Summary of ROCK Linux Announcements
++20030717++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta7
René announced the release of the above. His original email is
here, including download locations and changelog.
++20030715++ ROCK Linux Handbook
René announced version 0.0.1 of the Handbook. For more
information, please refer to his original mail
here.
++20030710++ ROCK Linux at LinuxTag
|
July 10-13 2003
ROCK Linux is at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. The topic on
everyone's mind is the 2.0 (Stable) release. For more info about the
event, click on the image to the left. |
++20030708++ Linux Journal Poll
The Linux Journal Readers' Choice Poll is open for voting
here. Please support ROCK Linux, as mentioned in René's email
here.
++20030701++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta6 ISOs
Official ISOs for the Generic, Minimal and Router targets are available
here.
For more information, please read the original email announcement
here.
++20030625++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta6
René announced the release of the above. His original email is
here, including download locations and changelog.
++20030617++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta5
René announced the release of the above. His original email is
here, including download locations and changelog.
++20030611++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta4
René announced the release of the above. His original email is
here.
++20030526++ Rolling ROCK Issue #2 2003 Published
Clifford announced the release of the new issue of ROCK Linux's online
magazine. Check it out here.
++20030526++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta3
René announced the release of the above. His original email is
here.
++20030521++ ROCK Linux Dutch Chat
June 4, 2003 (Wednesday), 4 pm on the #rocklinux-talk IRC channel
There will be a chat organized for the general Dutch public at the above
time. The chat will be in Dutch and/or English. All are welcome to
attend. An English summary will be posted after the event.
++20030509++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta2
René announced the release of the above. His original email is
here.
++20030505++ ROCK 2.0.0-Beta
René announced the release of the above. His original email is
here.
++20030413++ ROCK Linux German Chat
May 10, 2003 (Saturday), 8 pm on the #rocklinux-talk IRC channel
There will be a German chat organized for Rootboard members at the above
time. All German-speaking developers are requested to attend.
Update: The English summary of the chat is
available
here.
++20030330++ ROCK 2.0.0-Alpha
René announced the release
of the above. His original email is
here.
++20030311++ ROCK at LinuxTag in Chemnitz
Nikolaus posted a report about
LinuxTag in Chemnitz, Germany which was held from 1-3 March. His original
message is
here. The presentation that Daniel Jahre gave is
here.
++20030309++ ROCK 2.0.0 Technology-Preview2 ISO
René announced the release
of the above official ISO set. His original email is here.
++20030102++ ROCK BOF at 19C3
BOF summary
The first draft of the BOF summary is here.
Please read and correct/comment using the mailing list.
++20021230++ ROCK 1.6.0pre3 (pre-stable) released
At 19C3, the stable team released 1.6.0pre3, available from the the 1.5
CVS repository. Apparently there will soon be a source
tarball and ISO available. Please refer to the stable info page here.
The original announcement is here.
++20021228++ ROCK at 19C3 (27-29 December in Berlin)
Live Report
A ROCK BOF is scheduled for 1600 hours on 28 December at the ROCK Linux area of the Hackcenter.
For those who are not at 19C3, a summary of the discussion will be posted later.
++20021217++ ROCK at 19C3 (27-29 December in Berlin)
Pre-Event Preparation
If you haven't already done so, please sign up on the registration page
here.
++20021202++ ROCK 1.5.20 released
Andreas announced the
release of ROCK Linux 1.5.20 (pre-stable). Download information,
changelog, news. etc. can be found in his original release announcement here.
++20021012++ Rolling ROCK Magazine launched
ROCK Linux announces the first issue of Rolling ROCK magazine!
This issue contains introductions to the ROCK 1.7 tree, the dROCK
subdistribution, a guide to building ROCK on a cluster, and some words
about our Alpha and MIPS ports. Have a look at
https://www.rocklinux.org/rolling/2002-01/.
++20020712++ ROCK Linux 1.5.17 released
Andreas announced the
release of ROCK Linux 1.5.17 (pre-stable). Download information,
changelog, news. etc. can be found in his original release announcement here.
