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fsmithred

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## Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:03 pm

snapshot-20111204_1554.iso
You can get it here at the amazing download speed of 75KB/s - http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... les/6.0.6/ or if you wait until the mirror picks it up, you can get it at a more respectable speed here - http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/refr ... les/6.0.6/
Use the zsync file to create the iso from whatever version you already have:

Code:
  `zsync -i whatever-you-have.iso http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/refracta/files/6.0.6/snapshot-20111204_1554.iso.zsync
  or
  zsync -i whatever-you-have.iso http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/refracta/files/6.0.6/snapshot-20111204_1554.iso.zsync`

Changes:
I added some locales, so the total list is something like de, es, fr, it, jp, nl, pt, ru, uk, us. At least those are showing up on the gdm login screen. I also added zh_CN and zh_TW, but those aren't showing up. It's still under 700mb.
Release notes have the addition I posted in another thread, with instructions on changing the language.
Some minor changes in the boot help screens, such as "Press ENTER to boot" now works, and some of the instructions are less ambiguous (I hope.)
fsmithred

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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Sun Dec 04, 2011 11:09 pm

Huh. I never realized it, but Japanese looks exactly like English.
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:21 pm

What i see in forums there seems to be quite a lot of users in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway and Sweden) and Finnland.
Of course one could go on with that forever... so i guess the way it is is fine too.
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:52 pm

I thought about that after I did it. Do you think Swedish is enough? Or, to put the question another way, were the Swedes imperialistic enough that all their neighbors know some Swedish?
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:59 pm

> fsmithred wrote:...Do you think Swedish is enough? Or, to put the question another way, were the Swedes imperialistic enough that all their neighbors know some Swedish?

I don't know.
To me it looks like that, but i really don't know. It also looks as if most speak fluent English, and a lot speak German too (but less than English). Mhh...
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:51 pm

Uploading a newer one right now - snapshot-20111208_1106.iso
Added xserver-xorg-input-all.
Added locales - Norwegian, Finnish, and Polish.
If there are no glaring omissions or errors, I'll rename the files and make the official announcement. Give it a few days. Merry Christmas!
Other plans: I still need to replace the usb image that I removed. Difference between that and imaging a flash drive with the isohybrid is that the usb image boots with grub, for those of us who love grub command line. Since ibiblio seems to have a small storage limit, I think I'm going to shrink the image and probably make a new iso after stripping out a bunch of packages. Maybe get all the non-free out of it, too.
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:43 pm

Thanks for adding the xorg stuff. This line (as user) seems to do most tap-pads (set it in your autostart):

Code:
  `synclient TapButton1=1 LBCornerButton=2 RBCornerButton=3 MaxTapTime=140 SingleTapTimeout=140 MaxDoubleTapTime=140`

Good to see more internationalisation. I don't know how much extra space it takes, there's a limit to what fits 700MB but I'm pleased to see it has not gone over. I don't know what happens to the man pages when more locales are added.
Regarding nonfree, as a (ideological at least) supporter of the FSF my opinion needs no further explanation. There is snapshot or possibly other methods for those (including me) with nonfree needs at user level.
BTW: Check /etc/wicd/wireless-settings.conf is clean , it wasn't on a recent build!
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Fri Dec 09, 2011 4:14 pm

Adding locales doesn't seem to take up much space at all. I could probably add a few more and still be under 700mb.
The wired-settings.conf has been the way it is since beta2. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm testing now with blank wireless-settings.conf and wired-settings.conf. If it works with both wired and wireless connections, I'll upload again.
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Fri Dec 09, 2011 5:47 pm

Uploading snapshot-20111209_1211.iso now. It seems that wireless-settings.conf can be empty, but wired-settings.conf needs something in it. I don't know what that something is, but I've got an iso that works with wireless or wired connections. Wired connection (in vbox) is automatic. Wireless connection (on hardware) requires opening wicd and hitting the connect button. (Note: if your wireless interface is something other than wlan0, you'll need to go into Preferences and change it.)
When I tested with an empty wired-settings.conf, both the Connect button and the Properties button did nothing, but running 'dhclient eth0' did give me a connection.
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## Re: Uploaded daily (weekly?) build

Sun Dec 11, 2011 12:27 am

More on locales - I didn't like the long list at the gdm login screen with all locales, so I reduced it back to what it was and then added Arabic, Armenian, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Turkish. Tried Chinese, Japanese and Korean, but all I got with those was dominoes, so I removed them. If any of our East Asian Refracta users can tell me what needs to be done for those languages, I'll add them in again.
No new snapshot yet. The one that's up is worthy of being called a release candidate.
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