[Silvan]

Hi,
the status of calamares in openmamba? See this news.

[Silvan]

Dear Daz,
openmamba is alive and maintained with package updates and improvements daily available in rolling release and less frequently in the milestone3 release. kde5 is a work in progress, but we give priority to keep our little users base happy with a well tested and stable environment.
Although the desktop environment is not a cutting-edge latest release to tell to the world, we concentrate on the user ability to use openmamba everyday for productive usage as a desktop, notebook and server installation. Most of the users I know don’t even know the name of the desktop environment they are using in openmamba, and about the existence of a new version, they just want it to work for internet, multimedia, office production and so we try to keep them up-to-date with the latest applications release. Furthermore the distribution is partly maintained by automatic processes which we developed in the years.
As I think you have finally found, iso images are available for download as well as the image to make a live usb pen drive. I don’t get such slow download speeds, but I’ve changed the download page so that foreign users get downloads from a mirror server which may be faster. Also I’m adding the livecd .iso in the main download page so that users with slower download speed may more easily find this version to download.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by Silvan.

[Silvan]

openmamba used apt-rpm a long time ago but the current package manager is smart. I think this incorrect information comes from distrowatch, does it?
As for calamares, I haven’t paid attention to what it does for packages installations yet. What I’ve seen is that it has support for uncompressing a livedvd/cd squashfs archive which is what our current (kde3 based) installation is based on. Shouldn’t even this suit our needs my idea would be to just let Calamares fill a configuration file and run the current bash based install script. Even so we will get a modern graphical interface with integrated (auto)partitioning support.
Should I need to make modifications which can be useful to the project itself I will be happy to participate or send the patches to Calamares developers.

[Silvan]

Hi and thanks for the information. I heard about it a couple of weeks ago and the work to integrate it in openmamba is already in progress. Very good news!

[Silvan]

Hi Roderick,
thanks for your feedback on openmamba.
To set 12 hour format in KDE I think you can change the setting as shown in the attached picture (sorry I took the screenshot from my italian installation). This is the Country and Language dialog which you can find in the KDE settings panel or by a search in KDE main menu.

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[Silvan]

Hi. The rolling release is always evolving, or updating at least 🙂

For German you need to install kde-l10n-de and libreoffice-i18n-de, then setup the environment accordingly (e.g. through KDE dialog).

It is by the way a good idea to add German language as a boot choice in multilingual livedvd, so this change should appear in the next snapshot release which is due tonight or soon, if all goes well.

[Silvan]

openmamba uses smart as lower level package manager, which doesn’t have deltarpm support (see also https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/245428 ) and smart itself is not really supported anymore. So supporting deltarpm implies changing default update manager to e.g. yum. Although changing to a more supported and recent package manager would be convenient, this is a major change which will require a lot of time before being supported, at least for what I can do these times.

[Silvan]

This has not been planned so far. By the way deltarpm is now available as a package in devel repository and I’ll need to evaluate the compatibility with openmamba updates management infrastructure, this will take a long time or maybe not. Meanwhile, thank you for suggesting.

[Silvan]

Hi,

sorry this must be a bug that happens when installation tool is started two or more times after booting from live cd. Can you just retry starting installation tool and installation just after booting?

[Silvan]

I wonder what driver you are using now, is your chip know not to be working with open source modeset driver (radeon)?

Anyway you have to install xorg-drv-video-fglrx, then check that driver is installed and compiled correctly with sudo dkms status, then remove /etc/X11/Xorg.conf and reboot (of course this should be done after installing the system or using livecd on a persistent pendrive).

[Silvan]

Both should work, i586 is the traditional most complete and tested architecture, x86_64 is recent in openmamba and lacks some packages which may still require porting (this is not a big problem) plus still lacks some 32bit libraries support for some 32bit only non-free software (like Skype).

[Silvan]

Using the livecd you will start from a minimal installation and later you will be able to install from network all (or part of) the components that are in the livedvd.

Here I recommend livecd just to speed-up and simplify download & test for this basic problem.

From this page you can get any version, yes for the devel version you need to download the latest weekly snapshot:

http://www.openmamba.org/distribution/download.html

[Silvan]

Hi Bhatta,

thanks for taking the time to report the problem and taking the pictures.

Unfortunately the report couldn’t be created because the computer serial number contains ‘/’ which are not escaped by the openmamba-makereport (now fixed for future releases). You may want to retry running openmamba-makereport after editing or deleting the file /etc/sysconfig/machine.

BTW image-1426 shows a X crash while detecting the video driver, this may be caused by the ATI proprietary driver, the report should give further details on the problem by including /var/log/Xorg.*.log files.

Also you might try booting the devel (snapshot) livecd or livedvd releases which contain more up-to-date user-space drivers.

[Silvan]

Hi,

can you access a console by pressing CTRL-ALT-F2? If so you might try to generate a system report with the openmamba-makereport command, copy the output file outside someway and attach it here or send to reports @ openmamba.org for me to check.

[Silvan]

If you fell into a recently seen problem after a kernel upgrade which shows as a kernel error on a black screen, try pressing CTRL-ALT-F2 then CTRL-ALT-F1 to get back to the desktop, then if network works, do a system upgrade and reboot.

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