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pankso@1045 36 <h2>Releases notes</h2>
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pankso@601 38 <ul>
pankso@601 39 <li><a href="#overview">Overview.</a></li>
pankso@601 40 <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware.</a></li>
pankso@601 41 <li><a href="#livecd">LiveCD Flavors.</a></li>
pankso@601 42 <li><a href="#toolchain">Kernel and toolchain.</a></li>
pankso@601 43 <li><a href="#utf-8">UTF-8 support.</a></li>
pankso@601 44 <li><a href="#xorg">Xorg server.</a></li>
pankso@601 45 <li><a href="#install">HD Install and LiveUSB.</a></li>
pankso@601 46 <li><a href="#packages">Software Packages.</a></li>
pankso@601 47 <li><a href="#desktop">Core Desktop.</a></li>
pankso@601 48 <li><a href="#security">Security.</a></li>
pankso@601 49 <li><a href="#upgrade">From 2.0 to 3.0.</a></li>
pankso@601 50 <li><a href="#people">People of the Project.</a></li>
pankso@601 51 </ul>
pankso@601 52
pankso@601 53 <a name="overview"></a>
pankso@601 54 <h3><font color="#6c0023"></font>Overview</h3>
pankso@601 55 <p>
pankso@601 56 Welcome to SliTaz 3.0! Small, fast, easy to use and customize, the new
pankso@601 57 SliTaz stable version is now out after one year of development.
pankso@601 58 </p>
pankso@601 59 <ul>
pankso@601 60 <li>Boot scripts rewritten and faster (super-fast booting)</li>
pankso@601 61 <li>All home-made boxes improved (tazctrlbox, tazhw, wifibox, burnbox, mountbox, netbox, serverbox, installer)</li>
pankso@601 62 <li>Switch to Xorg from Xvesa</li>
pankso@601 63 <li>Switch to Midori as the default web browser</li>
pankso@601 64 <li>Better hardware support - wifi cards, webcams, 3G-modems, printers, scanners</li>
pankso@601 65 <li>Better themes and desktop integration</li>
pankso@601 66 <li>Faster virtualization with lguest</li>
pankso@601 67 <li>SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, GLPI and more</li>
pankso@601 68 <li>Easier to customize LiveCD and LiveUSB (tazlitobox and tazusbbox)</li>
pankso@601 69 <li>Tazpkg supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format</li>
pankso@601 70 <li>Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)</li>
pankso@601 71 <li>More contributors and stronger community</li>
pankso@601 72 <li>900 packages added to the database and many updates</li>
pankso@601 73 <li>More than 2800 commits by contributors</li>
pankso@601 74 </ul>
pankso@601 75 <p>
pankso@601 76 Technical support is provided to users via the mailing list and the official
pankso@601 77 forum: <a href="http://forum.slitaz.org/">forum.slitaz.org</a>
pankso@601 78 </p>
pankso@601 79
pankso@601 80 <a name="hardware"></a>
pankso@601 81 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Supported Hardware</font></h3>
pankso@601 82 <p>
pankso@601 83 SliTaz GNU/Linux supports all machines based on the i486 or x86 Intel compatible
pankso@601 84 processors. A minimum 192MB of memory is recommended to use the core LiveCD.
pankso@601 85 80MB is needed for the "slitaz-loram" flavor and 16MB for the
pankso@601 86 "slitaz-loram-cdrom" flavor.
pankso@601 87 </p>
pankso@601 88 <p>
pankso@601 89 With the slitaz-loram flavor, the system is less responsive, but allows you to
pankso@601 90 graphically install SliTaz on very old machines with limited resources. Once installed, SliTaz works
pankso@601 91 well with a minimum of 16MB memory, but forget about using Firefox to surf the
pankso@601 92 web - you'll have to use the text based 'links' for example.
pankso@601 93 </p>
pankso@601 94 <p>
pankso@601 95 SliTaz 3.0 provides all needed drivers and tools such as 915resolution to
pankso@601 96 have support for a wide range of netbooks (Eeepc, HP mini, Aspire One, etc).
pankso@601 97 </p>
pankso@601 98
pankso@601 99 <a name="livecd"></a>
pankso@601 100 <h3><font color="#6c0023">LiveCD Flavors</font></h3>
pankso@601 101 <p>
pankso@601 102 SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD. You can use the LiveCD
pankso@601 103 as a normal system or you can graphically install Slitaz to the hard drive.
pankso@601 104 Installing/upgrading Slitaz retains your previous system's settings, applications
pankso@601 105 and documents.
pankso@601 106 </p>
pankso@601 107 <p>
pankso@601 108 The LiveCD can also be customised and easily rebuilt both graphically or from
pankso@601 109 the command line. Install your own custom set of packages, or simply use one
pankso@601 110 of the preset flavors on the mirror. Then simply generate your distribution
pankso@601 111 with the "Tazlito" tool.
