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.