[Morphix-announce] Morphix 0.5-pre4 "Elara" + LightGUI released!

[Alex de L. <al...@de...>]

In short: new base, new LightGUI iso. Get the goods from
http://www.morphix.org

We've had a year without any new official Morphix LiveCDs. Why? There
were a few reasons, namely the lack of a stable 2.6 overlay filesystem,
a lot of work that has gone into build-from-scratch tools and debian
packages and (probably more important) the fact that real life has
really been busy for me personally (new job, new home, my BSc AI and now
my MSc).=20

Although I have been working with groups like Ubuntu and UserLinux and
been releasing base ISOs on a fairly regular basis the delay of any
official Morphix ISOs has been embarrassing. Well, 2005 is off to a good
start: I've just uploaded a new LightGUI ISO with the 0.5-pre4 base
module, built from scratch using mmaker/isomaker. You can rebuild all
mmaker-modules using its /morphix/mod.xml file with mmaker.

This new release still is a pre-0.5 release. Its use is primarily to
find any new bugs caused by the autobuilding system, new cowloop
overlaying kernel module, 2.6.9 kernel, new
morphixinstaller/partitionmorpher and Grub bootloader. How quick the
other ISOs are updated depends on how quick I'll be able to release
0.5-pre5 (or, heaven forbid, 0.5 proper). Cowloop will probably be
replaced by unionfs once the 2.6 branch of unionfs picks up speed.

Anyway, have fun with the new LightGUI! For transition information see
README.transition on the ISO. For info on included Morphix tools see
README.tools.

Changelog:
02-01-2005 (version 0.5-pre4 base + LightGUI - "Elara")

base:
- added 2.6.9 kernel
- added slideshow at boottime, hooks in miniroot
- added cowloop overlaying instead of mini_fo/translucency
- updated hwdata

lightgui:
- using os-cillation xfce4.2 debian packages
- built from scratch using mmaker >=3D 0.4-12 and Debian sid
- firefox 1.0, thunderbird 0.9-6
- rebuilt Morphixinstaller, Partition morpher
- including Morphix control panel, configuration tools
- added latest morphing-tools metapackage

happy morphing,

Alex

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