All you guys must have noticed that our forums had been quite, in terms of activity, since some days not. Same has been the case on the development front. With me an Chris being busy with their respective “other” jobs. Although Chris was able to get a successful build of the latest 2.6.26 series kernel, the testing revealed that it had some issues. So, Chris is going to work on the .26 kernel again, and hopefully we’ll get a working build soon.
As for me, I had been busy in my internship and some other exam preps. That’s the reason I was not able to update the repo since a long time, which I intend to do soon.
Anyway, one thing is clear that we were not able to release Granular 1.0 final in the last month, which was the expected time according to our road map. Another thing to be noted here is that it seems it will take some more time to get to the release date, as I have a tight and packed schedule in front of me in the coming days. Same’s the case with Chris too.
And as usual, Gemini was the catalyst at our forums since the last few days. We all saw him indulging in his “newly-found” interest of RPM packaging and coming up with some quality RPMs, and, at the same time, some artwork too (which is his favorite task). 
We’ll try our best to make the release as soon as possible. Let’s hope everything gets back to the previous pace soon.
Filed under General, Development and Status. | | Anurag Bhandari
Due to heavy and tight schedules of the developers and some technical difficulties (particularly related to shifting the codebase of Granular Control Center to the latest perl 5.10), the release of Granular 1.0 RC (Release Candidate) will be delayed yet again by around 10 days from the previously expected date, according to our road map. We apologize to the users awaiting this release. We’ll try our best to make the release possible in June itself.
Thanks for bearing with us this far. 
Filed under General. | | Anurag Bhandari
Yup, the work has already begun for the release candidate of Granular 1.0. That’s after 2 times missing the release schedule. Team Granular apologizes for missing the dates, which was primarily due to the unavailability of the main devs (including me) for RC’s development due to their commitment towards their other jobs/tasks.
The road map for Granular 1.0 has been updated. View it here.
For the past one week, we had been busy updating the RPM packages for our repository in preparation for the RC release. As soon as all the packages are finished updating, the ISO will be prepared which will then be released after a few days. So, you could expect the RC release announcement sometime in the first week of June.
Granular 1.0 RC will host a number of updates and changes as compared to our previous Preview release. So, stay tuned for it. It wouldn’t be long after the RC release when the final Granular 1.0 release comes out.
We have come to know that meanwhile the PCLinuxOS team is also preparing for the first beta of PCLinuxOS 2008. We all here wish them luck for the new release, probably one of the most awaited release of the year 2008.
Filed under General and Development. | | Anurag Bhandari
This time around, the development of Granular’s next 1.0 RC (Release Candidate) release had been really slow. The primary reasons again being the busy schedules of the devs in their day-to-day lives.
The last week saw some new updates in the Granular repository. The main packages updated being amarok, drakxtools and drakconf. Our 2008 repository has now about 350 packages in total. So, slowly and steadily (depending upon the needs), the repository is expanding. As we get more RPM packagers, the speed of this expansion would certainly increase.
Meanwhile, Paul (aka Gemini) came up with some cool artwork, the main being the Blue Moon set of artwork, which includes themed KDM login screen, KSplash theme and desktop wallpaper. He also added pre-Esto Vox artwork on our artwork website. Some previous interesting artwork added were the Endless Fields set of artwork.
To download these cool artwork, visit our artwork website - GRANUMINATI.
Filed under General, Development and Granuminati. | | Anurag Bhandari
A few days ago, geminiguy proposed an idea of having a name for our artwork team (a part of Team Granular). Sure it was a nice idea and so, all the moderators and admins at Granular Community Forums were invited to take part in the discussion to come up with an appealing name.
Well, some good names came up, like VisiVox, Arse, EyeStorm, ShapeShifters, Luminati, and so on… These were the suggestions of the other mods. When I had a look at the last name, that I mentioned in the previous line, it just seemed to appeal me a lot. As next was my turn to give a suggestion, I came up with the name Granuminati, meaning:
Granular + luminati = Granuminati
This suggestion struck the rest of the mods and everyone agreed to it. And here we are, finally, with a nice name for our cute artwork team.
