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35 <h2><font color="#df8f06">Releases notes</font></h2>
37 <ul>
38 <li><a href="#overview">Overview.</a></li>
39 <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware.</a></li>
40 <li><a href="#livecd">LiveCD Flavors.</a></li>
41 <li><a href="#toolchain">Kernel and toolchain.</a></li>
42 <li><a href="#utf-8">UTF-8 support.</a></li>
43 <li><a href="#xorg">Xorg server.</a></li>
44 <li><a href="#install">HD Install and LiveUSB.</a></li>
45 <li><a href="#packages">Software Packages.</a></li>
46 <li><a href="#desktop">Core Desktop.</a></li>
47 <li><a href="#upgrade">From 2.0 to 3.0.</a></li>
48 <li><a href="#people">People of the Project.</a></li>
49 </ul>
51 <a name="overview"></a>
52 <h3><font color="#6c0023"></font>Overview</h3>
53 <p>
54 Welcome to SliTaz 3.0! Its simpler, faster, customizable, mightier and yet
55 incredibly tiny. The new SliTaz stable version is now out after one year of
56 development.
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58 <ul>
59 <li>Boot scripts rewritten and supports super-fast booting</li>
60 <li>Many new features included in all home-made boxes (tazctrlbox, tazhw, wifibox, burnbox, mountbox, netbox, serverbox, sliTaz installer)</li>
61 <li>Switch to Xorg from Xvesa</li>
62 <li>Switch to Midori as the default web browser</li>
63 <li>Better hardware support - wifi cards, webcams, 3G-modems, printers, scanners</li>
64 <li>Better themes and desktop integration</li>
65 <li>Faster virtualization with lguest</li>
66 <li>SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, GLPI and more</li>
67 <li>Easier to customize liveCD and liveUSB with tazlitobox and tazusbbox</li>
68 <li>Tazpkg supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format</li>
69 <li>Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)</li>
70 <li>More contributors and stronger community</li>
71 <li>900 packages added to the database and many updates</li>
72 <li>More than 2800 commits by contributors</li>
73 </ul>
74 <p>
75 Technical support is provided to users via the mailing list and the official
76 forum: <a href="http://forum.slitaz.org/">forum.slitaz.org</a>
77 </p>
79 <a name="hardware"></a>
80 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Supported Hardware</font></h3>
81 <p>
82 SliTaz GNU/Linux supports all machines based on the i486 or x86 Intel compatible
83 processors. A minimum 192MB of memory is recommended to use the core LiveCD.
84 64MB is needed for the "slitaz-loram" flavor and 16MB for the
85 "slitaz-loram-cdrom" flavor.
86 </p>
87 <p>
88 SliTaz 3.0 provides all needed drivers and tools such as 915resolution to
89 have support for a wide range of netbooks (Eeepc, HP mini, Aspire One, etc).
90 </p>
92 <p>
93 The slitaz-loram flavor allows to graphically install SliTaz on very old
94 machines with constrained resources. The liveCD may be less responsive,
95 but once installed, SliTaz works well with a minimum of 16MB memory. On
96 very old machines, you may be better off using a text based browser such
97 as 'links'.
98 </p>
100 <a name="livecd"></a>
101 <h3><font color="#6c0023">LiveCD Flavors</font></h3>
102 <p>
103 SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD. You can use the LiveCD
104 as a normal system or you can graphically install Slitaz to the hard drive.
105 Installing/upgrading Slitaz retains your previous system's settings, applications
106 and documents.
107 </p>
108 <p>
109 The LiveCD can also be customised and easily rebuilt both graphically or from
110 the command line. Install your own custom set of packages, or simply use one
111 of the preset flavors on the mirror. Then simply generate your distribution
112 with the "Tazlito" tool.
113 </p>
114 <p>
115 The ISO image is now hydrid: it can be copied on a USB stick without formating
116 it (using <code>dd</code>).
117 </p>
119 <a name="toolchain"></a>
120 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Kernel and toolchain</font></h3>
121 <p>
122 SliTaz 3.0 comes with a new but very well tested 2.6.30.6 Linux kernel and a complete new
123 build toolchain from which the whole system has been built. The 2.6.30.6 Linux kernel is
124 separated into several linux-packages for supporting additional drivers and features. This time
125 we have also built-in some more drivers to have a faster kernel boot.
126 </p>
127 <p>
128 The new toolchain comprises of: Binutils 2.19.1, GCC 4.4.1, Glibc 2.10.1
129 </p>
131 <a name="utf-8"></a>
132 <h3><font color="#6c0023">UTF-8 support</font></h3>
133 With this release, Slitaz community can enjoy full UTF-8 support.
134 It uses standard PO files for the translation of all SliTaz related tools, boxes and utilities.
135 With better internationalization support (russian, portuguese, chinese, arabic and many more),
136 contributors can now use graphical tools such as poedit to make translations using GNU gettext standards.
137 The labs also have a i18n project to easily upload files to be included in the distribution.
138 The locale packs have more translated application(s) messages for the core system and
139 some extra packages for applications such as Gimp, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc.
