Logs book
Sunday, December 31 2023 | |
| | This release include (among many):
| | Kernel | 6.1.69 | The Linux kernel
| | asterisk | 12.0.0 | The Open Source PBX
| | frr | 8.5.4 | Routing Software Suite
| | gcc | 13.2 | C, C++ compiler
| | gdb | 13.2 | A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++
| | git | 2.43.0 | Fast Version Control System
| | ghostscript | 10.02.1 | A PostScript interpreter and renderer
| | httpd | 2.4.58 | Apache HTTP Server
| | howdy | 2.6.1 | Windows Hello for Linux (face recognition)
| | less | 633 | A text file browser similar to more, but better
| | libzypp | 17.31.25 | Library for package, patch, pattern and product management
| | iptables | 1.8.10 | Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities
| | libreofficee | 7.6.4.1 | Free Software Productivity Suite
| | nano | 7.2 | A small text editor
| | nvidia-driver-long | 535.129.03 | NVIDIA's proprietary display driver for NVIDIA graphic cards
| | nvidia-driver-legacy | 470.182.03 | NVIDIA's proprietary display driver for "old" NVIDIA graphic cards
| | openldap | 2.6.6 | The OpenLDAP package provides an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
| | php | 8.2.8 | PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites
| | python | 3.11.4 | Version 3 of the Python programming language
| | seamonkey | 2.53.18 | QtWebEngine web browser.
| | wine | 7.2 | A compatibility layer for windows applications
| | xscreensaver | 6.08 | MATE screensaver
| | zfs | 2.2.0 | Native ZFS for Linux
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (2983 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 14.8-0
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 14.8 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 14.8 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Saturday, October 22 2022 | |
| | This release include (among many):
| | Kernel | 6.0.2 | The Linux kernel
| | asterisk | 19.6.0 | The Open Source PBX
| | frr | 8.3.1 | Routing Software Suite
| | gcc | 12.2 | C, C++ compiler
| | gdb | 12.1 | A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++
| | git | 2.37.0 | Fast Version Control System
| | ghostscript | 9.56.1 | A PostScript interpreter and renderer
| | httpd | 2.4.54 | Apache HTTP Server
| | howdy | 2.6.1 | Windows Hello for Linux (face recognition)
| | less | 608 | A text file browser similar to more, but better
| | libzypp | 17.31.0 | Library for package, patch, pattern and product management
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| | iptables | 1.8.8 | Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities
| | libreofficee | 7.3.3.2 | Free Software Productivity Suite
| | nano | 6.3 | A small text editor
| | nvidia-driver-long | 515.65.01 | NVIDIA's proprietary display driver for NVIDIA graphic cards
| | nvidia-driver-legacy | 470.103.01 | NVIDIA's proprietary display driver for "old" NVIDIA graphic cards
| | openldap | 2.6.1 | The OpenLDAP package provides an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
| | php | 8.1.9 | PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites
| | python | 3.10.8 | Version 3 of the Python programming language
| | seamonkey | 2.53.12 | QtWebEngine web browser.
| | wine | 7.12 | A compatibility layer for windows applications
| | xscreensaver | 6.05 | MATE screensaver
| | zfs | 2.1.6 | Native ZFS for Linux
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (2570 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 12.8-0
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 12.8 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 12.8 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Tuesday, July 06 2021 | |
| | This release include (among many):
| | Kernel | 5.13.1 | The Linux kernel
| | Epiphany | 40.2 | Web browser for GNOME
| | firefox | 78.11.0 | Mozilla Firefox Web browser
| | fmmpeg | 4.4 | A collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content
| | gcc | 11.1 | C, C++ compiler
| | gdb | 10.2 | A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++
| | git | 2.32.0 | Fast Version Control System
| | ghostscript | 9.54.0 | A PostScript interpreter and renderer
| | httpd | 2.4.48 | Apache HTTP Server
| | iptables | 1.8.7 | Tools for managing Linux kernel packet filtering capabilities
| | libreofficee | 7.1.4.2 | Free Software Productivity Suite
| | nano | 5.8 | A small text editor
| | openldap | 2.5.5 | The OpenLDAP package provides an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
| | php | 8.0.0 | PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites
| | seamonkey | 2.63.8 | QtWebEngine web browser.
| | sendmail | 8.16.1 | A proved Mail Transport Agent (MTA)
| | wine | 6.12 | A compatibility layer for windows applications
| | xscreensaver | 6.01 | MATE screensaver
| | zfs | 2.1.0 | Native ZFS for Linux
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| | This release include debuginfo rpm components.
