Thump, Thump, thump...

A new release is on its way, it will be PhoenixOS BlackHawk Release Candidate. It has the look and feel of a finshied "Linspire" OS. This will hopefully turn into a final very quickly since internal testing has shown no bugs. However; I would like the PhoenixOS community here to test it really good before that happens. Thanks for your support and hope you enjoy the upcoming release.

Special thanks to my good friend John (Tekmate) for helping me with this release. . .

Ray...

Internal testing has went great on this release! Waiting on one more tester's results, and this tester is a surprise "PhoenixOS User Alumni"!

I might be releasing this earlier than April 15th since all is going so well!

Ray

Just for clarification, YES the user bug is fixed in this release

Admin wrote:... YES the user bug is fixed in this release

WHAT!!!!?
No more BOB? now I gotta punch in my own name?????

Bob3 wrote:

Admin wrote:... YES the user bug is fixed in this release

WHAT!!!!?
No more BOB? now I gotta punch in my own name?????

It will be tough remembering to type Bob instead of Bob but I'm willing to bet you can handle it.

ISO is being uploaded now, so should be available soon. Those who have the final iso in their possession, feel free to distribute, and thanks again for all your support! We finally have a stable final, with user bug fixed!

Ray

Admin wrote:... with user bug fixed!

Ray

Ummm... Ray, mine still says "bob"

Bob3 wrote:

Admin wrote:... with user bug fixed!

Ray

Ummm... Ray, mine still says "bob"

Hehehe thats no fair, your name is bob!

Ray

PhoenixOS BlackHawk Lucid Final

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S3Indiana wrote:PhoenixOS BlackHawk Lucid Final

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This is a new ISO.

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Ken!! Hi there, long time no see! How you been?

The iso is still uploading it has roughly 14 hours to go. Over here downloads are fast 14, but uploads or .50: pitiful.

Ray

Admin wrote:

S3Indiana wrote:PhoenixOS BlackHawk Lucid Final

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The iso is still uploading it has roughly 14 hours to go. Over here downloads are fast 14, but uploads or .50: pitiful.

Sorry, interpreted available soon as sometime that day. Again sorry, no rush...

Man I can hear a pin drop.

Enjoy!

Its now available on the R.A.C. Computers website

http://raccomputers.com/phoenixos.html

Ray

P.S. Live login is phoenix no password and to invoke installer just pick installer from menu.

Pretty nice. Two things,

1 Mouse: most Linux OS's my Logitech goes to fast at default moving the mouse 1 inch takes the cursor clear across the screen. Its very fast. If I go into settings I have to turn it down to 1 the slowest. That's tolerable. I have several Logitech mice and they all do that. Even in Klikit I have to turn the speed all the way down. The problem iswhen I go to install it its hard to hold the cursor still. This is not your fault but I though you might shine some light on it.

2 It didn't pick up my video card nvidia 6200 but most don't. I am afraid to install the nvidia driver because every time I do that it won't boot anymore.
However it looked great. It said it was 640x 480. It looked like it was a lot higher than that.My default is 1900x1080.
Great work though. I lost my first game of Mahjong I didn't like that.
I think it's a seller.

Not sure what happened to my initial reply - probably never hit submit - anyway, installed as a vm using Vmware Workstation 7.1.4, looks very good although a couple of initial problems:

1. Google Earth starts, goes to initialising, and then disappears into the ether. This happens from both the desktop icon and the menu entry.

2. Still can't get my Epson TX600FW to work, there is a print driver available for it, listed on avasys.jp I presume this would be ok to install?? This printer prints correctly on a PClinuxOS Enlightenment system although I have no idea on how to find which driver it uses.

Ray (the other Ray from NZ)

Ray I think the Google earth problem may be due to running it in a VM. It definitely launches on both physical boxes that I have tried. Anyone else seeing the Google earth issue?

old tech wrote:Pretty nice. Two things,

1 Mouse: most Linux OS's my Logitech goes to fast at default moving the mouse 1 inch takes the cursor clear across the screen. Its very fast. If I go into settings I have to turn it down to 1 the slowest. That's tolerable. I have several Logitech mice and they all do that. Even in Klikit I have to turn the speed all the way down. The problem iswhen I go to install it its hard to hold the cursor still. This is not your fault but I though you might shine some light on it.

