http://www.softcraft.org/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=SoftcraftGenerations Linux - User contributions [en]2026-04-19T19:44:01ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.38.4http://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=46Main Page2023-09-21T17:36:59Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for amd64/x86_64 boxes, as its namesake implies provides a stable 6.5 Linux kernel.<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations ibiblio], graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash [vga=788]<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 (or other mode) is completely optional, and it is not recommended for virtual environments.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=45Main Page2023-07-21T20:08:52Z<p>Softcraft: /* default linux version */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for amd64/x86_64 boxes, as its namesake implies provides a stable 6.2.16 Linux kernel.<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations ibiblio], graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash [vga=788]<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 (or other mode) is completely optional, and it is not recommended for virtual environments.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=44Main Page2023-05-31T04:24:17Z<p>Softcraft: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for amd64/x86_64 boxes, as its namesake implies provides a stable 5.15 kernel and a 6.1.1 (/boot/vmlinuz.ng)<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.15.111. To use 6.1.1 from the boot menu enter edit mode changing /boot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz.ng<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations ibiblio], graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash [vga=788]<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 (or other mode) is completely optional, and it is not recommended for virtual environments.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=43Main Page2023-05-19T15:01:08Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for amd64/x86_64 boxes, as its namesake implies provides a stable 5.15 kernel and a 6.3.3 (/boot/vmlinuz.ng)<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.15.111. To use 6.3.3 from the boot menu enter edit mode changing /boot/vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz.ng<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations ibiblio], graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash [vga=788]<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 (or other mode) is completely optional, and it is not recommended for virtual environments.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=42Main Page2022-12-31T22:07:45Z<p>Softcraft: /* Booting */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations ibiblio], graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash [vga=788]<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 (or other mode) is completely optional, and it is not recommended for virtual environments.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=41Main Page2022-12-31T22:05:55Z<p>Softcraft: /* Booting */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations ibiblio], graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:Genesis&diff=40Generations:Genesis2022-12-31T22:04:03Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div><!--<br />
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by<br />
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or<br />
(at your option) any later version.<br />
<br />
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br />
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br />
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the<br />
GNU General Public License for more details.<br />
<br />
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License<br />
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,<br />
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.<br />
<br />
Copyright (C) Generations Linux <ibugs@softcraft.org><br />
--><br />
<depot distribution="Generations Linux" release="3.1"><br />
<signature file="softcraft.asc">gpg-pubkey-1ee4a61b-44e3e8d7</signature><br />
<arch>x86</arch><br />
<source><br />
<path>/master/packages</path><br />
<path>/var/spool/packages</path><br />
</source><br />
<catalog name="base"><br />
<package name="bash" version="4.2.45" options="nodeps" /><br />
<package name="coreutils" version="8.23" options="nodeps" /><br />
<package name="rpm" version="4.11.1" options="nodeps" /><br />
<package name="core" version="3.1" /><br />
<package name="glibc" version="2.19" /><br />
<package name="cpio" version="2.11" /><br />
<package name="gzip" version="1.6" /><br />
<package name="sysvinit" version="2.88" /><br />
<package name="busybox" version="1.18.4" /><br />
<package name="mkinitrd" version="2.0.3" /><br />
<package name="kmod" version="5" /><br />
<package name="kernel" version="3.12.30" options="ignorearch"/><br />
<package name="kernel" version="3.9.11" options="force" /><br />
<package name="zlib" version="1.2.5" /><br />
<package name="binutils" version="2.24" /><br />
<package name="bzip2" version="1.0.6" /><br />
<package name="bzip2-libs" version="1.0.6" /><br />
<package name="cracklib" version="2.7" /><br />
