What's new in CDlinux 0.9.4
Sep 4, 2009
- This is a maintenance release with several bug and security fixes and a few new features.
- All major packages were upgraded to their latest versions.
- An mc-archiver script was added to help thunar handle more archive formats.
- Support for more new and legacy video cards was added.
- Support for reiserfs4 was added again.
- The Intel video driver (KMS + DRI2 + GEM + UXA) was upgraded to the latest version.
- A bug in cups.conf was fixed.
- A conflict between mount_dev and the persist script was fixed.
New in CDlinux 0.9.3 (Jul 21, 2009)
- a possible race between amount and hal
- a bug that prevents udev's persistent rules from working properly
- a bug that may make cdlinux fail to save persistent data - Thanks Andrei Mircea for identifying this bug
New in CDlinux 0.9.2 (Feb 28, 2009)
- This release fixed a bug in the install wizard. Installing to the Windows C: drive works again.
- It is now possible to boot the ISO image directly and install without burning a CD.
- A bug in rc.swap that caused CDlinux to fail to set up pagefile.sys as swap on some VFAT partitions wa s fixed.
- A bug in the cups package was fixed, and printing now works again.
- Wine was downgraded to 1.0.1. qt-x11-opensource 4.4.3, Opera 10.00.4102, smplayer 0.6.6, gmlive 0.21.2, xfburn 0.4.1, and gparted 0.4.3 were included.
New in CDlinux 0.9.1 (Feb 13, 2009)
- This release adds a new GUI installation/upgrade wizard.
- The "persistent mode" code has been rewritten, and persistent data is saved as a squashfs image.
- fcitx has been replaced with scim to support IM for more locales.
- There is full support for de_DE, en_CA, en_GB, fr_CA, fr_FR, ja_JP, and ru_RU.
- There is support for "Safe Graphics Mode" in case the native Xorg driver failed.
- It determines whether to run in RAM or loop mode more intelligently.
- There is some fine-tuning to improve performance on machines with lesser memory.
- There are many package upgrades.
New in CDlinux 0.9.0 (Dec 20, 2008)
- This release is a major step toward version 1.0. There are many changes and enhancements, including support for "persistent mode", auto save/restore user changes support for printing, support for booting directly from an ISO image, Samba client and printing support, support for Java, a new boot splash image, and a revised and more efficient package management system.
New in CDlinux 0.6.2 (Oct 10, 2008)
- smart handling codepage (FAT/NTFS) of hotplugable media;
- power management support (ACPI/CPUfreq);
- auto guessing current time zone; multimedia keyboard support;
- booting from Linux RAID and ATA RAID;
- improved support for newer hardware (video, WLAN, Linux UVC), and several new GUI configuration tools (more details in the changelog).
- This release ships with Linux kernel 2.6.26.6, X.Org 7.3, Xfce 4.4.2, and a bundle of carefully selected popular applications.