morphix-announce

[Alex de L. <ale...@xs...>]

Hey all, 

New LightGUI, KDE and Gnome combined iso's have been uploaded, Game is on it's
way. What are the biggest changes? Well, after the recent poll I've renamed
Morphix HeavyGUI to Morphix Gnome, and it has Gnome 2.4 together with a host of
updates. Gnome and KDE themes have been changed, improved installer, LUFS has
been added, the list goes on and on. Also, I've made an OOo minimodule people
could use together with mainmodules without it.

Partitionmorpher, IsomorphGUI and MCP havn't been included yet, but hoping to
have some packages for users to play with soon. If you can't wait hit the CVS,
do backup your data if you want to play around with PM.

Also, with the announcement of an Arabic version, the rise of Hindi IndLinux's
popularity and releases of Aquamorph and others, I've opened a forum on
Community Morph's for questions people might have. As I don't know much about
them and some don't have their own forum's or mailinglists yet, this might be a
good temprorary solution for aspiring morphers.

Anyway, read more for the changelog. We havn't been slacking these last 2 months
Want to jump to the downloads straight away?
LightGUI:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/MorphixCombined-LightGUI-0.4-1.iso?download
Gnome:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/MorphixCombined-Gnome-0.4-1.iso?download
KDE:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/morphix/MorphixCombined-KDE-0.4-1.iso?download

Will upload minimodules and the other mainmodules shortly

Changes since 0.4-0

base:
- fixed problem with some pc's not able to boot
- added a new 2.4.21-xfs kernel, 2.4.22 seems to be having some
problems
- added cloop 1.02, all modules now use new format (see
README.conversion, also for new loadmod.sh for 0.4-0c users)
- with the new cloop, more than 4 minimodules can be used together
- added toram/tohd/fromhd options
- morph user created on the fly, passwd/shadow/group of mainmodule
used, fixes gdm-problems and countless others
- locale.gen no longer copied from base
- new nvidia drivers used with xmodule=nvidia bootoption (4496)
- added /deb, /exec and /copy dirs (these replace the
deb-morph,exec-morph and tgz-morph minimodules, see README.cdrom
for details)
- added LUFS (mounting of ssh/ftp like a normal
filesystem). Together with the previous point, I'm sure people can
find numerous interesting uses :)
- kernel has ntfs, v4l2, acpi patches. latter is only activated
with acpi=on
- quite a few differences between Knoppix resolved
- memtest86 added to boot.img, start with memtest bootlabel
- new bootoptions (F2) screen, with a larger subsection of
bootoptions. And our favorite mascotte, naturally
- added autorun+index.html
- the use of supermount instead of autofs
- fixed problem of FAT/NTFS mounting
- added apt-pinning in /etc/apt/preferences. When upgrading, new
packages are only used from Debian Sarge (testing) instead of Sid
when they are newer than the current packages. Should make
installed Morphix/Debian less likely to break when upgrading...

main:
- all mainmodules updated to Morphix sid of 21/09/03
- Morphix HeavyGUI has been renamed to Morphix-Gnome
- Morphix-Gnome has been updated to use Gnome 2.4. Do note that
Mozilla is the main browser, not Galeon or Epiphany. Won't favour
one over the other, so save your breath
- Morphix-KDE has been updated to 3.1.3
- improved installer added, with commandline options, extra
commandline UI and preliminary auto-install possibilities with
pre-partitioned drive (partitionmorpher hasn't been included, yet)
- networkconf now also works for wlan-devices and lets you set
WEP-thingies. Seems to work pretty well
- mkpersistanthome has been fixed (hopefully)
- added different desktopicon's for Gnome & KDE. Put
Morphix-specifics in Gnome-application submenu instead of drawer
(great desktop, but the one who thought up the current way of
menu-customizationing should wake up and do something about it imo)
- Light, KDE have had their entries fixed, all modules cleaned up
- added number of extra games to Morphix-Game (have to look them up)
- added list of ad-servers to block in Firebird and Mozilla
- changed default mousecursors to RH's black shadow. Was thinking
about using the infamous Tux Cursors, but could just barely stop myself
(http://kdelook.org/content/show.php?content=5359)
- Morphix-Gnome, Morphix-KDE now have different themes (Keramik
was getting a bit old)

mini:
- Openoffice.org minimodule made, Morphix-Gnome has OOo builtin
though
- wine-minimodule added to Morphix-Gnome and Morphix-KDE combined
isos
- updated all minimodules, use slightly better way for
OTF-configuration, and now use more recent Debian sid
packages. Still no good integration with Debian proper, WIP.
- deb-morph, exec-morph and tgz-morph removed, redundant with new
base module

Cheers,
Alex