<package name="e2fsprogs" version="1.42.7" /><br />
<package name="elfutils" version="0.153" /><br />
<package name="expat" version="2.1.0" /><br />
<package name="file" version="4.21" /><br />
<package name="findutils" version="4.2.28" /><br />
<package name="gawk" version="3.1.5" /><br />
<package name="grep" version="2.20" /><br />
<package name="hwinfo" version="19.1" /><br />
<package name="libgcc" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="libgomp" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="libstdc++" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="libusb" version="1.0.18" /><br />
<package name="libusb-compat" version="0.1.4" /><br />
<package name="make" version="4.0" /><br />
<package name="neon" version="0.30.0" /><br />
<package name="net-tools" version="1.60" /><br />
<package name="openssl" version="1.0.1g" /><br />
<package name="openssh" version="6.2p2" /><br />
<package name="pam" version="1.1.6" /><br />
<package name="sqlite" version="3.8.2" /><br />
<package name="termcap" version="2.0.8" /><br />
<package name="sed" version="4.1.4" /><br />
<package name="shadow-utils" version="4.1.5" /><br />
<package name="sysklogd" version="1.5" /><br />
<package name="util-linux" version="2.22.2" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="minimal"><br />
<include>base</include><br />
<package name="dbus" version="1.6.8" /><br />
<package name="dbus-glib" version="0.102" /><br />
<package name="kbd" version="2.0.2" /><br />
<package name="mtools" version="3.9.9" /><br />
<package name="ncurses" version="5.5" /><br />
<package name="grub" version="0.97" /><br />
<package name="syslinux" version="6.02" /><br />
<package name="terminfo" version="5.6" /><br />
<package name="timezone" version="2013c" /><br />
<package name="hdparm" version="5.9" /><br />
<package name="lsof" version="4.73" /><br />
<package name="ntfs-3g" version="2014.2.15" /><br />
<package name="pciutils" version="2.1.11" /><br />
<package name="procps" version="3.2.8" /><br />
<package name="psmisc" version="22.2" /><br />
<package name="sysfsutils" version="2.1.0" /><br />
<package name="sysstat" version="10.2.1" /><br />
<package name="usbutils" version="6" /><br />
<package name="tcsh" version="6.18.01" /><br />
<package name="xinetd" version="2.3.15" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="x11"><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-core" version="3.0" /><br />
<package name="libpciaccess" version="0.11.1" /><br />
<package name="libdrm" version="2.4.56" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-libs" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-data" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="mesa" version="10.2.6" /><br />
<package name="mesa-libs" version="10.2.6" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-apps" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-server" version="1.15.2" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-drivers" version="1.15.2" /><br />
<package name="openbox" version="3.5.2" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="x11-develop"><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-develop" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-proto" version="7.7" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="workstation"><br />
<include>minimal</include><br />
<include>x11</include><br />
<package name="glib20" version="2.22.4" /><br />
<package name="gtk20" version="2.18.7" /><br />
<package name="gould" version="1.2.3" /><br />
</catalog> <include>workstation</include><br />
<package name="kernel-headers" version="3.12.30" /><br />
<package name="glibc-develop" version="2.19" /><br />
<package name="gcc" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="flex" version="2.5.35" /><br />
<package name="bison" version="2.1" /><br />
<include>x11-develop</include><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="developer"><br />
<include>workstation</include><br />
<package name="kernel-headers" version="3.12.30" /><br />
<package name="glibc-develop" version="2.19" /><br />
<package name="gcc" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="flex" version="2.5.35" /><br />
<package name="bison" version="2.1" /><br />
<include>x11-develop</include><br />
</catalog><br />
</depot></div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=39Main Page2022-12-18T20:21:17Z<p>Softcraft: /* History */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations ibiblio], graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=38Main Page2022-12-18T20:18:09Z<p>Softcraft: /* History */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives <a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations">ibiblio</a>, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=37Main Page2022-10-25T16:21:03Z<p>Softcraft: /* Greeter */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|400px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=36Main Page2022-10-25T16:20:19Z<p>Softcraft: /* Greeter */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|600px|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=35Main Page2022-10-25T16:19:00Z<p>Softcraft: /* Booting */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|thumbnail|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=34Main Page2022-10-25T16:10:11Z<p>Softcraft: /* Generations Linux */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|thumbnail|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Detection.png&diff=33File:Detection.png2022-10-25T16:06:43Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div>hardware detection</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=32Main Page2022-10-25T16:04:19Z<p>Softcraft: /* Generations Linux */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|thumbnail|center|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=31Main Page2022-10-25T16:01:47Z<p>Softcraft: /* Generations Linux */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