141 <a name="xorg"></a>
142 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Xorg server</font></h3>
143 <p>
144 SliTaz now uses the Xorg X window system. With the tazx utility, you can reconfigure Xorg and
145 select the correct driver for your card. The xorg server comes with the vesa
146 driver by default which powers most cards. However, if you install some of the
147 other xorg video drivers, you may need to manually configure your xorg.conf.
148 We also hope that our growing community would be able to provide and support an official Xvesa flavor.
149 </p>
151 <a name="install"></a>
152 <h3><font color="#6c0023">HD install and LiveUSB</font></h3>
153 <p>
154 The installation is fully automated and can be done graphically or in text
155 mode. The slitaz installer now lets you use a separate partition for
156 /home, configure the root password and chose the default user login. The installer also
157 now supports installation from a LiveUSB session.
158 </p>
159 <p>
160 Full USB install is also supported and some time is needed using <code>rootdelay=10</code>
161 as a kernel argument (in GRUB menu.lst). The root delay will ensure the Kernel
162 have detected the device before mounting it on / (root).
163 </p>
165 <a name="packages"></a>
166 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Software Packages</font></h3>
167 <p>
168 SliTaz 3.0 has 2291 packages in the database. A wide variety of packages
169 have been commited. Tazpkg package manager also supports converting
170 deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format
171 A lot of time was also spent maintaining many professionnal grade software
172 such as OpenERP, MySQL, GLPI.
173 </p>
174 <p>
175 On the update side, mostly all the packages have been updated, including
176 the kernel, the toolchain, Xorg (7.4), GTK and QT. Package format has
177 also changed to support lzma for better compression and faster package
178 downloads. Packages are also checked by Tazwok to ensure the FHS is followed.
179 Packages are now built automatically by the SliTaz Build Bot:
180 <a href="http://bb.slitaz.org/">bb.slitaz.org</a>
181 </p>
183 <a name="desktop"></a>
184 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Core Desktop</font></h3>
185 <p>
186 A lot of attention has been paid the the core desktop. All applications
187 are well integrated and a special SliTaz theme (icons, Openbox, GTK) has
188 been created.
189 </p>
190 <p>
191 The core desktop provides a selection of multi-use packages for surfing the
192 web, listening to music, audio editing, image manipulation and developing or
193 burning to optical media. One click application menu helps to find installed
194 software by categories.
195 </p>
197 <a name="security"></a>
198 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Security</font></h3>
199 <p>
200 Slitaz is more secured and robust now. Firewall rules have been updated. A
201 firewall can be installed using graphical tazhw box. The serverbox can help
202 to maintain the installed firewall. Mountbox can manage crypto device with
203 devmapper. Mountbox packages dependencies: dmsetup linux-md devmapper.
204 Crypt setup tools allow encryption of block devices.
205 </p>
207 <a name="upgrade"></a>
208 <h3><font color="#6c0023">From 2.0 to 3.0</font></h3>
209 <p>
210 The SliTaz GNU/linux installer offers an update function allowing you to
211 upgrade from a '2.0' to '3.0' version. To upgrade the system you first
212 need to boot the 'Stable' LiveCD, launch the installer, select upgrade and then
213 specify the partition containing the system that you want to update. The
214 installer will then clean out the system and reinstall all the packages not
215 present on the CD from the mirror. When this has finished you can reboot
216 with your new version of SliTaz.
217 </p>
218 <p>
219 Note that the installer will keep a copy of the list of packages and a complete
220 archive of the /etc directory (etc.tar.gz) in /var/lib/slitaz-install.
221 </p>
222 <p>
223 To upgrade a 2.0 to 3.0 it is also possible to use the package manager "Tazpkg"
224 via the 'set-release' function, but beware this is not yet proven and may
225 require some manual intervention. If you choose this method you must first
226 install 'tazpkg' from 3.0, because the package format has changed.
227 </p>
229 <a name="people"></a>
230 <h3><font color="#6c0023">People of the Project</font></h3>
231 <p>
232 SliTaz is proud to be an international community project. The people of the
233 project are the ones who develop the distribution, correct the website,
234 develop the HG repositories and write the official documentation. Passing
235 through Switzerland, France, Brazil, Quebec, China, India, Russia, England,
236 and the U.S.
237 </p>
238 <ul>
239 <li>Christophe Lincoln</li>
240 <li>Pascal Bellard</li>
241 <li>Eric Joseph-Alexandre</li>
242 <li>Paul Issott</li>
243 <li>Julien Rabier</li>
244 <li>Rohit Joshi</li>
245 <li>Claudinei Pereira</li>
246 <li>Dominique Corbex</li>
247 <li>Mallory Mollo</li>
248 <li>Mike D. Smith</li>
249 <li>Allan Pinto</li>
250 <li>Alice Ayanami</li>
251 <li>F. Steiner</li>
252 <li>Chen Yufei</li>
253 <li>Bill Nagel</li>
254 <li>Michael Dupont</li>
255 <li>Franco Azzano</li>
256 <li>Fabrice Thiroux</li>
257 <li>Eduardo Suarez-Santana</li>
258 <li>Tom Frankland</li>
259 <li>Sandeep Srinivasa</li>
260 <li>David Ozura</li>
261 <li>Pierre Romillon</li>
262 <li>...</li>
263 </ul>
264 <p>
265 The project also wishes to thank all the reviewers, testers, hackers and users
266 who have taken the time to help advance the distribution.
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