... I think all new announcements regarding new alphaOS releases should have a link to the sourceforge folder. OK, it is added. Thanks for reminding :) @Familyman New iso size is 103MB without locales and devel files for alpha.sfs 10MB+8MB (not for extra.sfs there is all included), without firefox ...
Version 7.0 has been released as first alphaOS version based on Arch packages, with pacman and its GUI fronted pacmanXG pre-installed, perfectly compatible. Now this OS can be regarded as continuation of the ArchPup project. Other changes: kernel was upgraded to version 3.9.1, fixed Simple Radio pop...
Next version (7.0) will be based on Arch with pacman as the default package manager, I will remove firefox and gparted, and add pacmanXG GUI for pacman. Other applications like mplayer2, deadbeef, evince, gpicview and Puppy specific like sfs-load and pwireless will stay; system should be usable out ...
Next version will be based on Arch, so you can use darktable from their repository . I think it's good idea to switch packages maintaining responsibility to Arch developers and just follow them from safe distance, no need to duplicate efforts.
Changes in current version: * freetype and fontconfig compiled with Ubuntu's LCD rendering patches * added home folder and settings for user alpha * fixed missing pc file in libmad package * improved spkg package_search function * service description (not name) is shown on their boot start up * iso ...
After every new release announcement and list of changes are added to file /usr/share/alphaos/doc/changelog. Bellow is content of that file before version 6.0 was released. version 5.0 - upgraded packages: xorg-server (1.14.0) mesa (9.1.1) libdrm (2.4.43) xf86-video-intel (2.21.6) xf86-input-synapti...