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author Paul Issott <paul@slitaz.org>
date Wed Mar 24 23:00:08 2010 +0000 (2010-03-24)
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pankso@53 5 <title>SliTaz 3.0 Release notes</title>
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pankso@53 20 <h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz - System doc</font></h1>
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pankso@53 24 SliTaz:
pankso@53 25 <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/">Website</a>
pankso@53 26 <a href="http://forum.slitaz.org/">Forum</a>
pankso@53 27 <a href="http://doc.slitaz.org/">Documentation</a>
pankso@53 28 <a href="http://pkgs.slitaz.org/">Packages</a>
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pankso@53 34
pankso@53 35 <h2><font color="#df8f06">Releases notes</font></h2>
pankso@53 36
pankso@53 37 <ul>
pankso@53 38 <li><a href="#overview">Overview.</a></li>
pankso@53 39 <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware.</a></li>
pankso@53 40 <li><a href="#livecd">LiveCD Flavors.</a></li>
pankso@53 41 <li><a href="#toolchain">Kernel and toolchain.</a></li>
pankso@53 42 <li><a href="#utf-8">UTF-8 support.</a></li>
pankso@53 43 <li><a href="#xorg">Xorg server.</a></li>
pankso@53 44 <li><a href="#install">HD Install and LiveUSB.</a></li>
pankso@53 45 <li><a href="#packages">Software Packages.</a></li>
pankso@53 46 <li><a href="#desktop">Core Desktop.</a></li>
pankso@53 47 <li><a href="#upgrade">From 2.0 to 3.0.</a></li>
pankso@53 48 <li><a href="#people">People of the Project.</a></li>
pankso@53 49 </ul>
pankso@53 50
pankso@53 51 <a name="overview"></a>
pankso@53 52 <h3><font color="#6c0023"></font>Overview</h3>
pankso@53 53 <p>
pankso@53 54 Welcome to SliTaz 3.0! Small, fast, easy to use and customize, the new
paul@58 55 SliTaz stable version is now out after one year of development.
pankso@53 56 </p>
pankso@53 57 <ul>
paul@58 58 <li>Boot scripts rewritten and faster</li>
pankso@53 59 <li>All home-made boxes improved</li>
paul@58 60 <li>Better themes and integration</li>
paul@58 61 <li>Switch to Midori as the default web browser</li>
paul@58 62 <li>Better hardware support - mainly wifi cards</li>
paul@58 63 <li>Faster virtualization with lguest</li>
pankso@53 64 <li>SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, Glpi</li>
pankso@53 65 <li>More contributors and stronger community</li>
pankso@53 66 <li>Easier to customize</li>
paul@58 67 <li>Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)</li>
paul@58 68 <li>900 packages added to the database and many updates</li>
paul@58 69 <li>More than 2800 commits by contributors</li>
pankso@53 70 </ul>
pankso@53 71 <p>
pankso@53 72 Technical support is provided to users via the mailing list and the official
pankso@53 73 forum: <a href="http://forum.slitaz.org/">forum.slitaz.org</a>
pankso@53 74 </p>
pankso@53 75
pankso@53 76 <a name="hardware"></a>
pankso@53 77 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Supported Hardware</font></h3>
pankso@53 78 <p>
paul@58 79 SliTaz GNU/Linux supports all machines based on the i486 or x86 Intel compatible
pankso@53 80 processors. A minimum 192MB of memory is recommended to use the core LiveCD.
pankso@53 81 64MB is needed for the "slitaz-loram" flavor and 16MB for the
pankso@53 82 "slitaz-loram-cdrom" flavor.
pankso@53 83 </p>
pankso@53 84 <p>
pankso@53 85 With the slitaz-loram flavor, the system is less responsive, but allows you to
pankso@53 86 graphically install SliTaz on very old machines. Once installed, SliTaz works
pankso@53 87 well with a minimum of 16MB memory, but forget about using Firefox to surf the
pankso@53 88 web - you'll have to use the text based 'links' for example.
pankso@53 89 </p>
pankso@53 90 <p>
paul@58 91 SliTaz 3.0 provides all needed drivers and tools such as 915resolution to
paul@58 92 have support for a wide range of netbooks (Eeepc, HP mini, Aspire One, etc).