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (2352 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 10.4-0
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 10.4 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 10.4 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Wednesday, June 16 2021 | |
| | This release include (among many):
| | kernel : | 5.12.10 | The 5.12 Linux last kernel branch
| | evolution : | 3.40.2 | Mail and calendar client for GNOME
| | php : | 8.0.5 | Lastest PHP version
| | lxc : | 4.0.9 | Linux Resource Containers
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1521 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 10.2-0
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 10.2 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 10.2 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Sunday, March 21 2021 | |
| | This release include (among many):
| | kernel : | 5.11.7 | The 5.11 Linux last kernel branch
| | glibc : | 2.33 | Latest GNU libc libraries
| | binutils : | 2.36.1 | Latest GNU collection of binary utilities
| | clement : | 2.8.0 | A SMTP MTA, with powerful logs and management web interface using php-8.0
| | mate : | 1.25.0 | MATE Desktop Environment
| | php : | 8.0.3 | Lastest PHP version
| | Zoiper5 : | 5.4.12 | A SIP and IAX phone solution
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1453 packages)
| |
| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 10.0-2
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 10.0 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 10.0 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Sunday, December 20 2020 | |
| | This release include (among many):
| | kernel :5.10.1The 5.10 Linux last kernel branch
| | openvpn :2.5.0last version using stronger cipher by default (upgrade to AES-256-GCM when possible)
| | rsync :3.2.3last version with xxHashi check sum capability
| | zoom :5.4.6Video Conferencing and Web Conferencing Service
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1425 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.4-6
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.4 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.4 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Wednesday, December 09 2020 | |
| | This is a quick release update to add utility tool "ethtool-5.9".
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| | This tool allow you to do fine tuning about ethernet interface.
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Monday, December 07 2020 | |
| | This release include (among many):
| | libreoffice :7.0.3.1Open Source, community-developed, office productivity suite
| | kernel :5.9.12The Linux kernel
| | zfs :2.0.0A powerfull and reliable file system
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| | This is Christmass, I addeed few gnome games to this release,
| | yours to discover.
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1403 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.4-4
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.4 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.4 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Thursday, November 12 2020 | |
| | This release include:
| | Samba :4.13.2Mounting disk partition from/to windows
| | kernel :5.9.2The Linux kernel
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| | This release is focused on samba, to be able to exchange data with windows like system
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| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1352 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.3-12
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.3 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.3 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Saturday, October 10 2020 | |
| | This release include:
| | net-tools :2.0Better network tools
| | kernel :5.8.10The Linux kernel
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| | This release is focused on network tool 'net-tools', to get a more verbose ifconfig and practical tools as netstat.
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| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1282 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.3-8.0
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.3 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.3 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Friday, July 17 2020 | |
| | This release include:
| | domoticz :2020.2-1An Home Automation System
| | kernel :5.7.8The Linux kernel
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| | This release is focused on application tool 'domoticz', to see if we can use it to
| | "drive" home appliance.
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| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1209 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.2-1.85.
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.2 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.2 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Monday, June 01 2020 | |
| | This release include:
| | frr :7.3.1Routing Software Suite
| | texlive :20200406Tex formatting system
| | rustc :1.42.0The Rust Programming Language
| | kernel :5.6.14The Linux kernel
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| | This release is focused on routing function, 'frr' is fork of quagga and do the same function
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| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1061 packages)
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| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.1-1.84.
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Thursday, January 30 2020 | |
| | This release include:
| | clamav :0.102.1The clamav antivirus scanner
| | spamassassin :3.4.3 Spam filter for Email
| | clement :2.7.24.52 Application to filter and manage E-mail traffic
| | dovecot :2.3.9.2An IMAP and POP server
| | Linux kernel :5.4.13
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| | This release is focused on email capability.
| | Clement is an email MTA (serveur) with a WEB interface to check logs,
| | to manage Email filtering and check traffic via graphic statistics (rrdtools).
| | Dovecot is an email MDA (serveur) with a POP3 or IMAP capabilities.
| | All tools are now available to have nice emails filtering and dispatching
| | capabilities on Osukiss
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| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1061 packages)
| |
| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.1-1.74.
