Hello! > I hope to finish the live installer by the end of this week so that the > final release would start to go online this week-end. I don't know how > many languages I'll build since I've computed that I need 4 days to > upload 30 CD's and then 30 languages! In the meanwhile, if you're > impatient to test, I can make a dailybuild in any other language, just > ask!
I'm currently building what I believe to be the final 2013-02 :). The installer now has all its main features. It is able to perform automatic partitioning if the user decides to wipe out its entire disk (and yes, he'll get a separated /home partition, unlike most of automatic partitioning ;) ). In theory this should also be available in case there is free space on disk for new partitions, while preserving existing partitions. But due to the annoying limit of 4 physical partitions, I suspect this option to not work (not tested, so testers wanted!). Anyway, you are all invited to test this development release as soon as it is uploaded, and particularly its installer (use a virtual machine if you don't have a computer for that purpose). I have to write a blog post telling how to use the new installer. This post will be later used to update our website while preparing the 2.0. In the meanwhile, instructions are written in a previous message: https://mail.gna.org/public/doudoulinux-dev/2013-01/msg00019.html Please also test persistence creation from the LiveCD since there is a bug to fix that is supposed to be fixed in this release: http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/310 Unless a blocking bug is found, this build will be the final 2013-02. I'll start to update our website to announce the new features as soon as possible. Stay tuned! Concerning the languages that I'm going to build, well, I may build between 20 and 30 languages :). Ideally I should build all the languages that have a team on Transifex. However, I'm not sure to have enough time before my holidays ;) – and few languages have seen very low or no activity at all since their creation. So I may upload additional languages in March, days after announcing the 2013-02. If you really want your language now, just tell me! Finally note that I'll build only CD's, no USB image keys. The reason is that I made trials of booting an ISO image file simply copied on an USB key and, thanks to a magic patch of Debian Live, it works! I even suspect this patch to allow booting on the USB key whatever the bootloader you install on the USB key, unlike most of other solutions that rely on GRUB2 only. I'll write another blog post about this. This also need us to rewrite our DDL tool to create an USB key. So I think we have to rethink the installer code in order to make it share its interface with several other tools to be created or modified: USB key creator, ISO relocalizer, keyboard layout settings, date/time settings. Have good DDL trials! -- Cheers, JM.
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