Ok, the LinuxTag is over now and we have rode it out. (If I ignore that I've forgotton a cardboard box with some things inside)

There were lot of listeners in our two speeched (some had to stand even in the Mombert room) and the from "Call-A-CD" sponsored CDs ran out earlier as though. The B.A.f.H. reading was really good to. A big commendation for all hard working organisators of the LinuxTag, that make it all possible.

There was a demonstration against software patente, with about 1000 demonstrating people. Of course we were among them.

We have taken a lot of pictures from the exibition and Karlsruhe.


Here you can see our pictures

An update is now available! You can install it by clicking on server -> update in the m23 administration interface.

To make the update work you have to do the following on the command line as root:

chmod 700 /var/run/screen/S-root
chmod 775 /var/run/screen

Changes:

• Fixed link for the development guide in the menu
• Gnome 2.x setup now works
• better code for getting the subnet mask

Have fun!

• 23-26 June 2004: The m23 project will be present at the LinuxTag at the booth of the Debian project. We will show the new m23 version m23Shiver 0.4.8 and of course we will answer your questions. For the next m23 0.5.0 release we accept your ideas and feature requests.
  


• June 26th
  
  
  
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    There will be a speech about m23 from 1 to 2 'o clock in the afternoon in room R 2.05 and a workshop afterwards.
    The workshop is for all people who want to learn more about m23 an its internals:
    
    
    
    • Creation of server installtion CDs
    
    
    • Creation of client installtion CDs and boot images
    
    
    • Introduction in the MDK (m23 software development kit)
    
    
    • Development of plugins
    
    
    • Automatic creation of the documentation
    
    
    • Adding of option pages for Debian packages
    
    
    
    The workshop will be interactive: the audience can choose the topics of the workshop! And of course you are welcome to discuss new features for the next m23 version.
    
  
  
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    Florian Schiel and Hauke Goos-Habermann will read some "Bastard Assistant from Hell" short stories at 18:30 in room EG: Weinbrenner eine Lesung der "Bastard Assistant from Hell".
    
  
  
  
  
  


• June 26th: There will be a speech about m23 on June 26th at 3 o clock in the afternoon with the title "Softwareverteilungssystem m23: Installation und Administration von Clients in Netzwerken" in room UG2: Mombert.

Information about LinuxTag are available at www.linuxtag.org and to additional speeches at the speech schedule.

It is done after a long time of preview releases:
The final version of m23Shiver 0.4.8 is available for download now!

In comparison to the last release there were the following changes:

• The french online help, manual and administration interface war revised and completed.


• A new script to install m23 on a "normal" Woody server.


And now a little overview on the 0.4.8 releases:



• Manual in the languages Engish, French and German.


• Added a script for updating the installed m23 version with the version contained on the CD.


• Completed help files of the MDK menue system.


• Generation of client boot CDs, that can be used to install clients without bootrom or floppy drive.


• Selection of the Debian distribution (Woody, Sarge, Sid)


• Rescue system: Clients can be booted over the network and give you a console to work on the client directly. This can be useful for recovery purposes.


• Script for generation of static Knoppix DEB packages (hwsetup, ddcxinfo)


• Gnome2 can be installed as alternative desktop.


• Preview of package installation/deinstallation. So you are able to check if there will be any problems and how much disk space will be consumed/freed.


• It is possible to define option pages for Debian packages, that show additional parameters, that can be used before and/or after the installation of a package. E.g. you can create an option page for the samba package that lets you enter the workgroupname etc.


• Update of the development guide


• Creation, deletion and editing of package source lists, that define where the client can fetch the software packages from.




The new version is available HERE.

Have fun!

You can post your feature request for the upcoming 0.5.0 version here.