Omega 10 Beta released

[RahulSundaram]

http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-September/001234.html

"We proudly present to you, dear users with Omega. Omega is a Linux based
operating system suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a Live CD
for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems that includes a variety of
free and open source software from Fedora and Livna repository"

[Demz]

sounds interesting.. i'll look at it later after the AFL football Grand final..

[ryptyde]

Downloading the "Omega" now and will test it out. Looking forward to putting it on a usb stick as I've just done with the F10 Beta livecd pre-release. :)

[LDC]

downloading right now, very curious about it :)

[LDC]

downloaded and tried under vbox: installation went smoothly, I find very cool the interface (and the logo!!!), I also appreciate the software bundle.
The thing I don't understand is why is so much slower than any other distro I've ever tried before....

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Development/test releases have a lot of debugging options enabled which makes things easier when bugs are reported but a performance cost. Just before the general release, these options are disabled. Such details are usually noted in the release notes.

[LDC]

oh...understood, I think my PC is much sensible to such things because it is very slow (it is just an old AMD64, first generation, more than five years old), but It left me with the feeling that is somehow "better" than Fedora 10 alpha, maybe it is in a slightly advanced state of developement.
I am interested in trying this distro in a real environment, but will do this only once at least RC state will be reached.
Even more interesting would be to have such a distro with XFCE only :)

[Demz]

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=omega_10_beta&image=omega_10beta_1_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=omega_10_beta&image=omega_10beta_2_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=omega_10_beta&image=omega_10beta_3_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=omega_10_beta&image=omega_10beta_4_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=omega_10_beta&image=omega_10beta_5_lrg
http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=omega_10_beta&image=omega_10beta_6_lrg

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=omega_10_beta&num=1

[Wayne]

I see your article didn't go down to well on the osnews.com site, but what else would you expect over there :) Some people just like to moan!

I'd love to give it a shot, but unfortunately, hardware problems (you've heard my video problem many times) prohibit it. I'd be wasting a disk if I download it :(

Good luck with this new spin anyway, it's what (at least one) member(s) have been asking for.

Wayne

[Demz]

AdamW
AdamW

Thom told me OS News wasn't running distribution beta announcements any more, which is why I'm not submitting Mandriva's. So...why this? isnt he a Mandriva Dev or whatever he is. iv'e never liked him at all,

[Caraibes]

-Any plan on also releasing an AMD64 version of Omega ?

(I like the idea...)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

I don't have a x86_64 box handy and don't really have time to compose and test more variants. If people are interested, they should post to rpmfusion-developers list and participate.

[ryptyde]

Hi,

I don't have a x86_64 box handy and don't really have time to compose and test more variants. If people are interested, they should post to rpmfusion-developers list and participate.

Rahul, could you allow a look at your Omega .ks as I had used your earlier Xfce .ks file to build a livecd.iso to put on a usb stick.

Thanks for the Omega release! :)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

It is in the same place as the ISO images.

ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

It is in the same place as the ISO images.

ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/

[F.User_4_Life]

idk if some one posted a link to artwork but here it is.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F10Themes/Solar

[ryptyde]

Hi,

It is in the same place as the ISO images.

ftp://ftp.infradead.org/pub/spins/

Thank you Rahul, I must have not been paying attention while hastily wanting to download and try your Omega. :D

[Mozzer]

I've installed Omega 10 on my laptop and it went really smoothly and my wireless worked straight away.

Only problem is that there is no Livna repo yet, so I'm missing a few bits and pieces.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Livna development repo is enabled by default in Omega So I am not sure what your complaint is.

[Mozzer]

When I do a yum update I get the following

# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.91/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/9.91/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
...
Then it tries a few other mirrors, but they all fail.

Livna for Fedora core 9.91 is enabled, my livna.repo has got the following

# cat livna.repo
[livna]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/
failovermethod=priority
#mirrorlist=http://rpm.livna.org/mirrorlist-7
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna

[livna-debuginfo]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Debug
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
gpgcheck=1

[livna-source]
name=Livna for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Source
baseurl=
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/SRPMS/
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-livna
gpgcheck=1
#

[ryptyde]

Hi,

Livna development repo is enabled by default in Omega So I am not sure what your complaint is.

I had a similar problem with the Livna repo and I went to the /etc/yum.repos.d and disabled the Livna.repo and enabled the livna-devel.repo. :)

[Mozzer]

I've enabled the devel repo and that's much better - Thanks

[F.User_4_Life]

you may even want to enable the testing repo if you havent done so. just a poke in the dark.

[jaswanth424]

1. i am new to linux....
2. currently i installed fedora 10 alpha.....
3. i typed in konsole as follows and their ouput ....
4.please look at them and suggest me.................
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root@localhost Download]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27-0.166.rc0.git8.fc10.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 20:51:26 EDT 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

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.[root@localhost Download]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.90.1/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/9.90.1/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/livna/fedora/9.90.1/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.90.1/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.atrpms.net/livna/fedora/9.90.1/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
ftp://mirrors.tummy.com/pub/rpm.livna.org/fedora/9.90.1/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: livna. Please verify its path and try again

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7.so tell me how can install
1.livna
2.gcc package
3.other video audo players

8.thanks in advance..................
;)

[F.User_4_Life]

im not to sure but it sounds as it the yum is just locked did you try restarting it and trying again and in package manager what repos do you already have enabled.

also try useing fedora 9 until the official release of 10 just cause your new to linux and there are scripts for 9 and not 10 to help install and add repos just by running the scripts

1 is Dangermouse script

the other is easylife from dulinux site google (dulinux easylife) and you should find it

i think dangermouse has made a script for omega 10 search google for (dangermouse fedora)

hope this helps.

[Valent]

1. i am new to linux....

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7.so tell me how can install
1.livna
2.gcc package
3.other video audo players

8.thanks in advance..................
;)

Hi,
you can use the following script I made:

http://snipurl.com/pimpmyfedora

Cheers,
Valent

Hi,

Livna development repo is enabled by default in Omega So I am not sure what your complaint is.

Rahul the issue it seams it that you left the "livna" but not "livna-devel" repo enabled and that breaks yum update.

Thanks for Omega!!!

Valent.

[Demz]

Valent Please dont double post.. Edit your Previous one if your gonna re-post another within 5 minutes

[leigh123linux]

Valent Please dont double post.. Edit your Previous one if your gonna re-post another within 5 minutes


You can use the moderation tool to merge them !

[Demz]

You can use the moderation tool to merge them !

i'll let you do that leigh.. i just finished dinner....

i see you have :)

[schneidz]

if you install to usb will you be able to save across reboots ?

[ryptyde]

if you install to usb will you be able to save across reboots ?

Yes! It will save your preferences and data if you create a persistent overlay or /home. :)