TinyMe 2010 Beta 1 Released!

[Kaleb]

Please see the release announcement here: http://tinymelinux.com/doku.php/latestrelease:test

Link to download page is on the release announcement page. I just want you to read the release announcement first. ;-)

[Matthew Dawkins]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Kaleb <djj...@gmail.com> wrote:

Please see the release announcement here: http://tinymelinux.com/doku.php/latestrelease:test

Link to download page is on the release announcement page. I just want you to read the release announcement first. ;-)

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Nice KD, I will test tonight!

[Paul Grinberg]

Very nice indeed.

P.S. I just noticed that non english versions of your website front page still make references to PCLinuxOS. Perhaps you should update that ;-)

[gettinther]

2009/12/16 Paul Grinberg <gri...@gmail.com>:

Cool, can't wait to download tomorrow. Thanks KD.

[Stumpy842]

The release announcement looks good!

On the test:download page, it's confusing to have the header for
TinyMe 2009 Alpha 3 GZIP'd (Sourceforge) at the top and then the 2010
files listed below without another header to separate those, you may
want to add another header in there or separate those somehow.

The links for spout.ussg.indiana.edu are broken as of right now,
perhaps they have not mirrored the files yet?

Downloading now and will report back soon!

[Stumpy842]

Oh I also wanted to mention on the test:download page near the top, the text

This is a Beta release. This is not intended to be

Seems like that is a bit incomplete... sorry I'm not trying to nitpick
but I know how much of a perfectionist you are, lol

[Kaleb]

A new ISO has been shipped to the mirrors as the previous ISO had issues. However, don't delete your old ISO just yet. You can use rsync to download only the changes:

rsync -avP --stats distro.ibiblio.org::distros/tinyme/TinyMe-2010-Acorn-Beta-1.i586.iso /location/of/the/old/beta.iso

[Stumpy842]

Just a note to downloaders, make sure you grab the new md5sum file
from the test:download page to verify your iso is patched correctly:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinyme/TinyMe-2010-Acorn-Beta-1.md5sum

[gettinther]

2009/12/17 Stumpy842 <stum...@gmail.com>:

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Iso works fine here. No issues so far. It looks really good. Thanks KD.

[Matthew Dawkins]

All I can say is wow! I like what you have done KD! Installing now in vbox, next is my old laptop.

[Matthew Dawkins]

Wow that was a quick install too!, One error, after install everything before going on to the bootloader. It says, "The package xdm needs to be installed. Do you want to install it? <Ok>

No other options are there, I believe gett ran into this as well and should know the fix. If I click the Close window button, the installer completely exits, if I click ok, then the pkg times out while trying to install. Then it leaves you at the bootloader config.

I will continue to test.

[Matthew Dawkins]

First boot, took me straight to slim with a debian theme. Never asked me to setup a user nor the root passwd, but the root passwd is still root. I continued to add a user and logged out and got a really nicely themed slim.

Logging in and out seems to toggle the theme. :-) And not I got a third theme...

Scratch all that. It looks like you have random themes for slim. Nice!

BTW, the memory use from start is around 42MB and starting midori and going to google only bumps it up to ~59MB. Wow, The release is unbelievable fast and capable!

[Kaleb]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Matthew Dawkins <matt...@gmail.com> wrote:

First boot, took me straight to slim with a debian theme. Never asked me to setup a user nor the root passwd, but the root passwd is still root. I continued to add a user and logged out and got a really nicely themed slim.

Logging in and out seems to toggle the theme. :-) And not I got a third theme...

Scratch all that. It looks like you have random themes for slim. Nice!

BTW, the memory use from start is around 42MB and starting midori and going to google only bumps it up to ~59MB. Wow, The release is unbelievable fast and capable!

For some reason, the first boot thing doesn't play nice with SLiM. Or maybe it's that GDM calls the first boot routine? I need to figure that out. I've added it to the known issues so I know to look into it before the next release.

Check out /etc/slim.conf. You can set up random themes there.

42MB of RAM, wow. I don't think TinyMe 2008.0 was that good. :-) Hmm... makes me wonder if a 32MB of RAM machine might be capable of installing and running TinyMe if a swap partition were set up...

@Gettinther, I thought the installer XDM fix was pushed to the repos.

[gettinther]

2009/12/18 Kaleb <djj...@gmail.com>:

the unity-installer fix was released a while back. It might still be
in testing though. I only have one custom change on the beta1 livecd
to hide the netprofile error because I believe our implementation is
currently incorrect rather than it being a packaging error. I just
haven't figured out yet how to fix it.

[Kaleb]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:35 AM, gettinther <getti...@unity-linux.org> wrote:

the unity-installer fix was released a while back.  It might still be
 in testing though.

Are you sure? I just checked. The test repos are enabled in TinyMe and the latest version showing is 1.0-3. The changelog says nothing about fixing an XDM bug.

[gettinther]

2009/12/18 Kaleb <djj...@gmail.com>:

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I just checked the 1.0.3 tarball and the xdm call is commented out.
The only thing I can think of is that you have autologin enabled which
is what caused the xdm call in the first place. I was reluctant do
disable that function altogether in /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm. If you
plan to have autologin by default, we will need to look at an
alternative.

the line commented in /usr/share/unity-installer/draklive-install is:
#any::set_autologin($in->do_pkgs, undef);
at line 287

[Kaleb]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, gettinther <getti...@unity-linux.org> wrote:

I just checked the 1.0.3 tarball and the xdm call is commented out.

The only thing I can think of is that you have autologin enabled which
is what caused the xdm call in the first place.  I was reluctant do
disable that function altogether in /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm.  If you
plan to have autologin by default, we will need to look at an
alternative.

I do have the guest user being automatically logged in on the LiveCD through SLiM, but the system Control Center says that autologin is disabled.

 

the line commented in /usr/share/unity-installer/draklive-install is:
#any::set_autologin($in->do_pkgs, undef);
 at line 287

Ok, after some digging, I can confirm that:

1. I do have unity-installer-1.0-3 installed.

2. The above line is commented out in the package in the repositories.

3. The above line is *not* commented out on my TinyMe install.

In other words, what's on my system does not match the packages in the repos. Could we bump the release number on this package and see if that fixes the issue?

[gettinther]

2009/12/18 Kaleb <djj...@gmail.com>:

will rebuild it in the morning. Too tired for tonight.

[Custom Processing Unlimited]

for the time being, can't you just force install the fixed package and release a new iso as beta 1.01?

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[Kaleb]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Custom Processing Unlimited <cpu...@gmail.com> wrote:

for the time being, can't you just force install the fixed package and release a new iso as beta 1.01?

It's not a big enough issue to merit another release. Plus, it's documented in the release announcement.

[Custom Processing Unlimited]

oh... ok...