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| 2006-07-27 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux 3 |
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ROCK Linux is a flexible Distribution Build Kit. It can be used for building your own Linux distributions. Version 3 of the ROCK Linux is released. From the announcement: "It took a bit over 20 months, but finally, ROCK 3 is done. Over the last 20 months, ROCK Linux has seen many changes not only in the code, but also in its aim and social relations... Creating a distribution is a complex task. ROCK makes this task a lot easier. Many changes since the last release have gone into enhancing the example distribution - Crystal ROCK - to be a good reference for what is possible." Changes since version 2.0 can be found on the RockWiki page. Download: ROCK3-source-r7770.tar.bz2 (2.0MB). Alternatively, several pre-built binary ISO images are also available for download.
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| 2005-10-18 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux Live CD rev6454 |
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The developers of the source-based ROCK Linux distribution have released a new live CD - a desktop edition with KDE 3.4.3, built from the current development branch of ROCK Linux: "The ROCK Linux Live CD is a full-featured, desktop-oriented target designed to operate directly from CD. The current default package selection uses the 'minimal desktop' template, which incorporates a full KDE desktop and some other applications, like MPlayer, xine, etc. Of course this package selection can be altered to fit your needs. In the background, SquashFS is used, and generic write support is provided by the LD_PRELOAD libc wrapper 'shadowfs'." More details are available on the project's live CD page. Download: livecd-x86-pentium-mmx-rev6454.iso (405MB, MD5).
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| 2004-12-12 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux Live CD rev4860 |
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A pair of new live CDs have been put together by the ROCK Linux development team. The most interesting part is that one of them is designed for PPC systems; as far as we know, this is the first full bootable live CD designed and tested to run on iBooks and PoweBooks. From the release announcement: "The current default package selection uses the minimal-desktop template, which incorporates a full KDE desktop and some other applications like MPlayer, xine, etc. Of course this package selection can be altered to fit your needs. In the default configuration the system takes up only about 400MB, so there's still some space left." Here are the download links: livecd-x86-pentium-mmx-rev4860.iso (401MB) and livecd-powerpc-604e-rev4860.iso (448MB).
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| 2004-11-23 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.3 |
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The source-based ROCK Linux project has released an update of their stable 2.0 branch. From the announcement: "This is the official announcement of the release and availability of ROCK Linux - v2.0.3. This version has been tagged from 2.0-stable branch at revision 4795 on November 14th 2004. Most important changes: all build errors have been fixed at least for the x86 architecture; Tons of updates got merged from trunk; the new 'build-bootstrap' package selection provides a small set of packages necessary to build everything else. This package selection is used for the 'reference build system' to provide cache-files and binary releases." ROCK is built from a set of bash scripts, the latest version of which can be downloaded from here: rock-src-2.0.3.tar.bz2 (1.4MB). Alternatively, several pre-built binary ISO images are also available for download.
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| 2004-10-11 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux Live CD |
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The developers of the source-based ROCK Linux project have also jumped on the live CD bandwagon with the release of unofficial ROCK Linux Live CDs, available for Pentium MMX and PowerPC processors: "The ROCK Linux Live CD is a full-featured, desktop-oriented target. designed to operate directly from CD. The current default package selection uses the minimal-desktop template, which incorporates a full KDE desktop (version 3.3.0) and some other applications like MPlayer, Xine, etc. Of course this package selection can be altered to fit your needs. In the default configuration the system takes up only about 400 MB, so there's still some space left." See the announcement for further details. Download: livecd-x86-pentium-mmx-rev4392.iso (369MB) or livecd-powerpc-604e-rev4392.iso (413MB).
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| 2004-06-28 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.2 |
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A new release of the ROCK Linux distribution build kit is now available: "ROCK Linux 2.0.2 (codename 'wildlife') was released to the public. The release is a maintenance release - and so includes a number of security fixes and minor version updates pulled from the development tree. Due to always active work on non-x86 ports this time with full boot CD on Sparc64 (Ultra SPARC) and IBM RS/6000 (RS/6k) support! The changes from 83 changesets, include about 37 fixes, 27 updates and 21 additions." Read the release announcement and changelog (which includes download locations) for more details.
