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After longs hours of improvements and testing latter, the first release is finally here. There was also bunch of other development in this 12 day period. So lets go over it.

MatterLinux 24.00

With the 24.00 release, MatterLinux now has an official ISO and a release archive. I also published the installation guide over on the wiki. This means you can install MatterLinux right now! Of course, as of now, the repos are really limited, so it's not ready for daily usage, not quite yet.

Package Tracker

MatterLinux now has a custom package tracker! It's written in Go, like the web server. It doesn't have a lot of functionality, but it provides an easy interface for finding and tracking packages.

New tools!

The tools repository is extended with the addition of the matter-iso script, which just a simple script that you can use to build custom ISO images. The configuration for the official ISO images can be find in the iso repository. It actually took surprisingly long time to get the ISO to work, kernel was somehow unable to find the init program. I tried fixing that by supplying the init= parameter, which didn't work so I just went ahead with the lazy option and init over to /.

Little Improvements

Apart from these, I also made quite a few improvements to the website, packages, infrastructure and to the package manager:

  • I reworked the CSS for the website (especially for the markdown content). I think it's now easier to read and overall looks cleaner.
  • I added the mp-query command to the package manager, which lets you get information about a specific package in a nicely formatted way.
  • Fixed compile flags for few packages, including grub, which was really unstable as it was being compiled with optimization flags.
  • XMPP room moved from jabbers.one to a self hosted server (located at matterlinux.xyz)
  • Git server moved from Gogs to Gitea

What's Next?

I will be on a vacation for a couple of weeks and I also have other projects to work on so I will be taking a break from the project. When I come back I will be extending the desktop repo, and hopefully when I make the next post, there will be working display server in the repo.

That will be all for now, see you in the next post!