dCore ISOs

[Jason W]

I plan to upload an ISO image of each dCore release and release candidate upon each new cut, I am working on the automation of their creation.  The tce directory in /tmp I don't believe I have working yet from the migration of tce-setup from Core but I hope to fix it soon in the future.  The ISO images make it easier for newcomers to try things out so I will make them a priority.

[Onyarian]

Jason, that's a great idea.
dCore is already mature enough to receive an iso format and facilitate the installation.

Thanks.

[Jason W]

Ok, dCore-wheezy now has an ISO in it's release directory.   I have a one command ISO creation script that I will use for each port, by tomorrow I will have ISOs for the rest of the x86 dCores.

I have dCore-wheezy ISO running in Virtualbox, importing apps and all seems well.  Please download and test.

[Jason W]

Ok, all dCore x86 releases have an ISO as well as ub-dCore-vivid in release_candidates.

Please test and report any issues.

[Onyarian]

Hi,
For now cosmetics points.
At boot, pressing F2, F3 or F4 says "At boot prompt enter mc followed..." instead of  "At boot prompt enter dcore followed..."

[Jason W]

Thanks, I will fix it.

[LichenSymbiont]

Great! dCore is moving forward, becoming a solid distro. And convenient enough if you are used to installing packages in a terminal, and know what to install. The latter being the biggest issue, and can be solved with a simple installation script (sorry about my delay with my script by the way).
And for this purpose I would say my suggestion of making it compatible with a bunch of other distros is pretty irrelevant. But still a relevant project for the future, and a good focus for the community, in my opinion.

Instead having a base.sce, with xorg-all, GTK, and other basic libraries and CLI-utilities, would be more important to have it as a truly convenient, yet a more versatile distro than others that are based on the major ones.

Well, with these ISO's, it's easy to put it on a USB-drive with unetbooting or Universal USB Installer for Windows.

Perhaps we could already upload the torrents to linuxtracker.org? I can do it myself if you agree.

[Jason W]

You are right, an ISO can easily be put to USB, I did that with Core and copied the dCore files to boot dCore on it. 

And with a graphical appbrowser, it would be more friendly.  I am familiar with xdialog, perhaps one day I can make a sce-import front end.  Would require gtk2, but since aimed at newcomers it could be a package to import or be included on a dCorePlus type of ISO.

I would be happy if dCore was on Linuxtracker now that things are settling and releases are more stable.  Please upload torrents if you like. 

[LichenSymbiont]

Well, from what I've seen people saying on the web there should be an upload button in the horizontal bar of links on linuxtracker, but I can't find it. I've made the .torrent files for wheezy (for a stable Debian), and Utopic. I just have no clue of how to actually upload XD

Perhaps I have to get to a certain amount of megabytes shared. But this is a really simple task... well, it should be.
Yes, I just found it says: "Rank: validating". So I have to be validated. I guess I wasn't logged in when I downloaded the torrents I used to share from that site. As you have to be logged in to get a torrent with your user-id attached to it.
I'm downloading some more popular torrents to share now, and found "Your RATIO:    0.060", hehe.

[Jason W]

Since Jessie is Debian stable now, perhaps it should be the Debian dCore.  Thanks for making the torrents.  But yeah, one Debian and one Ubuntu sounds like a good idea, here we can have them all since we keep the previous yet still supported Debian/Ubuntu dCores while honing the newer ones.

[LichenSymbiont]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking... as a start at least. Then we have the different kernels and stuff here. I made the torrents by just including the iso's. But I will make a folder with a readme as well, with the dCore wiki description, and some links. So it's good that I didn't do it too hastily.
I have donated 5$ now, to get 5GB extra in upload amount. So I should be able to upload now, I hope...
Edit: So now I've spent a whole 5$ towards the development of dCore ^^
Though not directly...

[LichenSymbiont]

So it seems like the problem I had uploading was that I just hadn't activated the account. Which I should have expected.
Anyways, they are up now, and I will share 24/7 for some time now (as they take almost no space, so I can have the files in RAM on my Raspberry Pi 2).

Hope the torrents become searchable soon...

Edit: I just discovered I'm one of the top uploaders (of the last 30 days)... I'm Lineaxe there.
I didn't upload a screenshot as it's not a graphical distro by default.
But I'll fix that with an iso with the install script, with my own JWM (the WM) setup, which is pretty nice.

That's just with Alt+Tab held in, so the autohidden panels are being shown (don't know why JWM does this, but it sure is useful for screenshots).

[Jason W]

Thanks!

I will also seed the torrents.

[Jason W]

I see that the Ubuntu home page and the Ubuntu forum is listed as the home page and support forum, would need to be listed as here instead.

Also, I see it is named dCore-ubuntu.  Would be less confusing if it was named dCore-trusty as it is here, or ub-dCore-trusty.  I am pondering dropping the ub- prefix as it is really not needed.

[LichenSymbiont]

Well, I was in a weird mental state where I took your suggestions a bit too literally ("perhaps it should be the Debian dCore"). One Ubuntu and one Debian, so that's what I named them, though I was conflicted. I should have listen more to my intuition... But I will do much better in the future (though I would still be happy to delegate it to a torrenting enthusiast).

Where do you get that information about the Ubuntu links from though? I can't see the torrents! 
I categorized the Ubuntu version in the Ubuntu category though, so that will be why it has those links.