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« Thread Started on Aug 11, 2012, 7:03pm » | |
Just curious when we might see an Alpha release of the next SalineOS? Mepis has released an early Alpha, SolusOS has released the 5th Alpha, which I'm actually using right now with Xfce desktop installed on it, and Wheezy is looking good with Xfce. Just wondering when we will see something from SalineOS?
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| | Re: When An Alpha Release?
« Reply #1 on Aug 11, 2012, 8:48pm » | |
The popular answer seems to be when Wheezy is released to Stable. That is not up to us, it depends upon Debian.
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| | Re: When An Alpha Release?
« Reply #2 on Aug 11, 2012, 9:26pm » | |
Whoa, what about Mr. Nordquist's earlier comments?
http://salinelinux.proboards.com/index.c....play&thread=617
Quote:| SalineOS 2.0's first development build should follow roughly 2-4 weeks after the freeze of Wheezy, depending on how things go. |
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| | Re: When An Alpha Release?
« Reply #3 on Aug 12, 2012, 7:05am » | |
The easy answer, soon. The good news is everything is in place and I could feasibly release something this morning and call it dev1 or alpha1. I am building an image about every other day and running it through its' paces. The longer answer is I will release a development build when I stop finding things that need fixing or things I could improve.
I haven't even started on the user manual updates for 2.0. I am still debating whether to release dev1 with no user manual at all or put it off until I write something up.
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| | Re: When An Alpha Release?
« Reply #4 on Aug 12, 2012, 4:32pm » | |
Of course, I'm going to say release it and let us have a look at it  No one would/should expect an Alpha to be completely ready to go, just a glimpse of where you are headed
PS--plus an early Alpha can be posted to Distrowatch to get some buzz started.
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| | Re: When An Alpha Release?
« Reply #5 on Aug 12, 2012, 5:59pm » | |
I think kdb has a good point.
Nothing stirs up the distro hoppers like a new alpha or especially a beta.
Distrowatch buzz is the principal promoter of small distros.
Now that we have grub-doctor I can recover from being trampled upon.
I wouldn't worry about documentation until you have a good alpha.
I only found SalineOS-v1, 2 days after you released it.
So, I suspect that your standards are a bit higher than most.
At the same time, not calling it a beta is a bit daring as well.
You can let the beta testers find the bugs.
They'll look in more corners than you might have time for.
Gives you more time to polish the code.
And stir up some hits on the Distrowatch channel.
Then you can write/revise the documentation for the release.
You might create a thread for bug-hunters and put some notes about the process there.
Just a thought. It's 3am where I am. Should be asleep.
But the torrent for 1.7 finally completed.
Been working on it since you announced it.
And I'll seed it when I can.
Tomorrow night I'll find a spare partition and install it on something.
Well, actually, start tonight. Will advise.
Don't expect problems since the netbooks are Intel.
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| | Re: When An Alpha Release?
« Reply #6 on Aug 12, 2012, 9:40pm » | |
Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to get everything perfect before I release a development build. There are just a lot of little loose ends to tie up and testing that needs done. It doesn't make much sense to release something when I don't have the time to duplicate and fix bugs people report, since I am too busy fixing the ones I find. Expect whatever I have to be released within 2 weeks though. I can't really be more specific than that, since it really depends on when I build an image that I am comfortable with releasing to the world.
These items I know are issues, but aren't going to be fixed for dev1:
When live booting the console gets absolutely barraged by /etc/fstab errors.
The Midori menu doesn't work with the live user. (Little baffled by this one, since it works fine after install)
Magix has no ATI support, but Wheezy itself doesn't seem to have any at the moment either.
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