One of the great things about Lunar Linux is that it’s a rolling-release distro. Which is to say, once you’ve installed it, bringing it all up to date is a simple matter of using the lunar update facility, which updates the moonbase–the software [...]]]> Lunar Linux’s new daily releases.

One of the great things about Lunar Linux is that it’s a rolling-release distro. Which is to say, once you’ve installed it, bringing it all up to date is a simple matter of using the lunar update facility, which updates the moonbase–the software metadata repository–and then updates all of the software on your system to the current latest version. However, the latest official ISO release was a while ago. Which means that if you download Lunar Linux from the download page, you will have quite a long adventure ahead of you as everything needs to be updated.

That’s why I’ve started making daily ISO releases. They started out as a way for me to incorporate new software into the Lunar Linux installer, then they turned into a way to test pull requests in the core moonbase, and now they’re a reliable, safe, Lunar Linux installer. They work as USB media or if you burn them to a DVD–unfortunately they’ve grown too big for CD media over the years. If you want to install headless, they have serial-port installation support (think virsh console if you’re wondering why anyone needs serial ports in 2023).

So if you want to try Lunar Linux, please try the daily ISO.

Due to the recent events happening on the freenode IRC network, we have decided to move to the Libera IRC network.

Please join us on irc.libera.chat (https://libera.chat/), channel #lunar.

- Ratler

We have received many questions as of late if the Lunar Linux project is still alive; the short answer to that is YES! Of course we can’t deny the fact that we are a little short on manpower right now, but packages are getting updated pretty much every day. If you want to track the [...]]]> Hello!

We have received many questions as of late if the Lunar Linux project is still alive; the short answer to that is YES! Of course we can’t deny the fact that we are a little short on manpower right now, but packages are getting updated pretty much every day. If you want to track the package updates, head over to our GitHUB page.

Work is also ongoing to release a new official ISO, but we don’t have a firm release date set. While waiting for the official release we have been producing daily ISO’s that can be used until then, after all it’s only used to bootstrap your installation; Lunar Linux is as you know a rolling release distribution. The daily ISO’s can be found here.

Don’t hesitate to join our IRC channel #lunar on freenode if you have any questions, or if you just want to hang out with some nice people!

- The Lunar Team

You better believe it, the day you all have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.7.0 codename ‘Sinus Successus’.

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes Lunar Linux is back with a vengeance; a lot of overhauling have been done all over the [...]]]> Dear all,

You better believe it, the day you all have been waiting for has finally arrived. The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.7.0 codename ‘Sinus Successus’.

Like the phoenix rising from the ashes Lunar Linux is back with a vengeance; a lot of overhauling have been done all over the core tools, packages, installer and the ISO-builder. Even though our journey to reach this milestone have been a long one we hope that the changes and quality improvements we’ve made was worth the wait. So what are you waiting for? Go grab a copy of Lunar Linux while it is hot!

- The Lunar team

New features in 1.7.0

• Out with sysvinit (gasp!) in with systemd (wth?!)
• Kernel 3.16.3, gcc 4.9.1 and glibc 2.19
• Added support for btrfs filesystem
• Grub2 or lilo, pick your poison
• Improved installer
• Now with initrd support
• A bunch of updated modules!

Give us feedback through the bugtracker. You can also inform us directly on IRC and via our mailing lists.

Download here:

ISO’s

• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.7.0-i686.iso.xz
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.7.0-x86_64.iso.xz

SHA1sums

• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.7.0-i686.iso.xz.sha1
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.7.0-i686.iso.sha1
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.7.0-x86_64.iso.xz.sha1
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.7.0-x86_64.iso.sha1

Some might have believed we were down for the count, but on the contrary we have actually been quite busy working on the core of Lunar (and with our lives). Four very long years has passed by since our last release. Yet there have been a few adventurous souls still brave enough to [...]]]> Dear all,

Some might have believed we were down for the count, but on the contrary we have actually been quite busy working on the core of Lunar (and with our lives). Four very long years has passed by since our last release. Yet there have been a few adventurous souls still brave enough to try the old 1.6.5 release and get it up to date; it wasn’t an easy journey but some eventually made it through and learned a lot in the process.

With that said the Lunar team is extremely proud to announce the release of Lunar Linux 1.7.0 Release Candidate 2 codename ‘Sinus Successus’!

- The Lunar team

New features in 1.7.0

• Out with sysvinit (gasp!) in with systemd (wth?!)
• Kernel 3.16.2 and glibc 2.19
• Added support for btrfs filesystem
• Grub2 or lilo, pick your poison
• Improved installer
• Now with initrd support
• A bunch of updated modules!

