CAELinux 2013 beta-1 FINALLY

Dear All,

I have a Great news: (especially considering that 2013 is close to an end )

FINALLY I have managed to finish the packaging of all the core software for CAELinux 2013 AND to build a first ISO image for testing !!
Moreover, for those of you who would like to transform an standard Ubuntu install into CAELinux, I have written an automated installation script called CAELinuxify-Me.sh that does the job (under testing, so be carefull..)

You can find all this here: sourceforge.net/projects/caelinux/files/CAELinux2013/

Here is a short description of the content of this BETA 1 release:

PLEASE NOTE THAT CAELINUX 2013 IS IN THE BETA PHASE I.E FOR TESTING PURPOSE ONLY

In the present folder, you will find the current beta version of CAELinux 2013 ISO image and an automated installation script called CAELinuxify-Me.sh

CAELinux2013-beta1.iso:

This is an ISO image of a bootable DVD (can also go on USB flash disks) based on Xubuntu 12.04 AMD64 with all latest updates and all CAELinux core packages installed:
Salome-Meca 2013.1, Code-Aster 11.3 MPI, Calculix 2.5 Multithreaded, Elmer 6.2 MPI, Code-Saturne 3.0 MPI, OpenFOAM 2.1.1 with Engrid, HelyxOS and Discretizer front-ends and many many more.
A key novelty of this new release is to provide a complete CAD-CAM solution with Freecad, PyCam (improved version 0.6), OpenSCAM as well as all tools needed to do 3D printing (OpenSCAD, Meshlab, Cura) and PCB design and milling (GEDA, Kicad, Pcb2Gcode, CadPy, DXF2GCode, Inkscape Gcodetools).

This is the first beta release and it may still contain a few bugs (please report on www.caelinux.com forums or bugtracker at caelinux.sf.net).

CAELinuxify-Me.sh

This shell script transforms an existing Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 (or any compatible derivative) into a full CAELinux 2013 installation.
Be CAREFULL with this script as it has not been extensivelly tested and does not come with an UNDO function...
However, its behaviour is simple to understand and so you might be able to fix issues manually.
What this script does is fairly straightforward: 1) add CAELinux 2013 testing repository, 2) install 3rd party repositories (OpenFOAM, cae-team ppa, freecad ppa..) 3) run apt-get install with a LONG list of packages (about 6Gb download, 20Gb installed !!)
Please note that by default, the script will also modify the theme of the login screen and change the look and feel for new users.
This script can be edited to narrow the selection of packages or disable some options.

Once again, this is intendend for testing purpose at the present stage (but it was used to generate the ISO image above).

Good job, well done.

/C

Dear All,

first of all, I send you all my best wishes for 2014!!

I have not managed to keep the 31th december 2013 deadline for the release of CAELinux2013, but nevermind: the most important is that today I think that I have fixed all the outstanding issues and generated what I consider the final beta version before release (i.e release candidate) of the distribution.

Many small bugs have been fixed and the biggest change is that now we are using an authenticated package repository ("stable" branch) which allows you to install CAELinux updates in the same standard way as Ubuntu updates. The repository is now compatible with Ubuntu Software center as well.

Downloads are open here:
sourceforge.net/projects/caelinux/files/CAELinux2013/

Please, let me know if you experience a problem and test it as much as possible... I would like to publicly release it in about a week if no issue is found in the meantime.

Best Regards

Joel

Just an update: there was a problem synchronizing the packages between my development machine to sourceforge stable repository.. I am re-uploading all packages so the repository may be partially broken for about one and 1/2 day...don't worry if you get an error mentionning that the packages don't have the correct size, it is being fixed.