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Fresh development build with kernel 3.12.6 available
I just uploaded a fresh development build that uses kernel 3.12. The biggest change however ist the move to Gtk3 for some applications.
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Major changes ahead: Moving to Gtk3
You probably noticed that LessLinux uses Gtk2 only. Even applications like Abiword, Gnumeric and some of the Gnome tools are older versions – some three years old, partially taken from Gnome 2.32. The background of this decision was to provide a persistent look and feel as well as to keep the size smaller. This is […]
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Fresh stable build available: Kernel 3.9.4, UEFI Support and many more
After kernel 3.8.13 was declared EOL I switched to kernel 3.9 and moved the build system to GCC 4.8.0. Besides the new kernel this release adds lots of changes and improvements.
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Massive changes ahead – UEFI secure boot soon to be supported
We are working on our first images that work on UEFI secure boot as well as on normal BIOSes. This is quite a challenge, since until now images were prepared with genisoimage and later patched with isohybrid to contain a partition table. This resulted in images that could either written to CD or to USB […]
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Test build with kernel 3.8.0 available (unstable)
I just uploaded the first build containing linux kernel 3.8.0. Besides the new kernel, glibc got updated to 2.17. The most significant change is that now a (cross compiled) kernel for x86_64 is included. If necessary it will be accompagnied by a 64 bit busybox in one of the next builds. So currently three kernels […]
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Building LessLinux – stage03, the final ISO
So now you are ready building the chroot environment – then it is time to assemble the final ISO. To do this you need an overlay containing some configuration files for the bootloader. I packaged such an overlay for the current LessLinux Search and Rescue: lesslinux-search-and-rescue-uluru-20110202-155012-overlays-en.tar.bz2. You’ll find more recent overlays here: http://download.lesslinux.org/overlays/, but when […]
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Building LessLinux – stage02
Besides the switch to SQLite there are other big changes regarding the build of stage02, which is the population of the chroot environment: LessLinux now supports tracking of dependencies after building packages. This allows to define the order of packages to build. As a consequence of the dependency tracking it is now also possible to […]
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Building LessLinux – stage01
Many changes were added since my first description of how to build LessLinux. There are two major changes that are worth noting most: We switched from MySQL to SQLite3 as database during build LessLinux is self containing now, this means you can use LessLinux to build LessLinux to build LessLinux… The stage01 build of LessLinux […]
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Gnumeric and Abiword included, firmware fixed
Build lesslinux-20090626-1010.iso lesslinux-20090626-1435.iso fixes firmware loading issues with lots of WLAN cards and adds some new applications (Evince Document Viewer, Gnumeric Spreadsheet, AbiWord, File-Roller):
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Presenting Matt’s Magical Mount Manager
Another build, another new tool: mmmm is a simple yet efficient mount manager that clearly shows to which physical drive a volume belongs: mmmm is built around the XML output of lshw and uses just Ruby and Ruby/Gtk. No DBUS, HAL or Policy Kit required which makes it attractive for builds that try to be […]