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Thursday, January 02 2020 | |
| | This release include:
| | asterisk :The Open Source PBX
| | bluemnan :A GTK+ Bluetooth manager
| | python :Version 3,8 of the Python programming language
| | Linux kernel :5.4.6
| |
| | This release marks a big step in this project's journey, we have now in production
| | a rather complete distribution, fully usable without systemd.
| |
| | Next release will be issued according major change/improvement in a major
| | components, hopefully in a matter of 2 to 3 months.
| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (1027 packages)
| |
| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.1-1.70.
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Friday, November 29 2019 | |
| | So now, we should have bluetooth exchanges capablities.
| | If the daemon is really working or not, is quite another
| | story.
| |
| | Added a kludge to jami package. The 'dring' daemon
| | stay up while it shouldn't, the kludge force the unneeded
| | daemon to die.
| |
| | Tried to upgrade the jami package with last commits from
| | savoirfairelinux without success. Commits depends
| | on too many other packages partial commit.
| | Waiting for jami packages to be in better shape before
| | trying again.
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Sunday, November 24 2019 | |
| | This release include:
| | jami-gnome :A Voice/Video-over-IP software phone
| | webcamoid :The ultimate webcam suite
| | Linux kernel :5.3.11
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| | We used jami-gnome client connected to an Asterisk server to have
| | voice AND video call to be carried oversea.
| |
| | We backtracked about the "nouveau" driver. It is now
| | white listed. If your NVIDIA graphic is not properly
| | working, you need to fully blacklist the "nouveau" driver,
| | reboot in command mode (level3) and install package
| | nvidia-driver-435.21.
| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (970 packages)
| |
| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.1-1.64.
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| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 update osukiss-release
| | # ok_upgrade
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Saturday, November 02 2019 | |
| | This release include:
| | twinkle :A SIP-based VoIP client
| | system-config-printer :A GUI printer administration tool
| | Linux kernel :5.3.8
| |
| | Before twinkle, with tried ekiga and empathy.
| | Ekiga SIP protocol implementation is buggy.
| | Empathy, was working with SIP, but application was found "unstable and not reliable"
| | (may be, because Emapthy is qt4 while Osukiss is set with qt5)
| |
| | twinkle is using qt-5 and was working "first strike" (impressive!).
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| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (more than 900 packages)
| |
| | Here is the procedure to upgrade to 9.1.
| |
| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.1 update osukiss-release
| | # zypper update
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Saturday, October 05 2019 | |
| | Our station is using a Quadro P400, it is not working
| | properly with kernel "nouveau" driver (unable to come
| | back from screensaver mode).
| | So have added "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" to the
| | GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX within /etc/default/grub file
| | and added "nouveau" within /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file.
| |
| | To use the "nvidia" driver, just install it from repository
| | using command:
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| | zypper install nvidia-driver
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| | current "nvidia" driver is 435-21
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Tuesday, September 03 2019 | |
| | Release 9.0-1.58, is now available. Beside a new
| | kernel-5.2.8, a new glibc-2.30 and a new compiler
| | gcc-9.2.0, libreoffice-6.3.0.4 and evolution-3.32.4
| | are now included in this release.
| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
| | (more than 850 packages)
| |
| | Here is the procedure to upgrade from 8.5 to 9.0.
| |
| | As root user:
| | # zypper --releasever 9.0 refresh
| | # zypper --releasever 9.0 update osukiss-release
| | # zypper update
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Friday, August 30 2019 | |
| | We tried to add geary
| | (https://download.gnome.org/sources/geary/)
| | which seems a good and small email client
| | whorth to be added to the project.
| |
| | This was not successful, while the application was
| | indeed working fine, The lack of Email signature capability
| | nor GPG provisionning make geary an incomplet package.
| |
| | According logs and mailling list, requested to have
| | crypting capabilities to geary was discussed as early
| | as 2012, but no real progress was done on this issue
| | since.
| |
| | So evolution,
| | (https://download.gnome.org/sources/geary)
| | was selected to be the Osukiss email client.
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Tuesday, July 30 2019 | |
| | Release 8.5-1.50, is now available. main addition
| | over previous 8.5-1.48 are gparted and ntfs-3g utilites programs.
| |
| | Program available in this release are listed here
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| | DM snapshot is used within the LIVE CD, so Osukiss
| | can be installed with only 2G of memory on the system.
