TA-Linux is a free Linux distribution, that targets Linux power users. It has these goals and features:
- Have a small base installation that the end-user can expand to include the software he needs
- Try to support all of the architectures that the Linux kernel can be run on
- At this time i386, x86_64, Alpha, PPC, Sparc, Sparc64 and MIPS(el) are actively being worked on. Some more exotic/old architecture like m68k (mac, sun3 and atari) are progressing more slowly.
- Hybrid source and binary packages. (The Collection system)
- Source compilation with your own optimizations and features you need or ...
- Ready built binary packages with basic optimization and "normal" features
- CLI is your friend, the more you need to use the command line the better.
- X11 with your favorite window manager or desktop is of course available
TA-Linux is slowly moving to using git for revision control, a test git-cvsimport has been done and seems to be ok.
We will continue to use CVS still for a while, but a git mirror is now used for changelog information, you can find it here git.tal.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=collection.git;a=summary.
All Gnome components have been updated to release version 2.22.0 in the Collection. Enjoy!
The project is going a bit slow at this time, updates and additions are done to the collection almost every day, but work to get a proper installation system and CD done is progressing slowly.
The TA-Linux web site is moving to a new server, sorry for any problems that might cause.
CVS web view is now up and running again with an updated ViewVC. Enjoy!
We have started to generate pre-release install ISO snapshost files now, they can be found in download.talinux.tal.org/pub/talinux/0.9.0-prelease-snapshots/. They have been install tested but may/do contain bugs.
News from unstable land
Some major changes lately, we moved to prefix set to /usr for almost every package, expections include apache, mysql and postgresql + some other ones. But everything else is now using /usr for their prefix and /etc for configuration files. It started to be to much of a hassle to handle two places for configuration files and some packages just refused to work properly if some other package it depended was in another prefix. Anyway, rebuild for this change is mostly complete now. I know some of you didn\'t like the /usr/local stuff so enjoy this change.
Other interesting stuff that has/is happening:
- GNOME is updated to 2.15.92 and as soon as final 2.16 is out we will have it.
- GNUstep components was updated today to the release and made functional.
- dbus updated to 0.92, this broke all dbus using apps for a while but everything should ok again now.
- udev updated to 098 that deprecated some nice stuff so the rules will get some changes in the near future to fix some problems (mainly removal of %e)
Old-stable news
This old branch have recieved some updates to lately, but nothing major. It\'s practicaly dead, but as some workstations are still using we decided to upgrade some components for security and speed reasons. So anyone still using the old-stable branch, enjoy the updates.
A storage upgrade is in progress (RAID-5+RAID-1) but because I cought a cold it takes a little longer than expected. All downloads are missing until the upgrade is done. Sorry.
GNOME has been updated to 2.14.2 and KDE to 3.5.3. Other updates lately include: Kernel 2.6.16.17 and Xorg 7.1