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Dreamlinux 3.0 Has Landed

The final release sports better hardware detection and an improved installer

By Daniel Voicu, Linux Editor

31st of March 2008, 14:36 GMT

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Dreamlinux 3.0 with Compiz Rotating Cube

Dreamlinux Desktop Edition 3.0 was launched yesterday, as announced by one of its developers. It comes with the Flexiboost technology, based on overlaid modules, that allows the co-existence of two or more different window managers, sharing the same appearance.

The new distro is much more stable, and the working packages

were frozen to the ones from the first Release Candidate, with a few changes, additions and improvements. The hardware detection is much better now (especially when it comes to video card detection), finding almost all normal cards that exist at this moment.

The Dreamlinux Installer (DLI) was simplified so everyone can set up Dreamlinux on their machines. The problems encountered in the Release Candidates, like the one that didn't allow a user to choose an entire disk for the installation, were fixed and seem to work fine. The developers do not recommend xfs filesystem for your root partition because there seems to be a problem related to it and the GRUB bootloader.

A new feature, the Dreamlinux Pen Installer, allows a user to install a Dreamlinux ISO image to a pen drive, letting the user run the distribution Live or installed on the pen drive. The most interesting thing about the Pen Installer is the fact that you could even download a kernel module and simply replace it in your pen-drive installed Dreamlinux. This feature even amazed the developers how it works, thanks to its modularity.

Also, there's some fresh eye-candy included in Dreamlinux 3.0, and improved usability. One of the developers, that uses the 'nelsongs' nickname on Dreamlinux's forums, said: "So, Dreamlinux is starting to become more and more a real Community distro, as I wish. We hope to select some of our forum members to be more involved in DL development. I remember having read one post of someone that wishes to be part of our Development Team. I will try to locate this post again and invite the guy to work with me directly and assess if he can join us in the Development Team (currently only myself, Andre Felipe and some Ruud Kuin's contributions)."

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