Porteus-v1.2rc1 32bit ready for testing
Posted: 20 Feb 2012, 19:03
Rebuilt entire TDE base under porteus v1.1 final (slackware 13.37). Trinity has changed quite a bit, most importantly the base packages moved from a 'k' prefix to a 't' prefix to allow compatibility with KDE4 (not available in this version). Example: startkde is now starttde.
Home folder is now $HOME/.trinity and symlinks were made for .kde and .kde3 to cover all scenarios.
/boot folder:
- updated syslinux to version 4.05
- extilinux is recompiled againt uClibc and linked statically (size reduced from 260KB to 60KB)
- removed /boot/syslinux/syslinux as extlinux supports FAT filesystem as well
- fixed broken /boot/pxelinux.cfg/default menu
- updated /boot/lin_start_here.sh:
a) removed syslinux installation option
b) dropped unused 'update' function
- busybox is recompiled against new uClibc library patched for support for more than 256 loop devices/xzm modules (thanks to uClibc dev team for the patch). no need for carrying glibc based initrd for that purpose
- added support for encrypted .dat containers to linuxrc
- linuxrc will symlink /modules /and /optional folders from booting device to /mnt/live/porteus folder. these symlink can be used by PPM (or any other app) in case of booting on PC's with different drive configuration.
Porteus folder
- updated to firefox-10.0 (with duckduckgo as default search engine)
- added various tweaks for XFCE support across whole system (thanks to Ahau)
- rc.6 will detach unused loop devices during shutdown/reboot.
- added xterm fix to /etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources (thanks to bigbass)
- porteus scripts:
a) updated many scripts for not using liblinuxlive anymore
b) added support for encrypted .dat containers to mloop utility
c) various tweaks to activate/deactivate scripts. they work much faster and it should be possible to activate many modules at time without any restrictions.
d) fixed 'update_module' tool which deals with files only and not folders
e) added new cheatcode: 'volume=' to /opt/porteus-scripts/paths for setting volume after login into GUI
f) fixed 'kmap=' cheatcode implemented in /opt/porteus-scripts/paths (thanks to Blaze for bug report)
- added statically linked /sbin/cryptsetup to 000-kernel.xzm required for encryption of the .dat containers
Other changes:
The previous symlinks /tmp/.terminal /tmp/.browser & /tmp/.wmanager have been replaced by /opt/porteus-scripts/browser, /opt/porteus-scripts/terminal & /opt/porteus-scripts/fmanager scripts. A more elegant solution by fanthom.
Avahi has been added and will be started during boot. Porteus now supports zeroconf! (wread suggestion)
Added gnupg
Audacious has been replaced by noatun
koffice has been replaced by abiword but koffice can be downloaded from the 'office' menu (not functional in rc1)
The standard pdf reader is now epdfview and is available in trinity/lxde (Arabic_world suggestion)
The standard calculator is now gcalc and is available in trinity/lxde
Krandrtray was broken in trinity and is replaced by zarfy
Added kuser manager
Added kcron
Added Kmyfirewall
Added kgpg manager
Added Kffontviewer
Added Kdiskfree
Added Ktimer
Added various games
Gnome player is the default media player kplayer has been removed
k3b has been rebuilt and will now rip DVD's. (ripping indinidual titles is still broken)
Headers are no longer exported to 007-devel module and remain in the respective modules.
Suggestions or bugs?
Feel free to rant, rave or offer useful suggestions in this thread. All genuine Trinity bugs will be reported upstream as development is still in progress. Please be sure to boot into fresh mode with no extra modules before posting a bug report. It would be nice to see the bug duplicated on some other machine too.
Have fun
Home folder is now $HOME/.trinity and symlinks were made for .kde and .kde3 to cover all scenarios.
/boot folder:
- updated syslinux to version 4.05
- extilinux is recompiled againt uClibc and linked statically (size reduced from 260KB to 60KB)
- removed /boot/syslinux/syslinux as extlinux supports FAT filesystem as well
- fixed broken /boot/pxelinux.cfg/default menu
- updated /boot/lin_start_here.sh:
a) removed syslinux installation option
b) dropped unused 'update' function
- busybox is recompiled against new uClibc library patched for support for more than 256 loop devices/xzm modules (thanks to uClibc dev team for the patch). no need for carrying glibc based initrd for that purpose
- added support for encrypted .dat containers to linuxrc
- linuxrc will symlink /modules /and /optional folders from booting device to /mnt/live/porteus folder. these symlink can be used by PPM (or any other app) in case of booting on PC's with different drive configuration.
Porteus folder
- updated to firefox-10.0 (with duckduckgo as default search engine)
- added various tweaks for XFCE support across whole system (thanks to Ahau)
- rc.6 will detach unused loop devices during shutdown/reboot.
- added xterm fix to /etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources (thanks to bigbass)
- porteus scripts:
a) updated many scripts for not using liblinuxlive anymore
b) added support for encrypted .dat containers to mloop utility
c) various tweaks to activate/deactivate scripts. they work much faster and it should be possible to activate many modules at time without any restrictions.
d) fixed 'update_module' tool which deals with files only and not folders
e) added new cheatcode: 'volume=' to /opt/porteus-scripts/paths for setting volume after login into GUI
f) fixed 'kmap=' cheatcode implemented in /opt/porteus-scripts/paths (thanks to Blaze for bug report)
- added statically linked /sbin/cryptsetup to 000-kernel.xzm required for encryption of the .dat containers
Other changes:
The previous symlinks /tmp/.terminal /tmp/.browser & /tmp/.wmanager have been replaced by /opt/porteus-scripts/browser, /opt/porteus-scripts/terminal & /opt/porteus-scripts/fmanager scripts. A more elegant solution by fanthom.
Avahi has been added and will be started during boot. Porteus now supports zeroconf! (wread suggestion)
Added gnupg
Audacious has been replaced by noatun
koffice has been replaced by abiword but koffice can be downloaded from the 'office' menu (not functional in rc1)
The standard pdf reader is now epdfview and is available in trinity/lxde (Arabic_world suggestion)
The standard calculator is now gcalc and is available in trinity/lxde
Krandrtray was broken in trinity and is replaced by zarfy
Added kuser manager
Added kcron
Added Kmyfirewall
Added kgpg manager
Added Kffontviewer
Added Kdiskfree
Added Ktimer
Added various games
Gnome player is the default media player kplayer has been removed
k3b has been rebuilt and will now rip DVD's. (ripping indinidual titles is still broken)
Headers are no longer exported to 007-devel module and remain in the respective modules.
Suggestions or bugs?
Feel free to rant, rave or offer useful suggestions in this thread. All genuine Trinity bugs will be reported upstream as development is still in progress. Please be sure to boot into fresh mode with no extra modules before posting a bug report. It would be nice to see the bug duplicated on some other machine too.
Have fun