++20020708++ ROCK Linux 1.5.x downloads
ISOs and source for the 1.5.x pre-stable tree can be found here. The latest version to date is
1.5.16. Andreas' original
emails regarding this are on the mailing list
archive.
++20020703++ dRock 1.6.0 Final Release
René announced the final release of
Desktop ROCK (dRock). dRock is a subdistribution of ROCK Linux intended for desktop
use. His original email announcement is here. Please refer to the dRock
project page here.
++20020608++ ROCK at Linuxtag 2002
LIVE REPORT: We are at Linuxtag (Karlsruhe, Germany, 6-9 June). Come
visit us at booth A67. Update 06-11-2002:
All (well, almost all) pictures have been uploaded and captioned here. Chris' summary
of the ROCK BoF session is here, but please also
read the continuation of this thread on the mailing list, especially
Clifford's corrections/explanations/updates here.
++20020531++ ROCK at SANE 2002
A small ROCK presence was at SANE (Maastricht, Netherlands) this week.
Seen there were Pjotr Prins, Armijn Hemel, Jos Visser, Chris Hamilton
and Jocelyn Yeo. There was a poster on building ROCK 1.7 and the proposed
2.0 build system by Chris. Pictures here.
++20020524++ ROCK 1.5.15 Release
The new release of ROCK 1.5.15 (Development) is available. The original
announcement is here.
It's not yet up on all the mirrors, so download with care and
consideration please.
++20020505++ Parallel-building ROCK on a cluster
1.7 snapshot with cluster building option
Cliff announced the first ROCK
1.7 snapshot with support for parallel building on a cluster.
Documentation is here.
His original email announcement, which includes some instructions
(now obsolete), is here. The snapshots
can be found here.
++20020504++ Resource for Linuxtag attendees
Linuxtag (6-9 June in Karlsruhe, Germany)
For all those planning to visit the conference, you can use the main
mailing list to ask questions or discuss things. Please see Ripclaw's
page on this year's ROCK presence here. All
supporters of ROCK are invited to join us there.
++20020419++ Articles added
The following 2 articles can now be found here.
- "Enterprise-Wide Clustering: High Throughput Computing For Business"
by Chris Hamilton (Singapore Linux World Conference, 2001):
PDF
version or
PS
version
- A short paper on the ROCK 2.0 Build System by Chris Hamilton and
Jocelyn Yeo (for a poster in the SANE 2002 conference):
PDF
version or
PS
version
Email any questions to Chris.
++20020226++ dRock 1.4.1 Released
Future dRock development to merge with ROCK 1.7 tree
Rene Rebe announced the final major
release of Desktop ROCK Linux (dRock), version 1.4.1. More info and
download site here. The
release notice is here
and other discussion can be found in the mailing list archive.
++20020219++ ROCK at FOSDEM
Free Software and Open Source Developers' European Meeting
16-17 February 2002, Brussels, Belgium
Armijn Hemel sends this
report about the ROCK presence at FOSDEM earlier this week. More
info and pictures available at the rock-linux mailing list archive
and at the FOSDEM site.
++20011224++ Rock 1.5.12 (Development) Released
Just in time for the festive season! This development release is based
on Linux Kernel 2.4.17, glibc 2.2.4, binutils 2.11.92.0.10 and gcc
2.95.3. Get it at the usual places.
Changelog here. Happy
New Year, everyone!
++20011221++ Dettu[Xx] helps ROCK public relations (sort of)
The website of Dettu[Xx], "probably the world's nastiest Linux
distribution", with "over 6 installations worldwide", has a link to
ROCK. Grab a few laughs at
https://dettus.dyndns.org/dettuxx/.
++20011219++ dROCK 1.4.0 Release
René Rebe, the maintainer of ROCK Linux Desktop subdistribution (dROCK), has
announced the long-awaited 1.4.0 release. More info at
https://www.rocklinux.org/projects/drock/drock.html.
++20011219++ ROCK at 18C3
18th Chaos Communication Congress
27-29 December 2001 in Berlin, Germany
ROCK will be represented at the 18th Chaos Communication Congress by over
20 of the ROCK
community this year, together with a large number of their computers.
More information about this event can be found at www.ccc.de/congress/2001/.
