Last night we passed the 900 package mark and are now fast approaching 1000 (which we'll have a special announcement for). This is partly due to reorganizing of the repo to make it easier to manage and the help of "stormos-repo-scripts", which have been developed to make maintaining a local repo as easy and as painless as possible.
Since the changes to the repo are quite... massive, I'm going to delay syncing until I have a new ISO ready and everything is all backed up.
I installed a really neat drupal plugin to integrate the mailing list with peoples drupal profiles, problem is that while it looks nice it doesn't actually work.
So from now on the module will be disabled and instead there will be a link in the main navigation directly to mailman. Everyone that sent a subscription request will get signed up.
Sorry about that everyone.
There has been a lot of talk about the StormOS installer which is basically the Nexenta Core Platform 2 installer with a few modifications. Most of this talk has about how slow (which has been fixed) it is and user unfriendly (which has not been fixed) it is.
For a server its fine but it's not for the desktop, so we have a few options the way I see it.
Lately I've been getting a lot of emails from people asking about StormOS...
I don't mind answering peoples questions about StormOS (in fact I enjoy it) but since a lot of these questions are the same and the information in them could be useful to others I think they could be somewhere better than my inbox.
Please: If you have a question or some useful information post it on the forums or mailing list so everyone can see it and not just me.
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Most of GNOME 2.26 works quite well and in many respects better than Xfce4.6 with the exception of the policykit stuff which is on the TODO list.
The next version of StormOS is making great progress. So far:
Build System
Maintaining StormOS has become a very time consuming and error prone process, so in an attempt to fix this I am giving multistrap (created by emdebian) a try.
StormOS Hail Beta 2 is now ready for download here.
Main features of this release:
Known issues:
Enjoy!
I seem to be building at least an ISO a day, so why don't I let people play with these? Daily StormOS Hail Beta 2 builds will be available here until it's ready for a proper release.
The much requested StormOS Hail Beta Live CD is now out and available from the download page so you can test your hardware support and play around with StormOS without installing it.
Now its time to focus on what's ahead for Hail Beta 2... and getting to Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