pankso@53 93 </p>
pankso@53 94
pankso@53 95 <a name="livecd"></a>
pankso@53 96 <h3><font color="#6c0023">LiveCD Flavors</font></h3>
pankso@53 97 <p>
pankso@53 98 SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD allowing you to use
paul@58 99 it as a nomal system or graphically install to the hard drive and retain
pankso@53 100 the use of your previous system including all settings, applications,
pankso@53 101 documents, etc.
pankso@53 102 </p>
pankso@53 103 <p>
pankso@53 104 The LiveCD can also be customised and easily rebuilt both graphically or from
pankso@53 105 the command line. Install your own custom set of packages, or simply use one
pankso@53 106 of the preset flavors on the mirror. Then simply generate your distribution
pankso@53 107 with the "Tazlito" tool.
pankso@53 108 </p>
pankso@53 109
pankso@53 110 <a name="toolchain"></a>
pankso@53 111 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Kernel and toolchain</font></h3>
pankso@53 112 <p>
pankso@53 113 SliTaz 3.0 comes with a new but very well tested Kernel and a complete new
paul@58 114 toolchain from which the whole system is built. The Linux kernel version is 2.6.30.6
paul@58 115 which is split into separate packages for additional drivers or features. This time
paul@58 116 we have also built-in some more drivers to have a faster kernel boot.
pankso@53 117 </p>
pankso@53 118 <p>
paul@58 119 The new toolchain comprises of: Binutils 2.19.1, GCC 4.4.1, Glibc 2.10.1
pankso@53 120 </p>
pankso@53 121
pankso@53 122 <a name="utf-8"></a>
pankso@53 123 <h3><font color="#6c0023">UTF-8 support</font></h3>
pankso@53 124
pankso@53 125 <a name="xorg"></a>
pankso@53 126 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Xorg server</font></h3>
paul@61 127 <p>
paul@61 128 SliTaz now uses the Xorg X window system (although we will always try to
paul@61 129 provide a Xvesa flavor). With the tazx utility you can reconfigure Xorg and
paul@61 130 select the correct driver for your card. The xorg server comes with the vesa
paul@61 131 driver by default which powers most cards; although you may still need to
paul@61 132 manually configure your xorg.conf to some degree if you install some of the
paul@61 133 other drivers.
paul@61 134 </p>
pankso@53 135
pankso@53 136 <a name="install"></a>
pankso@53 137 <h3><font color="#6c0023">HD install and LiveUSB</font></h3>
pankso@53 138 <p>
pankso@53 139 The installation is fully automated and can be done graphically or in text
pankso@53 140 mode. In this version the installer will let you use a separate partition for
paul@58 141 /home, configure the root password and chose the default user login. The installer also
paul@58 142 now supports installation from a LiveUSB session.
pankso@53 143 </p>
paul@61 144 <!--<p>
paul@58 145 Full USB install is also supported and some time is needed using <code>rootdelay=10</code>
pankso@53 146 as a kernel argument (in GRUB menu.lst).
paul@61 147 </p>-->
pankso@53 148
pankso@53 149 <a name="packages"></a>
pankso@53 150 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Software Packages</font></h3>
pankso@53 151 <p>
paul@58 152 SliTaz 3.0 has 2291 packages in the database. A wide variety of packages
pankso@53 153 have been commited and many force went to professionnal grade software such
erjo@60 154 as OpenERP, MySQL, GLPI.
pankso@53 155 </p>
pankso@53 156 <p>
paul@58 157 On the update side, mainly all the packages have been updated, including
paul@58 158 the kernel, the toolchain, Xorg (7.4), GTK and QT. Package formats have
paul@58 159 also changed and we now use lzma for better compression. Packages are also
erjo@60 160 checked by Tazwok to ensure the FHS is followed and packages are built
paul@58 161 automatically by the SliTaz Build Bot: <a href="http://bb.slitaz.org/">bb.slitaz.org</a>
pankso@53 162 </p>
pankso@53 163
pankso@53 164 <a name="desktop"></a>
pankso@53 165 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Core Desktop</font></h3>
pankso@53 166 <p>
paul@58 167 The core desktop provides a selection of multi-use packages for surfing the
pankso@53 168 web, listening to music, audio editing, image manipulation, developing or
paul@58 169 burning to optical media. It's just one click in the application menu to
paul@58 170 find any software installed by category.
