Please read the changelog below for specifics.
You can download the 64-bit edition here:
Download 64-bit Porteus
And the 32-bit edition here:
Download 32-bit Porteus
There have been vast improvements since our Version 1.0 release which can be tracked through our forums. Here are the main changes:
- Kernel & Boot:
- upgraded to kernel 3.1.8 with BFS scheduler + ASPM patch
- upgraded ndiswrapper to latest stable version
- dropped broadcom driver as the kernel supports most devices
- utilities and libraries inside initrd are recompiled against uClibc
- optimized boot scripts: cache functions are run only when extra modules are found
- statically compiled 32-bit lilo, syslinux and extlinux
- switched default runlevel to 4
vga-detect
-discovers your GPU and loads the proprietary driver from /optional folder
kmap
-specifies the preferred keyboard layout
mopt
-lets you change default filesystem mount options
nonetwork
-disables your network connections
For more details on cheatcodes please read the cheatcodes.txt document found in the boot folder of the Porteus ISO or read the online documentation:
Cheatcode documentation can be found here.
Userland:
- - switched whole system to UTF-8
- upgrades to kde (64bit), lxde & firefox (Fanthom & thanks to Ponce)
- kde-4 memory usage reduced from 340MB to 250MB by removing nepomuk and it's dependencies (Fanthom)
- enabled automounting of devices by default in LXDE
- pcmanfm shows internal volumes by default
- modified default mount options in linuxrc: added 'nodiratime' and removed 'users' so guest (and other unpriviliged users) will not be able to unmount/mount internal drives
- porteus .sgn file is named as 'porteus-v1.1-$ARCH.sgn' (Kriss suggestion)
- new version of 'Porteus Package Manager' with many new features (Brokenman)
- latest 'Porteus Settings Centre' (Hamza)
- new 'Porteus Installer' (Brokenman)
- removed some 'system' menu entries that are now handled by other apps
- updated boot/docs and USB INSTALLATION.TXT file (Ahau)
- eyecandy: new wallpapers, themes, icons etc..
The Porteus developers would like to thank everybody involved in creating, testing and using Porteus. This includes family as at times our obsession takes us away from real life. Many thanks to Ahau for maintaining documentation and beta testing. Thanks also go out to Ponce, Hamza, Beny, Wread and all other members that contributed in any way.