installation mit instlux von windows

One day I got an openSUSE 11.0 box and I was checking the manual while waiting for a plane transfer at an airport, when I saw that there was a chapter about how to install openSUSE with instlux!

instlux was my contribution to openSUSE 10.3 and I was so happy when I saw that, not only in the 11.0 DVD but also on the manual. As said, the time I saw that I was in an airport, waiting for a plane transfer, and I was really really happy! My contribution was there! It was a pity that I was traveling alone because I could not tell anyone.

Seeing instlux on a manual has been the best gift to the instlux project. Everything started because I was not able to install linux on a laptop. Then I googled around and found a howto on doing it using the installed windows and grub4dos. After that, and with my linux laptop, I wrote an nsis script that was doing all that and opened a sourceforge project.

I tried to make people know about that, so I started writing to wikis, developers mailing lists, telling people that I knew, until one day that I connect to an only meeting room on the opensuse IRC channel. I told the guys there, and I was invited to talk about that on the fosdem lightning talks, so I sent a presentation as soon as the call was opened, and got accepted.

Then things were better. At Fosdem I met AJ (who I have to thank for that) and talk about it. A lot of people was willing to talk to AJ, so we talked for 5 minutes and that was all. Instlux was included on openSUSE 10.3 and got help from suse people that implemented the missing details.

openSUSE community looked very happy to have instlux, and I was very happy to participate. Actually, what I like more is the feeling of getting involved on a community like openSUSE.

instlux is not the only system for doing that, but I think I can say that was the first one that was implemented as a windows installer and included on a distribution.

Right now, I am not spending time on instlux, as SUSE/Novell has more resources, and I am very happy of that, as I can spend time on other projects.

So, thanks openSUSE guys for letting me get involved!

instlux as part of the openSUSE project

instlux became part of the openSUSE project with the 10.3 public release of openSUSE. The instlux project will no longer be mantained at sourceforge, but at the openSUSE community, which is a big community and I am very proud of contributing the project to it.

So, from now on:

homepage: http://en.opensuse.org/Instlux

bug traquer: http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports

support (forums, mailing lists, etc.):
http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate

The only thing that will remain at sourceforge will be code, that is, the svn. However there will be no new releases at sourceforge, as they will be released together with the openSUSE releases.

You can read about instlux at the novell connection magazine:

http://www.novell.com/connectionmagazine/2007/q4/tech_talk_3.html?sourceid=NCM_q4_07_tt3

Being instlux part of openSUSE is a very good thing for the project, actually I can not think about anything better, as being part of a bigger community gives instlux a better future that does not depend only on me having free time.

The photo has been taken by Zioluc and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license

Gràcies! Instlux, dos anys, 100.000 descàrregues

Gràcies!

Gràcies a tots aquells que heu descarregat instlux.

Gràcies a tots aquells que n'heu parlat en fòrums, blogs, portals, revistes, ...

Gràcies a tots aquells que heu aportat bugs, features requests, ...

Gràcies a tots aquells que heu aportat codi, ...

Gràcies a vosaltres que heu fet possible que en dos anys desde la primera publicació s'hagi descarregat 100.000 vegades!!

anàlisi comunitat instlux

Tal com ha fet el jordi mas en el seu blog publico també un petit anàlisi del projecte lliure instlux que vaig presentar a les jornades de programari lliure d'aquest any, celebrades a Girona i organitzades per la Càtedra pel Programari Lliure de la UPC.

Podeu descarregar, tant l'informe com la presentació des de:

http://www.jornadespl.org/ponencies/instlux-instalb7lar-el-linux-des-del-windows/

Canonical thinks that GPL is not really opensource

I've just received the following email from the launchpad team:

Subject: Your project in Launchpad (instlux)

Hello there,

You registered a project in Launchpad, but the project doesn't seem
to be a real Open Source project. I've disabled it for now, but let me
know if you think it should be reactivated and I'll reconsider.

Instlux is a GPL project. Its source code has been for 2 years at sourceforge and it is licensed under the GPL license.

Moreovers, it has external contributions in its code, it has been collaborating with other opensource projects (win32 loader known also as "goodbye microsoft") and it is part of the openSUSE distribution. Actually instlux started on the Ubuntu wiki pages!

Why Canonical thinks that instlux is not really opensource?

By the way, do not forget that the one that is not opensource is launchpad.

I hope it is just a misunderstanding.

instlux: el nou instalador d'openSUSE10.3

instlux fa dos anys. Sí, l'octubre del 2005 vaig començar el projecte, tot i que no es va publicar la primera versió fins al Novembre. Amb aquest temps hi ha hagut 90000 descàrregues, que es diuen aviat i, tal com es va acordar al FOSDEM del Febrer passat (Free Open Source DEveloper ...) entre el projecte instlux i el projecte openSUSE, instlux ha estat incorporat al CD/DVD d'openSUSE, com a instalador de windows.

Instlux és un executable de windows que, al posar el CD/DVD al lector, i si estem en windows, engega l'instal.lació del openSUSE i ens permet saltar-nos el pas de configurar la BIOS, un pas que per a molts era una trava per no instal.lar. Instlux està orientat a facilitar el pas a aquells que configurar la BIOS els fa cert respecte.


openSUSE 10.3 ha estat publicat fa unes hores i promet molt: escriptori 3D millorat, instal.lador en 1-click (des del firefox), repositoris comunitaris, decodificador mp3 de fluendo (empresa situada a Barcelona), ....

instlux and openSUSE released together

The newest version of instlux (a linux from windows installer) has been released as the openSUSE 10.3 from windows installer. What that means is that when you insert your openSUSE 10.3 CD/DVD into your CD/DVD reader while in windows, instlux is started to help you installing openSUSE 10.3 without modifying the BIOS at all, easying the installation process. So windows users have no excuse to try openSUSE 10.3.

openSUSE 10.3 is the first major distribution that has this kind of installer in its media. That is a very good new for openSUSE users, as well as for the instlux project, as this month is its second birthday!. Yes! I started the project 2 years ago and it has had an unbelievable success: more than 90000 downloads since its first release in Novembre 2005.

Instlux is also in a local distribution, actually a Novell Linux Desktop based distribution, called Linkat, the linux for the educational sector in Catalunya.

openSUSE10.3 has also very interesting features that can make this distribution really succesfull: improved 3D desktop, 1-click install (install from firefox), comunitary repositories, fluendo mp3 decoders, 1cd install, ... a pretty modern set of features!