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