Lunar Linux

Since our ISO is pretty outdated right now (work has begun on a new release, yet, there is no release date in sight. Its going to be ready 'when its done' (tm)) it does require a special kind of way to install it properly. This guide is ment to help you through the pain.

Our main server is currently undergoing mandatory maintenance. Please be patient and bare with us until our administrative squirrels (well, just one squirrel actually) have completed their nutty works. This note is going to get updated once ... [More] everything is resolved.Thank you. UPDATE: The squirrels are done and our main server is up and fully functional again. Thank you for baring with us. [Less]

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

Hello dear community, as of right now lunar is shipping the latest available glibc with its moonbase. It tooks some time, yet .. we managed to make it count. From now, glibc comes along with a new language choser which gives you the opportunity to ... [More] chose from all currently supported languages including UTF-8 based locales (which has been missing from lunar ever since). Along with it we're rolling out updates to several key core components like binutils, udev and hal .. some of them are being patched to work with the latest glibc. Others had to have the newer glibc in place in order to work correctly. Also coming along is a brand-new kernel-headers-2.6 module shipping the latest headers from 2.6.23. It comes in both flavours, x86 and x86_64. This update also marks the end of the linux-2.4 kernels in moonbase. The newer glibc does not work with the old 2.4.x based kernel series. So IF YOU'RE RUNNING LINUX 2.4.X PLEASE PUT GLIBC ON HOLD! In the end you're not going to get around migrating to 2.6.x .. but its going to buy you some time. All updates have been tested back and forth .. yet, I'm pretty sure there are bugs going to pop up here and there. Please make use of our bugtracker (http://bugs.lunar-linux.org) if you think you encoutered one. All in all this has been a great team effort and I'd like to thank each and every member of our team for putting his/her spare time into it. Thank you and have fun with the new glibc! Cheers, For the Lunar Linux Development Team, Moritz 'Moe' Heiber [Less]

Hello dear community, as of right now lunar is shipping the latest available glibc with its moonbase. It tooks some time, yet .. we managed to make it count. From now on, glibc comes bundled with a new language choser giving you the opportunity to ... [More] chose from all currently supported languages including UTF-8 based locales (which has been missing from lunar ever since). Along with it we're rolling out updates to several key core components like binutils, udev and hal .. some of them are being patched to work with the latest glibc. Others had to have the newer glibc ready in order to work correctly. Also shipping is a brand-new kernel-headers-2.6 module including the latest headers from 2.6.23. It comes in both flavours, x86 and x86_64. This update also marks the end of the linux-2.4 kernels in moonbase. The newer glibc does not work with the old 2.4.x based kernel series. So IF YOU'RE RUNNING LINUX 2.4.X PLEASE PUT GLIBC ON HOLD! In the end you're not going to get around migrating to 2.6.x .. but its going to buy you some time. All updates have been tested back and forth .. yet, I'm pretty sure there are bugs going to pop up here and there. Please make use of our bugtracker (http://bugs.lunar-linux.org) if you think you encoutered one. All in all this has been a great team effort and I'd like to thank each and every member of our team for putting his/her spare time into it. Thank you and have fun with the new glibc! Cheers, For the Lunar Linux Development Team, Moritz 'Moe' Heiber [Less]

Hi, We're happy to announce the first beta release of a new series of lunar-linux installer ISO's. Our new ISO's will be as easy to install as 1.6.1, but pack an extra punch: This series of ISO's preinstalls a basic Xfce4-4.4.1 desktop with ... [More] XOrg-7.2, together with firefox, Thunderbird, pidgin, audacious, gimp and a few other basic desktop utilities. We hope to make it easy for everyone to both enjoy playing and learning from a true source distro environment and both be productive quickly. The extra applications will give new users a fast start and should install easily on most (even brand new) hardware with the 2.6.22.1 kernel, but also give the user a welcome feeling on a freshly installed lunar-linux system. At 585MB, this is a remarkable ISO that provides a great desktop installation to start with. I myself enjoyed testing this ISO on new systems, where even the wireless and 3D (open source radeon driver) worked without any other user interaction except for the command `startxfce4`. Hopefully you are as lucky on your hardware ;) download it here: Mirror lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.bz2 (http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.bz2) [HTTP] MD5sums lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.bz2.md5 (http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.bz2.md5) lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.md5 (http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.6.2-beta1-i686.iso.md5) [Less]

