By TobiG77 on September 1st, 2010
The update to rpm5 looks promising . With plenty of help and guidance from jbj over @ http://rpm5.org/ as well as Anders F Björklund we now got an rpm5 version that will allow us a rather smooth transition period.
I’ve got a working rpm5 version now that is almost a drop in replacement to rpm4 . While it works rather nicely on the desktop there are still kinks to be sorted in the buildsystem. Until I’ve got the confidence it will _NOT_ break our infrastructure and prevent us from pushing out those 500 pending updates I’ll hold off on rpm5 and will focus on testing to make sure this will indeed be a smooth experience.
So bear with me and after the weekend we should have loads of shiny updates.
By TobiG77 on August 21st, 2010
As some of you are aware the next development cycle is about to be kicked off.
The guts of it is already done. A long overdue update to perl 5.12 and python 2.7 is included . There’s still quite some testing to do to make sure the upgrade procedure is stable.
The kernel has been updated to 2.6.35 and Xorg 1.9x Initial test on intel and nvidia hardware look promising. As always we’re short on ATI hardware. So if you can spare some time drop by in the IRC channel and ask how to test.
A big chunk of work is left in upgrading from rpm4 to rpm5. Once this is done we’ll start pushing out nightly iso images again. The next stage is then to overhaul the installer, replace yaird with dracut and then provide a boot image which is suitable for booting from USB as well as from CD. From there it’s then only a minor step in also providing a XEN client image. This website already runs on a Yoper Xen Client so this is just a minor step.
But were the fun really is for me this year is in the contributor interface. It’s early days still, but I was able to build in features in an afternoon that were simply out of reach with PHP . With a few more weeks of rails experience under the belt I want to implement ACLs now, which is required to add the features I really like to see in there. But that’s to be written in another post.
By arnulf on July 24th, 2010
Moin,
its done! Second release of Yoper in 2010 with KDE 4.4.5 and many Updates available.
When Tobias is back we make a full Release Announcment.
greets from Black Forrest
Arnulf
By TobiG77 on May 1st, 2010
After an extended RC1 period and a few hiccups with our main server we’re finally happy to announce the immediate availability of Yoper Linux 2010. The RC2 feedback was a big thumps up from all sides.
So what’s in it? A well tuned 2.6.33 kernel with focus on desktop interactivity and rich driver functionality. For those who look at gaining an extra inch of interactivity get the kernel-bfs package installed. It contains an alternative CPU scheduler which is aimed at the average desktop CPU, instead of the broad range of CPUs the main kernel scheduler has to support.
The release is available with the following desktop environments: kde4, kde3, lxde and xfce.
So if you enjoy Linux and are looking for a little bit of extra speed, Yoper Linux might just be the right thing for you. Have a test drive and download it. And of course, please let us know what you think of it.
By TobiG77 on April 27th, 2010
I’ve been asked to provide a small how to how to build yoper packages.
As a first step here’s a how to setup your build environment. We use a very structured approach to building packages. The goal is to achieve reproducibility. This will allow anyone who attempts to reuse our recipes to rebuild Yoper packages and have exactly the same software package as the Yoper Community has built. Vice versa, if you follow these guidelines you make it very easy for us to include your software build recipes in our build environment.
Any input welcome. However if you find errors in the how to, please edit it directly and help to improve the documentation.
By arnulf on April 23rd, 2010
With the relaunch of yoper-linux.org in a multilingual fashion support for the German community will be available here. After discussion with the owner and operator of yoper.de we agreed to point the domain to this website, too.
Thanks to anyone who has used yoper.de in the past and welcome onboard.
Best Regards
Arnulf
By TobiG77 on April 21st, 2010
Actually now just a formality, we are happy to finally announce the availability of Yoper Linux 2010 RC2 . For download links please go to our download page.
Seeing that we already received good response we aim to do the final release at the end of April. If you want to provide any feedback, please do so here
By TobiG77 on April 20th, 2010
So, after much back and forth we now have the majority of the online presence of Yoper Linux relaunched.
The main news portal is what you’re looking at right now.
The forums will be available at http://forums.yoper-linux.org/ , wiki at … http://wiki.yoper-linux.org .
The development interface is at http://powerplant.yoper-linux.org . The external page elements will be made available from the main page shortly.
It was planned to have a single user login entity allowing to just login once and be automatically authenticated in all websites. We have a solution pending but we are not sure whether this will eventuate.
In the meantime it is recommended to simply use openid to simplify logins .
Now let’s get back to the fun stuff , getting our RC2 out of the door. Officially at last.
By TobiG77 on April 10th, 2010
The main software repository is now available at its final place and no further outages are expected on this end.
The collaboration interface is at least up and running, but it lacks the content. I’ll still attempt to recover information from the database but it does not look to good at this stage.
As you may have noticed the site is rather locked down right now. Due to many things being shifted around and security measures not in place yet this will stay for approximately another week. However anyone willing to help out should contact me directly so that we can add individual accounts for now.
About the RC2 release … . Well technically we could do it right now … . However I’d like to have our infrastructure in place again to process any feedback in a proper way. Right now we have no means of building packages in a structured way . So until at least the svn repository is up and running again and at least allows us to store our team efforts I’d like to hold off. Any input appreciated … .
By TobiG77 on April 9th, 2010
Hi,
One mighty hard disc crash later we faced the prospect of painfully restoring the websites as our backups where already tainted by a slowly dying hard disc.
Instead we’ll be pushing out a new version of the Yoper website which has been in the making for a while now.
The main yoper software repository will be online around the 12th of April until then please use one of our mirrors. The rsync access for mirror updates is restored so that critical software updates are available.
Stay tuned for updates.