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Thursday, July 25 2019 | |
| | dmsetup snapshot is now used to boot from PXE and LIVE-CD.
| | This reduce memory usage foot-print and will allow to
| | add user functionnality to the LIVE-CD (at the expense of
| | LIVE-CD size).
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| | This will be part of developpement release 8.5-1.50
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Thursday, July 04 2019 | |
| | It is possible to establish a WIFI link. Wireless driver
| | are now part of the kernel configuration and an extra
| | realtek-rtl8812au driver is include.
| |
| | wicd was selected as network manager, wicd is working
| | better in GUI mode compared to command line mode.
| |
| | While not active, "service network" is still available.
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Saturday, June 22 2019 | |
| | It was rather painful to implement, but the available
| | Osukiss ISO is now UEFI boot mode compatible.
| |
| | Grub menu present 4 options
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| | - install graphic mode
| | - install text mode
| | - debug, booting in single mode
| | - test media and install text mode
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| |
| | The calamares distribution agnostic installer is
| | part of the desktop interface.
| | Resulting osukiss installed distribution are configured
| | to be bootable in UEFI mode or legacy mode.
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Saturday, June 15 2019 | |
| | Calamares is a graphic and distribution-independent
| | system installer
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| | It is now integrated within the Osukiss-Live.iso
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Saturday, May 25 2019 | |
| | This new ZFS release merge the SPL library and
| | provide TRIM capability (at last!)
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| | Using ZFS to "snapshot" vzgot container contents.
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Saturday, May 25 2019 | |
| | Mojave-gtk-theme is now included within mate-desktop
| |
| | Mojave is a Mac OSX like theme for GTK 3, GTK 2 and Gnome-Shell
| | which supports GTK 3 and GTK 2 based desktop environments like
| | Gnome, Pantheon, XFCE, Mate, etc.
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| | Nice looking!
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Thursday, May 02 2019 | |
| | Osukiss-1.40 with MATE as graphic
| | desktop is available.
| |
| | I am pleased to have Gnome2 fonctionalities
| | available again.
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Thursday, March 14 2019 | |
| | Started to compile mate-1.22 components
| |
| | MATE is a fork of gnome2 and hopiefully Gnome-2
| | screen management will be still fonctionnal
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Friday, March 01 2019 | |
| | We are in sync with LFS-8.4. all LFS components are
| | part of Ouskiss-1.32.
| | This release is used in production.
| |
| | About ISO:
| | Using the ISO file (LFS-8.4-1.32.2-rescue-x86_64.iso)
| | there an automatic boot as root and an dialog script is
| | automatically started.
| | This ISO include ALL stable LFS-8.4 components
| |
| | Dialog script give the option to:
| | - Simple install procedure after disk selection.
| | - Access current hardware system in rescue mode
| |
| | This ISO can be used to rescue you current LFS or
| | to install an LFS as starting point to work BBLFS.
| |
| | Note:
| | 1) ISO is a sysvinit system
| | 2) Network LAN is set using dhclient, you need
| | to have dhcp server on your LAN.
| | 3) ISO boot process start sshd by default, provided
| | you set the root password, you can access your
| | station from remote.
| | Such you can access your station/server with multiple
| | console and make the rescue easier.
| |
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Wednesday, February 06 2019 | |
| | Using Fedora-29 and libvirt, we are successfully installed
| | and run Osukiss-1.23 as a virtual (KVM-intel).
| |
| | Graphic display is still limited to 1 screen (it must
| | be a Fedora+libvirt configuration small adjustment to do).
| |
| | Virtual Sound is working too.
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Saturday, February 02 2019 | |
| | So, it seems we are in pace with Linux from scratch for their
| | next 8.4 release.
| |
| | 602 packages available.
| |
| | We should be able to to release osukiss with all LFS-8.4
| | component almost is same time, LFS annonce it.
