-2007-06-23-1707.md5)
paldo-installer-cd-x86_64-testing-2007-06-23-1707.packages (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/paldo-installer-cd-x86_64-testing-2007-06-23-1707.packages)

Post any bug you find on these discs here:

Bugreports for 1.11 Preview 1 (Installer CD) (http://forum.paldo.org/index.php?action=topic&topicnr=221&pagenr=1#post1285)


:devil:Known Bugs:devil:

It won't connect to the internet. HAL 0.5.9.1-3 is the cause of this problem.

Fix it with this cmd in a terminal on the installed paldo system:

sudo sed -i -e 's/START_NETWORK_MANAGER=TRUE/START_NETWORK_MANAGER=FALSE/' /etc/default/NetworkManager

Should be fixed in few days. Sorry for that. Something goes wrong. Seems one of your developers did a mistake (it was not me ;)).

[Amnon82]

Here you can download the fixed iso of Paldo 1.11 Preview 1:

Latest x86 testing Installer CD (Paldo 1.11 - Gnome 2.18.2 flavored)
Image Size: 643.3 MB
Build Date: 24 Jun 2007 20:51:05 CEST
Build Host: amnonspc.paldo.org

paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-24-2050.iso (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/isoimages/paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-24-2050.iso)
paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-24-2050.md5 (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/isoimages/paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-24-2050.md5)
paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-24-2050.packages (http://www.paldo.org/%7Eamnon/isoimages/paldo-installer-cd-x86-testing-2007-06-24-2050.packages)

Post any bug you find on this disc here:

Bugreports for 1.11 Preview 1 (Installer CD) (http://forum.paldo.org/index.php?action=topic&topicnr=221&pagenr=1#post1285)

[Amnon82]

Juerg released today the first unstable Live CD with the new installer on it.

http://www.paldo.org/w/images/0/0e/Install_paldo_010.png

You can download it from here:

paldo-live-cd-x86-unstable.iso (http://www.paldo.org/paldo-live-cd-x86-unstable.iso) paldo-live-cd-x86_64-unstable.iso (http://www.paldo.org/paldo-live-cd-x86_64-unstable.iso)

A new guide using this new installer you'll find here:

Installation using the LiveCD (http://www.paldo.org/wiki/Installation_using_the_LiveCD).
I'll update this guide with every new installer version.

Please test the new installer and post wishes and bugs in this thread:

paldo Installer [Bugs/Wishes] (http://forum.paldo.org/index.php?action=topic&topicnr=227)