Re: [Devil-linux-develop] major changes to DL

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

On 02/11/2011 14:05, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> All,
>
> I spend a lot of time over the last couple of weeks on updating DL.
> Some of the changes are:
> - kernel 3.0
> - glibc 2.12.2
> - gcc 4.4.5
> - x86_64 (as in 64 bit DL) !!!
>
> Since there are so many changes, I decided that this is worth a
> completely new version! DL 1.6 is now officially in the works.
>
> In order to compile the new version, you also need a new lfssystem.
> There are now 2 version, 32 and 64 bit. If you use the wrong or an
> outdated version, the build system will stop at the prepare phase and
> complain about it.
>
> Get the latest lfssystem from here:
> ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/sources/lfssystem-for-DL-1.6/
>
> All the changes have been checked into CVS and the sources are up on
> the FTP server.
> Please help test the new version and get the bugs out.
>
> I will be uploading new test versions onto the FTP server in the next
> couple of days.
>

Sounds great, thanks Heiko! I am successfully using latest test built 
version 1.4.3-2011-10-12-i686-server, I look forward to trying out 
64-bit DL 1.6 server when it is available at ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/

My only ongoing issues are that /mnt is read-only and that samba has to 
be run with the 'wide links = yes' fix (both logged in Mantis, though 
Mantis seems to be down at the moment). I hope DL 1.6 can fix these.

Oh, and I would prefer that the boot screen default was option 1 not 3 
(and not 0) - big screen is a pain for me.

Dominic