p#q:first-letter,p#a:first-letter { font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold; float: left; padding-right: 0.5em; } p#q { margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 0; } p#a { margin-top: 0; } I just commited a huge update to the way ... [More] Lunar Linux handles its most vital init scripts. From now on, a module named 'lunar-init' is going to hold some of the more system-bound init scripts like 'mount' (which has been with e2fsprogs before) and 'network' (which has been a part of net-tools). This update is by no means automatic and requires your attention: Run lunar update as usual. lunar-init is a dependency of lunar/theedge and thus will get installed before anything else. However, it is meant to fail on the first run since the old init scripts are still installed in /etc/init.d. DO NOT PANIC. This is the intended behaviour and saves us from dozens of lines of migration code. Let your update continue as planned. e2fsprogs and net-tools have both been "updated" (their UPDATED field has been set to today) in order for them to complete a compilation without installing any init scripts. This step has to be taken to asure that none of the init scripts are tracked via any other installation logs than that of 'lunar-init'. Check whether one of the following files is still present in /etc/init.d/: hostname network netmount mount If that is the case (and you do not employ your own version of these scripts) remove them on your own. If you don't remove them on your own 'lunar-init' is NOT going to install or overwrite any files present and will throw an error again. Reinstall 'lunar-init'. It should now go smooth and without an error. If that is not the case DO NOT REBOOT your machine but report the problem to our bugtracker. Check whether you now have existing copies in /etc/init.d of the files mentioned earlier. And we're done. Congratulations! Its now safe to reboot your box (not mandatory). FAQ Q Any updates on the init scripts? A Absolutely. The network script has been refactored to support WEP/WPA/ifplugd out of box. Now you will be able to configure your wpa_supplicant and just let it run at boottime. Combined with ifplugd it lets you run dhcp clients on requests or network connectivity. Roaming and network priorities etc .. you name it. The other scripts have been tweaked to work with chkconfig. Q Are there any other init scripts going to be intregrated with this module? A Most likely. Q Why go through all this trouble? A It makes the init scripts maintainable. Before that we always had to bump individual versions of modules that weren't related to any of the actions these scripts invoked. Q No seriously, why? A Because sofar said so. Any further questions or bugs can be directed either to this list, the IRC channel or our beloved bugtracker. Enjoy! Moritz Heiber for the Lunar Linux Development Team [Less]

Hi, With great pleasure we release "Moose Drool", also known as the Lunar-Linux 1.6.1 Installer ISO in to the public. This ISO is partially a refreshed installer for i686, but it is also our first stable ISO for x86_64. The x86_64 installer ISO ... [More] thus marks the true final entry for Lunar Linux as a multi-arch distro. This ISO comes with gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6, linux-2.6.20, perl-5.8.8, and other rock solid base components. Allthough the x86_64 ISO is purely 64-bit only now, we're working behind the scenes to enable multilib, so stay focused for more news on that. This will also be the last iso with gcc-3.x. Future ISO's will move to gcc-4.x and an updated glibc. Many more new things are to come! Download it here: i686: [257MB] lunar-1.6.1-i686.iso.bz2 (http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.6.1-i686.iso.bz2) lunar-1.6.1-i686.iso.bz2.md5 (http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.6.1-i686.iso.bz2.md5) lunar-1.6.1-i686.iso.md5 (http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.6.1-i686.iso.md5) x86_64: [260MB] lunar-1.6.1-x86_64.iso.bz2 (http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.6.1-x86_64.iso.bz2) lunar-1.6.1-x86_64.iso.bz2.md5 (http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.6.1-x86_64.iso.bz2.md5) lunar-1.6.1-x86_64.iso.md5 (http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.6.1-x86_64.iso.md5) Changelog: ChangeLog.iso (http://download.lunar-linux.org/lunar/ChangeLog.iso) Enjoy, Auke Kok [Less]

Dear Lunar users,I'm glad to announce that C support has been added to distcc and ccache. This means that you can now benefit from C compile results being cached as well as C builds being distributed among your machines. These features can be ... [More] enabled by running lunar optimize and switching on distcc, ccache and setting up parallel makes. Should be pretty self-explanatory once you're in the optimization menu. If you hit any problems just let me know. There are still a lot of modules out there which do not work with parallel makes but are not marked according.Kind regards,Jannis [Less]

Hello community, to let you know: For the recent updates to 'coreutils' you HAVE TO update your coretools (lunar/theedge) first in order for the update not fail because of chmod and chown being lost in the process. chown and chmod have recently ... [More] been added to the so called 'protected' list thus they are now preserved throughout upgrades and your machines should not be rendered useless incase your coreutils are being updated. If that is the case please extract chown and chmod from a working cache copy (located in /var/cache/lunar/) or grab them directly from /usr/src/coreutils-$VERSION and put them into /bin. Once that is accomplished please update your coretools first and relin coreutils afterwards. We are sorry for inconvenience and hope that this hasn't caused too much agony for all of you. Regards, Moritz aka Moe [Less]