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Updating old lunar installations: Getting rid of hal

By wdp On July 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In the daily insanity

As hal is deprecated now, most new-installations don’t have it anymore. My netbook still has it, so how do I get rid of it easily? Read on, if you want to know..

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cache database for moonbase

By wdp On February 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In the daily insanity

We’ve had a few talks regarding the use of a database to speed up some processing/end-user-tools. Let’s say “lvu search”, the module searching when issuing “lunar renew” (which should be module_expired() and run_details()). Also things like “lvu depends”. However. Lunar’s package management is as good as it is, because it’s easy. All you need to [...]

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Lunar Linux 1.6.5 (i686 & x86_64) ISO’s released

By Ratler On August 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Stable Releases

Dear users,

The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.5 codename ‘Mare Ingenii’!

The last known issues with the ISO have been resolved. We added support for hybrid ISO in the last minute, which mean it’s a lot more easy to install lunar from an usb-stick from now on. The developers [...]

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Lunar Linux 1.6.5-rc1 (i686 & x86-64) ISO’s released

By Ratler On July 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In Release Candidates

Dear users,

The Lunar team proudly announce the release of Lunar Linux 1.6.5-rc1 codename ‘Mare Ingenii’!

This project is still alive and we don’t intend to change that!

While news and updates on our main site may have been next to nil we assure you that the wheels have been turning behind the scenes. The [...]

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Lunar Linux 1.6.4 (i686 & x86-64) ISO’s released

By Ratler On December 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Stable Releases

Dear users,

The Lunar team proudly announce the final release of Lunar Linux 1.6.4 codename ‘Lacus Autumni’!

After almost two years since the last stable release it’s finally here, Lunar Linux 1.6.4. We’ve reached a new milestone, 1.6.4 is our most
polished release to date. Our hope is that everyone will enjoy it as [...]

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

By Ratler On October 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Beta Releases

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 [...]

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1.6.4-alpha3 (i686 & x86-64) ISO released

By Ratler On September 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Alpha Releases

Dear users,

We are happy to announce that Lunar Linux 1.6.4 is coming closer to a release, 1.6.4-alpha3 codename ‘Lacus Autumni’ is available for testing.

It has been a long wait, but finally a new release is in the works that will correct all the issues installing Lunar using the old ISO’s. We have also [...]

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Website Translations

By Striker On September 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Website

As some may have noticed, we’ve added some translation icons to the website. Right now, they don’t do a lot since not much of the website is actually translated, but we will get to them as we can.

If you are able to do translations and you would like to contribute an article translation (or [...]

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Joomla! 1.5.x Migration

By Striker On September 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Website

We have just migrated our website to Joomla! 1.5.x as some people may have already noticed.The update went fairly smoothly, but we have lost some functionality that was provided by 3rd party modules; namely Polls and Comments.

Polls do exist in some rudimentary form in Joomla!, however we replaced them before because they were not [...]

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Lunar Linux ISO install guide

By moe On July 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In General

Note: This guide only applies to 1.6.2 or lower.

Since our ISO is pretty outdated right now (work has begun on a new release, yet, there is no release date in sight. Its going to be ready ‘when its done’ ™) it does require a special kind of way to install it properly. This guide [...]

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