Please direct enquiries concerning ROCK participation to Ripclaw.
++20011218++ ROCK 1.4.0 in LinuxUser magazine
ROCK has been reviewed by Jon Masters in Issue 16 (November 2001) of
LinuxUser, a magazine based in the UK. The article is in PDF format and
can be found at
www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/issue16/lu16-Reviews.pdf. ROCK
was accurately described, well-portrayed and scored a rating of 4 out of 5
fish (?).
++20010701++ ROCK Linux at LinuxTag
LinuxTag 2001
5 - 8 July 2001
Stuttgart, Germany
Rock Linux returns to LinuxTag this year with the generous support of
Compaq Germany. Rock Linux representatives will demonstrate Rock running
on a Compaq AlphaServer DS20 and give away CDs. Ripclaw is in charge of this
event.
++20010428++ ROCK Linux 1.4.0 has been released
Kent Skaar, the maintainer of the ROCK Linux stable tree, just announced the
long-awaited 1.4.0 release. Read Skaars original
announcement for more details. The intel binaries (and the full sources)
will show up on our FTP mirrors within the next days.
++20001023++ ROCK Linux 1.3.11 has been released
This is a release of the ROCK Linux development tree.
This release is the first ROCK Linux release with complete support for
Alpha AXP
and PowerPC
systems. ROCK Linux 1.3.11 comes with better Documentation than the last
releases and with more extesion packages (additional /opt packages which are
developed independend from the main distribution).
Read the official ROCK Linux 1.3.11 Announcement for details.
++20001007++ ROCK Read-Only Linux
The latest ROCK Linux 1.3.11 development snapshots contain a Read-Only
Subdistribution which makes it possible to run ROCK Linux from CD-ROMs
or any other read-only media. This might be usefull for surfstations,
set-top-boxes and other cool things. The new ROCK Router Linux with full
ISDN support and some other new features will also be based on that work.
++20001003++ We are close to ROCK Linux 1.3.11
We are comming closer to ROCK Linux 1.3.11. The final code-freeze will start
within the next two weeks. Now we are fixing the broken packages on Alpha and
PowerPC, check if all the subdistributions are still working and fix the
remaining bugs in the base and extension packages. Beta-Testers are welcome.
++20000813++ Boost for ROCK on PowerPC: IBM sponsored an RS/6000 box
IBM sponsored an RS/6000 B50
box for the PowerPC port of ROCK Linux. After spending some hours with
patching the Linux kernel, playing with the OpenFirmware prompt and
cross-building the rescue system, I'm now doing a complete rebuild of ROCK
Linux for PowerPC on that box. Expect a fist binary distribution (rescue
system for building the rest yourself) within the next weeks. [read
more..]
++20000717++ ROCK Linux Bugzilla bug tracking system.
ROCK Linux got a Bugzilla installation as bug tracking system. It can be
found at https://www.rocklinux.org/bugzilla/. From now - please submit bugs and
patches to the bugzilla system and not to the mailing list. Only send your
patches to the list if it's something we need to discuss.
++20000628++ ROCK Linux 1.3.10 has been released
This is a release of the ROCK Linux development tree.
Changes: Some new packages and a lot of bugfixes and new features. Improved
installation procedure. This development release of ROCK Linux is based on
the Linux Kernel 2.4.0-test2 and Glibc 2.1.3. It contains allready (and is
built with) binutils 2.10.0.9 and gcc 2.95.2. It comes with XFree86 4.0,
Perl 5.6.0, GNOME 1.2 and other cool new stuff.
++20000526++ ROCK at the SANE 2000 Conference
I've been on the SANE 2000 Conference in Maastrich from 05/22 to 05/25/2000 and did a
ROCK Linux BoF there. There was an article in the
4th issue of the SANE
Times (the official conference bulletin) about it. They called it the
longest BoF of the conference because it started Wednesday at 4pm and
finished Thursday at 12pm (of course with some brakes :-).
