Weasel GNU/Linux 2.0 Release Notes

Welcome to Weasel GNU/Linux! Weasel GNU/Linux is a freely-available GNU/Linux operating system distribution, built with the Conary distributed software management system. The Weasel GNU/Linux distribution is built on the solid base of rPath Linux 2 distribution. On that solid base it introduces bleading-edge KDE 4.1 desktop environment.

Hardware Requirements

Processor

x86 (32bit PC)

i686-class processor (i586 and earlier are not supported)

x86_64 (64bit PC)

all AMD64 and EM64T processors are supported

System Memory

It is suggested to have at least 256 MB for 32bit installations and 512 MB of RAM for 64bit installations.

Hard Disc

Default 32bit installation requires at least 2.5 GB while 64bit installations require at least 3 GB free disk space.

Major Components

• Conary 2.0.28
• Linux kernel 2.6.26
• GCC 4.1.2
• Glibc 2.5
• Xorg-X11 7.3
• KDE 4.1.0
• Qt 4.4.0

Updates

The "sudo conary updateall" command will update all the software on your system.

Contacting Weasel GNU/Linux team

Please visit the Weasel GNU/Linux Issue Tracking System at http://www.assembla.com/spaces/weasel/tickets to report bugs and make enhancement requests.

Conary and rPath Linux developers frequent the #conary channel on the freenode IRC network (http://www.freenode.net/)

See http://www.freelists.org/archives/weasel-commit/ for a mailing list where Weasel GNU/Linux packages are commited.

Technical information about Conary and rPath Linux is kept at http://wiki.rpath.com/

All other info on Weasel GNU/Linux can be found at http://www.assembla.com/spaces/weasel/

Source Code

The source code for each and every package can be accessed via Conary's "cvc" command. More information on the cvc command is available in the cvc man page.