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Allgemein 03:40 PMThe Neptune team is proud to announce the release of Neptune 2.5.
This release comes with Kernel 3.3.4 with lots of patches and drivers. As usual and for the last time we ship two official variants: 1. Full Edition with KDE 4.8.3 and 2. our Minimal Edition with LXDE and E17.
The Full Edition comes with Chromium 18, Icedove 10, Gimp 2.8, KDEnlive 0.9.2, Amarok 2.6, VLC 2.0.1 and many more updates. We ship with the latest and greates multimedia codecs preinstalled aswell as the flashplayer. For wireless diagnosis we ship Wireshark, Aircrack-ng and kismon. We added RAID support to our default system aswell as LVM support in the advanced installer. We added templates for the panel Layout in KDE.
For our Minimal Edition we added E17 as lowmemory alternative to LXDE and ship Iceweasel 10 ESR, Icedove 10, Gnome-Mplayer 1.0.6, Deadbeef 0.5.1 and pcmanfm 0.9.10.
Both editions now come with a adjusted GTK3 Theme for running GTK3 applications.
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Changelog:
- Updated Installer to provide format button (You don’t have to use gparted anymore to format an existing linux root partition)
- Updated advanced installer to provide the ability to install and create a lvm partitioning layout
- Added RAID support in Full Edition
- Added Panel layouts to Full Edition (Gnome 2, KDE 3, Macstyle, Unity, Unkool7)
- Added ‘showmyip’ script to neptune-scripts
- Added default colors for root (red) and user (green) in Terminal
- Added pulseaudio as default sound server in Full Edition
- Fixed zevenoshardwaremanager code to use qapt-batch in Full Edition
- Fixed dolphin action menu entry ‘Open as root’ to open dolphin as root again
- Updated FGLRX driver to support kernel 3.3
- Updated Kernel to 3.3.4
- Updated KDE SC to 4.8.3
- Updated E17 to 0.16.999.70442
- Updated KDEnlive to 0.9.2
- Updated Gimp to 2.8
- Updated Chromium to 18.0.1025.168
- Updated Icedove to 10.0.4
- Updated Iceweasel to 10.0.4esr
- Updated Python to 2.7
- Updated VLC to 2.0.1
- Updated Muon to 1.3.1 with Muon Update Notifier enabled by default
- Updated Amarok to 2.6 Beta (2.5.90)
- Updated LibreOffice to 3.4.6
- Updated Audacity to 2.0.0
- Updated plymouth theme
- Updated kde qtcurve theme
- Updated kde color scheme
- Updated remaster-kit to use xz as default compression
- Updated remaster-kit to correctly clean bash history
- Updated kcm-grub2 to 1.3.0
- Updated plasma-widget-networkmanagement to 0.9.0.2
Monday June 4th, 2012 at 06:09 AM
Ok – looks interesting – and I do like the idea of Debian with KDE.
However – if you’re going to include GCC… how about putting the kernel headers in so that we can install things like the VMware tools?
And why – given that it’s supposed to be kernel 3.3.4….. is it asking me for the headers for 3.0.4…….?
Is there an error in the build… or in the announcement? I was looking forward to a modern kernel….
Monday June 4th, 2012 at 09:25 AM
Kernwl Headers are included. Virtualbox guest additions preinstalled.
If you have kernel 3.0.4 running (check it if uname -r in a Terminal) then you might have downloaded our previous release Neptune 2.0
Monday June 4th, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Ok – I’ll try and check that out…
I did download it from your main download page… making the assumption that if it had been announced, it would be the most recent…
Oh – btw – Virtualbox additions are all well and good… but not if you’re running VMware….
Monday June 4th, 2012 at 12:03 PM
Just checked – the page I donwloaded it from did say it was the Neptune 2.5 page….. 1.3 GB of download….
Monday June 4th, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Did you download from this server ?
http://www.proindi.de/zevenos/ZevenOS-Neptune/neptune-25-full.iso
And is uname -r telling you infact that you are running kernel 3.3.4 ?
Tuesday June 5th, 2012 at 01:23 AM
uname told me 3.0.4 and no, it looks like my mistake downloading from the main site. That link is to a different website. We live and learn……
Tuesday June 5th, 2012 at 01:46 AM
I have downloaded and tried both the full and minimal edition, and they look great. I am curious if you have either one available in an English language version? Although I speak German, I am more comfortable with using English especially with a US keyboard. Thanks.
