MAIN EDITION: Summer 2014 (amd64/i486)
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 7:34 pm
The LinuxBBQ Team is happy to announce the immediate availability of "Summer 2014". This release replaces the previous "Spring 2014" edition. It comes with an X server, and hcwm as default window manager. As follows is the changelog:
- built from pure Debian Sid
- Debian i486 kernel
- hcwm window manager (can be bundled with cwm, please install cwm to do so)
- elinks/links2/w3m browsers
- reworked dkeger and fbcolors switch
- env-info displays the Xcolor
- tty starts with the selected fbcolor
- IPv6 disabled system-wide for quicker browsing
- unnecessary services disabled
- removal of all systemd leftovers in favour of a full sysV init
- experimental added to sources.list
- new wallpapers (thanks to kexolino and GekkoP), color schemes and tools (thanks to the LinuxBBQ team)
- fixed ranger dependency on package 'file'
- populated .config/ranger
- added kxt (thanks to DebianJoe)
- boot menu of live stick starts all entries "verbose"
- better hardware support by added firmware
- removed the CLI games and dependencies
- removed vifm, tapecalc, hexcurse
- upgraded existing base (snapshot of June 20, 2014)
- rebuilt live-config and live-boot
- added instructions for autologin in /etc/inittab
Download the ISO at sourceforge:
32-bit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download
64-bit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download
Log in as 'bbq' or 'root' with password 'bbq'. Install with 'sudo bbqinstaller'. See the README for more info.
After installation, please create following directory as root:
Thank you!
Users who have installed the Alpha or Beta of this release don't need to do anything else than:
this makes sure that the following upgrades go smoothly.
- built from pure Debian Sid
- Debian i486 kernel
- hcwm window manager (can be bundled with cwm, please install cwm to do so)
- elinks/links2/w3m browsers
- reworked dkeger and fbcolors switch
- env-info displays the Xcolor
- tty starts with the selected fbcolor
- IPv6 disabled system-wide for quicker browsing
- unnecessary services disabled
- removal of all systemd leftovers in favour of a full sysV init
- experimental added to sources.list
- new wallpapers (thanks to kexolino and GekkoP), color schemes and tools (thanks to the LinuxBBQ team)
- fixed ranger dependency on package 'file'
- populated .config/ranger
- added kxt (thanks to DebianJoe)
- boot menu of live stick starts all entries "verbose"
- better hardware support by added firmware
- removed the CLI games and dependencies
- removed vifm, tapecalc, hexcurse
- upgraded existing base (snapshot of June 20, 2014)
- rebuilt live-config and live-boot
- added instructions for autologin in /etc/inittab
Download the ISO at sourceforge:
32-bit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download
64-bit: http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download
Log in as 'bbq' or 'root' with password 'bbq'. Install with 'sudo bbqinstaller'. See the README for more info.
After installation, please create following directory as root:
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mkdir /var/tmp
Users who have installed the Alpha or Beta of this release don't need to do anything else than:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --reinstall live-boot live-boot-initramfs live-config live-config-sysvinit