<br />
[[File:quicklaunch.png|thumbnail|right|quicklaunch]]<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=30Main Page2022-10-25T15:59:27Z<p>Softcraft: /* Greeter */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|right|gould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Gpanel.png&diff=29File:Gpanel.png2022-10-25T15:57:17Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div>gpanel montage</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Greeter.png&diff=28File:Greeter.png2022-10-25T15:53:30Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Grub.png&diff=27File:Grub.png2022-10-25T15:41:20Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Gould.png&diff=26File:Gould.png2022-10-25T15:30:36Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div></div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=25Main Page2022-10-25T15:05:37Z<p>Softcraft: /* Booting */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumbnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|rightgould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=24Main Page2022-10-25T15:04:42Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
[[File:gould.png|thumbnail|right|gould desktop]]<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
<br />
[[File:grub.png|thumnail|right|grub bootloader]]<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[[File:detection.png|thumbnail|right|hardware detection]]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
<br />
[[File:greeter.png|thumbnail|rightgould greeter]]<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
[[File:gpanel.png|900px|center|gpanel montage]]<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=23Main Page2022-10-25T15:00:02Z<p>Softcraft: /* Generations Linux */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|thumbnail|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[File:Detection.png]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=22Main Page2022-10-25T14:59:26Z<p>Softcraft: /* Generations Linux */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png||right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[File:Detection.png]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=21Main Page2022-10-25T14:26:48Z<p>Softcraft: /* Installation */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
splash bootup<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[File:Detection.png]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [[Generations:Genesis|genesis]] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=20Main Page2022-10-25T14:25:26Z<p>Softcraft: /* Installation */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
splash bootup<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[File:Detection.png]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [File:Generations:Genesis|genesis] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=19Main Page2022-10-25T14:21:51Z<p>Softcraft: /* Installation */</p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
splash bootup<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[File:Detection.png]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the [genesis] page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:Genesis&diff=18Generations:Genesis2022-10-25T14:20:25Z<p>Softcraft: /* Genesis */</p>
<hr />
<div><!--<br />
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify<br />
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by<br />
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or<br />
(at your option) any later version.<br />
<br />
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,<br />
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of<br />
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the<br />
GNU General Public License for more details.<br />
<br />
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License<br />
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,<br />
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.<br />
<br />
Copyright (C) Generations Linux <ibugs@softcraft.org><br />
--><br />
<depot distribution="Generations Linux" release="3.1"><br />
<signature file="softcraft.asc">gpg-pubkey-1ee4a61b-44e3e8d7</signature><br />
<arch>x86</arch><br />
<source><br />
<path>/master/packages</path> </source><br />
<path>/var/spool/packages</path><br />
</source><br />
<catalog name="base"><br />
<package name="bash" version="4.2.45" options="nodeps" /><br />
<package name="coreutils" version="8.23" options="nodeps" /><br />
<package name="rpm" version="4.11.1" options="nodeps" /><br />
<package name="core" version="3.1" /><br />
<package name="glibc" version="2.19" /><br />
<package name="cpio" version="2.11" /><br />
<package name="gzip" version="1.6" /><br />
