***PRELIMINARY*** ANNOUNCEMENT: lunar-1.5.0 "Indium Phosphide" ISO released

[Auke Kok]

*** PRELIMINARY : PLEASE COMMENT AND PROVE ***


Hello everyone,

After being in the cooker for almost half a year the Lunar-Linux team is 
happy to announce the release of the latest install ISO: "Indium 
Phosphide". This ISO is a radical change in the history of install ISO's
and should be far easier and faster to install for everyone.

The 1.5.0 release is an i686 optimized iso. Work is being done on 
releasing a i386-compatible ISO later on for people who wish to install 
lunar-linux on older hardware. We ask everyone to be patient and monitor 
progress on that specific front in our mailinglist.

This release provides the following features:

- i686 Optimized, so no more need to do a rebuild after installation
- Fast installer. Typically install time can be as fast as 10 minutes on 
an average p4!
- Precompiled all-purpose kernels (5) for several applications! You can 
instantly install a modular GrSec kernel, a LowLatancy kernel, etc.
- No installing takes place before you're done selecting partitions
- Seemless lilo and grub install into the MBR

Apart from that the installer provides an easy and logical install 
routine. The step-by-step approach makes sure you don't forget to set 
the root password or creating ssh server keys, and allows you to 
administrate services before you boot for the first time.


     PREVIEW

If you want a peek at the installer before giving it a try, then please 
take a look at the screenshots of the installer here:
   http://some.where.org/screenshots/


     DOWNLOAD INFORMATION

The ISO can be downloaded from the following locations:

A bittorrent is up and running, please visit the following URL for the 
download link:
   http://nl.lunar-linux.org/node/7

Please try to use bittorrent before using the main mirrors if possible:
   http://tx-us.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso.bz2
   http://gbg-se.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso.bz2
   http://de.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso.bz2
   http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso.bz2
   http://nl.lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso.bz2

The md5sums can be found at the following URL's:
   http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso.bz2.md5
   http://lunar-linux.org/lunar/lunar-1.5.0-i686.iso.md5


This ISO marks a radical change in the way we release our ISO's. This 
ISO is built with a set of portable build-tools and we aim to change 
this code so that it can build installer ISO's for other platforms and 
kernels, such as Athlon64, SPARC, PPC etc. People who are willing to 
donate non-x86 hardware or otherwise lend time for this purpose should 
contact us so we can begin testing immediately.

We hope you enjoy this new installer as much as we enjoyed making it!


Auke Kok
Lunar-Linux Project Leader