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LiveCD Version x86-6.2-3 Released

Alexander E. Patrakov - 2006/09/09

The LFS LiveCD Team is proud to announce the release of the x86-6.2-3 version of the LFS LiveCD. This version is built using LFS 6.2 and many BLFS packages from the SVN branch. Source packages for LFS 6.2, and the LFS book itself, are included on the LiveCD. The CD is also suitable as a host for building x86 and x86_64 CLFS systems. Other features and bugfixes:

* The CD supports hibernation, AKA software suspend, or suspend-to-disk. This allows to save the system state to a swap partition and turn the computer off. The saved state can be completely restored later.

* The CD filesystem can be written to. The changes actually go to RAM and don't survive a reboot (but do survive hibernation).

* The CD contains a visually pleasing and easy to use window manager, Xfce.

* jhalfs-1.0, a system for autobuilding LFS according to the book, is included.

* Added Italian locals on the language configuration screen

* Now it is possible to boot even if a different CD is inserted in another drive.

* The CD no longer prints a warning about the network configuration when hibernating.

* Irssi now in understands the "/charset" command as an alias of "/recode add". So, only GAIM doesn't understand this command now on the CD.

* Lilo has been upgraded to a version that has the device mapper patch integrated.

* Keymap configuration: fixed English (GB), added Dutch (Belgium).

* Xfsprogs now works.

* The cpqarray driver is now functional (the official fix is scheduled for 2.6.16.29).

* Reiser4 filesystem support in GRUB.

* The loop-AES driver is included in the kernel.

Please mail any comments to the LFS LiveCD mailing list.

To download the new LiveCD, visit the LFS LiveCD download page for a list of mirrors.

Latest SVN Changes

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/11/13

  • Updated nano to 2.0.0
  • Upgraded dmraid
  • Removed explicit requests to load GLcore and bitmap modules. GLcore caused the X server to segfault when running any OpenGL application with indirect rendering because of symbol clash with *_dri.so (loaded by AIGLX). OpenGL is still available, because the glx module automatically loads either the relevant DRI module, or, if it is impossible, GLcore. The bitmap module is not needed because the freetype module handles the two builtin bitmap fonts well.

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/11/02

  • Added MC
  • Disabled proprietary drivers

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/11/01

  • Added patch for killproc -p
  • Updated screen
  • Finally killed warnings from the hibernation process

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/10/27

  • Made the existing pppoe setup use the standard BLFS network service framework. The setup is still based on http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/PPP

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/10/25

  • Fixed testsuite failures

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/10/24

  • Updated SHA1 sum of BLFS bootscripts
  • Downgraded to the last version of the hibernate script that doesn't have the double-execution bug. Made sure that it doesn't attempt to bring down interfaces that are already down.

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/10/23

  • Fixed rp-pppoe download location

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/10/19

  • Fixed 404 error
  • Fixed Lynx SHA1 sum
  • Updated device mapper
  • LVM2 update

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/10/18

  • Upgraded to Xorg-7.1

• Alexander Patrakov - 2006/10/16

  • Further package updates. Added lftp, switched again to full SAMBA.