Omega 10 Beta released

[RahulSundaram]

http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail...er/001234.html

"We proudly present to you, dear users with Omega. Omega is a Linux based
operating system suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a Live CD
for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems that includes a variety of
free and open source software from Fedora and Livna repository"

sounds interesting.. i'll look at it later after the AFL football Grand final..

[ryptyde]

Downloading the "Omega" now and will test it out. Looking forward to putting it on a usb stick as I've just done with the F10 Beta livecd pre-release.

[LDC]

downloading right now, very curious about it

[LDC]

downloaded and tried under vbox: installation went smoothly, I find very cool the interface (and the logo!!!), I also appreciate the software bundle.
The thing I don't understand is why is so much slower than any other distro I've ever tried before....

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Development/test releases have a lot of debugging options enabled which makes things easier when bugs are reported but a performance cost. Just before the general release, these options are disabled. Such details are usually noted in the release notes.

[LDC]

oh...understood, I think my PC is much sensible to such things because it is very slow (it is just an old AMD64, first generation, more than five years old), but It left me with the feeling that is somehow "better" than Fedora 10 alpha, maybe it is in a slightly advanced state of developement.
I am interested in trying this distro in a real environment, but will do this only once at least RC state will be reached.
Even more interesting would be to have such a distro with XFCE only

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...a_10beta_1_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...a_10beta_2_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...a_10beta_3_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...a_10beta_4_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...a_10beta_5_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id...a_10beta_6_lrg

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag..._10_beta&num=1

I see your article didn't go down to well on the osnews.com site, but what else would you expect over there Some people just like to moan!

I'd love to give it a shot, but unfortunately, hardware problems (you've heard my video problem many times) prohibit it. I'd be wasting a disk if I download it

Good luck with this new spin anyway, it's what (at least one) member(s) have been asking for.

Wayne

AdamW

AdamW

Thom told me OS News wasn't running distribution beta announcements any more, which is why I'm not submitting Mandriva's. So...why this?

isnt he a Mandriva Dev or whatever he is. iv'e never liked him at all,

[Caraibes]

-Any plan on also releasing an AMD64 version of Omega ?

(I like the idea...)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

I don't have a x86_64 box handy and don't really have time to compose and test more variants. If people are interested, they should post to rpmfusion-developers list and participate.

[ryptyde]

Originally Posted by RahulSundaram

Hi,

I don't have a x86_64 box handy and don't really have time to compose and test more variants. If people are interested, they should post to rpmfusion-developers list and participate.

Rahul, could you allow a look at your Omega .ks as I had used your earlier Xfce .ks file to build a livecd.iso to put on a usb stick.

Thanks for the Omega release!

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

It is in the same place as the ISO images.

ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

It is in the same place as the ISO images.

ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/