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Monday, January 07 2019 | |
| | Release Osukiss-1.17.0 (LFS-8.3-1.17.0) is available and
| | include mariaDB multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server.
| |
| | The base package contains the standard MariaDB/MySQL client programs
| | and generic MySQL files.
| | Distribution is now populated with both PostgreSQL and MySQL
| | database.
| |
| | LFS-8.3-1.17.0 is the last with LFS-8.3, next release
| | will be for support purpose only.
| |
| | Working about generating an Oskiss based on LFS-8.4
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Thursday, January 03 2019 | |
| | On the last week of 2018, we moved a big chunk of our production system
| | to hosts running Osukiss-1.16.0.
| |
| | We have around 50 autonomous containers (focused on database, DNS,
| | email, devel,...) running on 2 Hosts.
| |
| | We use ZFS as data files system (we have found ZFS to be very practical
| | and reliable) and VZGOT (vzgot use linux namespace and cgroup, similar to LXC)
| | to "drive" containers.
| |
| | Autonomous container runs image distribution (Centos-5, centos-6, Centos-7
| | and Osukiss-1) and each container get its own IP.
| |
| | Osukiss-1.17 can be used a desktop (to do developpement), but
| | we are still missing tools as libre-office and Email-reader
| | (IE: Thunderbird).
| | There near 600 packages (594 to be accurate) available
| | via yum.
| |
| | We strongly believe, the distribution, once installed, can be
| | used to go Beyond Linux From scratch.
| | Matter of fact, the last release, was recompiled (once again)
| | from scratch within an Osukiss-1 container hosted by a
| | Osukiss-1 HOST.
| |
| | Please enjoy, and give us feed back...
| |
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Friday, October 26 2018 | |
| | Once you have booted from a LIVE osukiss install (USB or PXE) you
| | are prompted with a dialog screen with 4 options
| |
| | Keys (Set system keyboard)
| | Inst (Install system)
| | Shell (Rescue system)
| | Shutdown (Poweroff system)
| |
| |
| | Select "Inst"
| |
| | Disk Partitionning:
| | First you need to select on which disk you want install Osukiss,
| | The installer script will create partition on all disks listed and setup a
| | sofware RAID (mdadm: raid1, and raid10) if you have selected more
| | than one disk (disk size must be roughly equal to have raid happy).
| | In RAID mode, MBR record are written on all Raid disks that are assigned
| | to osukiss, so rebooting shouldn't be a problem.
| | Caution:
| | validations are prompted before using a disk because install
| | procedure use the whole disk to install Osukiss.
| |
| | Program Install
| | Once the disk is ready, another dialog window will appeare and
| | ask you to select program components.
| |
| | [ ] release-minimal
| | [ ] release-base
| | [ ] release-server
| | [ ] release-devel
| | [ ] release-xorg
| | [ ] release-lxqt
| | [ ] release-xfce
| | [ ] release-applications
| | [ ] release-games
| |
| |
| | Minimal is the very minimal set of programm to have a bootable Osukiss.
| | Server is all component needed to have a server (postgresql,mariadb,bin,ntp)
| | Devel is all component needed to build application (compiler, make, etc....)
| | Xorg regroup the basic graphic components
| | LXQT regroup component for lxqt desktop display
| | XFCE regroup component for lxqt desktop display
| | Applications regroup application components (web browser, accounting, video transcoder)
| | Games!, just two for now,
| | bzflag. Purpose of this games is to show 3D and sound handling.
| | swell-foop, a puzzle game.
| |
| | We suggest to select only release-minimal the first time.
| | Around 130 packages are to be installed and process will be displayed on screen.
| |
| | Once installation completed, you will be asked to set the root password and
| | to create, at least, one user.
| | Once all needed users are created, just select within dialog window.
| |
| | Once completed, you can do "chroot /osukiss" to double check installation
| | and check if you find your mark within.
| |
| | Now reboot and remove the USB-key, Osukiss should come up nicely
| |
| |
| | Once rebooted, you can type:
| | # yum list | grep release
| | and see a list of release (release-xxx are set of packages)
| |
| | If you want graphic, type;
| |
| | # yum install release-applications release-games
| | yum will ask you for a "go/nogo" to install +200 packages is ok, say "y"
| |
| | You can now, activate the graphic mode, by typing
| | # /sbin/init 5
| |
| | To check if everything is alright, you can switch back to command line
| | mode
| | # CTRL+ALT+F1
| | and come back to console mode by typing
| | # /sbin/init 3
| |
| | Once you are satisfied, change file
| | /etc/inittab
| | to set '5' instead of '3' as initdefault mode (inittab first line)
| |
| | Reboot and enjoy.
|
Tuesday, October 23 2018 | |
| | Release 8.3-1.0, the LXQT graphic interface is up and
| | running. you can navigate on the internet using falkon
| | web browser.
