Unity Linux 2010.2 Released!

The developers at the Unity Linux project are proud to announce a brand new snapshot of the 2010 release. The 2010.2 release provides many updates to core packages, much more stability, refinements to the core tools of the project like mklivecd and unity-installer.

Since our 2010.1 Final Release the changes include:

• Updated toolchain, openssl, xorg, python, mono, smart, drak tools, kernel 2.6.35.7, repository restructuring and snapshot of the 2010 repository.
• Addition of more than 2000 packages to bring the total to over 10,600 packages per architecture.
• XFCE 4.6.2, KDE 4.5.1 (but 4.5.3 can be found in the Synergy repository), Gnome 2.32.0, Openbox 3.4.11.2, E17 0.16.999.52995 and EFL beta libraries as well as several proprietary video drivers for Nvidia and ATI.

Our work for the past 5 months has been concentrated on making branding easier, adding functionality to the unity-installer to allow installation of a livecd with a command line interface, the release of mklivecd 0.8.0. Also be sure to note several new howtos over in the wiki (http://docs.unity-linux.org/Category:HowTos)

As mentioned above, the main branching tool, mklivecd, got a lot of attention:

• Major code clean up
• Support for plymouth (optional)
• Added switch for no splash
• i18n support
• A redesigned mkremaster interface which allows to:

• Remaster your current live/installed system and make an ISO out of it
• Build an ISO from scratch using selected rpms
• Create a live USB starting from any ISO or LiveCD

Another very notable mention is the possibility to use unity-installer via the command line interface without Xorg running. This refinement allows the livecd to be installed with as little as 64MB of RAM.

Known issues:

1) When you choose Media Check from the livecd Grub menu, you must switch to tty1 (use key combination Ctrl-Alt-F1) in order to see the output from the check.

Check the mirrors.

For the 32bit iso Dowload here. md5 checksum

For the 64bit iso Dowload here. md5 checksum