Today, November 18th 2003, the Bering-uClibc team releases Bering-uClibc 2.0
After six month of development, various betas and release candidates we believe it's ready to hit the streets. As usual it can be downloaded from the FRS area: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13751 Some Highlihghts Of This New Major Version - support of ipv6 plus a ipv6 firewall like shorewall - all available as a drop-in replacement - small sshd replacement dropbear on base floppy - update uClibc to version 0.9.20 - update of busybox to use more applets and replacing bigger standalone applications and a lot more cleanups, application updates et al - for a complete changelog please read http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=91003&page_id=39 Updated And Recompiled Packages In addition to the applications provided on the base image we recompiled nearly all of the packages with their latest versions available for Bering-uClibc 1.x and built new ones against uClibc0.9.20 The most notable new or upgraded packages are: zebra.lrp and bgpd.lrp, ospf6d.lrp, ospfd.lrp, ripd.lrp, ripngd.lrp - based on quagga 0.96.3 and providing high performance ipv4 and ipv6 routing daemons (quagga) for rip, bgp and ospf. netsnmpd.lrp - based on netsnmp 5.0.9 for remote management which can be used in conjunction with f.i. mrtg, rrdtool and hp-openview. ppp.lrp/pppoe.lrp/ppp-filter - based on cvs version 20031002 and providing different ppp options like mmpe. For a complete list of available packages please point your browser to: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=91017&page_id=51 Support For Special Hardware We added patches and special lrp's to support small hardware useful for running a LEAF based system. Currently supported with Bering-uClibc are boxes from Soekris (http://www.soekris.com), LexSystem also known as OpenBrick (http://www.openbrick.org) and with a special kernel downloadable from CVS repository PC Engines WRAP (http://www.pcengines.ch). To display status information on an LCD connected to the router, we provide lcd4linux.lrp (http://lcd4linux.sourceforge.net). New Bering-uClibc Guides New guides have been written to support users installing and configuring Bering-uClibc boxes. Main goals are to describe the differences compared to the Bering Guides and to explain some of the new features like ipv6 support and zebra. Bering-uClibc Installation Guide http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buc-install.html Bering-uClibc User's Guide http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buc-user.html A Bering-uClibc Developer Guide will be available very soon - in fact it's written and in our cvs tree - needs just some layout work. CD/HD Support The Bering-uClibc team provides a initrd.lrp capable to start your boxes from a CD-ROM or HD. You'll find the initrd_ide_cd.lrp in the CVS repository: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/leaf/bin/packages/uclibc-0.9/20 Additionally we've built a bootable CD with all packages currently available. You'll find the ISO image in the download section. Thanks: The Bering-uClibc team wants to thank all beta testers, bug reporters and those who sent encouraging mails - it helped us to get it hopefully bug free and motivated us to finish work. We also have to thank the Bering developers, the uClibc developers and Mike Noyes - without their work it wouldn't have happended. A special thank you for this release deserves two developers, who worked very close together with us and helped to get Bering-uClibc 2.0 done: Matt Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for dropbear Michael Reinelt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for lcd4linux Last Words: We hope you'll enjoy the software we've packaged and find it as stable, useful and extendable as we do. Bug reports, questions, even success reports are welcome. Push LEAF beyond the limit! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
