LunarXG

2025 is ending. We have yet to do anything remarkable.  We rewrote LunarXG from scratch (twice!), and use live-build to make the ISO. We resolved a lot of problems.  However... Development slowed down. A lot of goals are not met (weekly images, Repologist,...). There's still a shortage of developer. And so on. We once declared that early 2026 would be our first stable release. And that goal is straying farther from us. So here's our plan: Releasing more ISOs The old ISO can be updated using apt since it's built on generally available APT packages. However, some softwares, such as patched switcheroo and LACT, requires manual updating. This will be resolved once Repologist is available, but it's still a long run. Reconsidering our choice of software  Some preinstalled software can be put in Repologist (we did that with Waydroid) and make them completely optional. And we are still considering what to add. Developing Repologist Repologist is not functional as of now as it...

 Apparently for the past few weeks the updating of system packages did not go well for Debian sid team. A lot of packages threw crucial errors (like libllvm19 and its i386 equivalent), some even prompting to removing important packages for the ISO (e.g. today libmount1 breaks Wine and I need to wait for at least half a week). So for now I won't make any new weekly image until my system's fixing is over.  Also tune in to some important news next week. 

 Changelog: + rebuild from scratch + distro name no longer malfunctions + ntsync on default - LACT not yet available   Download:  SourceForge  

You may have heard that we're finally moving to live-build. Well, today we tried to create a generic build script. It was not very hard as I use Perplexity to ask for things and then change them to my likings.  From now on our image will be built that way. Please note that while being labeled "weekly" images they will not arrive every week, maybe once per 2 weeks as we're working on Repologist. 

You may know that we use Cubic to build images. It takes a Debian ISO for input, then let us change whatever we want then throw out another image. It is neat if you're afraid of chroot and heavy terminaling. But builtin compressing options are terrible. You see, PikaOS, our very generous partner, have everything we aimed to be, but at a low storage cost of 2.85GB for the KDE edition. Meanwhile, it's 4.5GB for us. I've been using best compression algorithm for our image that Cubic has to offer. But to no avail. From the next weekly image we're rebuilding everything from scratch, using live-build. It isn't quite comfortable, but not having to sacrifice a lot of disk space is better for the users. For now you can use the 'legacy' image. It's quite neat. 

We're delighted to present you the newest release of LunarXG, Rolling Tidal. This release added many new features. Tidal also marks LunarXG changes from continuous release to snapshot-based release. A new snapshot will be produced biweekly, which updates packages and adding/removing features. Download:  SourceForge (4.4GB) Changelogs: - Rebased to Debian sid, with components in Debian experimental. - Adding support for GCC 15, G++ 15 and newer runtimes from experimental repos - Installing  MESA drivers - Browser changed to Firefox ESR - Pretty much everything is listed  here   Issues: A lot. See the spreadsheet above Further notices: May move to Docker to build ISO since that's neater