[Syllable-announce] Syllable 0.4.4 is now available!

[Kristian V. D. V. <va...@li...>]

Hello everyone,

Syllable 0.4.4 is now available!  The complete changes for Syllable 0.4.4 are 
as follows:

Kernel
	o Auto-detection of the boot device (For booting from CD's with Grub)

Drivers
	o ISO-9660 filesystem, which includes RockRidge extensions support.  Thanks
	   to Ville Kallioniemi <vil...@ab...> for the port and bug
	   fixing.
	o ATA/ATAPI driver, with support for CD and DVD drives.
		o The BIOS driver now ignores hard drives unless explicitly told otherwise
		   by a kernel parameter.
	o SiS 3xx video driver from Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...>
	o VT82xx audio driver from Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...>
	o Fixes to the emu10k1 (Creative SB Live!) driver and now support for
	   Creative Audigy cards too.

Libatheos & Appserver
	o Patches from Arno Klenke <arn...@ya...> that add Video Overlays.
	   This is currently supported with the nVidia, Mach64 and SiS3xx drivers.
	   MPlayer 0.9.0 packages are available.
	o Anti-Aliasing can now be disabled system-wide on a Font by Font basis.
	o Support for dead keys added to appserver and TextView class
		o Keymap file format changed (to support dead keys), all keymaps converted

Misc
	o Screen & Font preferences applications have been updated to reflect
	   Appserver changes
	o Some icons have been added/changed
	o The mga_generic (Matrox) driver has been temporarily moved out of the
	   appserver drivers directory as it is non-functional for many people.  You
	   can find this driver in the /system/drivers/appserver/video/Matrox/
	   directory.
	o Fixed compile errors when using pthread.h

Applications
	o Upgraded Archiver to latest version
	o More desktop updates and fixes
	o Groff, Diffutil and Man have been removed from the base installation;
	   these are now available as seperate installable packages.

If you are already running Syllable 0.4.3 then you only need to download the 
Syllable-0.4.3-0.4.4-upgrade.tar.gz file.  If you wish to install from 
scratch then you may download the ISO image and install from that.

If you do not wish to or cannot download the ISO image I am also selling 
Syllable CD's  See http://syllable.sourceforge.net for more information.

The boot floppy disks have not been updated for this release as none of the 
changes made in 0.4.4 make any difference to them.  If you install from 
floppies then you may notice some small difference between the installation 
enviroment and the final installation of Syllable.

There are also some special instructions to note if you are upgrading from 
Syllable 0.4.3:

The appserver can now disable Anti Aliasing for fonts.  Once you have 
upgraded and rebooted Anti Aliasing will be disabled due to differences in 
the appserver config file.  To re-enable Anti Aliasing, simply open the Fonts 
preferences application and ensure that Anti Aliasing is enabled for every 
font and re-apply the changes.

The new ATA/ATAPI driver is installed but your Grub menu.lst fill *will not* 
be changed to match!  You must edit this file yourself *before* you reboot.

The new ATA driver will export the drives to /dev/disk/ide/??  rather than 
the BIOS drives /dev/disk/bios  You must change your root path and kernel 
modules to match these changes.  An example menu.lst is shown below.

     title  Syllable

     root   (hd0,1)
     kernel /atheos/sys/kernel.so root=/dev/disk/ide/hda/1
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/fs/afs
     module /atheos/sys/drivers/dev/disk/ata

For those of you who have a graphics card that supports video overlays, I 
shall be making MPlayer 0.9.0 packages available soon.

Have fun, and thank you everyone who has helped to put this version of 
Syllable together!

-- 
Vanders
http://syllable.sourceforge.net/
http://www.liqwyd.com