April 22nd, 2013· UEFI support added on 64bit systems.
· Hibernation is TuxOnIce by default.
· BFQ I/O scheduler supported.
· Optional support for complete kernel removal when removing the calculate-sources package.
· Calculate Utilities can now backup configuration files (Gentoo compatible); we've also added a module that handles modifications, like dispatch-conf always did. It comes both in a console and a GUI version.
· The installer provides more advanced autopartitioning options.
· The new naming convention for network interfaces has been applied.
· Network Linux clients should now boot faster when the network is down.
· Added synchronization profiles of domain users on reboot or power off.
· The IRC client in CLDG and CLDX will be HexChat instead of XChat.
· CLD now uses GParted as the GUI partition manager.
· GNOME3 is no longer supported, as CLDG now features GNOME 2. We'll not be supporting Gnome in next versions.
December 28th, 2012System:
· Meta-packages are no longer used to manage default dependencies.
· Portage files will be unpacked when booting for the first time.
· Better identification of NTFS partitions.
· Fixed the user profile configuration for VMware.
· Composite enabled by default for VMware.
· Should you want to replace main applications, their launch icons will be created correctly.
· In case the user modified the local Portage/overlay repositories, those can now be restored.
Calculate Utilities:
· Calculate Utilities were updated to 3.1.
· Full French translation now available.
New features added for Calculate Console:
· joining host to a Calculate Directory Server domain;
· configuring user sessions;
· changing user passwords;
· viewing and editing variables' values for Calculate Utilities;
· world update.
New configuration events added:
· Portage update;
· package removal.
· Meet a new tool, calculate-update: for the time being, it only handles the world file, but will be able to do much more soon.
· More functionality for configuration templates.
Desktop versions:
Calculate Linux Desktop KDE:
· KDE was updated to 4.9.4.
Calculate Linux Desktop GNOME:
· GNOME was updated to 3.4;
· AxeMenu replaced the standard menu;
· the Parcellite clipboard will be used from now on.
Calculate Linux Desktop XFCE:
· a modified Adwaita theme is now used as the default one;
· Elementary comes as the default icon theme;
· the Geany IDE was added;
· the Shotwell photo manager was added;
· Catfish was integrated to the file manager for more efficient search;
· we switched to SMplayer as the default video player;
· Claws-Mail now comes with the Address Keeper plugin for address auto-completion.
· All dictionary packages were removed, for a slimmer distribution.
· Each CL edition is now featuring its own appearance theme.
Server versions:
Calculate Directory Server:
· now able to run Jabber services with StartTLS;
· SMTP authentication added.
December 13th, 2012System:
· Meta-packages are no longer used to manage default dependencies.
· Each CL edition is now featuring its own appearance theme.
· Portage files will be unpacked when booting for the first time.
Calculate Utilities:
· Calculate Utilities were updated to 3.1 beta 2.
New features added for Calculate Console:
· configuring user sessions;
· changing user passwords;
· joining host to a Calculate Directory Server domain;
· viewing and editing variables' values for Calculate Utilities;
· world update.
New configuration events were added:
· Portage update;
· package removal.
· Meet a new tool, calculate-update: for the time being, it only handles the world file, but will be able to do much more soon.
· More functionality for configuration templates.
Desktop versions:
Calculate Linux Desktop KDE:
· KDE was updated to 4.9.4.
Calculate Linux Desktop GNOME:
· GNOME was updated to 3.4;
· AxeMenu replaced the standard menu;
· the Parcellite clipboard will be used from now on.
Calculate Linux Desktop XFCE:
· a modified Adwaita theme is now used as the default one;
· Elementary comes as the default icon theme;
· the Geany IDE was added;
· we switched to SMplayer as the default video player;
· Claws-Mail now comes with the Address Keeper plugin for address auto-completion.
· All dictionary packages were removed, for a slimmer distribution.
Server versions:
Calculate Directory Server:
· now able to run Jabber services with StartTLS;
· SMTP authentication will be added in the final release.
June 30th, 2011Installation:
· Added support for selecting the network manager between OpenRC and NetworkManager.
· Added support of network configuration to the console installer.
Booting:
· For better support the devices and booting speed up Udev has been integrated into initramfs livecd.
· Grub2 is the boot loader by default.
· Added detection of installed operating systems.
Graphics:
· Added screen splash auto-resolution.
· Added video driver choice menu. Additionally the nouveau and the proprietary ati driver are supported.
· Free video driver with support for KMS are used by default.
· Nvidia is no longer a pre-driver and is installed on demain at first boot.
· Distribution
· Used XZ compression format for livecd image.
· Using the hybrid ISO images with support for recording to CD and USB Flash.
· To Calculate Scratch Server set up a repository of binary packages.
Other:
· Added integration with the Web service http://pastebin.calculate-linux.org.
· In the CDS adds support for storing the history of e-mail letters.
· Shorewall has been included in the CDS for the firewall configuration.
· Added support for Portuguese and Romanian languages.
June 29th, 2009· All additinal packages are collected from the ebuild files Calculate Overlay. Thus Calculate Directory Server is 100% compatible with Gentoo.
· Support of Italian and Polish languages has been added.
· Support of the Proxy service with user authorization in LDAP has been added. So, the user group determines the range of avalible ports.
· Support of Samba group setting in the LDAP server has been added.
· Support of setting for some Jabber service hosts has been added.
· Isolinux has used for booting from the DVD.
· When you boot from CD you can choice the keyboards layout now.
· Support of booting from CD into the memory with the taking it off has been added.
· Unmask of unstable programm version has been made in accordance with the last available system version at the assembling time.
· The compatibility during the boot from USB DVD has been improved.
· Сomposition: Bind 9.4.3-P2, Kernel 2.6.28.10, OpenLDAP 2.4.16, Postfix 2.5.5, ProFTPD 1.3.2, Samba 3.0.33.
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