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Dreamlinux 3.0 RC1 Launched

...with more robust video card detection!

By Daniel Voicu, Linux Editor

28th of February 2008, 10:41 GMT

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The first release candidate of Dreamlinux 3.0 was launched yesterday, sporting some minor improvements and some bugs squashed. The final release of Dreamlinux 3.0 is scheduled for March 29th.

Video card detection got more robust: if the correct driver for your

card is not detected, the configurator will use a vesa driver. The Dreamlinux Installer now identifies correctly ext3 and ext2 filesystems.

Here are some more changes in Dreamlinux 3.0 RC1:

￭ Fixed the problem with Iceweasel add-ons.
￭ MadWifi drivers included.
￭ Laptop-Detect routine detects notebooks and starts the laptop-mode service only when a notebook is running Dreamlinux, not Desktop computers anymore.
￭ Fixes to the root user home to make it compliant to the normal user setup. So, no more green screens when using root.
￭ Several graphics setups and fixes.
￭ Addition of the Color-Folders feature.
￭ Gnome shutdown routine replaced by in-house script to prevent freezing.
￭ Other minor fixes.

In the final release, the following features will be added:

￭ DLI to add the capability to automatically partition, format and install to the entire hard disk.
￭ MkDistro Live Remaster updated.
￭ Addition of MDistro Easy Remaster.
￭ Kernel 2.6.24 series.
￭ Improved Network connection.
￭ Improvements in the videocards hardware detections and configuration.
￭ New Easy Install applications.
￭ Addition of new wifi drivers.
￭ Full set of wallpapers.
￭ Possible DMA bug fixes to some specific bus like jmicron and others.

About Dreamlinux:

Dreamlinux is a Brazilian Linux distribution, based on Debian, that can boot directly into XFCE or GNOME, depending on the user's preferences. It uses a totally independent architecture called Flexiboost, based on overlaid modules. It allows the co-existence of two or more different window managers, sharing the same customized appearance. The environments can share all the available applications. Dreamlinux features its own software, like DLI (Dreamlinux Installer), EasyInstall (for point-and-click package installation), MkDistro (for distribution remastering), a configuration tool for the Engage dock, a Control Panel and much more apps.

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