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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 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>
tux@62 54 Welcome to SliTaz 3.0! Its simpler, faster, customizable, mightier and yet incredibly tiny. The new SliTaz stable version is now out after one year of development.
pankso@53 55 </p>
pankso@53 56 <ul>
tux@62 57 <li>Boot scripts rewritten and supports super-fast booting</li>
tux@62 58 <li>Many new features included in all home-made boxes (tazctrlbox, tazhw, wifibox, burnbox, mountbox, netbox, serverbox, sliTaz installer)</li>
tux@62 59 <li>Switch to Xorg from Xvesa</li>
paul@58 60 <li>Switch to Midori as the default web browser</li>
tux@62 61 <li>Better hardware support - wifi cards, webcams, 3G-modems, printers, scanners</li>
tux@62 62 <li>Better themes and desktop integration</li>
paul@58 63 <li>Faster virtualization with lguest</li>
pankso@53 64 <li>SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, Glpi</li>
tux@62 65 <li>Easier to customize liveCD and liveUSB with tazlitobox and tazusbbox</li>
tux@62 66 <li>Tazpkg supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format</li>
tux@62 67 <li>Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)</li>
pankso@53 68 <li>More contributors and stronger community</li>
paul@58 69 <li>900 packages added to the database and many updates</li>
paul@58 70 <li>More than 2800 commits by contributors</li>
pankso@53 71 </ul>
pankso@53 72 <p>
pankso@53 73 Technical support is provided to users via the mailing list and the official
pankso@53 74 forum: <a href="http://forum.slitaz.org/">forum.slitaz.org</a>
pankso@53 75 </p>
pankso@53 76
pankso@53 77 <a name="hardware"></a>
pankso@53 78 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Supported Hardware</font></h3>
pankso@53 79 <p>
paul@58 80 SliTaz GNU/Linux supports all machines based on the i486 or x86 Intel compatible
pankso@53 81 processors. A minimum 192MB of memory is recommended to use the core LiveCD.
pankso@53 82 64MB is needed for the "slitaz-loram" flavor and 16MB for the
pankso@53 83 "slitaz-loram-cdrom" flavor.
pankso@53 84 </p>
pankso@53 85 <p>
paul@58 86 SliTaz 3.0 provides all needed drivers and tools such as 915resolution to
paul@58 87 have support for a wide range of netbooks (Eeepc, HP mini, Aspire One, etc).
pankso@53 88 </p>
pankso@53 89
tux@62 90 <p>
tux@62 91 The slitaz-loram flavor allows to graphically install SliTaz on very old machines with constrained resources.
tux@62 92 The liveCD may be less responsive, but once installed, SliTaz works
tux@62 93 well with a minimum of 16MB memory. On very old machines, you may be better off
tux@62 94 using a text based browser such as 'links'.
tux@62 95 </p>
tux@62 96
tux@62 97
pankso@53 98 <a name="livecd"></a>
pankso@53 99 <h3><font color="#6c0023">LiveCD Flavors</font></h3>
pankso@53 100 <p>
tux@62 101 SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD. You can use the LiveCD as a normal system or you can
tux@62 102 graphically install Slitaz to the hard drive. Installing/upgrading Slitaz retains your previous system's settings, applications and documents.
pankso@53 103 </p>
pankso@53 104 <p>
pankso@53 105 The LiveCD can also be customised and easily rebuilt both graphically or from
pankso@53 106 the command line. Install your own custom set of packages, or simply use one
pankso@53 107 of the preset flavors on the mirror. Then simply generate your distribution
pankso@53 108 with the "Tazlito" tool.
pankso@53 109 </p>
pankso@53 110
pankso@53 111 <a name="toolchain"></a>
pankso@53 112 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Kernel and toolchain</font></h3>
pankso@53 113 <p>
tux@62 114 SliTaz 3.0 comes with a new but very well tested 2.6.30.6 Linux kernel and a complete new
tux@62 115 build toolchain from which the whole system has been built. The 2.6.30.6 Linux kernel is
tux@62 116 separated into several linux-packages for supporting additional drivers and features. This time
paul@58 117 we have also built-in some more drivers to have a faster kernel boot.
