A photography centric operating system
We have now started working on the new Ubuntu release, 24.04 Noble, this is a LTS release and will be supported for many years.All the repositories we are using for some of our chosen packages are not up yet for 24.04 so we are dependent of those repositories, as such we are considering if we … Continue reading Started work on the 24.04 Noble release
There is a bug where the systray is not always being loaded, it turns out to be a problem with the fact that another indicator application is being loaded in the background and that package needs to be removed to both get system notifications being logged and to get the systray to properly being loaded.To … Continue reading Fixing the no systray bug.
We have now released focuspoint-linux beta 2 (filename: focuspoint-linux-2024.04.12-b14-minimal-amd64.iso)As usual you can download it by going to our sourceforge profile.There is a lot of changes in the beta 2, here are some of them. Features: - Gimp: GIMP (/ɡɪmp/ GHIMP), is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image … Continue reading focuspoint-linux beta 2 released.
So, you’ve heard about Linux, an operating system that’s both free (as in open source) and costs nothing. Maybe you’ve wondered whether Linux is suitable for photography or photographers. Regardless, your curiosity has led you here, and you want to explore photography on Linux and assess its viability as an OS for your creative endeavors. … Continue reading Photography on Linux: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Open Source
We have now decided to post logs of our packages in our forums.This is so you can easily keep track of what's happening to our packages when.Right now there is only details from our most recent changelogs, and we will not backtrack, mostly because that brings little meaning.You can read the package logs by going … Continue reading Package Logs
The beta for focuspoint linux Q1b1 is now released.First of all, this is beta, back up your files before even trying out a live session!There's been quite a few changes from the alpha to the beta, they where all necessary.There's really to many changes to list them all, but here are some of them:* Added … Continue reading The beta is out!
We are hard at work finalizing our beta build.We had some pesky problems finding what was causing a ui problem, we seem to have found the issue and has corrected it. Now all that remains is further testing before the beta will be released
We are now finally in the alpha state (no longer in pre-alpha)We would like to thank everyone who has tried the pre-alpha! We really appreciate it! The newest release focuspoint-2024.03.30-a0053-minimal-amd64.iso can be downloaded from here About focuspoint linux: focuspoint Linux is a Xfce4 distro/respin designed for Photographers: professional or amateurs.You can use this operating system … Continue reading New release – Alpha!
We have just uploaded our newest iso, dowload it here.Changes: Added: libopenraw7 panel-aplet thunar-dropbox-plugin focuspoint-linux-art gnome-package-updater gnome-packagekit-common package-update-indicator libnautilus-extension4 nautilus-dropbox thunar-dropbox-plugin Added Repo: https://launchpad.net/~tertitten/+archive/ubuntu/focuspoint-linux it's not many new packages released there yet as we are holding back a few, ether way, this is where our own packages will reside.We have also tweaked some more files, … Continue reading New updated image uploaded
Hello and welcome to Focuspoint-Linux.orgThis is our very first post here on this site, so I guess a little introduction of what Focus Point Linux is are in order.Focus Point Linux is a Xfce4 distro/respin designed for Photographers, professional or amateurs/hobbyists.This project is based on Xubuntu, we have added quite a few packages to make … Continue reading Site is up!
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