SUPER/News

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• 02.08.2006: Boot time project started.
• 17.01.2006: New SUPER-Server available: http://supersuse.linjection.org/
• 03.11.2005: Thanks to wholesaleinternet.com and to their staff for getting the server back online after the motherboard failure and handling lots of traffic. Thanks also for working through the weekend Dallas!
• 01.11.2005: LINUX.com reports on SUPER and SLICK.
• 27.10.2005: The Server is up and running again: Link with slick and 1-cd-install iso's and super-apt repository
• 13.10.2005: The whole openSUSE and apt network is currently overloaded. The big demand of the 5 ISO's of SUSE and Updates available under Susewatcher Yast Online Updates and the 1 CD installer has brought our mirror network on its knees. They are currently only reporting either very slow or even as failed TCP connections. We are all working on it as fast as the different time zones sometimes allow.
• 13.10.2005: An outage to our opensuse.linux.co.nz server is currently disabling iso downloads. For apt please use gwdg. The server should be back in the next day or so.
• 06.10.2005: 1 CD install/standard (unmodified) iso's for SUSE 10 Final. Minimal, and KDE iso now available. Gnome still RC1.
• 04.10.2005: super-openSUSE-alpha1-20051004-standard-kde.iso 1 CD installer is available on 1 CD install.
• 03.10.2005: First cut on the SUPER#Binary drivers Notice binary driver integration.
• 03.10.2005: Look and Feel website now here: SUPER lookandfeel.
• 02.10.2005: New SLICK iso is available on 1 CD install . This iso has the latest ck5 patches integrated and includes now Azureus and Kopete.
• 01.10.2005: Con Kolivas Kernel now contains also nongpl modules and is available under packages.
• 27.09.2005: Con Kolivas himself will maintain the CK-SUPER kernel patches. The first patches are available and packages as kernel*rpm too.
• 20.09.2005: The first SLICK iso is now available with KLIK and Kynaptic (apt) integrated. This iso is supercharged .... download it from 1 CD install. Next things integrated will be some more i686 packages and of course the CK kernel. This will happen the coming week.
• 18.09.2005: OSzine reports on SUPER.
• 12.09.2005: TUXMachines reviews our standard 1 CD install on Tuxmachines. The benchmark actually seems to compare only the 1 CD install and not really any SUPER mods. 1CD install is already quite faster.
• 11.09.2005: KLIK to be integrated into the 1 CD install. Please visit also SLICK and SUPER KLIK, the SLIM 1 CD install SUPER install option.
• 11.09.2005: Updated 1 CD install KDE iso available. Wireless support and dialup integrated.
• 09.09.2005: 1 CD install/standard (unmodified) iso's for RC1. Minimal, KDE and Gnome iso now available.
• 07.09.2005: Distrowatch Article about SUPER.
• 06.09.2005: Golem.de Article about SUPER.
• 04.09.2005: Updated KDE iso available here.
• 02.09.2005: Deutsche Homepage des SUPER-Projekts vorerst unter [1] (in Bearbeitung) - German Homepage of SUPER launched [2] (not finished yet).
• 02.09.2005: SUPER standard benchmark has been expanded with some additional tests based on our 1 CD install. Some areas like booting .are improved, preloading has made already a big difference in application startup time and prelinking is actually making things certainly slower again. Very interesting results indeed. Check it out. Coolo sure was right about prelink how could I have doubted the master?
• 02.09.2005: SUPER standard benchmark now includes SUSE beta4 standard. SUSE.de has integrated preloading and SUSE 10.0 will fly out of the box. Thanks a lot suse.de folks, you rock! OpenOffice starts in 3 seconds on our reference system. This is 15 seconds less than when we started the benchmarks.
• 01.09.2005: 1 CD install/standard (unmodified) iso's for beta4.
• 30.08.2005: 1 CD install Document on how to create a 1 cd install.
• 29.08.2005: 1 CD install/standard (unmodified) iso's available.
• 28.08.2005: beta3 i686 packages available in our apt/yast repository.
• 26.08.2005: beta3 SUPER standard benchmark available.