About Pioneer Warrior

Warrior is a leap ahead in the development of Linux based operating systems. With a longer lifecycle and better base, it's what we've and everyone has been asking us for. It also forms the base for Pioneer Explorer and Pioneer Basic.

Warrior's first Pre-Alpha is a Debian testing system on a Live CD with changes made to the ISO to include some applications, including OpenOffice and others, and a full GNOME desktop.

Of course the best option would be to use a CD for Warrior, but for the 64-bit version that might not be possible. Remember the 64-bit version not only has to have 64-bit libraries, but 32-bit ones as well. Warrior on CD will be available only for the 32-bit version and server versions.

Yes, the rule is under 1 GB which shouldn't be difficult at all. Also the Pioneer Release 5 Series, which is at least 4 or 5 years away, will probably be DVD only for both 32 and 64 bit editions.

Repo layout:

Repositories are identified as Tomahawk: http://tomahawk.technalign.org and http://tomahawk.technalign.com for certain repositories and when brought to the Pioneer Basic Release 4 series.

main - supported free software, meets FSF and Debian free software guidelines. The only exception are drivers, they only have to meet FSF free software guidelines. Should Technalign trademarks also be an exception?

drivers - supported drivers, doesn't have to meet FSF or Debian free software guidelines.

firmware - supported firmware, doesn't have to meet FSF or Debian free software guidelines.

unsupported - unsupported software, meets FSF free software guidelines, but doesn't have to meet Debian guidelines.

cowboy (free) - supported software, meets FSF guidelines but doesn't have to meet Debian guidelines.

cowgirl (non-free) - supported software, doesn't have to meet FSF or Debian free software guidelines.

wrangler (commercial) - supported software, doesn't have to meet FSF or Debian free software guidelines, this software is non-free as in beer.

jailhouse - contains software that hasn't yet settled in a particular repo

The three distros: Warrior, Explorer and Basic (Basic will be renamed on the Release 4 series)

Warrior - Community driven, no commercial support, constantly rolling, based on Debian Testing.

Explorer - Community/Commercial driven, limited commercial support, 3-4 year lifespan, based on Debian Stable/Pioneer Warrior.

Basic - Commercial driven, full commercial support, 3-4 standard lifespan with a 7 seven year extended lifespan, based on Pioneer Explorer.

For those that are wondering the 3-4 years standard lifespan on Basic is for update releases. Stuff will be backported for those 3-4 years and after that it will only be security and bug fixes for the remainder of the 7 years of life.

Coming: