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Revision as of 08:36, 6 April 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.
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Point Linux 13.04 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: | LiveDVD/USB |
Supported architectures: | i386 (i686-pae), amd64 |
Distro language: | Multilingual |
Installer: | Point Linux Installer 0.14.1 |
What's new in Point Linux 13.04
While Point Linux 13.04 is based on the same repository as it's predecessor, it comes with a new GUI installer replacing Debian Installer that was used in previous version. This allowed us reduce the image size greatly and simplify the overall installation process.
Other changes
- Firefox 20.0;
- Thunderbird 17.0.5;
- Latest Debian 'Wheezy' packages;
- Broadcom B43 driver replaced with STA;
- BootStick, the bootable USB stick creation tool is included in both editions by default;
- LZMA squashfs compression changed back to GZIP.
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 is 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 indicator removed that allowed us to remove the QT4 libraries from dependencies and reduce overall 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;
- Numerous UI improvements.
Known problems
- Installer does not perform automatic Language (Contry) selection in some cases