Last month, BlankOn, a Indonesian GNU/Linux distro and computer operating system, represented by release coordinator Slamet Santoso launched Alpha Development version of XII Verbeek after the previous version XI Uluwatu released three years ago. BlankOn was featured on Ubuntu Buzz for years (see here, here, and here) then seemed to be dormant since 2018 but this year it proves it's alive. This Alpha 1 version can already be downloaded by anyone and the team invites all to report issues, bugs, and errors to improve the development. Most notable changes are the switch to GNOME from Manokwari as the user interface as well as Calamares as the system installer replacing Partoedi among other changes. BlankOn users also got a new bootloader displaying all historical codenames. Finally, this invitation is mainly for people who know or willing to learn Indonesian language.
Announcement:
https://groups.google.com/g/blankon-dev/c/Adqp-NSWQMA
Release notes:
https://blankon.id/berita/2021/04/29/catatan-rilis-blankon-12-alpha-1.html
Distrowatch News:
considered dormant, no news at the moment
Download:
https://cdimage.blankonlinux.or.id/blankon/rilis/verbeek/Alpha-1/
Reporting issues:
https://lapor.blankon.id (user interface is in Indonesian)
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