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<p>Sonar GNU/Linux is an accessible distribution built off
of Manjaro. The versions of Sonar will be built off of the
current Manjaro releases. If you are a new user to
GNU/Linux you must understand that GNU/Linux is not a
replacement of proprietary operating systems but an
alternative. Since it is an alternative there are some
differences between GNU/Linux and the proprietary
operating systems. So there is going to be a small
learning curve to understand how GNU/Linux operates and is
structured. There are some similarities between the two so
it is not like you will have to start from the beginning
and forget everything you knew about the proprietary
system you are coming from. Both systems do share some
simalarities. </p>
<p>The best feature of Sonar is that it is Free software and
if you depend of assertive technology this is the best
option for you. Free software gives you 4 Freedoms that
proprietary software doesn't give you,, in fact it
restricts you. If you want to understand Free software
then visit the <a
href="http://sonar-project.org/node/www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html%20/">FSF
website</a> to understand it completely because the <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/">FSF</a> is where Free
software began.<br>
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<p>Sonar GNU/Linux is moving it's base from Ubuntu to
Manjaro. Current alpha-releases for next years release are
already based on Manjaro. I currently work hard to make
re-branded profiles for Sonar Linux fully compatible with
my development on manjaroiso. The first release of a
community supported sonarlinux-profiles package can be
found in our unstable branch.<br>
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<p>I successfully built already a test-image to find any
regressions. Here are the changes I did:<br>
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<p>- user changed from manjaro to sonar<br>
- hostname changed from manjaro to sonar<br>
- re-branding of isolinux to fit Sonar Linux needs<br>
- re-branding of filesystem to fit Sonar Linux needs<br>
- re-branding of cli-installer to fit Sonar Linux needs<br>
- thus fully supports new re-branding structure<br>
- custom wallpapers to fit Sonar Linux needs<br>
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<p>Known issues:<br>
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<p>- somehow volume is muted on startup (wanted to be this
way?)<br>
- normal bugs also to been found on Manjaro<br>
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<p>Please test and adjust that profile in the upstream
branch of sonariso. Flashback I didn' touched yet since I
recommend to focus on gnome-sonar profile first. Also take
a look at shared-sonar base profile to find differences to
share base profile of Manjaro.<br>
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<p>kind regards and happy hacking<br>
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<p>Philip Müller<br>
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Manjaro Lead-Developer <br>
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