<package name="sysvinit" version="2.88" /><br />
<package name="busybox" version="1.18.4" /><br />
<package name="mkinitrd" version="2.0.3" /><br />
<package name="kmod" version="5" /><br />
<package name="kernel" version="3.12.30" options="ignorearch"/><br />
<package name="kernel" version="3.9.11" options="force" /><br />
<package name="zlib" version="1.2.5" /><br />
<package name="binutils" version="2.24" /><br />
<package name="bzip2" version="1.0.6" /><br />
<package name="bzip2-libs" version="1.0.6" /><br />
<package name="cracklib" version="2.7" /><br />
<package name="e2fsprogs" version="1.42.7" /><br />
<package name="elfutils" version="0.153" /><br />
<package name="expat" version="2.1.0" /><br />
<package name="file" version="4.21" /><br />
<package name="findutils" version="4.2.28" /><br />
<package name="gawk" version="3.1.5" /><br />
<package name="grep" version="2.20" /><br />
<package name="hwinfo" version="19.1" /><br />
<package name="libgcc" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="libgomp" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="libstdc++" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="libusb" version="1.0.18" /><br />
<package name="libusb-compat" version="0.1.4" /><br />
<package name="make" version="4.0" /><br />
<package name="neon" version="0.30.0" /><br />
<package name="net-tools" version="1.60" /><br />
<package name="openssl" version="1.0.1g" /><br />
<package name="openssh" version="6.2p2" /><br />
<package name="pam" version="1.1.6" /><br />
<package name="sqlite" version="3.8.2" /><br />
<package name="termcap" version="2.0.8" /><br />
<package name="sed" version="4.1.4" /><br />
<package name="shadow-utils" version="4.1.5" /><br />
<package name="sysklogd" version="1.5" /><br />
<package name="util-linux" version="2.22.2" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="minimal"><br />
<include>base</include><br />
<package name="dbus" version="1.6.8" /><br />
<package name="dbus-glib" version="0.102" /><br />
<package name="kbd" version="2.0.2" /><br />
<package name="mtools" version="3.9.9" /><br />
<package name="ncurses" version="5.5" /><br />
<package name="grub" version="0.97" /><br />
<package name="syslinux" version="6.02" /><br />
<package name="terminfo" version="5.6" /><br />
<package name="timezone" version="2013c" /><br />
<package name="hdparm" version="5.9" /><br />
<package name="lsof" version="4.73" /><br />
<package name="ntfs-3g" version="2014.2.15" /><br />
<package name="pciutils" version="2.1.11" /><br />
<package name="procps" version="3.2.8" /><br />
<package name="psmisc" version="22.2" /><br />
<package name="sysfsutils" version="2.1.0" /><br />
<package name="sysstat" version="10.2.1" /><br />
<package name="usbutils" version="6" /><br />
<package name="tcsh" version="6.18.01" /><br />
<package name="xinetd" version="2.3.15" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="x11"><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-core" version="3.0" /><br />
<package name="libpciaccess" version="0.11.1" /><br />
<package name="libdrm" version="2.4.56" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-libs" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-data" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="mesa" version="10.2.6" /><br />
<package name="mesa-libs" version="10.2.6" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-apps" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-server" version="1.15.2" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-drivers" version="1.15.2" /><br />
<package name="openbox" version="3.5.2" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="x11-develop"><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-develop" version="7.7" /><br />
<package name="xorg-x11-proto" version="7.7" /><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="workstation"><br />
<include>minimal</include><br />
<include>x11</include><br />
<package name="glib20" version="2.22.4" /><br />
<package name="gtk20" version="2.18.7" /><br />
<package name="gould" version="1.2.3" /><br />
</catalog> <include>workstation</include><br />
<package name="kernel-headers" version="3.12.30" /><br />
<package name="glibc-develop" version="2.19" /><br />
<package name="gcc" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="flex" version="2.5.35" /><br />
<package name="bison" version="2.1" /><br />
<include>x11-develop</include><br />
</catalog><br />
<br />
<catalog name="developer"><br />
<include>workstation</include><br />
<package name="kernel-headers" version="3.12.30" /><br />
<package name="glibc-develop" version="2.19" /><br />
<package name="gcc" version="4.9.1" /><br />
<package name="flex" version="2.5.35" /><br />
<package name="bison" version="2.1" /><br />
<include>x11-develop</include><br />
</catalog><br />
</depot></div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=17Main Page2022-10-25T14:03:09Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div>Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web.<br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
splash bootup<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
[File:Detection.png]<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the genesis page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=16Main Page2022-10-25T13:57:50Z<p>Softcraft: Reverted edits by Softcraft (talk) to last revision by MediaWiki default</p>
