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Revision as of 15:09, 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.

Contents

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: English in Live Session, Multilingual after HD installation
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.

Applications

Point Linux 13.02 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 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 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 issues

Installer does not perform automatic Language (Contry) selection in some cases
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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