Kwort 2.4.1 release announce
David B. Cortarello
This version took a year to develop and provides a lot of changes from
2.4 release, including a new, more cleaned up than usual, base system,
whole new tool chain, new configuration tools and lots of new things.
Good things in this new version:
* Kwort's init system: From 2.4, the init system has evolved
keeping its simplicity but providing some new features.
* Linux 2.6.28.7: A lot of hardware support was included since the
kernel included in Kwort 2.4.
* Kpkg: The new version of kpkg include several new features as the
adoption of multi-mirror support.
* Kwort User Manager: Re-written from scratch it Provides a simple
way to create and remove users with a new interface.
* Kwort Network Manager: Also re-written from scratch, allows you
to configure your network (wired and wireless), as manage your dns and
hostname system. It also allows you to switch wireless drivers.
* Xfce: This new version brings a lot of changes under the hood
making the desktop more extensible.
* Audacious: This is the default music player since Kwort 2.4.1
allowing you to play your music in a very simple way.
* Our new Google group: Ok, this has nothing to do with something
included in the release, but it allows the developers behind Kwort to
communicate between them and also with the users (who are what Kwort
is all about).
As in every old version now comes the things that I look forward to improving:
* Thunderbird: It's kind of sad, but thunderbird isn't yet full
"xulrunnized", so starting firefox+thundebird brings two copies of
xulrunner up to memory, which as we all know, is kinda in the chubby
side.
* Audacious: Although audacious is pretty good doing its job, I
think a jukebox is more needed these days, as people needs more
information while playing their music. It is known that using
gstreamer would take out some of the features audacious brings, but we
have a full-featured media-handling components and using those
frameworks would allow the Linux desktop to improve, communicate
between applications and to remain simple.
People who I would like to thank:
Andreas Schipplock as always for making and maintaining the website,
mirroring the Kwort iso image, and kind of playing a role of resources
manager that allows me to develop easily Kwort.
Sebastian Reisse for writing the kpkg manpage, and for taking a lot of
his time testing every release candidate, if it wasn't for him, this
release would come with several bugs.
The Aircable people for their donations as they helped me to buy some
hardware I was needing for develop Kwort.
The mirror providers as usual, the people from PGHosting and Ricardo
Brisighelli for the package mirror in the UNR.
Finally, but not less important a very big THANKS to Patrick
Volkerding for Slackware Linux, the system Kwort is based on.
The Xfce developers (core and goodies) who made 4.6 a lot more simple
to configure for distributions and provided help when needed.
The people who develop every project Kwort includes. I hope I didn't
forget anyone.
As usual, if you need support, help, or you just feel like talking
about Kwort (or anything else), or you just want to meet the people
who is behind Kwort, you can join us on IRC or our Google group:
- IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net/Kwort
- Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/kwort-linux
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David B. Cortarello
Weblog: http://nomius.blogspot.com
Kwort Linux: http://www.kwort.org
Sebastian Reisse
hi Kwort fellowers,
Congratulation on the release of brand new Kwort 2.4.1!
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Sebastian Reisse
E-Mail: sebastian...@gmx.net
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rolo
David B. Cortarello
there's a new iso (2.4.1.1) that include the fix.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
rolo
I have kwort in VirtualBox installed. no problem, but the network is
not recognized.
language is German for me, but only the desktop is in German. programs
are in english (firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, etc.)
how can I configure the network and install packages?
Rolo
On 11 Apr., 08:27, "David B. Cortarello" <dcortare...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> there's a new iso (2.4.1.1) that include the fix.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>
Sebastian Reisse
> I have kwort in VirtualBox installed. no problem, but the network is
> not recognized.
Can you specify that more detailed? Do you use static IP setup or DHCP?
How did you figured out that networking is not working? Is your ethernet
adapter recognised, does it get an IP assigned, can you ping the gateway
device? We need mor info on what is your specific problem.
> language is German for me, but only the desktop is in German. programs
> are in english (firefox, thunderbird, openoffice, etc.)
That is normal as firefox, thunderbird and openoffice require seperate
language files for localization. Those langpacks would consume too much
space to include it inito the iso, but you can get it and install it
later. All the other programs will be in german as GTK programs using
the system locales....
> how can I configure the network and install packages?
Configuring the network you will find a grafical tool called
networkconfig in the xfce-settings menu. For installing packages,
please refer to the manpage of kpkg.
Br,