-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] Announcing the release of Byzantium Linux v0.2a (codename: Bath Salts) Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:29:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Mendis Reply-To: byzantium@hacdc.org To: byzantium@hacdc.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good news everybody! We're finially recovering from all the excitement and lack of sleep that was HOPE. So we know this announcment is a little late, since we already did this on stage on Saturday, but better late than never. The whole team, as well as our very dedicated supporters, is proud to officially announce the public release of Byzantium Linux V0.2a. You can find the download links on our website (http://project-byzantium.org) as well as on several popular torrent trackers. We also have a few of the printed CDs left over (and more on the way) which are available upon request. We have code-named this release "Bath Salts" as a reference to the drug which was originally reported to be responsible for several zombie-like cannibal attacks. Please help us distribute this release announcment far and wide. The official text is included below. Thank you all, Ben the Pyrate == ANNOUNCING BYZANTIUM LINUX V0.2a (Bath Salts) Approved for: GENERAL RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION UNLIMITED Project Byzantium, a working group of HacDC (http://hacdc.org/) is proud to announce the release of v0.2 alpha of Byzantium Linux, a live distribution of Linux which makes it fast and easy to construct an ad-hoc wireless mesh network which can augment or replace the current telecommunications infrastructure in the event that it is knocked offline (for example, due to a natural disaster) or rendered untrustworthy (through widespread surveillance or disconnection by hostile entities). Byzantium Linux is designed to run on any x86 computer with at least one 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless interface. Byzantium can be burned to a CD- or DVD-ROM (the .iso image is around 460 megabytes in size), booted from an external hard drive, or can even be installed in parallel with an existing operating system without risk to the user's data and software. Byzantium Linux will act as a node of the mesh and will automatically connect to other mesh nodes and act as an access point for wifi-enabled mobile devices. THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE! Do NOT expect Byzantium to be perfect. Some features are not ready yet, others need work. Things are going to break in weird ways and we need to know what those ways are so we can fix them. Please, for the love of LOLcats, do not deploy Byzantium in situations where lives are at stake. FEATURES: - - Binary compatible with Slackware-CURRENT. Existing Slackware packages can be converted with a single command. - - Can act as a gateway to the Internet if a link is available (via Ethernet or tethered smartphone). - - Linux kernel v3.1.8 - - Drivers for dozens of wireless chipsets - - KDE Trinity v3.5.12 - - LXDE (2010 release of all components) - - Mplayer - - GCC v4.5.2 - - Perl v5.12.3 - - Python v2.6.6 - - Firefox v4.0.1 - - X.org - - Custom web-based control panel SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (to use) - - Minimum of 1GB of RAM (512MB without copy2ram boot option) - - i586 CPU or better - - CD- or DVD-ROM drive - - BIOS must boot removable media - - At least one (1) 802.11 a/b/g/n interface SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS (for persistent changes) - - The above requirements to use Byzantium - - 2+GB of free space on thumbdrive or harddrive WHAT WE NEED: - - Developers. - - Developers! - - DEVELOPERS! - - No more Bill Ballmer impersonations. - - People running Byzantium to find bugs. - - People reporting bugs on our Github page (https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium/issues). We can't fix what we don't know about! - - Patches. - - People booting Byzantium and setting up small meshes (2-5 clients) to tell us how well it works for you with your hardware. We have a hardware compatibility list on our wiki that needs to be expanded. - - Help translating the user interface. We especially need people fluent in dialects of Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, and Urdu. - - Help us write and translate documentation. Homepage: http://project-byzantium.org/ Download sites: http://project-byzantium.org/download/ This announcement is published under a Creative Commons By Attribution / Noncommercial / Share Alike v3.0 License. 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