dear buddies,

we released yesterday the epidemic gnu linux (in english version) including the script smxi/sgx already pre installed. As I said to h2 in the past I was translating to the english one brazilian distro called epidemic gnu linux which I'm one of the devlopers and we included the script smxi/sgxi pre installed on it in order to facilitate to the users. Besides, a lot of conveniences for the final users. Thus, I would like the "h2" and this fantastic community try it and whoever can downlod it. the download links are available there at www.epidemiclinux.org/ and . We announced the release at the distrowatch. com and you can view at distrowatch.com but I quoted it down there below as follows:

Quotation:


"The second beta build of Epidemic Linux 3.1, a Debian-based Brazilian distribution for the desktop, has been released. Improvements in this release include: replacement of bootsplash by Plymouth; significant reduction of boot time; new boot options for systems with NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards; support for legacy NVIDIA drivers; introductory support for English as the first step towards greater internationalisation of Epidemic's utilities; inclusion of Esu, a new tool that gives system administrators a choice of user authentication methods for performing privileged tasks; replacement of GRUB with GRUB 2; ext4 becomes the default file system; i686-optimised Linux kernel 2.6.30; KDE 4.3 with Compiz Fusion; installer improvements.... Read the full release announcement (in Portuguese) for further details and some screenshots. Interested beta testers can download the live DVD image from here: epidemic-3.1-b2-1-i686.iso (1,637MB, MD5)."

The epidemic site with download servers at www.epidemiclinux.org and www.epidemiclinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1131
download link or straight at the distrowatch.com at distrowatch.com
PS: we are also going to translate the epidemic home page to the english in time to come and the next we will provide an english support forum as well.Later on, who can assist to suppport the users in english can get in touch with me by pm.
Cheers.
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I'm downloading the beta now... sounds interesting.
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dear sickie,
Thanks. fyi this is beta2 but it's beens so much tested and just in case will appear some minor errors or bugs let me know it sooner. I needed the "h2" and everybody here checks if the script smxi/sgxi is working all right. We've been working hard to furnish a good otimized debian with smx/sgxi. I will appreciate your comments sooner. cheers.
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OK, I just clicked a bit in a VM. I hadn't installed it nor I made tests with smxi. But one thing: Epidemic is sexy! I really like the logo/wallpaper. I will try more, but not now as I have something else, not computer related to do. What I can see as an issue is that Epidemic is using Network manager while smxi needs to be run in init 3. As far as I know there were connectivity problems outside of X if NM was installed. But maybe that issue is resolved. Will try it a bit more and if all will be smooth I'll replace my sidux install with it.
Anyway, great work, Carioca and others that made that squeeze based distro.
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sickie,
you use the script smxi/sgxi if you wish because we have already a graphic installer to install a lot of things called Easy Channel.
cheers.
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Hello again :)
I've been over to official forums but there is no English support whatsoever so I'll make a bug report right here. Sorry to both you and techAdmin.
I've burned 3.1 beta 2 to a RW DVD and the md5 checksums matched. So I rebooted my PC in to live, clicked a bit around and than started the installer. My sda has 8 partitions, while sdb only 2, of which one small partition of 14 GBs (/dev/sdb2) is dedicated for testing out distros as I plan to reinstall my main OS and I'm experimenting with different Debian derivatives.
I left GRUB to automatic, went trough all steps (I selected /dev/sdb2 for root partition) and started the installer, which prompted me that the partition should be formatted before install so I started the partitoner and formatted sdb2, reclicked Install and all went well.
But upon restart my old GRUB started, but fortunately I already had it setup to chain-load /dev/sdb2 so I could start Epidemic's Grub, but it gave me an error about executable. If I remember it right, it was error n. 14. Any way, I than chose to start my main OS, but it gave me an error about super-block being written in the future and I had to manually start fsck and reboot. When I started my main OS, sidux, for the seccond time it gave me the same error about super-block for all other partitions defined to be mounted in fstab (namely, sda5, sda8 and sdb1). I fscked those too and the system booted fine.
So, here I am right now, writing you from sidux just after the above adventure :) I need now to fsck other, not auto-mounted by fstab partitions... Yes, I just tried sda3 and it had errors about being mounted in the future. But that partition wasn't mounted for quite some time (it was a /boot in a previous install), so it's confirmed - the installer mounted partitions that it was supposed to leave alone. What's worse is that I still need to recover data from one of my partitions so it shouldn't be touched at all (now it's in an inconsistent/corrupted state just as others are) so I consider the behavior to be very bad and you should correct it before 3.1 is labeled as stable.
In conclusion: I won't be trying that beta but will rather wait for when that installer issue will be resolved. So please, if you'll correct that behavior I'd be vary glad if you could notify it here on this forum, as I can't follow your web page (no English support) as I'm very interested in Epidemic. Thank you again.
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Hi carioca
I'm downloading the DVD now. I plan to put it up as a guest in KVM. I'll let you know how it goes. BTW, congrats, it's nice to see you come out with your own distro, I hope it's a smooth ride to the release.
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hi, dear fellows,
Now, we're starting up an epidemic gnu linux english support at sidux-underground.com/smf/index.php at the forum "underground sidux" with the buddy "trash80" (the sidux underground administrator) who is going support you if you'll need some prompt help. He set aside a part of the forums for English support called "Epidemic GNU/Linux - Support Area -English Support for Epidemic GNU/Linux ". Enjoy it and report any trouble there. the nobos won't be without support anylonger. for the while being, we don't have an english support forum yet. But in time to come we are going to give you an english home page at the epidemic gnu linux main page.
cheers.

edited:

FYI We've just started up the new epidemic english forum yesterday as I told you above and they report some bugs with the solution there:

You can redirect the novice ones to the support forum in English at sidux-underground.com/smf/index.php?topic=157.0

Now, we need moderators there and we're applying for good ones.

cheers.
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English support is now at:

trash80.org/epidemic

This is a full support site dedicated to only Epidemic.
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