(The name Granuminati not to be confused with an ancient secret society Illuminati 
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Filed under General and Granuminati. | | Anurag Bhandari
As always it’s nice to get a fair and honest review. But with the review, we have to take into consideration the bugs that were reported as well. The review is located here.
http://www.linux.com/feature/130941
Also in response to the sound problems reported on our forum. There will be a new kernel available later tonight or tomorrow. The kernel is updated with several sound patches and I believe will solve some of the issue reported.
Also noted in the review was an interest in the Granular Control Center. The control center is based off of the Mandriva Control Center. We have a new version being built now, and have a testing version available in our repository. This new version includes some updates, and will have an OS-K icon set to match our default theme. Screenshots and information can be found in a post on our forum. We will also look into adding in some version information for our version of drakconf. More than likely in the about screen.
http://www.granularlinux.com/forum/index.php?topic=567.0
These updates and several other updated packages will be available for the next beta or rc release.
Filed under General. | | chriszurawski
It’s been about 20 days since the release of Granular 1.0 Preview, Granular’s latest LiveCD avatar. Though it was a bit late but a welcoming thing to get a review from linux.com, one of the leading Linux sites.
Check out the nice and honest review of Granular 1.0’s preview release here:
http://www.linux.com/feature/130941
We thank the author of the review for highlighting the points we need to work upon in the next release. We have noted all those points down and will surely try to iron out all the issues.
Filed under Review. | | Anurag Bhandari
The previous week saw some slowness on the development front, the primary reason being me & Chris being busy with their respective works. But Chris surely was able to take out some time for the packaging stuff and made a handful of RPMs last week.
Among the most notable changes, we added these packages to our repo:
1. K3-D 0.6.7.0
2. VLC 0.8.6e
3. Python 2.5
4. Metabar 0.8
Continue reading ‘On-going development round-up’
Filed under General and Development. | | Anurag Bhandari
Granular Linux Preview 1.0 Released
On March 14, 2008 the first preview of Granular 1.0 was released. And I would like to offer thanks and congratulations to all of the developers at Team Granular.
On behalf of Team Granular we would like to also offer a special thanks to
LinuxTracker
http://linuxtracker.org/index.php
Especially, mcangeli and johncoom
DistroWatch
http://distrowatch.com/
ibiblio
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
And lastly our members. Especially the members that stepped up to help seed the release.
CCR
HarryS
fire-storm
And if I missed anyone please visit the topic on our forum.
http://www.granularlinux.com/forum/index.php?topic=476.0
Continue reading ‘Granular 1.0 Preview (Released)’
Filed under General. | | chriszurawski
NOTE: This article does not mention all the applications included in Granular FunWorks 2007. The actual number of software applications in FW2007 is greater than mentioned here.
Enjoy
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With all the fun stuff packed in the DVD, you’ll never run out of tools that let you enjoy, and that’s for sure. With 4 action-packed desktop environments, you’ll love using Linux like never before. KDE, XFCE, Enlightenment, and Looking Glass are the chosen ones to never let you get bored. In addition to these, there are other applications and utilities to let you customize your system in the way you want it to be.
Get Internet-ized
Communication is as easy as cutting a piece of cake. Surf the Internet your way using Firefox, Flock, or Opera. Chat with your friends through Pidgin, Skype, or Kopete. Download your content using MultiGet, Azureus, or KGet. Upload your content using gFTP and FileZilla. Easily connect to remote computers and share data over the local/remote networks. Send & receive emails using Thunderbird and KMail. Subscribe to newsfeeds using Akregator, RSSOwl.
Get Entertained
Granular FunWorks 2007 offers out-of-the-box support for multimedia playback. Through the various applications, it can play virtually any media format existing on Earth. The all-time favorites, like VLC Player, MPlayer and Xine form the most versatile players for Linux. There can play almost any type of video as well as audio for you. And then we have Amarok, XMMS, RealPlayer as the main stream audio players. Picasa and digiKam can easily manage your vast or small image/photo/picture collection. A TV tuner card owner can also watch TV channels through TVTime.
Continue reading ‘Granular FunWorks 2007 (The One Stop Distribution)’
Filed under General. | | Anurag Bhandari
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