rPath Linux 1.0.1 available for x86 and x86_64

>From time to time, rPath will release refreshed ISO images of
rPath Linux.

Refreshed ISO images, release 1.0.1, have been made available
for new installations of rPath Linux 1.  These images include all
updates through and including updates released on 23 March 2006.
If you have already installed rPath Linux 1, you should update your
current system rather than reinstall using the new images.

The new images are available from
ftp://download.rpath.com/linux/1/1.0.1/ and
http://www.rpath.com/rbuilder/project/rpath/

rPath Linux 1 Release Notes

Release 1.0.1

Welcome to rPath Linux!  rPath Linux is a freely-available Linux
operating system distribution, built with the Conary distributed
software management system, supported and maintained by rPath, Inc.
The rPath Linux distribution contains high-quality, up-to-date
software, and is the base development platform for creating software
appliances and purpose-built distributions using rBuilder Online
(http://www.rpath.com/).

Hardware Requirements

    x86: i686-class processor (i586 and earlier are not supported)
    x86_64: all AMD64 and EM64T processors are supported

    Hardware platform supported by the Linux kernel 2.6.15.6

    Installation from CD/DVD images requires 256 MB RAM.  The
    graphical installation process will run faster with 512 MB.
    Run-time memory requirements depend entirely on the software
    being run.

    Installing the default choices will use approximately 4.5GB
    of disk space.  The smallest installation available from the
    rPath Linux CD/DVD images is available only using a text-mode
    installation and requires less than 300 MB of disk space.
    A full installation of all the software included on the CD/DVD
    images requires approximately 6GB of disk space.

Major Contents

    - Conary 1.0.9
    - Linux kernel 2.6.15.6
    - GCC 3.4.4
    - Glibc 2.3.6
    - Xorg-X11 6.8.2
    - GNOME 2.12
    - KDE 3.4.2

Updates

    The "conary updateall" command will update all the software
    on your system managed by Conary.  The "conary update group-os"
    command will update all the software on your system that is
    part of rPath Linux.

    rPath Linux 1 updates will be publicly available until six
    months after rPath Linux 2 has been released.  After that time,
    updates will be made available on a subscription basis.  For
    more information on rPath Linux subscriptions, contact rPath
    at +1 919 851 3984 or email info@rpath.com

Additional Software

    In order to reduce the size and download time for normal use,
    the rPath Linux CD/DVD images do not contain all the software
    contained in rPath Linux; in particular, they do not contain
    many of the internet server packages (such as dovecot, the
    IMAP server in rPath Linux), and they also do not contain some
    packages that are alternatives to packages contained on the
    CD/DVD images (such as thunderbird, an alternative to the
    evolution mail client included on the CD/DVD images).  These
    packages are excluded from the CD/DVD images only because
    of frequency of use, and they are supported and maintained
    on the same basis as the packages that are included on the
    CD/DVD images.

    All software packages in the conary.rpath.com repository
    on the "conary.rpath.com@rpl:1" label are part of the rPath
    Linux operating system.  The repository is the canonical
    definition of the operating system.

    Further software is available from the rPath Linux contributed
    software repository.  This repository is maintained and supported
    only on an ad-hoc basis, by a community of developers.  The
    contributed software repository is part of the default search
    path for packages; if you wish to install only supported and
    maintained software, you should edit your /etc/conaryrc file
    and remove the "contrib.rpath.org@rpl:1" and
    "contrib.rpath.org@rpl:devel" items from the installLabelPath
    line.

Contacting rPath

    rPath offers software appliance versions of rBuilder that may
    be deployed at your site, as well as support and maintenance
    for rPath Linux.  For more information, contact rPath at
    +1 919 851 3984 or email info@rpath.com.

    Please visit http://bugs.rpath.com/ to report bugs and make
    enhancement requests.

    Conary and rPath Linux developers frequent the #conary channel
    on the freenode IRC network (http://www.freenode.net/)

    See http://lists.rpath.com/mailman/listinfo for mailing lists
    where rPath Linux and Conary are discussed.

    Technical information about Conary and rPath Linux is kept
    at http://wiki.conary.com/

Source Code

    The source code for each package can be accessed via Conary's
    "cvc" command.  More information on the cvc command is available
    in the cvc man page.

Creating Software Appliances

    Visit rBuilder Online at http://www.rpath.com/ to create
    software appliances and purpose-built distributions based on
    rPath Linux.  Contact rPath at +1 919 851 3984 or email
    info@rpath.com for information on deploying rBuilder at your
    site.

rPath, rPath Linux, Conary, and rBuilder are trademarks of rPath, Inc.