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Announcing the release of Triance OS 1.0-BETA
zariss
Date:
August 23, 2004 @ 2:54 PM
Announcing the release of Triance OS 1.0-BETA
August 23rd 2004 (The Internet) - After years of
researched and development, Triance Development
Team proudly announced the first Beta released to
the public. The Operating System based product
offers variety of open source application bundled
up with core system for users that really want
the freedom of usage, re-development and cost
effective towards the world globalizations era.
Deriving from FreeBSD, a proven OS for the
stability and excellent performance it is being
redeveloped again towards achieving the
stability, quality, simplicity and variety for
the desktops environment users.
As this is the beta version, users are allowed to
download the OS at www.trianceware.com upon
registrations. The advantage for the pioneer
user, they will be given a free access to the
Triance Tivity. Triance Tivity is one of the
added features that have being designed to gain
an extra edge in differentiating it from the
competitors.
The BETA version of the TrianceOS operating
system is now available as of 23rd August 2004.
Triance OS 1.0-BETA is a derivation from world
known operating system, FreeBSD version 5.2.1
with the latest patch 9. It is a FIRST beta
release for users worldwide.
The TrianceOS 1.0-BETA distribution consists of
the full TrianceOS binary releases for 12
different ports category including the X.Org (the
new X Window System), and the 175 of TrianceOS
Package Collection. Complete source code also
available through our website. Registrations are
FREE and users are entitled to get the
distribution.
About TrianceOS
The TrianceOS operating system is a
full-featured, open source, UNIX-like operating
system descended from FreeBSD 5.2.1 with patch 9.
Currently, TrianceOS runs on Intel i386
(386/486/586/686/Pentium/Pentium Pro/Pentium
II/Pentium III/Pentium
IV/Xeon/Celeron/Pentium-M/AMD/Cyrix)
architectures featuring 1 machine architectures
across 12 distinct CPU families, and will be
ported to different architecture sooner. The
TrianceOS 1.0-BETA release contains complete
binary releases only for Intel Architecture.
TrianceOS is a highly integrated system. In
addition to its highly portable, high performance
kernel and derivation from FreeBSD, TrianceOS
features a complete set of user utilities,
compilers for several languages, the X Window
System, kernel firewall software and numerous
other tools build especially on top of GUI
(Graphical User Interface), all accompanied by
full source code. The TrianceOS Packages
Collection contains over 175 pre-compiled open
source software binary packages and thousands of
softwares available around the world to be
compiled sooner.
Currently, Triance OS is free for beta testing.
We’ll be glad to have volunteers of beta testers
for us to maintain the operating system to the
best performance and encourage more users to
enhance the OS.
Development on TrianceOS
Sysinstall Installation
* Please refer to Installations User Manual to
get the ideas of sysinstall system that we have
modified. This includes cutting off user
installation configurations into less than 6-7
steps as the default steps from FreeBSD will be
more than 15.
Default pre-compilations
* Core system
* Third party packages
System
* Added Auto Mounting Daemon (AMD) for
automatically mounting CD/DVD-ROM
* Enabling default rc.conf configurations
* Enabling splash screen on system startup.
X-Windows System
* Replacement of XFree86 to X.Org X-Windows
System in /usr/ports/
xorg-clients (previously XFree86-clients)
xorg-libraries (previously XFree86-libraries)
xorg-fonts-100dpi (previously XFree86-font100dpi)
xorg-fonts-75dpi (previously XFree86-font75dpi)
xorg-fonts-cyrillic (previously
XFree86-fontCyrillic)
xorg-fonts-encodings (previously
XFree86-fontEncodings)
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps (previously
XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps)
xorg-fonts-truetype (previously
XFree86-fontScalable)
xorg-fonts-type1 (previously XFree86-fontScalable)
xorg-fontserver (previously XFree86-FontServer)
xorg-printserver (previously XFree86-PrintServer)
xorg-server (previously XFree86-Server)
xorg-vfbserver (previously
XFree86-VirtualFramebufferServer)
KDE Desktop Manager (Base from KDE 3.2.3)
a) KDELIBS
* Customizing programs path in application menu.
b) KDEBASE
* Added new image file KDE
* Edited code for KDM to enabling automatic
shutdown
* Disabling some unused default applications for
KDEBASE.
* Modifications of splash screen on startup
* Installing new themes as the default for KDE.
3rd party software packages:
* Edited all and enabling auto packages
installation/extraction visible on desktop after
extractions. Note that, TrianceOS 1.0-BETA
includes 175 of software packages and there will
be 175 of pkg-plist files to be edited.
* Major 3rd party software available:
* kdeaccessibility-3.2.3
* openoffice-1.1.1
* linux_base-7.1_7
* wine-20040505
* kdegames-3.2.3
* kdegraphics-3.2.3
* xchat2-2.0.10
* thunderbird-0.7
* kdeutils-3.2.3
* kaffeine-0.4.3b
* kdemultimedia-3.2.3
* xmms-esound-1.2.10
* gaim-0.79
* k3b-0.11.9_1
* kdeadmin-3.2.3
* firefox-0.9.1
* kdebase-3.2.3
* kdelibs-3.2.3_1
* xorg-6.7.0
* And some other dependencies and libraries
needed for the applications above.
Filesystems:
* Modification on device files system to permit
mostly on CD-ROM devices (to be use with K3b)
X-Windows System:
* Based on X.Org 6.7.0 X-Windows System
* Enabling automatic X on startup with a default
xorg.conf configuration.
Availability:
Triance OS 1.0-BETA supports the i386
architecture and can be installed through ISO CD
Files. Distributions for this architecture are
available now at:
http://www.trianceware.com
Press Contact:
press@trianceware.com
Support:
http://www.trianceware.com/support.php
Trademarks Notices:
Triance and Triance OS are trademark of Triance
Mutiara Industries Sdn Bhd. FreeBSD is a
registered trademark of FreeBSD Project. Linux is
a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is
a registered trademark of The Open Group. All
other trademarks and copyrights referred to in
this announcement are the property of their
respective owners.
spiralmux
Date:
September 9, 2004 @ 10:59 PM
No way am I reading all that. Or any of it. And
I'm definitely not going to post a response.
jmweirick
Date:
September 12, 2004 @ 4:15 PM
but already did post a response.
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