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Revision as of 07:05, 9 June 2013

These release notes for Point Linux 13.04 (Taya) provide an overview of the release and document the known issues with Point Linux 13.04.

Contents

Point Linux 13.04.1 overview

The purpose: Desktop PC distro
Target audience: Experienced users and business/IT sector
Based on: Debian 7 (Wheezy)
Kernel: 3.2.0-4
DE: Mate 1.4.2
Compiz: Available in repo. Not installed by default
DM: LightDM
Distro format: LiveCD/USB, LiveDVD/USB
Supported architectures: i386 (i686-pae), amd64
Distro language: English in Live Session, Localized during the HD installation
Installer: GUI Point Linux Installer 0.15.1

What's new in Point Linux 13.04.1

While Point Linux 13.04.1 is a minor release offering bugfixes. However, it has some improvements as well:

Point Linux Installer changes

Installer downloads and installs IBus and input method packages when CJK language detected;
Installer removes VirtualBox guest additions in target system when not run in VirtualBox;
Installer creates /media/cdrom and /media/usb folders in target system;
Installer creates /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00CDMountPoint and /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00trustcdrom in target system;

Other changes

Firefox 21.0;
Stable Debian 'Wheezy' packages;
Debian repo moved to cdn.debian.net;
ftp CLI utility added;

Applications

Point Linux 13.04.1 comes in two editions, Full and Core.

Key packages present in Core and Full editions

ssh
sudo
telnet
rsync
ntp
pulseaudio
pptp-linux
cups
acpid
lidhtdm
plymouth
Virtualbox Guest Additions

Key applications present in Core and Full editions

Network Manager Gnome
Synaptic
GDebi
Update Manager
Eye of Mate (the Eye of Gnome analog)
Atril (the Evince analog)
Engrampa (the File Roller analog)
Printer Configuration Tool (system-config-printer)
GParted
BootStick

Key applications present in Full edition only

Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Pidgin
Transmission
LibreOffice
VLC
Remmina
Vino
Seahorse
Mateconf Editor (the GСonf Editor analog)
Simple Scan
OpenJDK
Adobe Flash Player (licensed)

Full edition also includes non-free firmware drivers.
Core edition can be easily upgraded to the Full edition by installing the pointlinux-mate-desktop package.
Non-free Google Chrome, Opera, Dropbox and Virtualbox repos can be added with the pointlinux-repos-nonfree package.
Compiz is not installed by default, but it can be easily enabled with pointlinux-compiz metapackage installation and restart.

Point Linux Installer

Point Linux Installer is a fork of Linux Mint's Live Installer. It brings some notable changes and improvements over the original Live Installer project:

Installer performs more checks before launch;
'No Internet connection' dialog appears if there's no Internet connection detected;
Automatic timezone detection function added (requires Internet connection);
Installer sets 'us' keyboard layout for user info input regardless of layout chosen before;
Regex username and hostname validity check;
Avatar selection option removed;
Autologin option added;
Keyboard layout pic removed that allowed us remove the Qt4 libraries from dependencies and reduce overall installer size greatly;
Advanced installation removed;
'Send anonymous installation report' option added (requires Internet connection);
Installer reduces window size during the installation if there's no slideshow folder;
Better localization ability;
UI improvements.

Known issues

Installer does not perform automatic Language (Country) selection in some cases
Installer does not respect Dvorak keyboard variant
Once enabled in GUI Vino requires relogin to enable the desktop sharing.
There's no choice to run Brasero on blank CD/DVD media insertion.
LightDM: Additional language selection is ignored in multilingual environments. Debian Bug #679386.
No sound on Intel 5 Series/3400 Chipset HDA sound card. Debian Bug #679056

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