pankso@601 112 </p>
pankso@601 113 <p>
pankso@601 114 The ISO image now uses a 'hybrid' system: it can also be copied onto an USB stick
pankso@601 115 without formating it (using <code>dd</code>).
pankso@601 116 </p>
pankso@601 117
pankso@601 118 <a name="toolchain"></a>
pankso@601 119 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Kernel and toolchain</font></h3>
pankso@601 120 <p>
pankso@601 121 SliTaz 3.0 comes with a new but very well tested 2.6.30.6 Linux kernel and a complete new
pankso@601 122 build toolchain from which the whole system has been built. The 2.6.30.6 Linux kernel is
pankso@601 123 separated into several linux-packages for supporting additional drivers and features. This time
pankso@601 124 we have also built-in some more drivers to have a faster kernel boot.
pankso@601 125 </p>
pankso@601 126 <p>
pankso@601 127 The new toolchain comprises of: Binutils 2.19.1, GCC 4.4.1, Glibc 2.10.1
pankso@601 128 </p>
pankso@601 129
pankso@601 130 <a name="utf-8"></a>
pankso@601 131 <h3><font color="#6c0023">UTF-8 support</font></h3>
pankso@601 132 With this release, the Slitaz community can enjoy full UTF-8 support.
pankso@601 133 SliTaz uses standard PO files for the translation of all SliTaz related tools, boxes and utilities.
pankso@601 134 With better internationalization support (russian, portuguese, chinese, and many more),
pankso@601 135 contributors can now use graphical tools such as poedit to make translations using GNU gettext standards.
pankso@601 136 The labs also have an i18n project to easily upload files to be included in the distribution.
pankso@601 137 The locale packs have more translated application messages for the core system and
pankso@601 138 some extra packages for applications such as Gimp, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc.
pankso@601 139
pankso@601 140 <a name="xorg"></a>
pankso@601 141 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Xorg server</font></h3>
pankso@601 142 <p>
pankso@601 143 SliTaz now uses the Xorg X window system (although we will always try to
pankso@601 144 provide a Xvesa flavor). With the tazx utility you can reconfigure Xorg and
pankso@601 145 select the correct driver for your card. The xorg server comes with the vesa
pankso@601 146 driver by default which powers most cards; although you may still need to
pankso@601 147 manually configure your xorg.conf to some degree if you install some of the
pankso@601 148 other drivers.
pankso@601 149 </p>
pankso@601 150
pankso@601 151 <a name="install"></a>
pankso@601 152 <h3><font color="#6c0023">HD install and LiveUSB</font></h3>
pankso@601 153 <p>
pankso@601 154 The installation is fully automated and can be done graphically or in text
pankso@601 155 mode. The slitaz installer now lets you use a separate partition for
pankso@601 156 /home, configure the root password and chose the default user login.
pankso@601 157 The installer also now supports installation from a LiveUSB session.
pankso@601 158 </p>
pankso@601 159 <p>
pankso@601 160 Full USB install is also supported using <code>rootdelay=10</code>
pankso@601 161 as a kernel argument (in GRUB menu.lst). The root delay ensures the Kernel
pankso@601 162 has detected the device before mounting it on / (root).
pankso@601 163 </p>
pankso@601 164
pankso@601 165 <a name="packages"></a>
pankso@601 166 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Software Packages</font></h3>
pankso@601 167 <p>
pankso@601 168 SliTaz 3.0 has around 2300 packages in the database. A wide variety of packages
pankso@601 169 have been commited and the Tazpkg package manager can now convert
pankso@601 170 deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format (.tazpkg).
pankso@601 171 A lot of time was also spent maintaining professional grade software
pankso@601 172 such as OpenERP, MySQL, GLPI.
pankso@601 173 </p>
pankso@601 174 <p>
pankso@601 175 On the update side, mostly all the packages have been updated, including
pankso@601 176 the kernel, toolchain, Xorg (7.4), GTK and QT. The package format has
pankso@601 177 also changed to support lzma for better compression and faster
pankso@601 178 downloads. Packages are also checked by Tazwok to ensure the FHS is followed
pankso@601 179 and packages are now built automatically by the SliTaz Build Bot:
pankso@601 180 <a href="http://bb.slitaz.org/">bb.slitaz.org</a>
pankso@601 181 </p>
pankso@601 182
pankso@601 183 <a name="desktop"></a>
pankso@601 184 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Core Desktop</font></h3>
pankso@601 185 <p>
pankso@601 186 A lot of attention has been paid the the core desktop. All applications
pankso@601 187 are well integrated and a special SliTaz theme (icons, Openbox, GTK) has
pankso@601 188 been created.
