aptosid 2010-03 released - An Unstable Debian Based Desktop-Oriented Linux Distribution

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 aptosid , Debian Unstable , Distributions , Distributions-News , Fluxbox , KDE , News , Xfce 0 Comments

Stefan Lippers-Hollmann has announced the release of aptosid 2010-03, a Linux distribution that is based on based on Debian's unstable branch. aptosid 2010-03 uses that latest Linux kernel with support for newer hardware.

aptosid 2010-03 features improved KMS support for ATi Radeon and Intel graphics cards and performance improvements for Intel Westmere graphics chipsets. Wlan support has been consolidated, with rt2x00 now supporting RaLink rt28x0/ rt30xx/ rt35xx officially, as well as ath9k_htc gaining support for Atheros AR7010 USB wlan chipsets and minstrel_ht providing a generic 802.11n/ HT rate control algorithm.

New Features

• Debian sid, as of 2010-12-26.
• kernel 2.6.36.2 (smp, hard preemption).
• X.org 7.5 (xserver-xorg-core 1.7.7).
• enable KMS support for ATi and Intel based graphics chipsets.
• DRI (3d) support for ATi Radeon chipsets up to r7xx (refer to non-free sources and Drivers).
• KDE 4.4.5 (en + de).
• Iceweasel 3.5.16
• new, SVG based, art theme created by the aptosid art team.
• offline manual for en + de directly on the disc, online manuals for more languages online at http://manual.aptosid.com/ and available via apt; a big thank you goes to the documentation and translation teams!
  Please note that the offline manual is only available on the running live CD or the installed system.
• many changes for the manual.
• ath5k support for 54/ "108" MBit/s Atheros wlan cards (AR2425, AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, AR5213 and AR5414).
• ath9k support for 802.11n Atheros wlan cards (AR5418+AR5133, AR5416+AR5133, AR5416+AR2133, AR9160, AR9280, AR9281 and AR9285).
• ath9k_htc support for 802.11n Atheros USB wlan cards (AR7010/ AR9271).
• ar9170usb support for 802.11n Atheros USB wlan cards (AR9170 "otus").
• b43/ b43legacy support for Broadcom wlan cards.
  OpenFWWF 5.2 opensource firmware for the following Broadcom AirForce 802.11b/g wireless cards:
  • BCM4306
  • BCM4311 revision 1
  • BCM4318
  • BCM4320
  experimental support for LP-PHY, non-free firmware images (firmware-b43-lpphy-installer) required.
• iwl3945 support (Intel Pro Wireless 3945 chipsets).
• iwlagn support for IPW 4965 and the IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n part of the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000/ 5xxxAGN/ 6000/ 6050 family.
• iwmc3200wifi support for Intel Wireless Multicomm 802.11.
• rt2x00 support for RaLink rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, rt61 and rt73 802.11b/g cards.
• support for RaLink rt2770, rt2870 and rt3070 802.11b/g/n USB cards through rt2x00.
• support for RealTek RTL8180L and RTL8185 PCI/ cardbus wlan cards.
• support for RealTek RTL8187 and RTL8187B USB wlan cards.
• memtest86+.
• OpenJDK 6 as part of the kde-full variant.
• support kvm (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) for kde-full; kvm depends on hardware virtualisation support (AMD pacifica virtualisation extensions "svm" or Intel IVT (vanderpool) virtualisation extensions "vmx")
• access point support for many mac80211 based wlan cards through nl80211 and hostapd (optional).
• client support for network booting over PXE/ NBD.
• the CFQ I/O scheduler regression has been fixed and dpkg performance improved.
• the installer has been fixed to no longer truncate sources.list entries when adding non-free sources.
• Ceni has switched to completely wpasupplicant based scanning and configuration, employing nl80211 if supported.
• rework block device/ file system detectiong.

System Requirements

amd64:

• CPU requirements:
  • AMD64
  • Intel Core2
  • Intel Atom Series (2xx/ 3xx, N4xx/ D4xx/ D5xx; the N2xx series does not support EM64T)
  • VIA Nano
  • any x86-64/ EM64T capable CPU
  newer 64 bit capable AMD Sempron and Intel Pentium 4 CPUs (watch for the "lm" flag in /proc/cpuinfo or use infobash -v3).
• RAM requirements:
  • KDE: ≥512 MB RAM (≥768 MB RAM recommended), ≥1 GB RAM for liveapt.
  • XFCE: ≥256 MB RAM.
• VGA graphics card capable of at least 640x480 pixel resolution.
• optical disk drive or USB media.
• ≥3 GB HDD space, ≥10 GB recommended.

i686:

• CPU requirements:
  • Intel Pentium pro/ Pentium II
  • AMD K7 Athlon (not K5/ K6)
  • Intel Atom Series (Z5xx/ Z6xx, N2xx)
  • VIA C3-2 (Nehemiah, not C3 Samuel or Ezra)/ C7
  • any x86-64/ EM64T capable CPU or newer
  the full i686 command set is required.
• RAM requirements:
  • KDE: ≥384 MB RAM (≥768 MB RAM recommended), ≥1 GB RAM for liveapt.
  • XFCE: ≥192 MB RAM.
• VGA graphics card capable of at least 640x480 pixel resolution.
• optical disk drive or USB media.
• ≥3 GB HDD space, ≥10 GB recommended.

Download

To download aptosid 2010-03, visit: Official Download Page

Note

This distribution is for experimental purposes only. So, use it at your own risk

Source

This press release is extracted from the official release announcement, that can be found here: Official release announcement