AsianLinux 2 Release Notes

AsianLinux is an Indian Linux distribution which aims at promoting Linux. AsianLinux 1 has made a foundation for Desktop as well as Enterprise Linux, It has more support for Indian languages, multimedia, Developments, Security as well as Applications.

It included many applications, development tools, utilities from open source community and built an useful environment.

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AsianLinux and all its logos are proprietary of AsianLinux in INDIA.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Motif and UNIX are registered trademarks of The Open Group.

Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Itanium and Celeron are trademarks of Intel Corporation.

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Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

SSH and Secure Shell are trademarks of SSH Communications Security, Inc.

XFree86 is a trademark of The XFree86 Project, Inc, and is pending registration.

Type Enforcement is a registered trademark of Secure Computing Corporation.

FireWire is a trademark of Apple Computer Corporation.

All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners.

Hardware Requirements:-

The following information represents the minimum hardware requirements necessary to successfully install AsianLinux 2

CPU and Memory Requirements:-

This section lists the CPU and Memory specifications required by AsianLinux 2.

500 MHz Pentium III or better.
256MB Minimum RAM for graphical.
512MB Recommended.

Hard Disk Space Requirements:-

This section lists the disk space required to install AsianLinux 2.

Note:-

The disk space requirements listed below represent the disk space taken up by AsianLinux 2 after the installation is complete. However, additional disk space is required during the installation to support the installation environment. This additional disk space corresponds to the size of /AsianLinux/base/stage2.img (on CD-ROM 1) plus the size of the files in /var/lib/rpm on the installed system.

In practical terms, this means that as little as an additional 120MB can be required for a minimal installation, the complete packages can occupy over 9 GB of disk space.

Also, keep in mind that additional space will be required for any user data, and at least 5% free space should be maintained for proper system operation.

Other installation notes:-

     Default installation routine starts a graphical interface and in most cases
     detects vga cards correctly. 
     In stray cases one may face problems in grphical installation
     or in text mode installation. In such cases try booting the installer 
     with one of the following commands:
     
        linux ide=nodma
        
        linux acpi=off
     If you have a keyboard or mouse problem type at boot promt     
                
        linux i8042.nomux
        
        linux acpi=off apm=off
     If you have a serial mouse installation routine may not detect your mouse  
     at install time. However, after the installation serial mouse would be
     detected and configured.
     
     Default graphical installation does not allow JFS or XFS
     file system. However, one can implement any of these file systems
     simply typing your preference at installation boot prompt. At the 
     installer promt type this for XSF:
     
        linux xfs
     
     For JFS filesystem type this
     
        linux jfs
     
     Aditional information about asianLinux can be found at www.asianlinux.net/aslinfo.html.

Several applications, utilities, and tools have been added in this release, a some of them are following:-

Squid proxy with squidgard and dansguardian to filter web contents.
Shorewall firewall and snort intrusion detection system for better security.
A new USB utility is added to support Pen drive, You just need to plug Pen drive into system and an USB drive icon will appear on desktop.
LTSP 4.1 is included in AsianLinux to support Disk less Clients.
Anti-virus: AsianLinux 2 ships with clamav and amavisd-new. Samba with Activ directory support.
Ximian connector: Ximian connector is included as a plugin for the Evolution mail client. This plugin allows Evolution users to access the groupware features on Exchange 2000 or 2003 server.
Mozilla and Firefox has java runtime, macromedia-flash, and kaffeine plugins.
Eclipse IDE with PHP supports in addition to usual C++ and Java.
AsianLinux contains many Multimedia tools and IDE's like kaffeine, amarok, Hydrogen, Kino, Audacity, Cinepaint, Cinelerra and monodevelop, gambus.
Several Perl modules added to the AsianLinux 2
Complete list of added perl modules can be found at www.asianlinux.net/pmodules.html

     At the time of this release there is no 64-bit version of AsianLinux
     available. However, we are working on it to make it available shortly.
     
     LIMITED WARRANTY.
     To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, AsianLinux and the
     components are provided and licensed "as is" without warranty of any kind,
     expressed or implied, including the implied warranties of merchantability, 
     non-infringement or fitness for a particular purpose.  AsianLinux do not guarantee
     that the functions contained in the Software will meet User's requirements
     or that the operation of the Software will be entirely error free or appear
     precisely as described in the accompanying documentation. 
     USE OF THE SOFTWARE IS AT USER'S OWN RISK.

     NOTE:- AsianLinux 2 is optimized for pentium 3 cpu it may or may not
            work with cpu older cpu's