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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Like planned, here is a new release of all ISO. This should help people
> test them and test bugs fix and is compliant with our "release
> often, release early" trend.

Thanks. :)

> Download links:
> http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/testing/smgl-0.9.4-i486-2.6.11.8-nptl-test6.iso.bz2
> http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/testing/smgl-0.9.4-ppc-2.6.11.8-nptl-test6.iso.bz2
> http://download.sourcemage.org/iso/testing/smgl-0.9.4-x86_64-2.6.11.8-nptl-test6.iso.bz2
>
> Changelogs is coming soon.... it still requires some work on my side to
> merge all needed information.
>
> One important notice: squashfs is now in linux-new spell, however our
> great ISO Team Lead decided to remove squashfs use all together. The ISO
> are then provided as .bz2.
> See : http://www.sourcemage.org/ISORequirements

That'll be the linux spell, not linux-new. Another reason for the
removal of squashfs is that it makes accessing files on the ISO more
difficult as most people will not have squashfs in their kernel.

> Test and REPORT:
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Install
>
> Due to lack of time those ISO are untested, so it's very important that
> you report your installation success or failure. On the same line, I
> don't have so much time to fix current bugs, even if the build scripts
> are pretty stable themselves. So, if you like to contribute, please join
> the ISO team!
>
> I'd like to thanks choichoi for generating the x86-64 and I'm requesting
> that he be part of the ISO team.

The usual method is for him to contact the Team Lead of the team he'd
like to join and/or myself. ;) (He's contacted me, but hasn't replied
back yet).

> Please, can someone add "0.9.4-test6" in the Version field of our
> bugzilla database?

Added.

- -sandalle

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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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