Descent OS 3 Alpha 2 is here!
July 3rd, 2012 | brian2040
I am pleased to announce that Descent OS Alpha 2 has been released. Lots of packages are now updated, and the MATE desktop seems to be behaving nicely. That said, the only work really left to do until our projected release date of August 29th is mainly cosmetic. The plymouth theme needs to be changed and branded into a Descent OS boot screen, and the Ubiquity install slide show has to be done as well. Apart from that, I am confident it can be used daily, but am only calling it another alpha in case more bugs show up and the fact that cosmetics are not completely finished. Happy testing!
Thanks for testing, and remember to post bug reports to the bug report thread on the forum.
From the Developer,
Brian Manderville <brian@descentos.org>
How exciting! I came over to the website looking for something else, but I look forward to testing this out!
That is great Brian. Are you going to get Disqus comments here?
I don’t really understand why 99% percent of open source related sites install proprietary closed sourced Disqus commenting system. Please don’t install Disqus.
Regards
Are you planing on doing a 64 bit version and if so when to expect it. Thanks. Regards and have a great day. Real
Count me as another interested in trying out a 64bit version. I assume it will come later on in the testing period, so I will be watching development of Descent with great interest. The Mate desktop is getting better all the time, so that that Gnome 3!! (lol)
[...] et également le fait que la finition esthétique ne soit pas complètement terminé. Bonne test! L’annonce de sortie, DescentOS-3-alpha2-i386.iso [...]
Another distro using that shitty Nouveau driver. Believe me guys, it’s not worth hacking your live dvd just to see if your OS is even what I’m looking for.
Sorry to disappoint, but of course it isn’t worth hacking when you can just install the proprietary one. I can’t legally put the Nvidia driver in there by default, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a distro that does.
That isn’t the point. It boots to a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Why not just use the nv driver if you aren’t trying to ram this Nouveau crap down someone’s throat?