pankso@53 171 </p>
pankso@53 172 <p>
paul@58 173 A lot of attention has been paid the the core desktop, all applications
paul@58 174 are well integrated and a special SliTaz theme (icons, Openbox, GTK) has
paul@58 175 been created.
pankso@53 176 </p>
pankso@53 177
pankso@53 178 <a name="security"></a>
pankso@53 179 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Security</font></h3>
pankso@53 180 <p>
pankso@53 181 packages + mountbox: dmsetup linux-md devmapper
pankso@53 182 </p>
pankso@53 183
pankso@53 184 <a name="upgrade"></a>
paul@58 185 <h3><font color="#6c0023">From 2.0 to 3.0</font></h3>
pankso@53 186 <p>
pankso@53 187 The SliTaz GNU/linux installer offers an update function allowing you to
pankso@53 188 upgrade from a '2.0' to '3.0' version. To upgrade the system you first
pankso@53 189 need to boot the 'Stable' LiveCD, launch the installer, select upgrade and then
pankso@53 190 specify the partition containing the system that you want to update. The
pankso@53 191 installer will then clean out the system and reinstall all the packages not
pankso@53 192 present on the CD from the mirror. When this has finished you can reboot
pankso@53 193 with your new version of SliTaz.
pankso@53 194 </p>
pankso@53 195 <p>
pankso@53 196 Note that the installer will keep a copy of the list of packages and a complete
pankso@53 197 archive of the /etc directory (etc.tar.gz) in /var/lib/slitaz-install.
pankso@53 198 </p>
pankso@53 199 <p>
pankso@53 200 To upgrade a 2.0 to 3.0 it is also possible to use the package manager "Tazpkg"
pankso@53 201 via the 'set-release' function, but beware this is not yet proven and may
paul@58 202 require some manual intervention. If you choose this method you must first
paul@58 203 install 'tazpkg' from 3.0, because the package format has changed.
pankso@53 204 </p>
pankso@53 205
pankso@53 206 <a name="people"></a>
pankso@53 207 <h3><font color="#6c0023">People of the Project</font></h3>
pankso@53 208 <p>
pankso@53 209 SliTaz is proud to be an international community project. The people of the
pankso@53 210 project are the ones who develop the distribution, correct the website,
pankso@53 211 develop the HG repositories and write the official documentation. Passing
pankso@53 212 through Switzerland, France, Brazil, Quebec, China, Russia, England,
pankso@53 213 and the U.S.
pankso@53 214 </p>
pankso@53 215 <ul>
pankso@53 216 <li>Christophe Lincoln</li>
pankso@53 217 <li>Pascal Bellard</li>
pankso@53 218 <li>Eric Joseph-Alexandre</li>
pankso@53 219 <li>Paul Issott</li>
pankso@53 220 <li>Julien Rabier</li>
pankso@53 221 <li>Rohit Joshi</li>
pankso@53 222 <li>Claudinei Pereira</li>
pankso@53 223 <li>Dominique Corbex</li>
pankso@53 224 <li>Mallory Mollo</li>
pankso@53 225 <li>Mike D. Smith</li>
pankso@53 226 <li>Allan Pinto</li>
pankso@53 227 <li>Alice Ayanami</li>
pankso@53 228 <li>F. Steiner</li>
pankso@53 229 <li>Chen Yufei</li>
pankso@53 230 <li>Bill Nagel</li>
pankso@53 231 <li>Michael Dupont</li>
pankso@53 232 <li>Franco Azzano</li>
pankso@53 233 <li>Fabrice Thiroux</li>
pankso@53 234 <li>Eduardo Suarez-Santana</li>
pankso@53 235 <li>Tom Frankland</li>
pankso@53 236 <li>Sandeep Srinivasa</li>
pankso@53 237 <li>David Ozura</li>
pankso@53 238 <li>Pierre Romillon</li>
pankso@53 239 <li>...</li>
pankso@53 240 </ul>
pankso@53 241 <p>
pankso@53 242 The project also wishes to thank all the reviewers, testers, hackers and users
pankso@53 243 who have taken the time to help advance the distribution.
pankso@53 244 </p>
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