pankso@53 118 </p>
pankso@53 119 <p>
paul@58 120 The new toolchain comprises of: Binutils 2.19.1, GCC 4.4.1, Glibc 2.10.1
pankso@53 121 </p>
pankso@53 122
pankso@53 123 <a name="utf-8"></a>
pankso@53 124 <h3><font color="#6c0023">UTF-8 support</font></h3>
tux@62 125 With this release, Slitaz community can enjoy full UTF-8 support.
tux@62 126 It uses standard PO files for the translation of all SliTaz related tools, boxes and utilities.
tux@62 127 With better internationalization support (russian, portuguese, chinese, arabic and many more),
tux@62 128 contributors can now use graphical tools such as poedit to make translations using GNU gettext standards.
tux@62 129 The labs also have a i18n project to easily upload files to be included in the distribution.
tux@62 130 The locale packs have more translated application(s) messages for the core system and
tux@62 131 some extra packages for applications such as Gimp, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc.
pankso@53 132
pankso@53 133 <a name="xorg"></a>
pankso@53 134 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Xorg server</font></h3>
paul@61 135 <p>
tux@62 136 SliTaz now uses the Xorg X window system. With the tazx utility, you can reconfigure Xorg and
paul@61 137 select the correct driver for your card. The xorg server comes with the vesa
tux@62 138 driver by default which powers most cards. However, if you install some of the
tux@62 139 other xorg video drivers, you may need to manually configure your xorg.conf.
tux@62 140 We also hope that our growing community would be able to provide and support an official Xvesa flavor.
paul@61 141 </p>
pankso@53 142
pankso@53 143 <a name="install"></a>
pankso@53 144 <h3><font color="#6c0023">HD install and LiveUSB</font></h3>
pankso@53 145 <p>
pankso@53 146 The installation is fully automated and can be done graphically or in text
tux@62 147 mode. The slitaz installer now lets you use a separate partition for
paul@58 148 /home, configure the root password and chose the default user login. The installer also
paul@58 149 now supports installation from a LiveUSB session.
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pankso@53 153 as a kernel argument (in GRUB menu.lst).
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pankso@53 155
pankso@53 156 <a name="packages"></a>
pankso@53 157 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Software Packages</font></h3>
pankso@53 158 <p>
paul@58 159 SliTaz 3.0 has 2291 packages in the database. A wide variety of packages
tux@62 160 have been commited.
tux@62 161 Tazpkg package manager also supports converting deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format
tux@62 162 A lot of time was also spent maintaining many professionnal grade software such as OpenERP, MySQL, GLPI.
pankso@53 163 </p>
pankso@53 164 <p>
tux@62 165 On the update side, mostly all the packages have been updated, including
tux@62 166 the kernel, the toolchain, Xorg (7.4), GTK and QT. Package format has
tux@62 167 also changed to support lzma for better compression and faster package downloads.
tux@62 168 Packages are also checked by Tazwok to ensure the FHS is followed. Packages are now built
paul@58 169 automatically by the SliTaz Build Bot: <a href="http://bb.slitaz.org/">bb.slitaz.org</a>
pankso@53 170 </p>
pankso@53 171
pankso@53 172 <a name="desktop"></a>
pankso@53 173 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Core Desktop</font></h3>
pankso@53 174 <p>
tux@62 175 A lot of attention has been paid the the core desktop. All applications
paul@58 176 are well integrated and a special SliTaz theme (icons, Openbox, GTK) has
paul@58 177 been created.
pankso@53 178 </p>
tux@62 179 <p>
tux@62 180 The core desktop provides a selection of multi-use packages for surfing the
tux@62 181 web, listening to music, audio editing, image manipulation and developing or
tux@62 182 burning to optical media. One click application menu helps to find installed software by categories.
tux@62 183 </p>
tux@62 184
pankso@53 185
pankso@53 186 <a name="security"></a>
pankso@53 187 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Security</font></h3>
pankso@53 188 <p>
tux@62 189 Slitaz is more secured and robust now. Firewall rules have been updated. A firewall can be installed using graphical tazhw box.
