June 18th, 2006 - The Internet:
After two months of hard work, complete rebuilding and CHOST migration (from i386 to i586), we are proud to announce the most advanced, cute and complete GNU/Linux LiveDVD on the world. Featuring a lot of Desktop and Server applications, SMP kernel, XsistenCe mode, Internet Kiosk framework, XGL, 27 languages (en it es de gr jp ar ca cs el en_GB fi fr ga hu lt nb nl pl pt ro ru sk sl sr sv zh_CN) and much, much more...
NEW FEATURES:
- 2.6.16.20 kernel (gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r10 + Reiser4 patches)
- CHOST changed from i386 to i586
- Highly optimized GLIBC 2.4 (NPTL)
- Live mode RAM consumption highly improved
- ~20% faster than its predecessor
- KDE 3.5.3 compiled with -fvisibility-hidden turned on
- GNOME 2.14.1
- The first Live distro to ship with Google Earth Beta4
- ATI Drivers ( 8.25.18 ) and nVIDIA Drivers ( 8762 )
- 2006.0 Gentoo Profile and Stages
- 02/06[June]/2006 Portage snapshot
- Enlightenment 0.16.8
- Fluxbox 0.9.15.1
- KOffice 1.5.1 meta packages
- OpenOffice 2.0.2 supporting both GNOME and KDE
- NetworkManager and KNetworkManager to manage your network from GNOME or KDE
- KVPNC 0.8.3
- libselinux 1.30
- WengoPhone 1.0_pre20060408
- Ekiga 2.0.1
- Asterisk 1.2.7_p1
- Tor 0.1.1.20 (just boot with "gentoo tor" or "smp tor" - Konqueror, Firefox and Opera will be auto-configured)
- Privoxy 3.0.3
- Anjuta 1.2.4
- devhelp 0.11
- gkrellm 2.2.7
- jack 3.1.1
- ardour 0.99.3
- rosegarden 4.1.2.3
- Hydrogen 0.9.3
- Jamin 0.95
- BMPX 0.14.4
- Every Gstreamer 0.10 plugins now are included
- Pine 4.64
- KTorrent 2.0b1
- KPowersave 0.6.1
- KSynaptics 0.3.1 and added Synaptics touchpad support to X.Org
- KDM Theme Manager
- ManDVD 1.9
- Firestarter 1.0.3 Firewall
- Enabled Preview for some system:/ kio-slaves
- ltmodem - hsfmodem - hcfpcimodem - mwavem - longrun drivers
- at76c503a driver
- acerhk driver
- Audio mixer levels auto-configuration (audio works out of the box without touching anything)
- New i810 driver
- New way to handle network at boot and on the installer, baselayout automagically uses ifplugd
- Early XDM enabled, X.Org starts early --> speed improvements
- A fresh KDM theme
- sdparm (to configure SCSI/SATA drives)
- New session=* boot option (where * = kde,gnome,xfce,fluxbox,e16 --> they enable autologin on specific desktop)
- New Background
- Updated Compiz and XGL to 20060606 and added Compiz GUI configuration utility
- Compiz now uses GCONF for configuration options
- Added FEATURES="parallel-fetch confcache" to speed up package compilation
- knock 0.5
- module-rebuild 0.5
- Removed hpijs in favour of hplip (HP Printers customers only)
- Added Option "DPMS" to X.Org configuration file
FIXES:
- Added every possible ipw2200 firmware
- Fixed firmware loading at boot (it didn't work on Live mode)
- Removed fadein splash option (useless and very slow on some machines)
- Removed vesafb-tng in favour of plain vesafb (to fix problems on some Video Cards)
- Added doslowusb to be able to boot from USB DVD readers and even on USB HD (after install...)
- Fixed and tested SMP kernel stability on Dual Core systems, changed PREEMPT to Volountary by default
- baselayout read only variables warnings removed
- baselayout problems with /dev/.rcsysinit and Reiser4 root partition fixed witha a workaround
- deeply tested kernel sources and make.conf correct installation
- xterm,konsole, gnome terminal ask password bug fixed
- LANG= variable now set the correct language on GNOME too
- OpenGL configuration for new nVIDIA integrated video cards (like NVIDIA C51) fix
- Fixed icons on gensplash
- Added Xserver timeout to KDM and GDM configuration files (set to 60). This fix KDM loading using XGL and ATi cards
- Added esound to runlevel default to fix Skype on DE != KDE
- Fixed ARTS - alsa-lib-1.0.11 and 100% CPU usage on some VIA sound cards
- Fixed Update Installer script secondary download location
- Fixed 8139too and 8139cp coflict with a workaroung
- Fixed Skype and QT-only apps look
- /dev/dsp permissions set to 0770 (root:audio)
- find_free_numbers cosmetical bug fixed (substituted %e with %n)
- Removed default asound.state from the DVD
- Added KMix to KDE startup (many users complain about the missing mixer)
- /lib/firmware bugs fixed (I hope, but we are in time to revert any non-working change)
- Fine tuned Google Earth icon in GNOME Desktop
RESOURCES:
- RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 Torrent download (.bz2 compressed)
- RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 HTTP/FTP Download
- RR4-Linux-3.0.RC1.iso.bz2.md5
- RR4-Linux-3.0.RC1.iso.md5
- Kernel configuration no-SMP
- Kernel configuration SMP
- RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 Package list
- RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 extra documentation
- RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 Screenshots
- RR4 Linux 3.0RC1 Vidcast