The LFS LiveCD Team is proud to announce the release of the 6.3-r2160 stable version of the LFS LiveCD for x86 and x86_64 architectures.
The CD contains the LFS book (version 6.3 for x86 CD, and its unofficial x86_64 equivalent for x86_64), and a lot of software that you need to build your own LFS system, ask for support and perform various recovery tasks. For each architecture, the CD is available in -min, -nosrc and full variants. The -min CD contains only a text-mode environment, -nosrc adds the X window system and the Xfce desktop, while the full CD also contains all LFS source tarballs. All of the above variants are suitable as hosts for building x86 and x86_64 LFS and CLFS systems. There are the following user-visible changes as compared to the 6.3-r2145 release: * Speechd-up has been patched in order to be able to recognize one-character messages from git snapshots of speakup properly. This fixes the inability of visually-impaired users to examine punctuation characters (which are important, e.g., in command lines) and to distinguish between upper- and lowercase letters. * The Xfmedia player has been replaced with gxine due to old video-related bugs and upstream inactivity. If these changes don't affect your setup, there is no reason to upgrade. Note that the speechd-up and speech-dispatcher maintainer has not responded timely to my bug report about the "speech-dispatcher listens on 0.0.0.0 without access controls" security issue and has not responded at all to the "single character messages are not recognized as such" bug report (http://lists.freebsoft.org/pipermail/speechd/2007q4/000977.html). The last commit in speechd-up repository happened 9 months ago. There are severe problems (kernel crashes!) with copying and pasting text in speakup. This, essentially, means that speakup is dead and will not be present on the next development version of the LFS LiveCD. Feedback is requested from its users about possible migration paths: 1) replace speakup with a purely userspace solution for a console screen reader (yasr, http://yasr.sourceforge.net/) 2) maybe stop providing accessibility on the console (and note that Fedora 8 doesn't provide console screen readers at all), default to starting X, and use one of GNOME-based screen readers. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-announce FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
