Changes comparing to slax-remix-v07:
1) New kernel - 2.6.35.3 more info:
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/W ... 47707.html
2) kernel config:
- aufs and pcmcia drivers are compiled in (*) - no point to load them at every boot. number of aufs branches reduced to 511.
- enabled devtmpfs - faster booting
- kms on radeon is enabled by default - seems to be mature enough.
- jfs as (*)
- support for usb ATM devices is back (thanks crashman for bug report)
- added support for LSI Logic MegaRaid SAS module (travis request) and Adaptec AIC7902 for Ultra320 SCSI controllers (cch request)
- disabled watchdog drivers (blacklisted in slackware anyway), if you want any of them - let me know.
- disabled all drivers and features marked as DEPRECATED (marked for removal) which has never equivalents (some of them could cause hang during udevadm -trigger stage)
3) Boot folder
- slax.cfg: cmdline row moved one line up - was still conflicting when editing pxeboot option
- initrd: updated busybox to ver 1.17.1 - removed unnecessary applets and added few more useful ones
- updated memorytest86 to latest version (thanks to ebhomepc)
- when copy2ram cheatcode is used root partition will be unmounted like it was before v07 release - needed for fsck
- optimized linuxrc and liblinuxlive for slax-remix needs
- added utf8 string to /usr/share/locale/locale.alias in initrd so users can now use 'locale=utf8' cheatcode when their system uses UTF-8 encoding.
- added warning about MS filesystems and info about slaxsave.dat container to installation scripts (bootinst.sh, bootinst.bat, liloinst.sh)
Slax folder
- updated /slax/cheatcodes.txt with undocumented cheatcodes and slax-remix specific ones
4) 001-core
- updated to slackware-current
- rebuilded rc.S, rc.M and rc.4 scripts once again so modules containing kernel drivers are depmod'ed before udevadm operates, lvm2 automount is now aware of noauto i nohd cheatcodes, speedup tweaks etc
- fixed rc.6 script so all devices are unmounted correctly with changes=/slax cheatcode, also all /var/run/.pid files are removed during slax shutdown (beny's request)
- output of crond goes is redirected to /dev/null during boot (bour59 request)
- LC_ALL=C is back in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh (thanks to kenney), also locale_id is back if someone doesnt like language-selection-tool
- Slax CD/DVD in automounted in /mnt directory (not all discs - just Slax) (new2slaxuser suggestion)
- enabled fsck for linux partitions (also root partition with copy2ram), if 'fsck' cheatcode is present - highly recommended
- 'verbose mode on' for 'dir2lzm' and 'lzm2dir' tools (thanks Syntux for bug report)
- /tmp and /var/tmp have writing permissions for normal users again (also Syntux)
- added missing 'pcimodules' symlink to /mnt/live/bin/pcimodules (missing also in slax-6.1.2)
- moved LST files from /usr/share/doc to /usr/doc as /usr/share/doc symlink was overridden by extra modules very often and caused LST errors, fixed bug with loop on iocharset choice for FAT when multiple matches were found, also typo in /etc/rc.d/rc.font (thanks to Syntux)
- sns-tool: added possibility for using multiple words in password for WPA and WPA2
- updated Remix-FAQ - please read it before asking.
- slax2usb rewrite for slax-remix needs, two new features: possibility of choosing custom primary partition size and fs type for second one
- 'sns-tool' 'slax2usb' and 'language-selection-tool' are launched in xterm not konsole - for compatibility with lxde (thanks Btown)
- red colors changed in all my scripts for lxde compatibility
- updated /lib/firwmawe with packages provided by flux and JMan, also removed some fw files for old cards
- /var/tmp/kdecache-root/ksycoca is removed by rc.slax to fix kde/changes/FAT issue - thanks to BrunDibar
- added tofrodos utility for converting special characters between Unix/Windows systems (thanks Quax)
- added lzm-utils by Falcony - thanks for this useful tool.
- updated squashfs-tools
- removed wpa_gui completely (needs qt4 and is quite useless anyway)
- removed following packages: amp, bind, bpe, bridge-utils, ethtool, iptraf, jasper, lha, netwatch, rdist, tcp_wrappers, tcsh, unarj
5) 002-desktop
- updated to slackware-current
- lxde (preconfigured by me) is bumped to latest version from git - except of lxappearance (Ponce rocks!)
- modified /usr/bin/xdm to allow national language support in lxde desktop (thx Blaze for bug report)
- updated graphics stack: libdrm, xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-intel and xf86-video-nouveau (packages compiled from sources by me, not present in slackware-current)
- obsolete 'nv' driver is replaced by 'nouveau' on Nvidia GPU's - thanks tonio. (For 3D acceleration you still need to use official Nvidia driver)
- added 'BLACKLIST-nouveau.conf' to /etc/modprobe.d so nouveau driver wont be loaded by default when official Nvidia binary driver is used.
- added xdg-utils (Blaze89 suggestion)
- removed following packages: fribidi, glew, glib-1, gtk+-1, imlib, libXTrap, libXevie, libXprintAppUtil, libXprintUtil, libXxf86dga, libexif, libidl, librsvg, libwmf, openldap, xaw3d, xdpyinfo, xev, xf86-video-nv, xf86-video-radeonhd, xgamma, xinput, xmodmap, xrefresh, xvidtune, xwininfo
6) 003-kde
- updated all non-kde packages to slackware-current
- brand new icon theme for KDE (thanks Blaze)
- modified desktop shortcuts so they can be used under lxde as well
- kmdr-editor was removed by Tomas M from 003-desktop so i deleted '.desktop' file from it (wont be shown in kmenu anymore)
- disabled tip box on startup of konsole (JMan request)
- removed 'numlock led on' during boot as it's causing more bad than good things
004-kdeapps
- updated all non-kde packages (thanks to tonio for new cdrtools package) to slackware-current
- brand new icon theme for KDE (thanks again Blaze!)
- mplayer is patched for vdpau, vaapi and multithread support, added required deps: libvdpau, libva, xvba-video, and vdpau-video packages
- removed ctorrent and gpart packages - not maintained in slackware anymore, also kuickshow as it uses ancient gtk-1x and glib-1x libraries
- added 'extract to..' konqueror servicemenu to 004-kdeapps (thanks to JMan)
006-devel
- updated to slackware-current
- added System.map in /usr/src/linux (bour59 request)
- added libtool - needed by many packages to compile them from sources
- downgraded make package to version from remix-v07 to avoid compilation issues
7) 007-firefox+flash
- updated flashplayer to version 10.1
- updated firefox to version 3.1.8
- ff startup page points to slax.org/forum.php
- added flashblock addon