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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
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