| |
| | As a candy, we also add game bzflag, the bzflag addition
| | main purpose was to check if 3D and sound libraries were
| | properly implemented.
| |
| | The installation procedure using 'dialog' need to be
| | improved.
| |
|
Tuesday, September 04 2018 | |
| | A Small 350 Mbyes liveCD is available within directory
| | https://okrepo.safe.ca/osukiss/current/isos
| |
| | This ISO file is a very minimal bootable LIveCD
| | allowing to rescue and install Osukiss.
| |
| | To install,
| | #cd ~root/installok
| | #./installer /dev/sda
| | if you want to install it on /dev/sda,
| | enter "/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc" is you want
| | to install it in RAID mode.
| |
| | To Rescue,
| | tools as e2fsprogs, mdadm, links, wget and vim
| | are included.
| |
| | If you need other component, yum can be used
| | #yum list
| | to know if package you need is indeed available.
|
Monday, August 06 2018 | |
| | Vzgot is a container system, working "a la" openvz, and
| | using cgroup above a vanilla linux kernel.
| |
| | Vzgot container can be defined within a ZFS mountpoint and
| | such, the ZFS snapshot capability cans be used to backup or
| | move container.
| |
| | creating a container is straightforward
| | vzgot.mksrvz container_name
| |
| | Starting/stopping a container from the HOST stand point.
| | vzgot boot container_name
| | vzgot shutdown container_name
| |
| | 'container_name' need to be a hostname defined within
| | your current domain name. the 'container_name' IP will
| | be assigned to the created container. Container become
| | then a fully autonomous system.
| |
| | Routing is done using quagga at HOST level.
| |
|
Wednesday, July 25 2018 | |
| | ZFS is working. the way ZFS report problem to sys-admin need
| | to be fine tuned at the installation.
| |
| | Some ZFS scripts need to be adjusted to run within Osukiss OS.
| |
| |
|
Thursday, July 19 2018 | |
| | Recompiled HandBrake to generate the GUI mode.
| |
| | Installed the new RPM and "Voila!", Handbrake is
| | available from the LXQT window manager.
| |
|
Thursday, July 12 2018 | |
| | Compiled LXQT to be used a window manager and SDDM as Desktop
| | Display Manager.
| |
| | Seem to be working fine, still need to be populated with nice
| | application.
| |
| | To activate SDDM at CLI (Command Line Interface) level
| | type
| | # /sbin/init 5
| |
| | To be in graphic mode after booting, edit file
| | /etc/inittab and set the initdefault to 5 (the first
| | line within /etc/inittab).
| |
| | id: 3:initdefault: -> id: 5:initdefault:
| |
|
Thursday, June 21 2018 | |
| | Found the 2 problems, making "illegal instruction"
| | when running on a Core-2 processor system.
| |
| | Problem was found to be in GMP (a GCC component) to
| | be compiled with a "Build" processor definition (not
| | the Processor of the developpement system).
| |
| | Other "illegal instruction" were caused by libffi which
| | need to be compiled with the "enable-portable-binary"
| | configure switch.
|
Tuesday, June 19 2018 | |
| | Today I was able to load a LFS-8.3 livepxe on the core-2, 4G Memory desktop.
| | Only the release-devel is available. But we are in pace with current LFS-SVN.
| | We should be able to have Osukiss-8.3 available in same time LFS-8.3 will be released.
|
Sunday, June 17 2018 | |
| | Working on SVN-LFS (the future 8.3) and found the
| | recompiled GCC is not able to compile 'cmake'. Problem
| | seems related to G++, as all other C packages compile
| | without problen.
| | It is a major drawback!.
| | Is GCC unstable? what are we missing?
| |
| |
| | Addedum 20180618.
| | Problem found within GCC recompile process.
| | the libstdc++ Makefile file was poisoning the
| | /usr/include/c++ files.
| | Removed the libstdc++ recompilation, this
| | was only needed for bootstape procedure within
| | toolchain.
|
Saturday, June 02 2018 | |
| | By default, many daemon (fcron, smartools, etc.) do their reporting through
| | email.
| |
| | Email is delivered locally using dovecot and can be read using
| | a TLS/SSL connection to the server.
| |
| | You can forward email to an external account (an_account@gmail.com) if
| | you adjust /etc/esmtprc to define a smarthost.
| |
| | There is no aliases capability for now (event if there an /etc/aliases file).
