openmamba milestone2 bootusb 2.0.10 release announcement

openmamba.org - 07/22/2012

The openmamba maintainer is happy to announce the immediate availability of the milestone2 2.0.10 release of the openmamba bootusb distribution.

Description

Lets you boot an openmamba ISO image from a USB storage device (e.g. a pendrive) thus allowing live use and installation on computers which don't have a CD/DVD-ROM reader.
It can be used as a live portable system thanks to the automatic hardware detection mechanism and it keeps user data and system changes thanks to the union mount mechanism.

Requirements

A Personal Computer (PC) or an Intel based Mac with the following minimum features:

processor: Intel Pentium III or higher or AMD K6/Duron/Athlon or higher
512 MB of RAM (2GB are recommended)
BIOS boot support from USB

It also requires for preparation:

an ISO image of a live openmamba system with same kernel release

Downloads

Language	Arch	Download link	Size	Date	MD5
italian	i586	openmamba-bootusb-it-milestone2-2.0.10.i586.cpio.gz	49 MB	2012-07-12	9f936a2f2f37eb93fba33e33582f6149
english	i586	openmamba-bootusb-en-milestone2-2.0.10.i586.cpio.gz	49 MB	2012-07-12	ae093913dda5722c74936e15fefb77cb
spanish	i586	openmamba-bootusb-es-milestone2-2.0.10.i586.cpio.gz	49 MB	2012-07-12	be0324ae99bd6d4672fec59364c38761

Operating system information

Name: openmamba
Type: GNU/Linux operating system
License: GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3
Release branch: milestone2
Planned maintenance: long term
Updates level: bugfix, security, end-user applications
Default updates channels: milestone2, milestone2-updates, milestone2-games

Kernel, boot and drivers

Linux kernel	3.2.21	kernel-mamba kernel-mamba-64GB kernel-mamba-64GB-wireless kernel-mamba-wireless
boot system (dracut)	015	dracut

GNU Toolchain

gcc	4.5.3	libgcc libstdc++6
glibc	2.14.1	glibc ldconfig
binutils	2.22	libbinutils

Graphical and Desktop environment

Mesa

7.11.2

libEGL libgbm libGL-Mesa-dri libglapi

Links

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