What is Granular?

Posted Sun, 07/26/2009 - 13:06 by Anurag Bhandari

Granular is a Linux-based operating system, also called a distribution (or distro, for short). It is based on PCLinuxOS and aimed at providing an easy-to-use, stable, and functional Linux experience to the end users.

Starting from Granular 2 (Wolverine) onwards, Granular will be based on Unity Linux.

Latest developments at Granular

Posted Fri, 03/12/2010 - 04:24 by Anurag Bhandari

Things were silent in the project for some months, when until recently, the team got together to discuss plans for Granular 2 (Wolverine). And we did not just discuss plans for the next release of Granular, we have started development for it already. Some extensive amount of efforts have been spent in designing the logo for Granular 2, and I can say, it's about to be finalized. Based on the new logo, the graphics team will shortly start working on the artwork for Granular 2. All I can say right now about the logo is - it's looking good. :)

Further, we are done with KDE packaging. The version which will be part of the first beta of Granular 2 will be 4.4.0. And just to remind you, Granular 2 will be based on Unity 2010.

With it, stay tuned for more updates. We assure you we are be working hard behind-the-scenes to make your favorite distro even better.

Granular featured in Digit magazine

Posted Sun, 08/02/2009 - 03:48 by Anurag Bhandari


An article on Granular has been featured in this month's issue (August 2009) of the most popular Indian computer magazine - Digit. The article has been published in its regular supplement, Fast Track to Open Source Software, in the chapter "Linux Distros".

Details on Aug 09 issue of Digit can be found here. And if you live in India, you can buy it as well.

Granular at Launchpad

Posted Sun, 08/02/2009 - 03:19 by Anurag Bhandari

Granular is now registered as a project at launchpad.net. This was done in order to make use of the wonderful bug tracker and task tracker they had to offer. If you already have a Launchpad account, you can straightaway start contributing to Granular over there.

Granular page at Launchpad

Granular 2 gets a codename - Wolverine

Posted Tue, 07/21/2009 - 10:42 by Anurag Bhandari

Recently, a discussion was held among the members of Team Granular to decide the codename for the next version of Granular in order to start the development of Granular 2. A need was felt to follow a well-defined naming scheme for not only the codename for Granular 2, but all the future releases as well. And as it turned out, we all found ourselves agreeing to the X-Men alter ego names.

I was suggested that we begin naming from the senior-most and well-known members of the X-Men team, and later move to the lesser-known members. That's why the name Wolverine.

Granular Package Archive

Posted Wed, 04/01/2009 - 15:22 by Anurag Bhandari

The recently developed Package Archive website for Granular is all ready to for public viewing. Granular Package Archive (or GPA) is basically a website that offers information about all the RPM packages available in Granular's repositories, and much more. For now, the GPA has been configured for the "2008" repository.

Granular Package Repository
http://packages.granularproject.org/

Introduction to GPA
http://www.granularproject.org/teamblog/2009/03/27/introducing-granular-...

Working & implementation of Package Archive
http://www.granularproject.org/teamblog/2009/03/29/making-of-granular-pa...

We are open to any suggestions and comments on the Package Archive.

Granular's first repository mirror

Posted Mon, 03/16/2009 - 03:52 by Anurag Bhandari

We are pleased to announce that the Granular repository has a new mirror. The mirror is a complete replica of our main repo hosted on granularproject.org. So, in case you get low download speeds from the main repo or the main repo goes down, you can always use this new repo mirror in those cases.

To get started, add this information in Synaptic Package Manager:
URI: http://cz-lxweb.com/content/repo/
Distribution: granular/2008
Section(s): e17 kde main extras

Additionally, there is a "test" section that can be added to the above sections list.

Instructions on adding a new repo in Synaptic can be found on our wiki page.

Granular Newsletter - February 2009

Posted Sun, 02/08/2009 - 10:34 by Anurag Bhandari

The newsletter for the month of February 2009 is out. This is the 7th edition of Granular Newsletter. The 6th edition was in published in October 2008.

Catch it here: http://www.granularproject.org/content/newsletter/2009/02/

Let me remind the readers that the newsletter is a semi-regular one and not monthly.

Happy Reading.

Granular 1.0 now available at On-Disk

Posted Tue, 01/27/2009 - 07:27 by Anurag Bhandari

On-Disk in an online shopping place where you can purchase your favorite Linux distro burned on a CD/DVD. If you are on a slow Internet connection and cannot download the CD image of Granular, On-Disk is the way to go. You may also want to purchase a Granular CD from there to help support the Granular Project financially, as a part of the cost per CD sold is contributed toward the Granular Project by On-Disk.

To quote from On-Disk's own website:

On-Disk.com was the first Open Source product distribution service to be geared specifically to help these hard working developers pay the bills. To this day, this is our primary goal.

Order your Granular CD now:

http://on-disk.com/index.php/cPath/28_283

Granular 1.0 Released

Posted Mon, 01/19/2009 - 16:47 by Anurag Bhandari

After a long wait, Granular 1.0 is finally out. And we are pretty much excited about this release because this is the first stable Granular release since about a year, and because it's version 1, of course. This final release of Granular 1.0 brings with it solid stability, out-of-the-box usefulness, great multimedia experience, support for running Windows software, and all of this & much more in the size of a CD (livecd).