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| 2004-05-26 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.1 |
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ROCK Linux 2.0.1 has been released: "Maintenance release, security and non-intrusive version updates. This release features improved compilation on other distributions (SUSE, Red Hat), updates to KDE, GNOME, Linux, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, neon, Subversion, CVS, silo, and dietlibc, and some package additions. There were also single user mode improvements, ROCK Net and ROCK Plug updates (and speed optimisations), a re-inclusion of source CD creation, and some PowerPC and SPARC fixes." Read the full announcement as published on the rock-user mailing list. ROCK Linux is a source-based distribution, although a set of pre-compiled binary ISO images for desktop use (formerly known as dROCK) are also available for download; visit the distribution's download page for a list of mirrors.
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| 2004-03-06 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 |
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The final version of ROCK Linux 2.0.0, code name "Rafaella", has been released: "Finally (yes - finally) we decided to tag 2.0.0(-final) - here at the Chemnitzer Linux Tag 2004. Binary images for x86 (desktop) are online - PowerPC and SPARC (yes - dual-bootable SPARC / SPARC64) ISOs will follow soon. Although we worked hard to make the 2.0 series stable, we cannot test all hardware combinations and still have some bugs inside the Bug tracker. Minor maintenance releases will follow in the usual Open Source release early release often cycle." Read the rest of the release announcement, which includes release notes, links to download mirrors and other related information. Also visit the project page and read the ROCK Linux Handbook for installation instructions.
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| 2004-01-08 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 RC4 |
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This is the 4th release candidate of ROCK Linux 2.0.0: "Here comes the official announcement of the 2.0.0-rc4 (Not The NOC) release. Binary images for x86 (generic, desktop) and PowerPC (desktop) will be online soon. This is a 'Release Candidate' release. Although we worked hard to make the 2.0 series stable, we cannot test all hardware combinations and still have some bugs in the bug tracker. There is still some work left before the stable ROCK Linux 2.0 release scheduled for Q1 2003." The announcement a full changelog and download details.
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| 2003-11-15 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0 RC 2 |
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The second release candidate of the forthcoming ROCK Linux 2.0 has been released: "Here comes the official announcement of the extremely delayed 2.0.0-rc2 release. As you can see in the CHANGELOG I just merged the most important show-stoppers back from the trunk's HEAD. I estimate / schedule the release of -rc3 for the next weekend (it will be tagged in some hours) and a -rc4 with mostly only the rocknet integration and a new polished rockplug a week after. Binaries are already on-line for the generic target, and will be provided for PowerPC when the rs6k finished the build..." See the rest of the release announcement which includes the changelog, as well download mirrors and other links to relevant information.
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| 2003-08-31 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 RC1 |
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The first release candidate of ROCK Linux 2.0.0 is now available: "Finally the 2.0.0 Release Candidate One made it out of our laboratory into the wild world. It includes many package updates and build fixes - but is not entirely feature freezed due to final ROCK-Plug and ROCK-Net missing. Nevertheless we think this is the most stable ROCK Linux version ever released. A updated Handbook version 0.0.7 is also available." See the announcement and the ROCK Linux 2.0 project page for further information and the changelog for a complete list of changes and download mirrors.
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| 2003-07-16 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 Beta 7 |
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Beta 7 of the upcoming ROCK Linux 2.0.0 has been released: "After the 'beta6 release' we worked towards a -rc1, but unfortunately to many updates arrived that I decided to do a intermediate -beta7 release. Many package build errors got fixed and many packages updated. ROCK Linux now includes the first version of scripts/Emerge-Pkg to build and download a package including it's dependencies into the system. Release Candidate 1 is scheduled for next week." See the announcement for a more complete list of changes and information about download mirrors.