<hr />
<div><strong>MediaWiki has been installed.</strong><br />
<br />
Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.<br />
<br />
== Getting started ==<br />
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]<br />
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]<br />
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ MediaWiki release mailing list]<br />
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language]<br />
* [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki]</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=15Main Page2022-10-25T13:56:51Z<p>Softcraft: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web. <br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<img align="right" src="vendor/generations/images/splash-boot.png"><br />
[wiki/index.php/File:Splash-boot.png]<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
<br />
hardware detection<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the genesis page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=14Main Page2022-10-25T13:56:17Z<p>Softcraft: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web. <br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<img align="right" src="vendor/generations/images/splash-boot.png"><br />
[wiki/index.php/File:Splash-boot.png[<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
<br />
hardware detection<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the genesis page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=13Main Page2022-10-25T13:54:24Z<p>Softcraft: /* Introduction */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web. <br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<img align="right" src="vendor/generations/images/splash-boot.png"><br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
<br />
hardware detection<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the genesis page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:Privacy_policy&diff=12Generations:Privacy policy2022-10-25T13:49:31Z<p>Softcraft: /* Privacy policy */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
* Please know that your IP address and timestamp(s) are recorded on this site.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:Privacy_policy&diff=11Generations:Privacy policy2022-10-25T13:38:41Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<h3>Generations Linux</h3> <h2>Privacy policy</h2><br />
<br />
<br />
* Please know that your IP address and timestamp(s) are recorded on this site.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:Privacy_policy&diff=10Generations:Privacy policy2022-10-25T13:37:38Z<p>Softcraft: /* Privacy policy */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<h2>[Generations Linux] Privacy policy</h2><br />
<br />
* Please know that your IP address and timestamp(s) are recorded on this site.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:About&diff=9Generations:About2022-10-25T13:35:06Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Generations Linux is an open source distribution of Linux designed with usability in mind, providing users with a modern and familiar desktop environment.<br />
<br />
[[File:generations.png|900px|center|about generations]]<br />
<br />
The main site for the ISO live image is on [http://distro.ibiblio.org/generations/ ibiblio.org’s Linux Distribution] pages.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:General_disclaimer&diff=8Generations:General disclaimer2022-10-25T13:32:59Z<p>Softcraft: /* Disclaimers */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
<div style="border: 1px solid #777; background: transparent;<br />
border-radius: 10px; padding: 5px; margin: 3px; margin-bottom: 6px;<br />
margin-top: 6px; font-size: 45px; color: #330066;<br />
box-shadow: 0 0 2px 1px #222; width: 70%"><br />
<br />
<ul><br />
<p>Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur</p><br />
</ul><br />
</div></div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:About&diff=7Generations:About2022-10-25T13:29:18Z<p>Softcraft: /* About */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Generations Linux is an open source distribution of Linux designed with usability in mind, providing users with a modern and familiar desktop environment.<br />
<br />
[[File:generations.png|900px|center|about generations]]<br />
<br />
The main site for the ISO live image is on ibiblio.org’s Linux Distribution pages.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Generations:About&diff=6Generations:About2022-10-25T13:28:08Z<p>Softcraft: /* About */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Generations Linux is an open source distribution of Linux designed with usability in mind, providing users with a modern and familiar desktop environment.<br />
<br />
about generations<br />
<br />
The main site for the ISO live image is on ibiblio.org’s Linux Distribution pages.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=5Main Page2022-10-25T13:27:00Z<p>Softcraft: /* Generations Linux */</p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web. <br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
gould desktop<br />
<br />
1994-2001 Generations 1 (pagan) 1994 inspired by Softlanding Linux System (SLS) was the birth of Softcraft Linux (Generations 1). A commercial now defunct Craftworks Linux was a spin off providing a first DEC Alpha 64-bit Linux distribution which sold mostly in Europe.<br />
