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New installer slated for ClearOS 6.0

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With the upcoming release of ClearOS 6.0 there will be a new graphical installer. This installer will be more flexible than previous versions and will support Linux Volume Manager (LVM) and Kickstart. These additions bring greater robustness, flexibility, and scalability to the ClearOS platform. 

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LVM allows administrators to grow and shrink partitions. Additionally, partitions can be dynamically manipulated. 

LVM Administration in ClearOS 6.0 installer

Kickstart allows administrators and system integrators to create custom installs to 'preconfigure' ClearOS with parameters, settings, and even third party applications during the install. An example of this would be an unattended VMWare server install or an installation of packages or modifications of ClearOS settings.

Lastly, as we try to improve localization and translation, we will need some new elements created in various languages. If you have previous translation experience, we need you!

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  • We should have an early alpha build for developers/translators out in the next couple of weeks.

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  • how long time for ClearOS 6.0 lounching? I'm looking for information on Clea 6.0 to test this version, Where I can download to test

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  • Thank you, All for inf.

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  • I am a faithful follower of Clear, published many positive comments about my Twitter @TecnoLibreDR

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  • I'm looking for information on Clea 6.0 to test this version, Where I can download to test

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  • Hi folks... to answer some open questions here:

    - When 6.0.0 is released, no upgrades will be supported but an upgrade pilot program will be launched, This will give the engineering team the right environment for fixing issues in the upgrade procedure. With the release of 6.0.1 or 6.0.2 (depending on the speed of the pilot), upgrades will be fully supported from ClearOS 5.1 or later.

    - When upgrading a major version, only CD/USB upgrades are available. Unfortunately, command line upgrades are not recommended (though it's usually possible to do in a pinch). Interoperability shouldn't be a problem.

    - ETA for release: somewhere between June-August. It's hard to say since we're somewhat dependent on the CentOS 6.0 release date. Internally, we'll be having another developer release in mid-April.

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  • Agreed!

    The graphical installer is a byproduct of needing LVM and kickstart. We cannot do LVM or kickstart in the installer unless we upgrade to the new anaconda sources, and what do these sources provide in addition to LVM and kickstart but a shiny graphical installer. The CLI will still be available for those that want it but I think you will still not be able to do LVM from CLI unless you do it from kickstart. It would be too time consuming to build LVM support in the CLI installer when the graphical tool already supplies this support from upstream sources.

    And as I said before, the resources allocated to the graphical interface install are NOT capable of assisting in any meaningful way to programming, testing, or prototyping new technologies on the platform. So we are not going to turn there skills or help away.

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  • Hello,

    The implementation of AFP (Apple File Server) File Server is very important, is open a many opportunities for File Server, specially for video edition and gigabit velocity in LAN, the SAMBA is very limited in velocity and maximum file size ( 4.5Gb only ), the videos files are bigs files, and necessities a velocity and space for a one single file, in RAID 5 that the Clear OS support ( great!!).

    Alessandro

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  • Thank you guys for such a great effort and OS ! :))))
    It would be much more easier if you could include an edit option for the firewall rules & port forwarding. Now to edit a rule (or port forwarding), we have to delete the existing rule and create new one.
    Thanks once again :)

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  • Will the new installer have better NIC detection? The old one was so horrible I simply never used it after trying it once. Instead I would always just assign an IP to all the NICs and then after it was fully booted I would go about identifying by running pings and pulling plugs.

    pfSense's (what I used prior to ClearOS) has a nice simple method for this during the install process.

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