I am pleased to announce the release of Dragora 3.0 Alpha 2.
Dragora is a complete and reliable distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system that is entirely free software. Dragora is founded on the concepts of simplicity and elegance, it can be run for almost any purpose (desktop, workstation, server, development, etc.). The intended audience are people interested in learning more about a GNU/Linux distribution, or simply people who are looking for quality. The beginning of the development of the series 3.0 represents the migration towards a new C library, Musl. The continuation of supervision capabilities (introduced for the services in 2012). The restructuring of the hierarchy of directories, the improvement of the tools provided by the distribution, a new automatic method to build the distribution, the prebuilt cross-compiler set, and much more! The homepage is at http://www.dragora.org Current development pages are located at http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora.git/ and http://notabug.org/dragora/ Changes in this version (Alpha 2): * The previous init system used for the Alpha 1 was changed in favor of the (revived) Sysvinit project, which provides a complete implementation of the shutdown, killall5 commands, plus manual pages. * All the boot scripts has been enhanced. The parser for the config file can now accept values from the command-line (/proc/cmdline) as boot parameters. Defined values in this way have priority over those defined on the config file "/etc/rc.conf", this is valid for the current session. * The initial screen (LiveCD) has been improved, includes a new menu and tips for helping you to edit, pass command-line parameters. * Support for the eSpeakup software synthesizer has been added. * The main toolchain has been upgraded. This alpha have Binutils 2.31.1, The GNU C Compiler 8, Musl 1.1.20+. * For debugging purposes, the distribution provides the following software: Valgrind 3.13.0, The GNU Debugger (GDB) 8.2, strace 4.24. * The build systems ninja and meson has been introduced into Dragora. * The security has been incremented overall the system. Dragora makes use of Position Independent Executables (PIE) compiler feature, and Stack Smashing Protector (SSP) for the hardened package build process; both, by default. * LibreSSL has been upgraded to version 2.8.0. * GnuPG (version 2) has been included. * Since its full adoption in 2008, the used kernel for this Alpha is: Linux-libre 4.18.9. Note the incorporation of the linux-libre-firmware package. Thanks to Alexandre Oliva and Jason Self. * In 2009, Dragora migrated the format of the produced binary packages to the lzip format, becoming in the first distribution in make use of a high-quality LZMA implementation. This time the support of lzip has been expanded for manual pages, kernel modules (currently uncompressed), kernel initramfs, the embedded compressor for busybox. Dragora invites you to try lzip through the LiveCD (hybrid squashfs image compressed with lzip). Thanks to Antonio Diaz Diaz for his work on the patchset. * All the official X.Org components has been updated (drivers, server, applications, etc.). * Initial support for graphical libraries, toolkit (GTK+ version 2 and 3) has been added. * DWM (a dynamic window manager for X) is available. * New ported tool (from Dragora v2.2) called `dragora-mouse'. (useful to configure a mouse for the console). * Build recipes for new packages have been built. Please, traverse the /usr/pkg hierarchy for a full view of installed packages. * Many general fixes, improvements, and clean ups have been performed. The ISO images may be fetched at: - http://sourceforge.net/projects/dragora/files/alpha/ - http://mirror.fsf.org/dragora/ISO/ The sha256sums are: f2117107c91bc8fc5ef88241e659a9d5a4d5275e52d6f8f1c094f99809c8d019 dragora-3.0-i586-alpha2.iso 55d0fe44684d9d86844e3413a784afae995e54c37049c86108938788be898690 dragora-3.0-x86_64-alpha2.iso Additionally, this release provides Root FS images, from where you can chroot, copy, study, ... The sha256sums are: 19004ffb00ff94cec40eacf86a2603aaf4e6ee338eab779f23e1c6a7db59fcfb dragora-3.0-rootfs-i586-alpha2.tar.lz 80018c14200fb08cd4628f6e6b5fa2189bf7dc69a1b217584e4dd480c1a58f52 dragora-3.0-rootfs-x86_64-alpha2.tar.lz Note: the password for "root" in this release is: dragora We welcome feedback at our Freenode IRC channel, #dragora, and on our mailing list. We are looking for help with documentation, website migration, bug reports, patches... Thank you to all of you who support this humble project made with great sacrifice. And thank you especially for supporting the philosophy and spirit of software freedom that Dragora aims to promote. Best regards, Matias Fonzo, Dragora author and maintainer. -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