tux@62 190 The serverbox can help to maintain the installed firewall.
tux@62 191 Mountbox can manage crypto device with devmapper. Mountbox packages dependencies: dmsetup linux-md devmapper.
tux@62 192 Crypt setup tools allow encryption of block devices.
pankso@53 193 </p>
pankso@53 194
pankso@53 195 <a name="upgrade"></a>
paul@58 196 <h3><font color="#6c0023">From 2.0 to 3.0</font></h3>
pankso@53 197 <p>
pankso@53 198 The SliTaz GNU/linux installer offers an update function allowing you to
pankso@53 199 upgrade from a '2.0' to '3.0' version. To upgrade the system you first
pankso@53 200 need to boot the 'Stable' LiveCD, launch the installer, select upgrade and then
pankso@53 201 specify the partition containing the system that you want to update. The
pankso@53 202 installer will then clean out the system and reinstall all the packages not
pankso@53 203 present on the CD from the mirror. When this has finished you can reboot
pankso@53 204 with your new version of SliTaz.
pankso@53 205 </p>
pankso@53 206 <p>
pankso@53 207 Note that the installer will keep a copy of the list of packages and a complete
pankso@53 208 archive of the /etc directory (etc.tar.gz) in /var/lib/slitaz-install.
pankso@53 209 </p>
pankso@53 210 <p>
pankso@53 211 To upgrade a 2.0 to 3.0 it is also possible to use the package manager "Tazpkg"
pankso@53 212 via the 'set-release' function, but beware this is not yet proven and may
paul@58 213 require some manual intervention. If you choose this method you must first
paul@58 214 install 'tazpkg' from 3.0, because the package format has changed.
pankso@53 215 </p>
pankso@53 216
pankso@53 217 <a name="people"></a>
pankso@53 218 <h3><font color="#6c0023">People of the Project</font></h3>
pankso@53 219 <p>
pankso@53 220 SliTaz is proud to be an international community project. The people of the
pankso@53 221 project are the ones who develop the distribution, correct the website,
pankso@53 222 develop the HG repositories and write the official documentation. Passing
tux@62 223 through Switzerland, France, Brazil, Quebec, China, India, Russia, England,
pankso@53 224 and the U.S.
pankso@53 225 </p>
pankso@53 226 <ul>
pankso@53 227 <li>Christophe Lincoln</li>
pankso@53 228 <li>Pascal Bellard</li>
pankso@53 229 <li>Eric Joseph-Alexandre</li>
pankso@53 230 <li>Paul Issott</li>
pankso@53 231 <li>Julien Rabier</li>
pankso@53 232 <li>Rohit Joshi</li>
pankso@53 233 <li>Claudinei Pereira</li>
pankso@53 234 <li>Dominique Corbex</li>
pankso@53 235 <li>Mallory Mollo</li>
pankso@53 236 <li>Mike D. Smith</li>
pankso@53 237 <li>Allan Pinto</li>
pankso@53 238 <li>Alice Ayanami</li>
pankso@53 239 <li>F. Steiner</li>
pankso@53 240 <li>Chen Yufei</li>
pankso@53 241 <li>Bill Nagel</li>
pankso@53 242 <li>Michael Dupont</li>
pankso@53 243 <li>Franco Azzano</li>
pankso@53 244 <li>Fabrice Thiroux</li>
pankso@53 245 <li>Eduardo Suarez-Santana</li>
pankso@53 246 <li>Tom Frankland</li>
pankso@53 247 <li>Sandeep Srinivasa</li>
pankso@53 248 <li>David Ozura</li>
pankso@53 249 <li>Pierre Romillon</li>
pankso@53 250 <li>...</li>
pankso@53 251 </ul>
pankso@53 252 <p>
pankso@53 253 The project also wishes to thank all the reviewers, testers, hackers and users
pankso@53 254 who have taken the time to help advance the distribution.
pankso@53 255 </p>
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