aptosid 2011-03

aptosid is a desktop-oriented distribution and live CD based on the unstable branch of Debian GNU/Linux. This project was originally created by a group of developers who split from the KANOTIX project and launched their own distribution.


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· New features in aptosid 2011-03 "Πόνος" are in particular kernel 3.1 and numerous integration and stabilisation fixes. Special focus has been cast upon improving the system compatibility with new hardware platforms and various corner cases. Kernel 3.1 doesn't only improve and stabilise hardware support for newer devices, it also improves latency and general system performance, particularly vastly improved I/O scheduling for lvm2/ mdadm on SSDs.

· Among the new features are inital XEN dom0 and PCI passthrough support as well as nested virtualization for kvm on intel and amd CPUs. The graphics arena provides improved support for Intel sandy bridge graphics (HD2000/ HD3000) and for AMD llano graphics, just like nouveau starting to provide basic support for the GeForce 4xx/ 5xx series and bringing 3d capabilities to selected chipsets. Subsystem support for DVB-T2 devices and the first devices is now available.

· The networking subsystem now offers wake on wlan support (WoWLAN) and support for various new RealTek and Broadcom devices.

· GPT and UEFI reliability have been improved, which allows harddisks exceeding 2 TiB and their use for booting on new systems using UEFI instead of the traditional PC-BIOS.

· As usual, a large number of individual functionality enhancements and bugfixes have been applied to the full package line up and aptosid's own packages, in order to improve the general distribution infrastructure. The past months have allowed us to take special care of the small aspects in many packages, to improve general policy compliance and functionality.

· We'd like to thank our sponsor Webtropia (part of myLoc managed IT AG), who provides 3 dedicated servers for our development– and hosting infrastructure and are looking forward to a lasting and successful co-operation with this fine hosting business. With the new servers from myLoc managed IT AG we are finally able to have proper technical solutions for our needs, e.g. fully separated hardware for fast kernel- and ISO-building, and an extra server for running all our other sites in virtual machines (lab.aptosid.com, manual.aptosid.com, etc.). All our servers are running our own server version of aptosid.