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| 2003-06-25 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 Beta 6 |
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This is the 6th beta of ROCK Linux 2.0.0: "After the 'beta5 release' many package build errors got fixed and some packages updated. ISOs for desktop-ppc and {minimal,desktop}-x86 will be made available in the next days. Since I just committed many 'yet-to-be-tested' updated to HEAD and bumped the version number to 2.0.0-rc1 we have quite some work for the next release. I'll also setup some form of bug-tracking system in the next days." For further information and download links please see the full announcement and the ROCK Linux 2.0.0 project page.
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| 2003-06-16 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 Beta 5 |
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Another week and another new beta release of ROCK Linux 2.0.0. Beta 5 changes: "Security updates: courier-imap, postfix, squid.diff, fetchmail and spamassassin; fixed php to not modify the default httpd.conf; updated ethereal; updated scmxx; updated linux24 (2.4.21)..." Find the complete list of changes, release notes and download links in this mailing list post and more information about ROCK Linux 2.0.0 on its project page.
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| 2003-06-11 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 Beta 4 |
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The fourth beta of ROCK Linux 2.0.0 is out: "After the 'beta3 release' many package build errors got fixed and some packages updated. For space reasons a binary release can not yet be provided, but an ISO for x86 and PPC will be copied in the next days. There is still some work left before the stable ROCK Linux 2.0 release scheduled for the end June!" The release announcement includes a complete changelog, download mirrors and links to further resources. Also visit the ROCK Linux 2.0.0 project page for more information.
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| 2003-05-26 |
NEW • Development Release: ROCK Linux 2.0.0 Beta 3 |
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The third beta of the upcoming ROCK Linux 2.0.0 is now available: "After the 'beta2 release', many package build errors got fixed and some packages updated. For space reasons, a binary release cannot yet be provided." The announcement includes release notes, mirrors and changes since beta 2. On a related note, issue #2 2003 of the Rolling ROCK Magazine was also released today; it includes articles about gaming with ROCK Linux, the status of the SPARC and PowerPC ports and information about not so well-known ROCK script features. The latest edition of the magazine is available here.
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| 2003-05-05 |
NEW • Development Release: dROCK 2.0.0 Beta |
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After a technology preview and alpha releases, ROCK Linux has announced the first beta version of dROCK (desktop ROCK) 2.0.0. From the release notes: "There are many new packages (i.e. the hight quality font Bitstream Vera, DVD tools, the 3D modeler Blender, the SCM Subversion, and may more ...) and huge package version updates (i.e. KDE-3.1, GNOME-2.2, Apache-2.0, ...). At last GCC-3.2.2, GCC-2.3.1 will be used, in combination with prelink support to reduce C++ applications startup time. with this release end-user are invited to join the testing and bug-hunting for the final 2.0.0 release." ROCK Linux is a source-based Linux distribution, but the project also provides binary ISO images for various architectures. The 2.0.0-beta ISOs for Intel compatible processors can be downloaded from here: drock-2.0.0-beta_cd1.iso (594MB) and drock-2.0.0-beta_cd2.iso (410MB).
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| 2002-10-12 |
NEW • Rolling ROCK Magazine Launched |
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The inaugural issue of the ROCK Linux Magazine called Rolling ROCK has been announced: "ROCK Linux announces the first issue of The Rolling ROCK Magazine! This issue contains introductions to the ROCK 1.7 tree, the dROCK subdistribution, a guide to building ROCK on a cluster, and some words about our Alpha and MIPS ports." The plan is to publish a new issue once every few months. The magazine is available online as a front page with the table of contents or as a complete one big page.
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| 2002-05-22 |
NEW • Distribution Release: ROCK Linux 1.5.15 |
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ROCK Linux 1.5.15 is a development release: "This new version contains many updates for packages. Most significant change is that this version almost builds on UltraSparc (a few packages are still broken). There were also a few fixes for Alpha. The roadmap for 1.6 is mainly fixing stuff for architectures other than ix86, which will keep us happy for another few months. Have fun!!!" This is the place to get it: rock-intel-i586-base+opt-1.5.15.iso (552MB). Check our updated ROCK Linux page for the basic package list.
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