| Ydesktop 3.2.1-rc has just been released. |
Dec. 09, 2002
Yoper limited (a New Zealand Operating System Company) is proud to announce the first public release (release candidate) of Ydesktop. This is the first part of Your Operating System that Yoper Limited ("Yoper") is
developing. This Operating System ("OS") contains the latest software, which includes Linux-2.4.20, KDE-3.1-rc5, Mozilla 1.1 and OpenOffice. The CD is optimized for i686 and higher X86 CPU's. The final release will contain KDE-3.1 and Mozilla 1.2.1 and other updated packages.
YOS is a compact, personalised and optimised OS with support for rpm, deb and tgz packages. The native YOS package system is the TGZ system. 200 packages have been carefully selected and compiled for speed and stability. YOS has an automatic hardware detection system, which should detect most modern hardware.
Please support YOS with advocacy, suggested improvements and/or monthly subscription fees. We need your support to create the best OS. When you give a YOS CD to other people, please do include a copy of these instructions to allow other people to understand the mission of Your
Operating System. A digital copy of this document can be found on the download section of www.yoper.com, the main YOS community portal.
Installation Instructions for ydesktop iso.
When you boot this CD you will be presented with a shell. Please type "yoper" followed by .Please follow the
on-screen installation.
The steps required to install YOS are:- Agreement
- Choosing a hard disk
- Run cfdisk and set up SWAP (> 128M) and main root partition (> 2.0 GB)
- Choosing which root partition you would like
- Initialize YOS (this can take from 10 to 30 minutes. Please be patient)
- Network Setup
- Xwindows startup
- Lilo install on MBR
- Time zone setup
- User setup
NOTE Once you have installed Ydesktop 3.2.1 you will be prompted into a shell. At this point you can manually edit all files and once you are done, you have to type "exit", followed by , followed by "reboot", followed by .
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