Salix Xfce 15.0alpha2
Posted: 16. Apr 2022, 10:07
OK folks, here's the second alpha for 15.0. The first one had a few more bugs than I'm comfortable with, so here's to hoping this one will be better. A huge thanks to everyone that tested the first alpha and reported their issues, either in the forums or through email.
I think all the reported problems so far have been fixed. That includes the most important problem with the 64bit iso not being able to boot on most UEFI systems. I guess the most important change is that now, on UEFI systems, the iso boots using Grub instead of elilo. While I did fix booting with elilo, when using Grub the iso comes up about 65MB smaller than when using elilo, so I made the decision to switch. The default boot loader after installation is still elilo though.
I have also added additional languages in the installer. There were a few that were 100% complete and I hadn't noticed with the first alpha. These include Catalan, Portuguese (pt_BR and pt_PT), Hungarian, French, Polish and Turkish. So, try to make a test installation with your preferred locale (or even more than one if you speak multiple languages) and report if it worked or not. Unfortunately, the way gettext and dialog works in the installer means that a broken translation might break the installer, so we really need to test these out. In addition, some translations might not be fitting the installer, in the sense that they may be too long for their specific location. The translations would have to be shortened in these cases. So report these too if you find them.
I hadn't written an announcement for the first alpha, so I have to note that the system is not complete yet. Some stuff that you might expect to be there, are not. These include the salix-codecs-installer, guefi, spi and sourcery packages. There are some issues to figure out with the first two and there might be a change of direction with spi and sourcery. We'll see...
Also, looks are not final. Feel free to make suggestions.
Here's to another round of testing then. I hope this time it goes better!
Salix64 Xfce 15.0alpha2 (64-bit, x86_64)
(md5: e7404de3b2f8c2df70226f2ed0f44d74, size: 1.4GB)
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/proje ... alpha2.iso
Salix Xfce 15.0alpha2 (32-bit, i586/i686)
(md5: 0b8b8516c0a1d664e33d8cb0bb90c142, size: 1.4GB)
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/proje ... alpha2.iso
Please include the following information if you report something:
* 32bit or 64bit iso
* UEFI or BIOS (in case of 64bit iso)
* Language during installation
Thank you for testing!
I think all the reported problems so far have been fixed. That includes the most important problem with the 64bit iso not being able to boot on most UEFI systems. I guess the most important change is that now, on UEFI systems, the iso boots using Grub instead of elilo. While I did fix booting with elilo, when using Grub the iso comes up about 65MB smaller than when using elilo, so I made the decision to switch. The default boot loader after installation is still elilo though.
I have also added additional languages in the installer. There were a few that were 100% complete and I hadn't noticed with the first alpha. These include Catalan, Portuguese (pt_BR and pt_PT), Hungarian, French, Polish and Turkish. So, try to make a test installation with your preferred locale (or even more than one if you speak multiple languages) and report if it worked or not. Unfortunately, the way gettext and dialog works in the installer means that a broken translation might break the installer, so we really need to test these out. In addition, some translations might not be fitting the installer, in the sense that they may be too long for their specific location. The translations would have to be shortened in these cases. So report these too if you find them.
I hadn't written an announcement for the first alpha, so I have to note that the system is not complete yet. Some stuff that you might expect to be there, are not. These include the salix-codecs-installer, guefi, spi and sourcery packages. There are some issues to figure out with the first two and there might be a change of direction with spi and sourcery. We'll see...
Also, looks are not final. Feel free to make suggestions.
Here's to another round of testing then. I hope this time it goes better!
Salix64 Xfce 15.0alpha2 (64-bit, x86_64)
(md5: e7404de3b2f8c2df70226f2ed0f44d74, size: 1.4GB)
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/proje ... alpha2.iso
Salix Xfce 15.0alpha2 (32-bit, i586/i686)
(md5: 0b8b8516c0a1d664e33d8cb0bb90c142, size: 1.4GB)
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/proje ... alpha2.iso
Please include the following information if you report something:
* 32bit or 64bit iso
* UEFI or BIOS (in case of 64bit iso)
* Language during installation
Thank you for testing!