Tuesday June 5th, 2012 at 08:56 AM
just choose the english boot entry on the live media. It is not the first boot option but the third I guess (at least in the full edition)
Tuesday June 5th, 2012 at 09:57 AM
Becky I double checked all links. All the links are correct. Perhaps you clicked on one which is saying (still 2.0)
Wednesday June 6th, 2012 at 11:06 PM
[…] diagnostic sans fil sont disponibles Wireshark, Aircrack-ng et Kismon. Pour plus de détails lire l’annonce de sortie. Téléchargement (MD5): neptune-25-full.iso (1.364 Mo), neptune-minimal-25.iso (700 […]
Thursday June 7th, 2012 at 05:43 AM
I had trouble getting my my laptop wireless connection working with the previous Neptune release, but I just upgraded to Neptune 2.5 and it worked right away! Great job!
Thursday June 7th, 2012 at 08:01 AM
Is there a plan for 64 bit edition. I tried it and it was really fast.
I need to use lvm and the installer did not support LVM. I then started the advance installer from the command line. Is there any documentation regarding the advanced installer etc
Nice distro. Keep it up
Thursday June 7th, 2012 at 09:06 AM
Yeah we are planning on releasing our next Version 64Bit only. as most multimedia capable pcs now support 64Bit it would not make sense to stick only to 32Bits.
The documentation for the advanced installer is still in progress.
You can start it as root 8n the terminal with the command
neptune-installerSaturday June 9th, 2012 at 02:48 AM
leszek,
Thanks for the note. I did use neptune-installer for the advanced installer. I was just saying that there was no link/shortcut to start the installer from the desktop. Since you have mentioned in the release notes that we support LVM through the advanced installer, it would be nice to also have the link available in the ISO from the desktop or atleast from the KDE menu.
The distro was really fast and it detected my broadcom card also very well. I think it is a very good step in the right direction. Waiting for the 64 bit edition …..
Sunday June 10th, 2012 at 11:07 PM
VERY smooth!
Oddly, I need kernel 3.3.5 or newer (or 3.4?) for my old hardware, and couldn’t find where to check hardware in general (like for my old usb tuner).
Praying for x64!
Monday June 11th, 2012 at 03:50 PM
Noch nie war ich so schnell von einer Linux-Distrubition begeistert, wie bei ZevenOS! Dabei bin ich seit Jahren überzeugter Linux Fan, angefangen habe ich mit Ubuntu 7.04, danach folgte Suse, dann Debian 6, aber Zevenos4 ist nach meinem geschmack, Alles da was man braucht, alles Bestens!
Monday July 2nd, 2012 at 07:52 AM
Neptune 2.5 worked like a charm (minimal and full versions)on my Nvidia-powered ASUS G74SX Notebook – the only exception being that it allowed installation of Grub to Root but would not boot like that unless chain-loaded. The REAL problem was that I was silly enough to discard the 2.5 ISOs before I tested 2.51. STUPID ME! I must report 2.51 images are a DISASTER on my ASUS as neither will boot – both halt 30 seconds in and complain about not being able to find some ‘server image'(?)or other critical part of itself! No, all the images passed MD5 and I have tried three separate sets with the same result. The burning is on Verbatim DVD-R at 2x using the superior Imgburn 2.6.6.0. (it too verified your image’s MD5 during post-burn validation) and burner quality is beyond reproach. It’s all a puzzle to me and too bad as 2.5 was beautiful to the eye and worked well. I can’t be the only one with this problem, so I ask for any others who have encountered this issue to speak out, especially if they have solved it. Any ideas Mr. Leszek?
Monday July 2nd, 2012 at 08:10 AM
We did not change the Neptune Minimal ISO so this one should work.
The boot system on the Full Edition was also not changed. Please verify if the ISO boots fine from VirtualBix or Qemu.
And btw. You are first one reporting such a behavior.
Tuesday July 24th, 2012 at 07:30 AM
Okay, J.Mars is not alone. I tried to get v2.51 to boot on several computers; no joy, unlike v2.5. But then, I use USB flash pendrives, rather than burn discs.
Tuesday July 24th, 2012 at 09:04 AM
Then this could be a serious issue that I cannot reproduce here. Please disable splash and quiet in the live bootloader and try too boot and send me the full list of errors that appear. Otherwise I seriously don’t know how to fix this for you as we did not change a thing in rhe boot process only updated software in 2.5.1
If you get to a shell (the crash shell basically) then please try to find the live.log file which contains a full log of what happened during live boot. Save it somewhere and send it to me. I would prefer to discuss this in the forum but you can also mail me.
Sunday August 5th, 2012 at 09:52 PM
Sometimes I skip new graphics features with boot parameters or cheatcodes like nomodeset or nofb (no-frame-buffer), splash=verbose or nosplash, and noquiet. Basic/Safe video, if you will.
Tuesday August 7th, 2012 at 02:33 AM
[…] wireless diagnosis we ship Wireshark, Aircrack-ng and Kismon." Here is the full release announcement. Download (MD5): neptune-25-full.iso (1,364MB), neptune-minimal-25.iso […]