Next Generation Snakeoil Early Preview

[agent_kith]

aha,  yes installing offline as the workbench is too crowded...... no ethernet on the other side of the room.
Thanks, will have a tidy and try again....

If possible, can you tell me what packages it's trying to install? (You can expand the dialog box at the final stages to see what files are being downloaded). As long as it's not grub, it can be added to make things smoother.

 

That fixed it !   but my activation code doesn't work.....copy/paste from 0.1 series and get error

Fixed !  Reboot needed between operations.  All good now !

That error is a bug . It actually activates OK (fixed in subsequent firmware updates). Be sure to apply the latest.

Let me know if you have any issues. I've just installed this preview in my own system last night, and had a short 20 minute audition. After a few tweaks here and there (native WAV playback, set required processes to RT, kernel params, etc), and using Squeezelite + LMS, so far I reckon it's slightly better than 0.1.4 (more background depth, better imaging but perhaps a slight loss in clarity?), and thankfully better than 0.1.5 . I'm thinking the slight loss in clarity may be because I'm still rescanning my music library (48,000+ songs).

Hopefully that's the case for you too, but really there's no gurantee in this world , so YMMV.

So far things are sounding good. Pretty happy to be honest.


The decision to move to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, RESTful API and Angular seems to be paying early dividends so far.

Things seldom go this well according to plan. Looking back at the RFC thread, back in March (merely 3 months ago), honestly knew nothing about modern web development. Hopefully as my web dev skills improve, so will SnakeoilOS. One can only hope...