Contents 1 Announce 2 Requirements 3 Known issues 4 Download sources 5 Planning schedule 6 Share VLOS with the world

Announce

After three years and a half on hold but not dead VLOS project returns with new vision for the future, today we are pleased to introduce the first alpha version of what will be our stable version codenamed "CEMI" VLOS 2.0, we include a countless number of improvements which are described below:

• Based on Gnome-2.28.1
• Based on Kernel-2.6.31
• Based on stages from Funtoo by Daniel Robbins
• Based on new GCC 4.3.3 and Glibc 2.9
• VLOS is now based on Sabayonlinux using Entropy package manager and Installer
• VLOS is now livecd and can be used as a rescue disc
• VLOS has moved from "hal" to "DeviceKit-power", "DeviceKit-disks" and "udev"
• VLOS now have wine by default and been able to run supported windows apps
• VLOS now use Ext4 by default
• Xorg server 1.7.2
• Python 2.6

And many other packages that will be added during the beta period

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

i686 Processor (Intel or AMD i686 compatible processors)
256Mb RAM
8 GB of free space
X.Org supported 2D GPU
DVD reader

Optimal requirements:

Dual Core Processor (Intel or AMD dual core or better compatible processors)
1024Mb RAM
20 GB or more of free space
X.Org supported 3D GPU
DVD reader

Known issues

You are encouraged to test and comment on this alpha-release. Feedback should be posted in the form of bug reports to our forums.

• When using Automatic partition on installer grub doesn't setup correctly
• NTFS drives doesn't mount automatically
• Couple of errors messages at boot
• Binary mirrors not fully loaded with packages
• 3d DRI not working by default
• Nvidia or Ati drivers not installed by default

Download sources

!We need mirrors! because the only method to publish our isos is bittorrent

Bittorrent:

• Vidalinux_2.0_alpha1_amd64.iso.torrent
• Vidalinux_2.0_alpha1_i686.iso.torrent

Packages list:

• packages-list-vidalinux_2.0_alpha1_amd64.txt
• packages-list-vidalinux_2.0_alpha1_i686.txt

Planning schedule

Here is the planning schedule for pre-releases, debug weeks and final release :

Release name	Planned Date (DD/MM/YY)	Real Date (DD/MM/YY)
Alpha 1	03/12/09	03/12/09
Beta 1	04/01/10	---
Beta 2	29/01/10	---
Release Candidate 1	12/02/10	---
Internal release	22/02/10	---
Official public release	28/02/10	---

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