1.6.4-beta1 (i686 & x86-64) ISO released

Dear users,

HEAR, HEAR! Lunar Linux 1.6.4-beta1 codename 'Lacus Autumni' just became available, so grab it while it's hot!

We encourage everyone to give the latest ISO a test spin, your feedback is invaluable to us. With your help we will make Lunar even better!

We know it has been a long wait for a new ISO to become available that fixes all the problems using the old ISO's, so wait no further! The 1.6.4 stable release is just around the corner and we hope it will please everyone. As mentioned in our previous announcement XOrg and Xfce4 had to be removed from the ISO, as it was just not worth the effort to maintain them. Instead we can put that effort into further improving our installer and ISO quality.

New features in 1.6.4

Working software raid configuration
Improved language selection
Installation from a USB stick or other media
Ships with kernel 2.6.27!
ReiserFS, XFS and JFS are now also built-in with the precompiled kernels

Please try the new ISO and give us feedback through the bugtracker. You can also inform us directly on IRC and via our mailing lists, though the bug tracker is preferred.

Summary of changes since 1.6.4-alpha3:

Fixed an issue with swap partitions showing up twice in fstab if more than one was added
Added a feature to list what filesystem type you chose for the assigned partition
We now disable /tmp on tmpfs if the user add a /tmp partition
Precompiled kernels will now get registered as installed
As mentioned the default kernel config now includes xfs, jfs and reiserfs as built-in
Software raid fixes
All modules refreshed
Kernel 2.6.27 added
Module freetype2 removed
A few 'luser' bugs were fixed that caused various issues creating groups for a new user
A 'lservices' bug fixed, it's now again possible to enable/disable services

Known issues:

No known issues at this time

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After you install make sure that you follow the instructions in 'man lfirsttime'
Setting up the system correctly from the start will save you a lot of effort later.

Then if you want a desktop machine, you will need to install X (run 'lin XOrg7')
and related input and video drivers (run 'lvu section xor7/driver' for possibilities).

Only then can you start to install any graphical tools. Very few modules have
an explicit dependency on X, so you really do need to explicitly install X first.

A Lunar Installation that has ppp preconfigured to work would be fanastic, That would be out of this world

On the lunar and lunar-dev mailing lists, El_Angelo wrote:

Ppl having problems with my latest change to the XOrg7 profile
(removal of xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse and adding
xf86-input-evdev). Plz read the following to understand what this
change means for you:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EvdevInputDriver

so basically for things to work:

1. remove everything that concerns input devices from your xorg.conf
2. make sure you have CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y configured in your kernel
(presumably as a module should work too)
3. if you need a custom layout (so not us) use or setxkbmap or use the
tools provided by your DE (kde, gnome and the svn checkout of xfce
provides tools for this, not sure about the others)