Author: randy Date: 2008-05-12 09:14:48 -0600 (Mon, 12 May 2008) New Revision: 960
Added: html/trunk/blfs/6.3-release_notes.html Log: Created a BLFS-6.3 Release Notes page Added: html/trunk/blfs/6.3-release_notes.html =================================================================== --- html/trunk/blfs/6.3-release_notes.html (rev 0) +++ html/trunk/blfs/6.3-release_notes.html 2008-05-12 15:14:48 UTC (rev 960) @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +<!--#set var="pageTitle" value="BLFS 6.3 Release Notes" --> +<!--#include virtual="header.html" --> +<!--#include virtual="menu.html" --> + <div class="main"> + <h1>BLFS 6.3 Release Notes</h1> + <p>BLFS version 6.3 is the complement to the LFS 6.3 book. It has been + 15 months since the last release of BLFS and almost nine months since LFS-6.3 + was released. Though we would like to release BLFS versions as quickly as + possible after an LFS release, this version lagged a bit due to Editor + inactivity. However, early on in 2008 several new Editors were brought on + board which helped stimulate a flurry of activity. Many new packages have + been introduced in the 6.3 version, as well as many updates, refinements and + additions to the existing packages.</p> + + <p>The BLFS book now provides build and configuration instructions for + almost 500 packages (many more than that if you want to count each individual + package in the autotooled X Window instructions). Some of the new packages + introduced in this version are: + Dash, ksh, D-Bus bindings, Wireshark (formerly named Ethereal), rxvt-unicode, + Gutenprint (formerly name Gimp-Print), Pidgin (formerly name Gaim), GnuTLS + (and many of its dependencies), Qt version 4.x, GnuPG version 2.x, and + Amarok. Major updates include GNOME-2.18.3 (with several new GNOME packages), + KDE-3.5.9, Firefox-2.x, Thunderbird-2.x, and most (if not all) of the + mainline server packages. As always, the list of packages that have been + upgraded or added as well as configuration and build command changes are + annotated in the ChangeLog.</p> + + <p>As always, the main thrust of BLFS development will be to support + the changes in the current LFS development book, but we're releasing this + version of BLFS so that builders of the stable LFS book can continue on + into BLFS with known good instructions that should be 100% compatible to + provide a semi current and very stable Linux platform.</p> + + <p>Enjoy!</p> + + <h2>BLFS-6.3-rc1 Download Notes</h2> + + <p>For an HTML version you can read on-line, go to + <a href="./view/6.3-rc1/">an HTML version on your local mirror</a>. + For a PDF version you can read on-line, go to + <a href="./view/6.3-rc1/BLFS-6.3-rc1.pdf">a PDF version on your + local mirror</a>.</p> + + <p>You can download the HTML or PDF version in compressed formats by + choosing any of the following links below:</p> + + <p> + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.tar.bz2">HTML bzipped tarball</a> - 588Kb - + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.tar.bz2.md5sum">MD5sum</a><br/> + + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.tar.gz">HTML gzipped tarball</a> - 921Kb - + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.tar.gz.md5sum">MD5sum</a><br/> + + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1-nochunks.html.bz2">bzipped single HTML file</a> - 536Kb - + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1-nochunks.html.bz2.md5sum">MD5sum</a><br/> + + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1-nochunks.html.gz">gzipped single HTML file</a> - 825Kb - + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1-nochunks.html.gz.md5sum">MD5sum</a><br/> + + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.pdf.bz2">PDF bzipped tarball</a> - 2.6Mb - + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.pdf.bz2.md5sum">MD5sum</a><br/> + + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.pdf.gz">PDF gzipped tarball</a> - 2.7Mb + <a href="./downloads/6.3/BLFS-6.3-rc1.pdf.gz.md5sum">MD5sum</a> + </p> + + <p>If you have <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/";>Subversion</a> + installed, you can check out the actual XML sources by issuing + the following command:<br/><br/> + + svn checkout svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/tags/6.3-rc1</p> + +<!--#include virtual="/common/footer.html" --> Property changes on: html/trunk/blfs/6.3-release_notes.html ___________________________________________________________________ Name: svn:executable + * -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/website FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