<br />
2001-2009 Generations 2 (nexus) Nexus was for personal use of the principal developer and not published. Traces may be found on www.berlios.de/ Worth noting is that the software packaging for this distribution was switched from a PKG / tar compressed to RPM while pagan into nexus.<br />
<br />
2009-now Generations 3 (vortex) One of the world largest software archives ibiblio, graciously, listed Generations Linux as one of the many Linux distributions. Providing storage space for downloading of ISO images releases and (RPM)updates.<br />
<br />
==Booting==<br />
grub bootloader<br />
<br />
When you are at the boot screen, if you have an older computer i.e. not 64-bits, just move down to the 32-bit kernel option. This will not apply to releases prior to 3.1 which are only 32-bit.<br />
<br />
Options which have the word "persistent" is a feature that based on your computer and an available USB storage device can save the state information from one (boot)session to another of Generations Linux. The OverlayFS (a simple union file-system) officially included starting with the Linux 3.18 kernel, and system initialization scripts use a /shadow/ partition in memory to keep track of the changes (delta) from the /generations/linux (SquashFS) compressed image file and what is running.<br />
<br />
Options which start with the word "Run" all have in common the following boot command line parameters:<br />
<br />
initrd=/boot/initrd.img quiet splash vga=788<br />
<br />
<br />
hardware detection<br />
<br />
Next, Generations Linux will probe your system hardware, saving the information in the /etc/sysconfig/ and /etc/network/ folders. Note that the screen that the "hardware detection" figure shows will only appear when splash is not specified.<br />
<br />
splash uses the Linux kernel VESA framebuffer with the splashutils package (once found on the fbsplash.berlios.de) tailored for Generations.<br />
<br />
vga=788 is needed for the splash boot mode to work. When booting generations from a virtualbox, you will need to remove the vga=788 if you want a better screen resolution.<br />
<br />
==Greeter==<br />
gould greeter<br />
<br />
System is ready! Click on the "access account" to autologin as user: avatar (password : welcome) which has sudo privs. Click on "Administrator" (passord: admin) to directly have full (root) access. Remember, it is only a live image. Nothing has been installed. If your computer has 2GB of memory or more, it is all in memory. Removing the CD/DVD/USB media on systems with less than 2GB of memory will result on the running session having errors and instability. Generations live image is dependant on the /generations/linux SquashFS (compressed filesystem) file found on the ISO image which is only copied to memory when possible.<br />
<br />
The desktop uses both a panel taskbar: starting from left to right an applications pull down menu, quick-launch shortcuts, tasks running bars, a workspace switcher, system tray with on demand and persistent apps.<br />
<br />
gpanel montage<br />
<br />
And a quick-launch dock (wbar) on the bottom in the middle, similar to the one on an Apple OS X desktop.<br />
Quicklaunch.png<br />
<br />
==Installation==<br />
<br />
See the genesis page on this site.<br />
<br />
==Copyright==<br />
<br />
Generations Linux is distributed under GPL v3, with the knowledge that the GOULD desktop and the unique technology of booting from a USB flash drive by simply having the generations.iso image file and a /boot/ folder belongs to Generations Linux. All Rights Reserved.<br />
<br />
Also as with most Linux distributions, all is under Open Source, which depending on the actual package the licensing is that of the source author. For example: Apache, BSD, MIT, MPL, etc.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=4Main Page2022-10-25T13:23:37Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web. <br />
<br />
==Introduction==<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=3Main Page2022-10-25T11:49:02Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web. <br />
<br />
Introduction<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png|right|splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.</div>Softcrafthttp://www.softcraft.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=2Main Page2022-10-25T07:12:22Z<p>Softcraft: </p>
<hr />
<div><br />
Welcome to the Generations Linux documentation on the web. <br />
<br />
Introduction<br />
<br />
[[File:splash-boot.png||splash bootup]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Generations is for i386 to amd64/x86_64 boxes as its namesake implies.<br />
<br />
The default is to boot using Linux kernel 5.14 (x86_64), for older systems from the boot menu use the up/down arrow keys to select 32-bit which is kernel 3.12.2(overlayfs).<br />
<br />
In the about section you will find information on where to download ISO live images. An ISO live image allows one to boot into Linux from a CD/DVD/USB or run within a virtual machine environment, without installing any software.<br />
<br />
The term software package or simply package used in these pages refers to an RPM Package Manager (RPM) file, or one that is already installed.</div>Softcraft