016.01 alpha
Pre-release
Pre-release
First snapshot of GoboLinux 016.01. It features the following improvements over 016:
- Support for Core2 processors (upgrades to GCC and GMP packages)
- Compile bug fix: fixes missing files when building dependencies of a program
- Compile bug fix: enables compilation of packages on the LiveCD
- Fixes Xorg support on VirtualBox and VMware
- Fixes path to SSL certificates
- Fixes to LibFFI's pkgconfig file
- Improves the detection of other operating systems when creating the GRUB config file
- Kernel command line: adds 'rootwait' option to enable installation on external hard disks
- Kernel: adds virtualization drivers for HyperV
- Automatic updates BOOTx64.EFI on UEFI systems upon the compilation of a new kernel
- Grub settings no longer have to be changed upon a kernel upgrade (it now uses the /System/Kernel/Boot/kernel symlink)
- Improves navigation of man and info pages through updated Pinfo settings
- Includes missing locale files from LibX11
- Creates missing links from DocBook-XSL-Stylesheets
New packages and package updates:
- Adds CryptSetup: enables mounting of encrypted partitions from the LiveCD
- Adds Listener: automatically cleans up broken links upon the removal of entries from /Programs
- Updates the Linux kernel to version 4.9.4
- Updates BootScripts to remove warnings at shutdown and reboot time
- Updates Scripts to use unionfs-fuse sandboxing on the LiveCD
- Updates OpenSSL to version 1.0.2k
- Updates Linux-Firmware from git
- Updates Firefox to version 52.0
- Updates Awesome to version 4.0
- Updates Python 3.6.0 package, including support for the tkinter module
- Updates Gobo-Awesome to 0.3
- Updates Gobo-Awesome-Sound to 0.2
- Updates GoboNet to 0.9 and Gobo-Awesome-GoboNet to 0.2
- Updates OS-Prober (improved detection of other operating systems)
- Removes NCSA-Mosaic + dependencies. It was fun to ship 016 with that ancient browser, but that's enough now :)