Hi all! The new release is finally out! It features kernel 2.6.33.1 + glibc 2.11 r1. All the "suspended" drivers were reintegrated as the latest versions would compile cleanly. Some packages have been added, most notably pbzip2 to make bzip2 scale on multicore systems. Btrfs progs has been included as a live ebuild, to allow…
Read onHi all! Four months have passed since last update, I shall shortly summarize what happened during this time: a lot of updates to the server: kernel 2.6.32 + grsec, glibc 2.11, gcc 4.4 now running on ~amd64 gentoo removal of a lot of cruft from the server: unused users, applications, databases, configuration files etc shifted…
Read onHi all! Working on the liveCDs last week seemed to be quite less problematic than usual. I'm happy to annouce a full rewrite of the mkstage script (called mkstage2). It is much more reliable and much less complicated, I've also splitted the source files to little separate scripts which work on much lesser data. As…
Read onHi all! First of all sorry for the long absence, it's been a very busy month. Anyway, I've got a bunch of news: worked on automatic stage rebuilding, all should work as expected. You will find the stages in experimental FTP directory (now building new stages for i686, later for amd64). Please note that those…
Read onHi, all! I'm happy to announce the revision bump of the April release. I've been following a request from kernelOfTruth and Jupiter1TX to have the USB and HID modules builtin, so to have USB keyboards properly working (genkernel bug?) and that has been done (thanks goes out to kernelOfTruth and Jupiter1TX for the testing the…
Read onHi all, guys! Been working on the release in the weekend. The snapshot it is built against is 2009 04 03 evening. I'm aware of no critical feature update since then. There are some improvements: some visible, some other invisible. About the former: xfsprogs has been updated to version 3.0.0 + xfsdump has been included…
Read onHi all! Just a quick update to notify about the status of the works. 2.6.29 kernel has been released last week, and reiser4 patches are finally available. I've still got three main reasons, though, to delay a bit more this release: if you look at the the kernel Changelog, the git one, you'll find out…
Read onHi all! It's been quite long since last post. Anyway, exams at university have ended, and I finally have some time to build the new release. Lately my main concerns were headed to gcc 4.3.3, which had to be re emerged twice on my currently working systems to function properly. Luckily everything went fine, and…
Read onAlright! December release is ready and published! For a full feature list have a look at the current feature set, or the ChangeLog. It would be completely pointless to list them all here. Interesting updates include: reintegration of madwifi drivers + tools and keymap selection fix. About the latter: the first release included a buggy…
Read onHi all! As you've seen the template has been changed again. This is the ultimate solution for clearer reading (this one scales to the optimal page width). Also, some sections have been reorganized (look, font size) and the overlay section has been completed. I'm currently working on the new release. My will was to update…
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