I just thought you should be the first to know
...that Copland Community Preview has officially been released!
Yes, you can now get all the new hotness for PowerPC-based Macintoshes just by sending a PM to me (3rdalbum) on the Ubuntu Forums, or by leaving a comment on this post, or even by sending an e-mail to me: chris (that's my name) _*at*_ ubuntuos.com
As I don't have a download server, nor even a computer I can leave serving a torrent until eternity, it's through yousendit.com - send me your e-mail address, and I'll send the file to you through yousendit.com.
Please, if you do recieve the file from me, create a torrent of it so as to ease my own bandwidth concerns.
EXTRACT OF RELEASE NOTES:
System Requirements
Any "New-world" PowerPC-based Macintosh computer (i.e. a "Bondi-Blue" iMac or later).
128 megabytes of RAM (192 megabytes recommended)
1.5 gigabytes of hard disk space for installation
Bootable CD-ROM drive
You will need more memory plus a copy of the Mac OS in order to use the Mac-On-Linux virtualisation.
Quickstart
Burn the .iso file to a CD; remember, you must burn it as a disc image, not just as an ordinary file. Burn at 8x or slower. Users with tray-load iMacs, I suggest you use a CD-RW or a "music" CD-R. The disc can be burnt on a PC or another Linux machine if necessary.
Insert the CD into your drive, restart the Mac and hold down the C key. Press Enter at the prompt. Some grey scrolling text will come up your screen to tell you exactly what is loading. When it has all finished loading, you will get a grey login screen with the Copland logo.
Username is ubuntu
There is no password.
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Changes from Xubuntu 6.10 (Copland's base distribution)
1. New, classic Mac-like configuration for the XFCE desktop environment
2. Aiff Interchange, a program that allows the conversion of AIFF audio files to WAV or FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec).
3. Hfs Browser, a program that helps you browse HFS and HFS+ removable disks.
4. Higher brightness setting as many iMacs display images too dark on Linux.
5. Removing of nonessential packages and language packs to keep the download and memory requirements low. Replacement of certain system software with faster/more functional equivilants.
6. Mac-On-Linux virtualisation software
7. Free-as-in-beer codecs
8. New artwork and theme.
9. Airport Extreme driver
10. New software added:
* VLC movie player
* Quod Libet music manager
* Ex Falso ID3 tag editor
* Font Forge (can be used to convert Mac fonts to Linux ones)
* Fish - Friendly Interactive SHell.
* Gnash 0.9.7
* Pidgin 2 beta 6
* Essential packages for compiling software and creating Debian packages of them
* GTKpod iPod manager
* HFS command-line tools
* TkChooser - a familiar interface for various network tasks
11. New options in the XFCE menu for Administrator Terminal and Administrator File Manager
12. Whenever your password is needed, an explanation is given.
Contributing
You are encouraged to contribute to the Copland project, especially through documentation, distro hacking and programming GUIs. Any enquiries about getting involved should be directed to chris (that's my name) _*at*_ ubuntuos.com for the moment until a proper website is set up.
Please enjoy using Copland. You are free to use it for however long you want and for whatever purpose, distributing and making changes, as long as you remember that this software has no warranty, and that it is licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). For a full text of the license, type man gpl into the terminal.
Copland is finally here!
Christopher Lees
Main developer of Copland
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