2 It didn't pick up my video card nvidia 6200 but most don't. I am afraid to install the nvidia driver because every time I do that it won't boot anymore.
However it looked great. It said it was 640x 480. It looked like it was a lot higher than that.My default is 1900x1080.
Great work though. I lost my first game of Mahjong I didn't like that.
I think it's a seller.

The mouse settings I can't really do anything about: I have tried to fix that but nothing works; but to go into settings and turn it down to 1 like you are doing.

This release has a lot of custom drivers, so it should pick up more hardware. If your happy with it the way it is, leave it. If you want nvidia; just enable it in restricted drivers and you must have an internet connection. Reboot, worse case scenario you have to reinstall PhoenixOS.
I will add mahjong to the list remind me; this is a final but it wouldn't be too much work to include some updates and release a 2nd final.

Glad you liked it!

Ray..

Ray wrote:Not sure what happened to my initial reply - probably never hit submit - anyway, installed as a vm using Vmware Workstation 7.1.4, looks very good although a couple of initial problems:

1. Google Earth starts, goes to initialising, and then disappears into the ether. This happens from both the desktop icon and the menu entry.

2. Still can't get my Epson TX600FW to work, there is a print driver available for it, listed on avasys.jp I presume this would be ok to install?? This printer prints correctly on a PClinuxOS Enlightenment system although I have no idea on how to find which driver it uses.

Ray (the other Ray from NZ)

Google earth will not work in VMware, I have tried on numerous occassions on 4 different machines and it will not work. I have no clue why, but it works on any computer I install it too, and you obviously have to enable any video drivers in restricted driver to get full acceleration as I am pretty sure it uses opengl.

Epson driver i compiled the latest epson drivers in that release. I will look into that model to see if there is something I can do on my end to fix your problem.

Hope you liked this release and as you probably noticed user bug is fixed.

Ray

jpisini wrote:Ray I think the Google earth problem may be due to running it in a VM. It definitely launches on both physical boxes that I have tried. Anyone else seeing the Google earth issue?

Yup doesnt work on any vmware boxes here, only physical boxes that have it installed. Live mode wont work, because you need the video drivers installed cuz it uses opengl.

Ray

Should probably mention this uses the PAE kernel so people with a 64bit CPU and more than 4gb of RAM will see the full amount. Older systems Pentium M and older won't work with this release.

RAY Mahjong is just fine.

Thanks, I figured that the vm was causing the Google Earth problem, my printer problem I'm not so sure about. From my searching it appears that there is a driver for the TX600FW from Gutenprint, checking Synaptic it appears that Gutenprint is installed, it's supposed to be integrated with Cups but neither the printer or scanner work. Simple scan recognises the unit as a Workforce 600, which is correct as far as I know, but displays a message: "error communicating with the scanner."

I'll do some more research.

Ray (the other Ray from NZ)

Ray does the printer/scanner work in any other distros? If yes can you tell me which ones maybe I can see what they are doing different that may give us some clues to get yours going.

Ray wrote:Thanks, I figured that the vm was causing the Google Earth problem, my printer problem I'm not so sure about. From my searching it appears that there is a driver for the TX600FW from Gutenprint, checking Synaptic it appears that Gutenprint is installed, it's supposed to be integrated with Cups but neither the printer or scanner work. Simple scan recognises the unit as a Workforce 600, which is correct as far as I know, but displays a message: "error communicating with the scanner."

I'll do some more research.

Ray (the other Ray from NZ)

I have a Workforce 600 in the shop and tried it got the same error. I installed image scan and it now works flawlessly. I will try to make another iso including mahjong, image scan for the epson, and anything else that crops up that I may have missed.

In the meantime if you want to try the image scan now instead of waiting like I did, here it is printer driver and scan utility:

http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/debian/dists/lsb3.2/main/binary-i386/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.0.2-1lsb3.2_i386.deb


Let me know if this works for you; if you need help I can be reached on skype or yahoo, just let me know. I have printing and scanning working here flawlessly so rest assured it can be done easily.

Tekmate is also available to help, hes been a BIG help thru this release.

Ray...

Ray .....Mahjong is already working on this version. I already played it. Unless you have another version of Mahjong also.