[Trinux-news] Trinux 0.80 RC1

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

Finally, after flirting with a major release for nearly six months, I am
getting very close now. Really the only thing left is to finalize the
documentation on the web site and add kernel modules and module packages.

Besides, the obvious kernel upgrades to 2.2.19 and 2.4.5 you can see the
major features for 0.80 listed at
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/roadmap.html. 

Probably the most significant improvement visible to the user is the
laptop-boot disks which should allow network booting with a single disk
for common PCMCIA cards such as 3Com, Xircom, Tulip-based, Intel
Etherexpress Pro. I've tested these on 4-5 different PCMCIA NICs. Probably
your best bet is to go with the 2.4.5 image, because I ran into some
problems with a Cardbus RealPort with 2.2.19, but it worked fine with the
3Com's. Let me know if you have any problems. The PCMCIA packages need to
be clean up, but for the most part, they work. These are also based on
busybox pre0.52 which saved a lot of space.

1474560 Jun 18 16:46 trinux-0.80rc1-2.2.19.img
1474560 Jun 18 17:01 trinux-0.80rc1-2.4.5.img

1474560 Jun 18 14:39 trinux-0.80rc1-laptop-2.2.19.img
1474560 Jun 18 11:46 trinux-0.80rc1-laptop-2.4.5.img

These should be available immediately at the following sites:

http://www.trinux.org/boot/
http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/boot/

And soon will begin to spread to the mirrors:

ftp://trinux.sourceforge.net/pub/trinux/boot/   # its actually up today!!!
ftp://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/metalab/Linux/distributions/trinux/boot/
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/trinux/boot/
http://ftp2.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/metalab/Linux/distributions/trinux/boot/

I have run into problems with Celeron-based Dell PowerApps (I based on the
a few google searches, other Celeron's have run into this problem as
well), where you have to pass the memory size to the kernel to avoid a
kernel panic with both 2.2.19 and 2.4.x. I will post instructions on the
website on how to do this.

-mdf

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