Give us feedback through the bugtracker. You can also inform us directly on IRC and via our mailing lists.

Download here:

ISO’s

• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.7.0-rc2-i686.iso.xz
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.7.0-rc2-x86_64.iso.xz

SHA1sums

• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.7.0-rc2-i686.iso.xz.sha1
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.7.0-rc2-i686.iso.sha1
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.7.0-rc2-x86_64.iso.xz.sha1
• http://www.lunar-linux.org/lunar/testing/lunar-1.7.0-rc2-x86_64.iso.sha1

We are about to wrap up the transition of the lunar services to our new hosts. There are still a few tasks that remains to be handled but we will get to them as fast as we possibly can. Should you notice any issues please don’t hesitate to tell me (Ratler) or Auke [...]]]> Hello everyone!

We are about to wrap up the transition of the lunar services to our new hosts. There are still a few tasks that remains to be handled but we will get to them as fast as we possibly can. Should you notice any issues please don’t hesitate to tell me (Ratler) or Auke (sofar).

We hope that this haven’t caused too much inconvenience!

Cheers.
Stefan Wold

as some of you know our current hosting solution will no longer be available to us in the future. We’re working on a temporary solution to prevent most services from becoming unavailable altogether, but we can’t foresee any issues with migration. So, please be prepared for any [...]]]> (original message by Auke (sofar) on the maillinglist)

as some of you know our current hosting solution will no longer be available to us in the future. We’re working on a temporary solution to prevent most services from becoming unavailable altogether, but we can’t foresee any issues with migration. So, please be prepared for any service outage that may affect your lunar-linux usage.

Our temporary hosting has a financial cost, as well, so we are looking for a new place where we could host lunar-linux and developers for less cost. If you have any ideas, please contact me or Stefan.

The next installation ISO has been in development for some time now and there have been 4 [...]]]> As people have started asking if Lunar-Linux were a dead project, we would like to inform you that it is not. Developers are working on improving the Lunar components and new/updated modules that hit the Moonbase every week.

The next installation ISO has been in development for some time now and there have been 4 development releases on the lunar-dev mailing list.

What is the current state?

The ISO got a new build system which makes it more robust to future changes. As this is like starting from scratch, it takes some time to work out all the quirks.

It will install with systemd and using dracut as init ram disk .You can choose between grub2, lilo and grub as boot loader. The installation ISO is a hybrid, meaning, you can either burn it on an CD/DVD or flash it onto a USB pen drive. The installer will guide you trough the installation process. Setting up font, keyboard, language and time zone. Creating partitions, formatting, mounting and copying the Lunar-Linux system onto it. Configuring the network, adding users and configuring Lunar.

There are still some things to work out. The ISO doesn’t automatically run the guided installer, in the last release the installer need a hot fix to work at all. The generated lilo configuration doesn’t boot with dracut. Some files are copied, but shouldn’t be there or need to be regenerated.

What can I do?

You can help us with the development by testing or giving us feedback. Just register on the lunar-dev mailing list test the new ISO releases and report the problems you find.

First of all my systems moonbase is the git-repository, instead of the default one.
So `lunar set MOONBASE` prints
MOONBASE=/var/lib/lunar/git-moonbase

While this allows instant integration of [...]]]> As every developer has his own way of using git and developing lunar modules,
I think, it’s an appropriate first post to describe my basic workflow.

First of all my systems moonbase is the git-repository, instead of the default one.
So `lunar set MOONBASE` prints
MOONBASE=/var/lib/lunar/git-moonbase

While this allows instant integration of bug fixes instead of waiting
for the moonbase to rebuild every half an hour, it also results in
foobar from time to time when doing updates and bumping modules in parallel.

Now my git repository contains three major branches:

• master obviously
• v4hn
• local

v4hn lives on top of master and contains changes that are to be applied to master in near future,
local again stays on top of v4hn and keeps changes that are for this machine only
and not intended to be merged into master ever(e.g. patches in zlocal/_patches).

Whenever there are some commits on the mailinglist I run an update-script which does the following:
git checkout master && git pull --rebase &&
git checkout v4hn && git rebase master &&
git checkout local && git rebase v4hn &&
lsh create_module_index && lsh create_depends_cache

When I make changes that are intended to be pushed,
I switch to v4hn and commit them there. The next update
makes sure, local still stays on top of v4hn.
After committing all related updates to v4hn and testing them locally
(i.e. removing /var/spool/lunar/<module>*, running `lin -rc <module>` with all and with none options selected)
I finally run update again and afterwards do
git checkout master &&
git merge --ff-only v4hn &&
git push lunar master

If everything went smooth the changes are now online and everyone is happy.