[CLOSED] Fatdog64-720 Beta [1 Dec 2017]
Posted: Fri 01 Dec 2017, 15:07
The Fatdog team (Kirk, James, SFR and step) is happy to announce the next version of Fatdog64, 720 Beta.
Fatdog64 720 Beta is the next iteration of Fatdog64. It is still built on the same base as Fatdog64 710 so it has high-degree of compatibility with 710 packages, however it has been expanded, improved, and modified to meet today's challenge.
Much of the improvements in this release are from SFR and step.
We like to thanks those who have provided feedback, suggestions, advices, bug reports, bug fixes in the previous releases. You know who you are.
============
Major breaking changes
============
As usual, we neither support nor recommend carrying over your savefile/savefolder from older version of Fatdogs (="Fatdog does not update from any previous versions"); however, if you do, there are a few gotchas that you definitely need want to know in this version.
1. Spot's home directory has been moved from /root/spot to /home/spot. This has repercussions. Please read the details here.
2. Internal samba and samba rox-app ("Shares") have been revised and improved. Together with Linux kernel's breaking changes (security improvements due to SMB1), your old "Shares" will no longer work; they need to be deleted and re-created.
============
Update highlights
============
- Linux 4.14.2
- WpaGui now supports wired ethernet and static IP configuration
- Wifi Monitor (Fatdog Wireless Antenna)
- A much improvde SFS Manager
- libinput now drives all Xorg inputs (replacing evdev and synaptics)
- LICK Installer included in the ISO (thanks noryb009)
- Updated and expanded Help and FAQs documents.
Note 1: We don't ship with Seamonkey 2.49.1 because currently it cannot build the Calender extension (Lightning) for Mail. This has been an on-going problem for the Seamonkey team which we managed to work around in previous release; but not in 2.49.1
Note 2: We shipped with Flash Player 11.x. This is because Flash Player 11.x is the version that supports DRM, required for some protected video streaming sites.
Newer versions of Flash don't. You can update Flash yourself from the Control Panel if you want to, but if you do, you won't be able to use DRM-ed services anymore.
Note 3: We have updated and expanded the Help and FAQ documents. They are available both online here and offline in Fatdog (file:///usr/share/doc/faqs/faq.html) and in Menu System -> Fatdog Help. Please invest time to read these documents to clarify issues, especially for new users.
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Download
============
ISO, devx, nls and 32-bit compatibility sfs are all available from here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/iso/720b/.
Kernel sources you can get it from SFS Manager or from here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/sfs/720/.
You can also get them from one of ibiblio's mirros: nluug.nl, aarnet, uoc.gr (Mirrors may take time to replicate the copies).
We don't usually provide extra kernel drivers for beta releases; but since we already have built it, we have uploaded Nvidia proprietary drivers version 340.104 for your enjoyment. It is located in the same location of the ISO. All you need to do is download it, use the System SFS Loader to load it (and make sure it is loaded at next boot), and then reboot. Before you do this, please ensure that your Nvidia card is supported by version 340.104.
============
Beta period
============
If there is no bad bugs happening, we are hoping to publish the Final release before Christmas.
============
Previous release
============
Previous release is here: Fatdog64-710 Final.
============
Full-update list
============
Updates:
- Linux 4.14.2
- Libreoffice icon fixes, updated to 5.2.7.2
- rox-filer-jun7 updated to latest (November 2017)
- gimp updated to 2.8.22
- Seamonkey updated to 2.48
- Rox-filer MIME-type handlers expanded.
- WpaGui now supports wired ethernet and static IP configuration
- Spot's home is now /home/spot (no longer in /root/spot)
- Reduce access permission for tmpfs when running in RAM mode
- gtkmenuplus 1.1.7
- Auto-set Xorg font DPI for high-resolution screen
- Cutdown samba now is based on 4.7.3 instead of obsolete samba3.
- "Shares" app greatly improved
- libnss updated to 3.33 and libnspr to 4.17
- xf86-driver-intel updated to latest git.
