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re all, just a quick update on dyne:bolic while the spanish manual on the website is now latest version in git - big up compas \o/ !!! - a translation to bahasa Indonesia is planned. meanwhile we're rounding up on freej 1.0 https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=freej + next month there's a coding sprint on MuSE to update it, all is getting more steady. last years we've been real busy on freej the vision mixer tool to do things with video manupulation, so less was done on dyne:bolic so far, since it is actually working OK :) we needed to do more development on specific software (also packaged in other distros) still it was a good period for our distribution, which was widespread useful esp. for people without a computer. we are proud and steady, http://git.dyne.org and stats say it all as you can notice from the dynebolic repository log what's upgraded so far is the SDK esp. for kernel development, shipping the new 2.6.30.5-libre in testing right now - and yes Bono, we'll look in how to make the ramdisk bigger with an option in dynesdk. ftp://ftp.dyne.org/dynebolic/devel/testing/dyne-2.6-alpha1.iso ftp://ftp.dyne.org/dynebolic/modules/kernel/kernel-src-26305lib.dyne ftp://ftp.dyne.org/dynebolic/modules/kernel/26305lib.krn (all files posfixed by .md5 hash and .md5.asc gpg signature) take this alpha update as a "RFC" for potentially controversial software, see codecs.dyne and java.dyne. i'm submitting this alpha1 to the community for comments, it's not a public distribution. so before any licensing inquiry please consider that: 1) all code is compiled from on-line available sourcecode 2) i'm an Eu-ropean citizen, (living inna Babylon, but at least free from software patents) 3) we fight for freedom, come and get some. 4) the java.dyne is *all compiled from sources* downloaded from Sun's ftp after more than 6 months they announced that Java was going GNU GPL free, smoking cigars with Mark Schuttleworths. 5) there is an update to gnupg, with a little patch rising the key size to 8192 bits RSA - don't call me paranoid: just read Bruce Schneier and hang around the crypto scene, here a good howto http://gagravarr.livejournal.com/137173.html - is it legal for weapon import/export regulations? come and get some. the Linux Libre kernel works OK, this is an alpha test, the new kernels has a lot more hardware support it seems, i hope ppl can hack more electronic gadgets with it. there is only one BIG problem :( while the latest SquashFS made it inside the Linux tree.. SQUASHFS 4.0 DROPS COMPATIBILITY WITH SQUASHFS 3.0 FILES. this is so sad. it means we all have to recompress our .dyne modules with the new version, plus have multiple repositories and confusion for users. it is not about binary compatibility, so the only needed step for module developers is to repackage the binaries inside all modules around with the new 4.0 squash-tools, this can also be done in scripts. but the problem is that this lack of retro-compatibility will actually add "versioning complications" as modules for dyne:bolic 2.5.2 won't work on dyne:bolic 2.6 (and viceversa). hopefully this can be solved by Linux and SquashFS kernel developers by adding the option of backwards compatibility into the code -good luck! please let us know if you hear of solutions. thanks. last but not least: if anyone comes up with an 100% free build of Firefox 3.5 ( whatever that means ) we're all going to be hoorray, still the web 2.0 scam won't get any better... ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: 779F E8B5 47C7 3A89 4112 64D0 7B64 3184 B534 0B5E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqtgU0ACgkQe2QxhLU0C15RHwCg3T3R9f7zfqEPoY3Ls/RhW7KW 3O0AoPEn3m5AAFQh+2N9ROP2nuNygKPI =qFMZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
