Announcing the release of Triance OS 1.0-BETA

From: zariss (press-cz_at_trianceware-dot-com.no-spam.invalid)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 31 Aug 2004 13:23:58 -0500

Announcing the release of Triance OS 1.0-BETA

August 23rd 2004 (The Internet) - After years of researched and
development, Triance Development Team proudly announced the first
Beta released to the public. The Operating System based product
offers variety of open source application bundled up with core system
for users that really want the freedom of usage, re-development and
cost effective towards the world globalizations era. Deriving from
FreeBSD, a proven OS for the stability and excellent performance it
is being redeveloped again towards achieving the stability, quality,
simplicity and variety for the desktops environment users.

As this is the beta version, users are allowed to download the OS at
www.trianceware.com upon registrations. The advantage for the pioneer
user, they will be given a free access to the Triance Tivity. Triance
Tivity is one of the added features that have being designed to gain
an extra edge in differentiating it from the competitors.

The BETA version of the TrianceOS operating system is now available as
of 23rd August 2004. Triance OS 1.0-BETA is a derivation from world
known operating system, FreeBSD version 5.2.1 with the latest patch
9. It is a FIRST beta release for users worldwide.

The TrianceOS 1.0-BETA distribution consists of the full TrianceOS
binary releases for 12 different ports category including the X.Org
(the new X Window System), and the 175 of TrianceOS Package
Collection. Complete source code also available through our website.
Registrations are FREE and users are entitled to get the
distribution.

About TrianceOS

The TrianceOS operating system is a full-featured, open source,
UNIX-like operating system descended from FreeBSD 5.2.1 with patch 9.
Currently, TrianceOS runs on Intel i386
(386/486/586/686/Pentium/Pentium Pro/Pentium II/Pentium III/Pentium
IV/Xeon/Celeron/Pentium-M/AMD/Cyrix) architectures featuring 1
machine architectures across 12 distinct CPU families, and will be
ported to different architecture sooner. The TrianceOS 1.0-BETA
release contains complete binary releases only for Intel
Architecture.

TrianceOS is a highly integrated system. In addition to its highly
portable, high performance kernel and derivation from FreeBSD,
TrianceOS features a complete set of user utilities, compilers for
several languages, the X Window System, kernel firewall software and
numerous other tools build especially on top of GUI (Graphical User
Interface), all accompanied by full source code. The TrianceOS
Packages Collection contains over 175 pre-compiled open source
software binary packages and thousands of softwares available around
the world to be compiled sooner.

Currently, Triance OS is free for beta testing. Well be glad to
have volunteers of beta testers for us to maintain the operating
system to the best performance and encourage more users to enhance
the OS.
Development on TrianceOS

Sysinstall Installation

* Please refer to Installations User Manual to get the ideas of
sysinstall system that we have modified. This includes cutting off
user installation configurations into less than 6-7 steps as the
default steps from FreeBSD will be more than 15.

Default pre-compilations
* Core system
* Third party packages

System

* Added Auto Mounting Daemon (AMD) for automatically mounting
CD/DVD-ROM
* Enabling default rc.conf configurations
* Enabling splash screen on system startup.

X-Windows System

* Replacement of XFree86 to X.Org X-Windows System in /usr/ports/

xorg-clients (previously XFree86-clients)
xorg-libraries (previously XFree86-libraries)
xorg-fonts-100dpi (previously XFree86-font100dpi)
xorg-fonts-75dpi (previously XFree86-font75dpi)
xorg-fonts-cyrillic (previously XFree86-fontCyrillic)
xorg-fonts-encodings (previously XFree86-fontEncodings)
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps (previously XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps)
xorg-fonts-truetype (previously XFree86-fontScalable)
xorg-fonts-type1 (previously XFree86-fontScalable)
xorg-fontserver (previously XFree86-FontServer)
xorg-printserver (previously XFree86-PrintServer)
xorg-server (previously XFree86-Server)
xorg-vfbserver (previously XFree86-VirtualFramebufferServer)

KDE Desktop Manager (Base from KDE 3.2.3)

a) KDELIBS

* Customizing programs path in application menu.

b) KDEBASE

* Added new image file KDE
* Edited code for KDM to enabling automatic shutdown

* Disabling some unused default applications for KDEBASE.
* Modifications of splash screen on startup
* Installing new themes as the default for KDE.

3rd party software packages:
        
* Edited all and enabling auto packages installation/extraction
visible on desktop after extractions. Note that, TrianceOS 1.0-BETA
includes 175 of software packages and there will be 175 of pkg-plist
files to be edited.
* Major 3rd party software available:
* kdeaccessibility-3.2.3
* openoffice-1.1.1
* linux_base-7.1_7
* wine-20040505
* kdegames-3.2.3
* kdegraphics-3.2.3
* xchat2-2.0.10
* thunderbird-0.7
* kdeutils-3.2.3
* kaffeine-0.4.3b
* kdemultimedia-3.2.3
* xmms-esound-1.2.10
* gaim-0.79
* k3b-0.11.9_1
* kdeadmin-3.2.3
* firefox-0.9.1
* kdebase-3.2.3
* kdelibs-3.2.3_1
* xorg-6.7.0
* And some other dependencies and libraries needed for the
applications above.

Filesystems:

* Modification on device files system to permit mostly on CD-ROM
devices (to be use with K3b)

X-Windows System:

* Based on X.Org 6.7.0 X-Windows System
* Enabling automatic X on startup with a default xorg.conf
configuration.

Availability:

Triance OS 1.0-BETA supports the i386 architecture and can be
installed through ISO CD Files. Distributions for this architecture
are available now at:

http://www.trianceware.com

Press Contact:

press@trianceware.com

Support:

http://www.trianceware.com/support.php

Trademarks Notices:

Triance and Triance OS are trademark of Triance Mutiara Industries Sdn
Bhd. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of FreeBSD Project. Linux is a
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. UNIX is a registered
trademark of The Open Group. All other trademarks and copyrights
referred to in this announcement are the property of their respective
owners.