- libinput-1.8.2
- xf86-input-libinput-0.26.0
- xf86-video-amdgpu-1.4.0
- xf86-video-ati-7.10.0
- gtkdialog now supports libglade
- mc 4.8.19
- findnrun 2.4.1
- guvcview 2.0.5
- mesa 17.2.6
- xorg-server 1.19.5
- avahi 0.7.0 replaces mDNSresponder
- Drive-icon fixes
- armagetronad-0.2.8.3.4
- gtk-bookmarks added for root and spot for easier Open/Save File dialog navigation
- p7zip-7za 16.02
- Osmo fixes
- libbluray-1.0.1
- libaacs-0.9.0
- git 2.14.1
- gparted 0.29
- vlc 2.2.6
- xournal-0.4.8.2016
- geany-1.31
- geany-plugins-spell 1.31
- wpa_supplicant 2.6 (Patched for krack)
- lxqt-panel-0.11.1 (and dependencies)
- musl 1.1.8
- bacon 3.5.4
- Fatdog (BIOS) Installer now can install from USB drive (no CD/ISO required)
- Busybox - updated to March 2017 version
- screencast - ability to create GIF as output
- grub2 fixes 462MB initrd limit
- iptraf-ng replaces iptraf
- openssl 1.0.2k
- refind 0.11.2
- A much improved SFS Manager
New Features:
- UEFI-Installer (install to USB flash drive)
- pkg2sfs - convert TXZ package to SFS directly
- txt2svg from vovchik
- fatdog-wireless-antenna 1.0.2 - another home-grown utility to view Wifi status
- Include mm_view (MochiMoppel's excellent file viewer) 2017.11
- LICK Installer 1.2 now included in Fatdog ISO (Windows executable for installing Fatdog64)
- Xorg now uses libinput by default (replacing evdev and synaptics driver)
- Simple touchpad configuration app for libinput replacing flSynclient
Plus the usual bug fixes and fine-tunings.
At the time of release, Fatdog 720 now has more than 1750 packages (both official and contributed) in its official repository; not counting contributed packages stored in other repos (smokey01.com) and else where, as documented in Contributed Fatdog64 Packages.
============
ISO Builder Note
============
If you like to build your own ISO, we have uploaded the current ISO builder as well as the 720beta package list here (builder dated 2017.11 and 720b-package list).
Enjoy.
Fatdog64 720 Beta is the next iteration of Fatdog64. It is still built on the same base as Fatdog64 710 so it has high-degree of compatibility with 710 packages, however it has been expanded, improved, and modified to meet today's challenge.
Much of the improvements in this release are from SFR and step.
We like to thanks those who have provided feedback, suggestions, advices, bug reports, bug fixes in the previous releases. You know who you are.
============
Major breaking changes
============
As usual, we neither support nor recommend carrying over your savefile/savefolder from older version of Fatdogs (="Fatdog does not update from any previous versions"); however, if you do, there are a few gotchas that you definitely need want to know in this version.
1. Spot's home directory has been moved from /root/spot to /home/spot. This has repercussions. Please read the details here.
2. Internal samba and samba rox-app ("Shares") have been revised and improved. Together with Linux kernel's breaking changes (security improvements due to SMB1), your old "Shares" will no longer work; they need to be deleted and re-created.
============
Update highlights
============
- Linux 4.14.2
- WpaGui now supports wired ethernet and static IP configuration
- Wifi Monitor (Fatdog Wireless Antenna)
- A much improvde SFS Manager
- libinput now drives all Xorg inputs (replacing evdev and synaptics)
- LICK Installer included in the ISO (thanks noryb009)
- Updated and expanded Help and FAQs documents.
Note 1: We don't ship with Seamonkey 2.49.1 because currently it cannot build the Calender extension (Lightning) for Mail. This has been an on-going problem for the Seamonkey team which we managed to work around in previous release; but not in 2.49.1
Note 2: We shipped with Flash Player 11.x. This is because Flash Player 11.x is the version that supports DRM, required for some protected video streaming sites.
Newer versions of Flash don't. You can update Flash yourself from the Control Panel if you want to, but if you do, you won't be able to use DRM-ed services anymore.
