DO NOT DOWNLOAD, please rather fetch revised version wmlive_0.95.6-2
from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/files/wmlive_0.95.6-2/
which fixes the serious Shellshock bug. See https://shellshocker.net
What is new since the last release?
* Updated to the latest version 0.95.6 of the Window Maker window
manager. See http://windowmaker.org/news.php for details.
* This release is still built on top of Debian stable release Wheezy,
but contains all updates and security fixes accumulated up until the
date this final wmlive release version was built.
* The system now uses the much more current backported kernel 3.14.15
version as its standard kernel. The installation to disk still relies
on the the standard wheezy 3.2 kernel of the debian installer.
* It is no more possible to limit the ISO image to CD size without
giving up significant features. Therefore we reversed the approach
and added a few more useful programs on top, instead. So a DVD is
now required to create a physical copy of this ISO image.
* A fully functional virtualization setup based on qemu, KVM, libvirt,
and the user friendly virt-manager desktop application is included.
See http://wmlive.sourceforge.net/screenshots/wmlive_vm.png
* For laptops, the generic support for touchpads has finally been
fixed and enabled, thanks to some very qualified user feedback.
* The included firefox version 32.0.1 features the new Australis GUI
design, resulting in some usability issues. For this reason, it has
been preconfigured using the addon Classic Theme Restorer, in order
to restore the former usability standards.
Some known issues:
* Instead of the rather well supported 3.2 kernel, only used for the
actual installation phase to disk, a more recent 3.14 kernel from the
wheezy-backports branch is used as standard kernel once the system
is finally installed to disk. For the 32bit version, both a i486 and
a i586-pae variant of the 3.14 kernel is installed in parallel.
* For 32bit systems, to enable bootstrapping and installing Window
Maker Live also on a wide range of vintage computers, a i486 Linux
kernel version 3.2 is used as least common denominator. While the
i486 kernel is able to run on practically all Intel based computers,
the multi core features of Core2Duo and later processors require a
different kernel variant. Once installed to disk, a second i686-pae
kernel version 3.14 will be available via the grub boot menu.
* To largely maintain a uniform look and feel based on the gtk2step
based Gnome theme which mimicks the Window Maker WINGs widget set,
some limitations for package installations apply. Extensive use
of apt-pinning was made, in order to shape package selections and to
keep out GTK3 based applications. Please revise /etc/apt/preferences
and modify it accordingly to get rid of these limitations if you
plan to upgrade/install more recent packages.
* The supported languages are currently limited to English, French,
German, Portuguese, and Spanish only, with the dialogs of the main
scripts being English only. While these 5 languages cover at least
indirectly larger regions of the world, further internationalization
requires the practical contributions of dedicated helpers.
* The jfsutils package is not included, and choosing the jfs filesystem
as standard file system during installation to disk will therefore
result in an unbootable system. So please stick to ext3/4 or xfs.
