This new version is now available for download. The only user
visible change is that Conectiva 8.0 can now be installed. If
you do not wish to install that distro, then there is no
reason to upgrade.
Conectiva 8 does have a 'Really Minimal' install that is quite
impressive. It uses around 80MB of disk space, and once
booted there are exactly two processes (syslogd and klogd).
It is quite strange to have a top listing only go halfway
down the screen.
Unfortunately the GDM and KDM that come with Conectiva 8
won't run against Xnest (neither the one supplied by
Conectiva nor the standard one I bundle in UML Builder).
This means that the nice pretty graphical login won't
work.
You can still however use 'startx' and similar commands
to get your X sessions after logging on a text console.
(BTW if anyone knows how to fix this I would greatly
appreciate it. Something similar happens on other
distributions sometimes, but I work around it by
finding a different display manager. The logs show
an allocation failure to do with fonts).
On the developer side, there are two changes. The first
is the addition of a Python script that will convert
a Redhat style comps file (the one listing the various
rpms that make up a component) into Python code that can
be pasted into a profile definition.
The other change is to allow a module to be hidden from
view. The comps files use this quite heavily on some
distros, and it keeps the module listing less cluttered.
Roger
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