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     1.2 +++ b/slitaz/relnotes.en.html	Thu Mar 25 22:16:32 2010 +0100
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     1.4  <a name="overview"></a>
     1.5  <h3><font color="#6c0023"></font>Overview</h3>
     1.6  <p>
     1.7 -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.  
     1.8 +Welcome to SliTaz 3.0! Its simpler, faster, customizable, mightier and yet
     1.9 +incredibly tiny. The new SliTaz stable version is now out after one year of
    1.10 +development.  
    1.11  </p>
    1.12  <ul>
    1.13      <li>Boot scripts rewritten and supports super-fast booting</li>
    1.14 @@ -61,7 +63,7 @@
    1.15      <li>Better hardware support - wifi cards, webcams, 3G-modems, printers, scanners</li>
    1.16      <li>Better themes and desktop integration</li>
    1.17      <li>Faster virtualization with lguest</li>
    1.18 -    <li>SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, Glpi</li>
    1.19 +    <li>SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, GLPI and more</li>
    1.20      <li>Easier to customize liveCD and liveUSB with tazlitobox and tazusbbox</li>
    1.21      <li>Tazpkg supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format</li>
    1.22      <li>Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)</li>
    1.23 @@ -88,18 +90,20 @@
    1.24  </p>
    1.25  
    1.26  <p>
    1.27 -The slitaz-loram flavor allows to graphically install SliTaz on very old machines with constrained resources.
    1.28 -The liveCD may be less responsive, but once installed, SliTaz works
    1.29 -well with a minimum of 16MB memory. On very old machines, you may be better off
    1.30 -using a text based browser such as 'links'.  
    1.31 +The slitaz-loram flavor allows to graphically install SliTaz on very old 
    1.32 +machines with constrained resources. The liveCD may be less responsive, 
    1.33 +but once installed, SliTaz works well with a minimum of 16MB memory. On
    1.34 +very old machines, you may be better off using a text based browser such
    1.35 +as 'links'.  
    1.36  </p>
    1.37  
    1.38 -
    1.39  <a name="livecd"></a>
    1.40  <h3><font color="#6c0023">LiveCD Flavors</font></h3>
    1.41  <p>
    1.42 -SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD. You can use the LiveCD as a normal system or you can 
    1.43 -graphically install Slitaz to the hard drive. Installing/upgrading Slitaz retains your previous system's settings, applications and documents. 
    1.44 +SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD. You can use the LiveCD 
    1.45 +as a normal system or you can graphically install Slitaz to the hard drive. 
    1.46 +Installing/upgrading Slitaz retains your previous system's settings, applications
    1.47 +and documents. 
    1.48  </p>
    1.49  <p>
    1.50  The LiveCD can also be customised and easily rebuilt both graphically or from
    1.51 @@ -107,6 +111,10 @@
    1.52  of the preset flavors on the mirror. Then simply generate your distribution 
    1.53  with the "Tazlito" tool.
    1.54  </p>
    1.55 +<p>
    1.56 +The ISO image is now hydrid: it can be copied on a USB stick without formating
    1.57 +it (using <code>dd</code>).
    1.58 +</p>
    1.59  
    1.60  <a name="toolchain"></a>
    1.61  <h3><font color="#6c0023">Kernel and toolchain</font></h3>
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    1.63  /home, configure the root password and chose the default user login. The installer also
    1.64  now supports installation from a LiveUSB session.
    1.65  </p>
    1.66 -<!--<p>
    1.67 +<p>
    1.68  Full USB install is also supported and some time is needed using <code>rootdelay=10</code>
    1.69 -as a kernel argument (in GRUB menu.lst).
    1.70 -</p>-->
    1.71 +as a kernel argument (in GRUB menu.lst). The root delay will ensure the Kernel
    1.72 +have detected the device before mounting it on / (root).
    1.73 +</p>
    1.74  
    1.75  <a name="packages"></a>
    1.76  <h3><font color="#6c0023">Software Packages</font></h3>
    1.77  <p>
    1.78  SliTaz 3.0 has 2291 packages in the database. A wide variety of packages
    1.79 -have been commited. 
    1.80 -Tazpkg package manager also supports converting deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format
    1.81 -A lot of time was also spent maintaining many professionnal grade software such as OpenERP, MySQL, GLPI.
    1.82 +have been commited. Tazpkg package manager also supports converting 
    1.83 +deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format
    1.84 +A lot of time was also spent maintaining many professionnal grade software
    1.85 +such as OpenERP, MySQL, GLPI.
    1.86  </p>
    1.87  <p>
    1.88  On the update side, mostly all the packages have been updated, including
    1.89  the kernel, the toolchain, Xorg (7.4), GTK and QT. Package format has
    1.90 -also changed to support lzma for better compression and faster package downloads.
    1.91 -Packages are also checked by Tazwok to ensure the FHS is followed. Packages are now built 
    1.92 -automatically by the SliTaz Build Bot: <a href="http://bb.slitaz.org/">bb.slitaz.org</a>
    1.93 +also changed to support lzma for better compression and faster package 
    1.94 +downloads. Packages are also checked by Tazwok to ensure the FHS is followed.
    1.95 +Packages are now built  automatically by the SliTaz Build Bot: 
    1.96 +<a href="http://bb.slitaz.org/">bb.slitaz.org</a>
    1.97  </p>
    1.98  
    1.99  <a name="desktop"></a>
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   1.101  <p>
   1.102  The core desktop provides a selection of multi-use packages for surfing the
   1.103  web, listening to music, audio editing, image manipulation and developing or 
   1.104 -burning to optical media. One click application menu helps to find installed software by categories.
   1.105 +burning to optical media. One click application menu helps to find installed
   1.106 +software by categories.
   1.107  </p>
   1.108  
   1.109 -
   1.110  <a name="security"></a>
   1.111  <h3><font color="#6c0023">Security</font></h3>
   1.112  <p>
   1.113 -Slitaz is more secured and robust now. Firewall rules have been updated. A firewall can be installed using graphical tazhw box. 
   1.114 -The serverbox can help to maintain the installed firewall. 
   1.115 -Mountbox can manage crypto device with devmapper. Mountbox packages dependencies: dmsetup linux-md devmapper.
   1.116 +Slitaz is more secured and robust now. Firewall rules have been updated. A
   1.117 +firewall can be installed using graphical tazhw box. The serverbox can help
   1.118 +to maintain the installed firewall. Mountbox can manage crypto device with
   1.119 +devmapper. Mountbox packages dependencies: dmsetup linux-md devmapper.
   1.120  Crypt setup tools allow encryption of block devices.
   1.121  </p>
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