weekly news - 20040514
maintainer at lunar-linux.org
maintainer at lunar-linux.org
Fri May 14 11:45:10 GMT 2004
Hi!
Here's the latest weekly news edition!
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good afternoon!
This weeks news includes the teaser of a 2.6 ISO being in production, and
as nestu calls it, almost being finished (well, at least he says it is
booting...). The ISO will probably be slightly larger than the current
ISO image, and released hopefully soon (say within this month). People
interested should stay tuned. There are still some building difficulties
with 2.6 and headers, so all may not be as easy as it looks. Keep watching
out for nestu.
Niki has setup a patchset for 2.4.26 that is in testing. The announcement
can be read on the website and it is appreciated if people try out the
new set of kernel patches. The patchset includes the GRSEC patches as
well in the same tarball.
It has been an interesting week with updates as well. We saw the release
of Ximian Connector (in moonbase), plenty of core apps updated (lilo,
reiserfsprogs) and some changes (relocation of core fs tools to /sbin).
All in all I can say that there was some hard work done! Thanks everyone!
This also reminds me that there were a few minor adjustments in the core
code in theedge. Most notably people have noted that lunar rebuild and lunar
fix were looping endlessly. This should be fixed in theedge as of now. I'm
currently stress-testing theedge and hope to get to a merging point soon.
All in all theedge is reasonably decent now, but more testing is always
needed. Please report your findings to me!
/sofar
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New modules:
Addresses-0.4.5:
GNUMail-1.1.2: The complete and fast mail application for GNUstep
GWorkspace-0.6.3: GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager.
Gorm-0.7.5: GNUsteps easy-to-use interface designer.
LVM2-2.00.15: lvm is the logical volume manager
Pantomime-1.1.2: Pantomime provides a set of Objective-C classes that model a mail system.
User-1.6: PERL API for locating user information regardless of OS
WWW-Search-Ebay-2.192: PERL module for searching Ebay (US Site)
WWW-Search-2.47: PERL module for querying search engines
acpi-0.07: acpi tries to emulate the old apm command
bbkeys-0.8.6: A key-grabbing tool.
device-mapper-1.00.17: Supports logical volume management by the kernel.
gnome-btdownload-0.0.14: Gnome UI for BitTorrent
gnome-cpufreq-applet-0.1.3: CPUFreq Monitor Applet for Gnome
gnustep-back-0.9.2: It is a back-end component for the GNUstep GUI Library.
idesk-0.5.6: A desktop icon manager
koffice3-i18n-tg-1.3.1: koffice-i18n-* contains translated KOffice messages.
ksambaplugin-0.5: A Samba server configuration plugin for KDE.
kssh-0.7: KDE Secure Shell.
netdate-3.7: An network time client.
ruby-postgres-0.7.1: PostgreSQL bindings for Ruby
showeq-5.0.0.7_beta7: Realtime traffic analyzer for the game Everquest
smb4k-0.3.2: Smb4K is an SMB share browser for KDE.
tar-static-1.14: tar creates GNU tar archives (static linked version).
ximian-connector-1.4.7.1: Ximian Connector allows Evolution to talk to Exchange
Removed modules:
koffice3-i18n-lt
New versions:
ClanLib : 0.7.6-1 -> 0.7.8-1
MPlayer : 1.0pre3 -> 1.0pre4
ORBit2 : 2.10.1 -> 2.10.2
PyDS : 0.7.1 -> 0.7.2
Wine : 20040408 -> 20040505
bogofilter : 0.17.5 -> 0.90.0
dialog : 0.9b-20040316 -> 0.9b-20040421
discover : 2.0.1 -> 2.0.4
discover-data : 2.2002.10.17 -> 2.2004.04.09
doxygen : 1.3.6 -> 1.3.7
ffcall : 1.8d -> 1.9
gdm : 2.6.0.1 -> 2.6.0.2
gmp : 4.1.2 -> 4.1.3
gnome-applets2 : 2.6.0 -> 2.6.1
gnome-media2 : 2.6.1 -> 2.6.2
gnustep-base : 1.6.0 -> 1.9.1
gnustep-gui : 0.8.5 -> 0.9.2
gnustep-make : 1.6.0 -> 1.9.1
groff : 1.19 -> 1.19.1
kile : 1.6.2 -> 1.6.3
koffice3-i18n-af : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-bg : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-ca : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-cs : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-da : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-de : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-el : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-en_GB : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-eo : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-es : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-et : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-fa : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-fi : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-fr : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-he : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-hu : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-it : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-ja : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-lo : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-mt : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-nb : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-nl : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-nn : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-pl : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-pt : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-pt_BR : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-ru : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-se : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-sk : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-sl : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-sr : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-sv : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-th : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-tr : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-ven : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-xh : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-zh_CN : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-zh_TW : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
koffice3-i18n-zu : 1.3 -> 1.3.1
libsigc++ : 2.0.0 -> 2.0.1
lilo : 22.5.8 -> 22.5.9
lincvs : 1.3.1 -> 1.3.2
linux-beta : 2.6.6-rc3 -> 2.6.6
linux-beta-mm : 2.6.6-rc3-mm2 -> 2.6.6-mm2
lprng : 3.8.20 -> 3.8.27
mdadm : 1.3.0 -> 1.5.0
mod_ruby : 1.1.2 -> 1.2.0
muine : 0.6.0 -> 0.6.1
mysql : 4.0.18 -> 4.0.19
pine : 4.58 -> 4.60
postfix : 2.0.19 -> 2.1.1
qscintilla : 1.54 -> 1.60
reiserfsprogs : 3.6.14 -> 3.6.16
samba : 3.0.3 -> 3.0.4
speex : 1.1.4 -> 1.1.5
tar : 1.13.25
1.13.93 -> 1.14
xscreensaver : 4.15 -> 4.16
Moved modules:
tar : archive
zbeta -> archive
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