After a long time of silence the LEAF Bering-uClibc team announces the first beta version of LEAF Bering-uClibc 4.0.
Bering-uClibc 4.0 is basically Bering-uClibc 3.x brought up to date with the latest versions of the main software components. But the most important changes are: - The Linux kernel is upgraded from 2.4.x to 2.6.x. - The uClibc library is upgraded from 0.9.28 to 0.9.30. - Upgrade of shorewall to the perl-based current version incl. shorewall6. Obviously an easy upgrade path can't be provided - we're sorry for that. These changes bring both advantages and disadvantages compared to Bering-uClibc 3.x. The main disadvantage is that the distribution is much larger which means it no longer has any chance of being hosted on floppy disk media. The main advantages are: - Hardware-specific kernel module loading has been partially automated, resulting in less of a requirement to understand which combination of modules is required on a particular hardware platform. - The upgraded version of Shorewall requires a full installation of the Perl interpreter. This makes it possible to run other services which require Perl. - Proper stateful connection tracking for IPv6 is only supported from kernel version 2.6.24 onwards. As important as the software and infrastructure work (see below) looks like, even more we appreciate to welcome new developers, who signed for the biggest tasks moving LEAF Bering-uClibc forward. Namely Andrew, who became lead developer for the kernel, uclibc and all the related hard stuff and DavidMBrooke, who mainly worked on (building) the new images and moving the documentation to mediawiki. Work on Bering-uClibc 4.x started in April 2010, with Andrew as the lead developer and contributions from kapeka, Erich Titl and davidMbrooke among others. The development was mostly completed beginning November 2010, with multiple Alpha test systems "in production" for weeks. So it can't be that bad :) For bug reports, requests, etc. please use the new TRAC interface: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/leaf/ Please let us know if you run into issues using TRAC. The documentation has been moved to mediawiki: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/leaf/index.php?title=Main_Page The documentation is still work in progress, though it's a lot easier to maintain current documentation and create new chapters/pages than before - feel free to help improving it. See also https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/leaf/index.php?title=Bering-uClibc_4 .x_-_Changelog for a complete Changelog. This first version after that major changes has some shortcomings: read https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/leaf/index.php?title=Bering-uClibc_4 .x_-_Known_Issues for currently known issues. We know that saying goodbye to the floppy version may hurt, on the other hand we provide new images that has been optimized for different architectures: Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_geode_syslinux_ser.tar.gz - optimized for Geode CPU and seriell interface (e.g. ALIX Boards) Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i686_isolinux_vga.iso - CD image optimized for i686 CPU with VGA interface Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_isolinux_vga.iso - CD image optimized for i486 CPU with VGA interface Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i686_syslinux_vga.tar.gz - optimized for i686 CPU with VGA interface to load from hd/cf Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_i486_syslinux_vga.tar.gz - optimized for i486 CPU with VGA interface to load from hd/cf Bering-uClibc_4.0-beta1_src.tar - the complete sources tarball (as required by SF) You can download the images from FRS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leaf/files/ Thanks for your attention. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
