[Trinux-news] Trinux 0.71 Pre 1 Boot floppy release

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

I the first pre-release for 0.71 is now available:

ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/trinux/
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/img/


Trinux 0.71 (final) will be release on 20 September.  Yes, there is some
significance to that date ;)  A bootable ISO image with all the packages
(but configured *not* to load all of them) will be release in addition to
disk images.  This version will support PCMCIA cards so laptop users are
not longer in the dark.  Work has begun on Trinux-VPN, an FreeS/WAN based
IPSEC compatible VPN.  I have succesfully tested manual IPSEC between two
Trinux boxes.  If you are FreeS/WAN guru (I am not one, yet) subscribe to
the trinux-ipsec mailing list at
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/trinux-ipsec and give me a
hand.

Most of the changes relate to how packages can be loaded and the fact that
the /tux directory on the boot media is now consulted by
linuxrc. /tux/config contains files that can be modified with a text
editor to change the network configuration, the URL where packages can be
loaded, the names of the packages to be loaded, etc.  /tux/config/packages
contains a list of possible packages (as of this morning) while
/tux/config/pkglist is the file to modify if you want to add or delete
packages.  This file is also consulted if you are loading packages from a
CD-ROM.  If you burn all the packages from
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/pkg/ onto the root directory of an ISO CD
trinux will automatically detect it and load the packages specified by
pkglist (like network loading).  If no CD is found or the package server
can not be contacted (pinged) Trinux will default to floppy loading.

Please post any problems or questions about this release to the
trinux-beta mailing list.

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From the release notes

This contains the boot disk for the upcoming 0.71 release.  Assuming you
have dhcp and external connectivity, you should be able to boot trinux
with this along -- loading packages from 
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/pkg.



Changes:
- SIS900 Nic support Added
- Sample IRQ/IO probes in syslinux.cfg
- Network package loading (user selectable)
- CD package loading
- Automatic ramdisk configuration
- Package initialization scripts in /etc/init.d 
- Network configuration in /tux/config (boot floppy)
- Persistent configuration data in /tux on boot floppy via saveconfig
- Numerous new packages available at http://trinux.sourceforge.net/pkg/


-mdf

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Matthew Franz        mf...@ci...
Security Research Engineer
Security Technologies Assessment Team