pankso@601 189 </p>
pankso@601 190 <p>
pankso@601 191 The core desktop provides a selection of multi-use packages for surfing the
pankso@601 192 web, listening to music, audio editing, image manipulation and developing or
pankso@601 193 burning to optical media. It's just one click in the application menu to find
pankso@601 194 installed software by category.
pankso@601 195 </p>
pankso@601 196
pankso@601 197 <a name="security"></a>
pankso@601 198 <h3><font color="#6c0023">Security</font></h3>
pankso@601 199 <p>
pankso@601 200 Slitaz is more secure and robust now and the firewall rules have been updated. A
pankso@601 201 firewall can be installed using the graphical tazhw box, and serverbox can help
pankso@601 202 to maintain the installed firewall. Mountbox can manage crypto devices with
pankso@601 203 devmapper and the crypt setup tools allow encryption of block devices.
pankso@601 204 </p>
pankso@601 205
pankso@601 206 <a name="upgrade"></a>
pankso@601 207 <h3><font color="#6c0023">From 2.0 to 3.0</font></h3>
pankso@601 208 <p>
pankso@601 209 The SliTaz GNU/linux installer offers an update function allowing you to
pankso@601 210 upgrade from a '2.0' to '3.0' version. To upgrade the system you first
pankso@601 211 need to boot the 'Stable' LiveCD, launch the installer, select upgrade and then
pankso@601 212 specify the partition containing the system that you want to update. The
pankso@601 213 installer will then clean out the system and reinstall all the packages not
pankso@601 214 present on the CD from the mirror. When this has finished you can reboot
pankso@601 215 with your new version of SliTaz.
pankso@601 216 </p>
pankso@601 217 <p>
pankso@601 218 Note that the installer will keep a copy of the list of packages and a complete
pankso@601 219 archive of the /etc directory (etc.tar.gz) in /var/lib/slitaz-install.
pankso@601 220 </p>
pankso@601 221 <p>
pankso@601 222 To upgrade a 2.0 to 3.0 it is also possible to use the package manager "Tazpkg"
pankso@601 223 via the 'set-release' function, but beware this is not yet proven and may
pankso@601 224 require some manual intervention. If you choose this method you must first
pankso@601 225 install 'tazpkg' from 3.0, because the package format has changed.
pankso@601 226 </p>
pankso@601 227
pankso@601 228 <a name="people"></a>
pankso@601 229 <h3><font color="#6c0023">People of the Project</font></h3>
pankso@601 230 <p>
pankso@601 231 SliTaz is proud to be an international community project. The people of the
pankso@601 232 project are the ones who develop the distribution, correct the website,
pankso@601 233 develop the HG repositories and write the official documentation. Passing
pankso@601 234 through Switzerland, France, Brazil, Quebec, China, India, Russia, England,
pankso@601 235 and the U.S.
pankso@601 236 </p>
pankso@601 237 <ul>
pankso@601 238 <li>Christophe Lincoln</li>
pankso@601 239 <li>Pascal Bellard</li>
pankso@601 240 <li>Eric Joseph-Alexandre</li>
pankso@601 241 <li>Paul Issott</li>
pankso@601 242 <li>Julien Rabier</li>
pankso@601 243 <li>Rohit Joshi</li>
pankso@601 244 <li>Claudinei Pereira</li>
pankso@601 245 <li>Dominique Corbex</li>
pankso@601 246 <li>Mallory Mollo</li>
pankso@601 247 <li>Mike D. Smith</li>
pankso@601 248 <li>Allan Pinto</li>
pankso@601 249 <li>Matthew Sheets</li>
pankso@601 250 <li>Liu Peng</li>
pankso@601 251 <li>Alice Ayanami</li>
pankso@601 252 <li>F. Steiner</li>
pankso@601 253 <li>Chen Yufei</li>
pankso@601 254 <li>Jesse Lehman</li>
pankso@601 255 <li>Bill Nagel</li>
pankso@601 256 <li>Michael Dupont</li>
pankso@601 257 <li>Franco Azzano</li>
pankso@601 258 <li>Fabrice Thiroux</li>
pankso@601 259 <li>Eduardo Suarez-Santana</li>
pankso@601 260 <li>Tom Frankland</li>
pankso@601 261 <li>Sandeep Srinivasa</li>
pankso@601 262 <li>David Ozura</li>
pankso@601 263 <li>Pierre Romillon</li>
pankso@601 264 <li>...</li>
pankso@601 265 </ul>
pankso@601 266 <p>
pankso@601 267 The project also wishes to thank all the reviewers, testers, hackers and users
pankso@601 268 who have taken the time to help advance the distribution.
pankso@601 269 </p>
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