++20000408++ Subdistributions: Router and Telnet Terminal
The latest snapshot contains the first working version of the new ROCK
Router Linux. Only the base features have been implemented yet. Modules
like iptables and QoS are currently missing but will follow soon. The
snapshot also contains the first version of the ROCK Telnet Terminal. A
small system which fits on a floppy and can auto-detect it's IP-Address
using bootp or rarp and open some telnet sessions to a hardcoded server ip.
++20000401++ New ROCK Linux Articles
Two new articles has been published at the European Unix Platform
(EUP) - e-zine. It's "Rock Linux: Not for
woozies!" by Jos Visser and "Using Rock Linux on a
Sony ultra portable laptop" by Pjotr Prins.
++20000331++ ROCK Linux 1.3.9 has been released
This is a release of the ROCK Linux development tree.
Changes: A lot of new packages, bugfixes and features, new build
scripts (rewritten from scratch), new gcc wrapper for better
optimizazion, install disks improvements, a lot of sourcecode
cleanups. This development release of ROCK Linux is based on the Linux
Kernel 2.3.99-pre3 and Glibc 2.1.3. It contains allready XFree86 4.0 and
Perl 5.6.0.
++20000313++ ROCK Linux Article: ISDN
Another ROCK Linux Article has been published at the European Unix Platform
(EUP) - e-zine. This time it's an
HowTo for configuring a ROCK Linux system as ISDN router. [read more..]
++20000312++ ROCK Linux 1.3.8 has been released
This is a release of the ROCK Linux development tree.
Changes: A lot of new packages, bugfixes and features, support for the PPC
architecture, added flist wrapper library (a cleaner way of getting the list
of files created by a package), a lot of improvements in the installation
process, added the rescue subdistribution, added a better gcc wrapper, and
much more cool stuff. Have a look at the CHANGELOG for details.
++20000310++ Added Automated System Setup
I've finished a set of major changes to the install disks. That also includes
a hook for full automated script based setups. I've added an example
which automatically detects the first disk (ide or scsi), creates some
partitions on it, installs ROCK Linux and does the entire system setup.
No interaction with the user is needed for such a script based setup.
++20000116++ Added Rescue Subdistribution
I wrote a subdistribution for minimal rescue systems (less than 150 MB) which
contain everything what could be usefull when repairing a system - including
a C compiler. The rescue system can also be used to (re)build the complete
ROCK Linux distribution.
++19991231++ ROCK Linux ported to iMac within 3 days
We ported the ROCK Linux Core at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin (12/27 - 12/29/1999) to an G3
iMac. We did it live on stage and it took us only 3 days.
++19991225++ ROCK Linux 1.3.7 has been released
This is a release of the ROCK Linux development tree.
Changes: A lot of new packages, bugfixes and features. Added office packages
(abiword, etc.) and a common ROCK Linux presentation (based on the magicpoint
software). Have a look at the CHANGELOG for
details.
++19991115++ ROCK Linux Article at e-zine
A ROCK Linux Article has been published at the European Unix Platform
(EUP) - e-zine. It's about the ROCK
Linux Philosophy and why I started my own Linux Distribution. [read more..]
++19991102++ Complete PalmOS Cross Devel Enviroment on ROCK Linux
I've finished a set of ROCK Linux Extension packages for PalmOS cross
development. That includes a cross compiler, the xcopilot emulator and
an example program.
++19991012++ New ROCK Linux Documentations
Dag Bake made a major redesign and update of the ROCK Linux Documentation.
His changes will be included in ROCK Linux 1.3.4.
++19991008++ ROCK Linux Ported to Alpha
The ROCK Linux Core has sucessfully benn ported to the Alpha architecture.
Other architecutres are planed for the near future.
++19990901++ ROCK Linux Extension Packages
A new Feature of ROCK Linux 1.3.1 is are the extension packages. The
extension packages are optional binary packages maintained by various people
arround the world. So we can keep the base dfistribution small and clean and
provide a large number of packages for multiple applications at the same
time.
++19990817++ ROCK Linux 1.2.0 has been released
This is the first stable release of ROCK Linux. It comes with (and is
based on) gcc/egcs 2.95, glibc 2.1, linux 2.2.11, XFree86 3.3.4, Gnome,
tetex 1.0.6, ISDN 4 Linux, Coda and a lot of other stuff.