Hi all, In the interests of releasing early and releasing more often, we present a bleeding-edge 3.3 alpha1 release for your curiosity :-)
The 3.3 series is an Ubuntu Karmic-based stepping-stone between the 3.0 beta series based on Hardy LTS, and the forthcoming 4.0 betas which will be based on Lucid LTS, later this year. Notable changes from the 3.0 betas include: Real-time Linux kernel 2.6.31 or 2.6.33 JACK 1.9.5 or later FFADO 2.0 or later LXDE in place of GNOME EXT4 file system by default GRUB 2 prerelease by default wicd in place of gnome-network-manager The return of Debian-style root user accounts! Iso images (360MB) for CD-R or DVD-R installation are available here: http://pdk.64studio.com/projects/64studio/karmic/images/ As this is an alpha release, expect breakage - this version is not for production use. Here are some of the known bugs you will encounter: 0. The i386 version is made available, but is not yet tested at all. 1. The installer asks a question about setting up jackd for realtime use. Answer yes here, of course. 2. The installer asks several questions about setting up grub-pc. Accepting the defaults seems to work. 3. Preseed of cdd-config fails at the end of installation - just hit OK and the install will complete. 4. gdm is broken, I recommend using Alt-F1 to get a console, logging in as root and removing gdm for now with: apt-get remove gdm You can start X in the old-fashioned way, using startx from the console. 5. Your user account must be added to the audio group in /etc/group manually, before you start JACK. Otherwise you won't be able to lock memory or get real-time scheduling. 6. The ALSA sequencer is broken, so MIDI applications will not start. 7. There are no graphics applications installed by default. I'd be interested to hear your comments, especially on the switch from GNOME to LXDE. This is by no means a final decision, but I wanted to see if we could use a lighter desktop and still remain user-friendly. Have fun! Daniel _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list 64studio-devel@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