Note 3: We have updated and expanded the Help and FAQ documents. They are available both online here and offline in Fatdog (file:///usr/share/doc/faqs/faq.html) and in Menu System -> Fatdog Help. Please invest time to read these documents to clarify issues, especially for new users.
============
Download
============
ISO, devx, nls and 32-bit compatibility sfs are all available from here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/iso/720b/.
Kernel sources you can get it from SFS Manager or from here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/sfs/720/.
You can also get them from one of ibiblio's mirros: nluug.nl, aarnet, uoc.gr (Mirrors may take time to replicate the copies).
We don't usually provide extra kernel drivers for beta releases; but since we already have built it, we have uploaded Nvidia proprietary drivers version 340.104 for your enjoyment. It is located in the same location of the ISO. All you need to do is download it, use the System SFS Loader to load it (and make sure it is loaded at next boot), and then reboot. Before you do this, please ensure that your Nvidia card is supported by version 340.104.
============
Beta period
============
If there is no bad bugs happening, we are hoping to publish the Final release before Christmas.
============
Previous release
============
Previous release is here: Fatdog64-710 Final.
============
Full-update list
============
Updates:
- Linux 4.14.2
- Libreoffice icon fixes, updated to 5.2.7.2
- rox-filer-jun7 updated to latest (November 2017)
- gimp updated to 2.8.22
- Seamonkey updated to 2.48
- Rox-filer MIME-type handlers expanded.
- WpaGui now supports wired ethernet and static IP configuration
- Spot's home is now /home/spot (no longer in /root/spot)
- Reduce access permission for tmpfs when running in RAM mode
- gtkmenuplus 1.1.7
- Auto-set Xorg font DPI for high-resolution screen
- Cutdown samba now is based on 4.7.3 instead of obsolete samba3.
- "Shares" app greatly improved
- libnss updated to 3.33 and libnspr to 4.17
- xf86-driver-intel updated to latest git.
- libinput-1.8.2
- xf86-input-libinput-0.26.0
- xf86-video-amdgpu-1.4.0
- xf86-video-ati-7.10.0
- gtkdialog now supports libglade
- mc 4.8.19
- findnrun 2.4.1
- guvcview 2.0.5
- mesa 17.2.6
- xorg-server 1.19.5
- avahi 0.7.0 replaces mDNSresponder
- Drive-icon fixes
- armagetronad-0.2.8.3.4
- gtk-bookmarks added for root and spot for easier Open/Save File dialog navigation
- p7zip-7za 16.02
- Osmo fixes
- libbluray-1.0.1
- libaacs-0.9.0
- git 2.14.1
- gparted 0.29
- vlc 2.2.6
- xournal-0.4.8.2016
- geany-1.31
- geany-plugins-spell 1.31
- wpa_supplicant 2.6 (Patched for krack)
- lxqt-panel-0.11.1 (and dependencies)
- musl 1.1.8
- bacon 3.5.4
- Fatdog (BIOS) Installer now can install from USB drive (no CD/ISO required)
- Busybox - updated to March 2017 version
- screencast - ability to create GIF as output
- grub2 fixes 462MB initrd limit
- iptraf-ng replaces iptraf
- openssl 1.0.2k
- refind 0.11.2
- A much improved SFS Manager
New Features:
- UEFI-Installer (install to USB flash drive)
- pkg2sfs - convert TXZ package to SFS directly
- txt2svg from vovchik
- fatdog-wireless-antenna 1.0.2 - another home-grown utility to view Wifi status
- Include mm_view (MochiMoppel's excellent file viewer) 2017.11
- LICK Installer 1.2 now included in Fatdog ISO (Windows executable for installing Fatdog64)
- Xorg now uses libinput by default (replacing evdev and synaptics driver)
- Simple touchpad configuration app for libinput replacing flSynclient
Plus the usual bug fixes and fine-tunings.
At the time of release, Fatdog 720 now has more than 1750 packages (both official and contributed) in its official repository; not counting contributed packages stored in other repos (smokey01.com) and else where, as documented in Contributed Fatdog64 Packages.
============
ISO Builder Note
============
If you like to build your own ISO, we have uploaded the current ISO builder as well as the 720beta package list here (builder dated 2017.11 and 720b-package list).
Enjoy.