- 2012/03/18

This is a development release with a few bug-fixes and many new features. The amountd scripts are revised to make them more robust. And the init scripts are also revised for the udev to devtmpfs shift.

Major user noticeable changes are:

• Networking manager is changed to NetworkManager.
• Media Players are changed to VLC and XBMC.
• Chromium is added to the CE edition.
• Support for the proprietory nVidia driver is added to the CE edition.
• Support for IPv6 and VPN is enhanced.

Several bugs found in 0.9.7 was killed:

• Booting from EFI platforms now works again.
• Installation works again and now supports Windows 8.
• Switching keyboard layout in X works again.

And many package upgrades:

• linux-3.2.11
• gcc-4.6.3
• xorg-server-1.12.0
• firefox-11.0
• Qt-4.8.0
• wine-1.4

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The Standard Edition can be found at SourceForge.net. All other editions and optional add-on modules can be downloaded from the download page. The full package list and source patches can be found here. And the release notes is here.

- 2011/11/07

This is a development release. Built with our new, gcc-4.6 based toolchain. In fact, every bit in 0.9.7 was rebuilt from scratch. And almost all components were upgraded to their latest stable version.

Our tests show that, this release is already quite stable and ready for general use. But to ensure long-term production use, more tests and fine-tunings are still needed.

Major user noticeable changes in 0.9.7 are:

• SquashFS-4: 0.9.7 now uses the new squashfs 4 filesystem. As a result, your old .md files won't be recognized by default. If you want to convert your squashfs 3 .md files to squashfs 4, please use “unsquashfs3” and “mksquashfs” (shipped with 0.9.7).
• Hybrid ISO: You can “dd” the 0.9.7 ISO image onto a USB stick, and boot from it.
• Amount: CDlinux' own hotplug solution to replace HAL/udisks. It's (hopefully) simple and stupid, and may need more fine-tunings.

The package upgrade list is huge, some major ones:

• linux-3.1
• glibc-2.14.1
• gcc-4.6.2
• xorg-server-1.11.2
• firefox-8.0

The Standard Edition can be found at SourceForge.net. All other editions and optional add-on modules can be downloaded from the download page.

- 2010/04/28

We've found a very nice review on the newly released CDlinux 0.9.6.1 from Desktop Linux Reviews with some very good advices. Well, we got work to do.

- 2010/04/25

This release is a bug-fix release with no new features.

Several bugs have slipped into 0.9.6 in the last minute. And hopefully, we've identified and terminated them all in this release. All 0.9.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this new version.

Bugs terminated:

• X won't start on the standard edition
• “X -configure” can't generate xorg.conf.new
• Alt+Shift can't toggle between keyboard layouts
• Java Plug-in for Firefox doesn't work

And some package upgrade:

• alsa-lib-1.0.23
• curl-7.20.1
• goffice-0.8.2
• jasper-1.900.1.15.fc13
• jre-6u20
• lvm2-2.02.63

The Standard Edition can be found at SourceForge.net. All other editions and optional add-on modules can be downloaded from the download page. The full package list and source patches can be found here. And the release notes is here.

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