Turtle Kevux Change Logs

0.9.5

Fixes of Turtle 0.9.4 Problems:
  • A large number of kiwi installation problems have been fixed.
  • claws-mail now works.
  • The mpd music server now dmixes properly by default so you can now have more than one program use audio at the same time.
  • Fixed applications that did not look for the mixer device in /dev/snd/mixer.
  • /lib/libudev.so and /lib/libgudev-1.0.so had permissions that prevented desktop users from using any application that depended on either of those libraries.
  • Copy and paste on the desktop now works in xfce.
  • 64-bit grub cdroms now boot properly.
  • Fixed boot problems when using software raid.
New Software:
  • Added libffi
  • Added vcdimager
  • Added libblueray
  • Added libaacs
Other Changes:
  • Now using xorg-server 1.11.* and Mesa 7.11.*.
  • Fixed webkit so that SoupSession is in the correct state to allow for pausing and unpausing.
  • The boot process was reworked.

0.9.4

Fixes of Turtle 0.9.3 Problems:
  • Fix major networking problem in 0.9.3 where devices are improperly started
  • Once again attempt to solve the autologin relogin problem with qingy (this time completely strip out the code that does a timestamp check, if the file exists then do not re-login, period
  • When shutting down or rebooting, make sure to tell all sshd connections to close and turn off network devices
  • Network scripts did not stop dhcpclient, wpa_supplicant, and hostap if it was running when the network script was stopped
  • /etc/hosts was being used instead of /etc/network/hosts
  • Fixed initrd boot process problems
  • Removed floating_root parameter from squish and squash boot options, making floating_root unconditional for squash and squash booting
New Software:
  • Added joy2key
  • Added vala
  • Added gstreamer (which doesn't really work anyway..)
  • Added webkit
  • Added midori (replacing seamonkey)
  • Added libvpx
  • Added tunctl
  • Added bind (replacing maradns)
  • Added celt
  • Added links back now that it appears to be actively maintained once again
  • Added strace to the toolchain
  • Added libpki
  • Added openca-ocspd
  • Added libotr and pidgin-otr for encrypted chat support
Removed Software:
  • Removed seamonkey
  • Removed maradns (does not support dnssec, so it was replaced with bind)
  • Removed ps3-utils
  • Removed tcl/tk
  • Removed pidgin-encryption in favor of pidgin-otr
Network Changes:
  • Removed support for /etc/network/proc_settings
  • Added network device setting file auto-generation and auto-degeneration support
  • Prevent already started or stopped network devices from being re-started or re-stopped
  • Add extension support to dns resolver
  • Add non-standard port support for ipv4 dns resolver
Other Changes:
  • Shortened udev settle time to 4 seconds
  • Added support for /etc/sysctl.conf (this also replaces /etc/network/proc_settings)
  • Desktop build now adds fewer xorg video drivers
  • Now supports custom xorg.conf.d directories at /etc/X11/ (This helps enable KMS)