Porteus-1.1-rc1-x86_64 is ready for testing
Posted: 19 Oct 2011, 18:28
As promised i have uploaded 64bit rc1 for testing. You can find the ISO with usual set of drivers in following folder:
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/testing/ ... -v1.1-rc1/
ISO contains linux kernel 3.1-rc10, updated graphic stack and various packages (still comaptible with Slackware-13.37).
Init scripts are optimized to maximum so you will experience fastest booting possible. We have switched to UTF-8 by default. Kde-4.7.2 is stripped down from nepomuk and rebuilt with new gcc flags so memory usage measured straight after boot went down from 340MB (Porteus 1.0) to 250MB (Porteus 1.1 rc1). libraries and utilities from initrd are compiled against uClibc insted of glibc to get smaller size and extra speed. We have latest version of "Porteus Package Manager" by brokenman and "Porteus Settings Centre" by Hamza - thanks guys for the contribution. Many other improvements are mentioned in detailed changelog:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... c33dc210ae
Give it a shot and let me know about any issues you find.
Tomorrow i'm going to send all updates to brokenman so 32bit release should follow very soon.
KNOWN BUGS
- ndiswrapper did not compile with 3.1-rc10 kernel so is not present, need to find a patch before final
- LXDE: xarchiver still segfaults when creating uncompressed tar archives
- LXDE: raw qt apps (smplayer, qmmp) looks ugly when started after any KDE app (kpaint, dolphin, etc..). qt theme issue? i have no idea how to fix it - help is welcome. (SOLVED - as per Ahau findings)
- LXDE: sometimes after relogin, transparency set on the taskbar messes up whole bottom bar. the only fix is to disable transparency completely. will do for FINAL if users finds it annoying.
- KDE-4.7.2: battery applet is always hidden. shows up only when battery is charging, discussion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/plasma-deve ... 15890.html
- KDE-4.7.2: kickoff "return" bar is missing
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274489
- KDE-4.7.2: sometimes "smooth-tasks" plasmoids does not remove icons of the applications which are closed. upstream bug.
Regards,
fanthom
http://ponce.cc/porteus/x86_64/testing/ ... -v1.1-rc1/
ISO contains linux kernel 3.1-rc10, updated graphic stack and various packages (still comaptible with Slackware-13.37).
Init scripts are optimized to maximum so you will experience fastest booting possible. We have switched to UTF-8 by default. Kde-4.7.2 is stripped down from nepomuk and rebuilt with new gcc flags so memory usage measured straight after boot went down from 340MB (Porteus 1.0) to 250MB (Porteus 1.1 rc1). libraries and utilities from initrd are compiled against uClibc insted of glibc to get smaller size and extra speed. We have latest version of "Porteus Package Manager" by brokenman and "Porteus Settings Centre" by Hamza - thanks guys for the contribution. Many other improvements are mentioned in detailed changelog:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... c33dc210ae
Give it a shot and let me know about any issues you find.
Tomorrow i'm going to send all updates to brokenman so 32bit release should follow very soon.
KNOWN BUGS
- ndiswrapper did not compile with 3.1-rc10 kernel so is not present, need to find a patch before final
- LXDE: xarchiver still segfaults when creating uncompressed tar archives
- LXDE: raw qt apps (smplayer, qmmp) looks ugly when started after any KDE app (kpaint, dolphin, etc..). qt theme issue? i have no idea how to fix it - help is welcome. (SOLVED - as per Ahau findings)
- LXDE: sometimes after relogin, transparency set on the taskbar messes up whole bottom bar. the only fix is to disable transparency completely. will do for FINAL if users finds it annoying.
- KDE-4.7.2: battery applet is always hidden. shows up only when battery is charging, discussion:
http://www.mail-archive.com/plasma-deve ... 15890.html
- KDE-4.7.2: kickoff "return" bar is missing
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274489
- KDE-4.7.2: sometimes "smooth-tasks" plasmoids does not remove icons of the applications which are closed. upstream bug.
Regards,
fanthom