| |
|
Tuesday, May 22 2018 | |
| | The generated ISO file can be used directly to prepare
| | an USB key with the 'dd' command:
| |
| | Getting the iso file:
| | #wget https://okrepo.safe.ca/osukiss/1.8.2/isos/osukiss-1.8.2.iso
| |
| |
| | #dd if=osukiss-{release_number).iso of=/dev/{uskey_device} bs=1M
| |
| | Example:
| | Let's say your USBKEY is detected as /dev/sdd and that the osukiss
| | release number is 1.8.2
| |
| | #dd if=osukiss-1.8.2.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M
| |
| | If you use fdisk to check /dev/sdd partitioning, you should
| | find something like this:
| |
| | Disk /dev/sdd: 16.0 GB, 16039018496 bytes
| | 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15296 cylinders
| | Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
| | Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
| | I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
| | Disk identifier: 0x6122223f
| |
| | Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
| | /dev/sdd1 * 1 667 683008 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
| |
|
Wednesday, May 16 2018 | |
| | The logrotate functionnality is now available.
| | The directives are stored within /etc/logorate.d.
|
Wednesday, May 09 2018 | |
| | A friend of mine challenged me to have HandBrake running on Osukiss,
| | as it was not available on CentOS.
| |
| | Within a day, Handbrake was usable.
| | Certainly we need to compile and add severals graphic components to Osukiss's librairies,
| | but overall, it went very well.
| |
| | He is now heavily using Osukiss and Handbrake on a spare PC 24 hours a day,
| | converting his big CD library to a 4 TBytes disk for safekeeping...
| | (He's starting to wonder if the disk will be big enough :})
|
Tuesday, April 24 2018 | |
| | Once you have booted from a LIVE osukiss install (USB or PXE) you
| | will find within the root directory a directory named
| | "installok", which contains a script named "installer".
| |
| | This script allow you to quickly install osukiss
| | on your system's disk.
| |
| | Syntax is rather simple
| | #./installer /dev/{diska} [/dev/{diskb}] ...
| |
| | Example for a single disk:
| | Lets say you want to quickly install osukiss on /dev/sda
| |
| | #./installer /dev/sda
| |
| | That is the gist of it.
| |
| | ---> CAUTION! CAUTION! BEWARE!
| | The install process will use and format the WHOLE DISK current partitions,
| | before proceeding, the installer will display the current disk partitionning
| | and ask for a final confirmation. If the answer is "Yes", 'installer'
| | will proceed with NO further prompts and install a bootable osukiss on this disk.
| |
| | Example for multiples disks:
| |
| | Lets say you want to install osukiss and dedicate 3 disks, /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sde to it.
| |
| | #./installer /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sde
| |
| | The installer script will repartion all disks listed and setup a sofware RAID (raid1, and raid10)
| | Once again, it will ask for a validation before using a disk, this means
| | that in our example, you need to enter three "Yes".
| | In raid mode, a MBR record is written on all disks that are assigned to osukiss
| | (sda, sdb and sde in our example), so rebooting shouldn't be a problem.
|
Saturday, March 03 2018 | |
| | A live.iso file is available for use on a system using PXE.
| |
| | If you have a PXE server it is very easy to have
| | quick look about Osukiss.
| |
| | Donwload these two files:
| |
| | #wget https://okrepo.safe.ca/osukiss/1.8.2/pxeboot/initrd0.img
| | #wget https://okrepo.safe.ca/osukiss/1.8.2/pxeboot/vmlinuz0
| |
| |
| | Store those files in your pxe directory (usually something like
| | /var/lib/tftpboot/....).
| |
| | Adjust your station definition within your PXE server.
| | a very basic PXE configuration look like.
| |
| | DEFAULT pxeboot
| | TIMEOUT 20
| | PROMPT 0
| | LABEL pxeboot
| | KERNEL vmlinuz0
| | APPEND rootflags=loop initrd=initrd0.img root=live:/osukiss-1.8.2.iso rootfstype=auto ro liveimg vga=791 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM rhgb
| | ONERROR LOCALBOOT 0
| |
| | When you reboot your station, ask to reboot from network (usually the F12 key)
| | and wait as the 1GB Osukiss's image is downloaded.
| |
| | Essential daemons will start on boot (logs, cron, iptables, sshd, etc..) and there is NO
| | root passwd (Make sure to set one using the console). You are ready to work with the PXE.
| |
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