blueflops / News: Recent posts

Release highlight: kernel 2.6.4 . PCMCIA support - all the PCMCIA Ethernet drivers in the kernel (as usual...) - now there are 79 Ethernet drivers in the distro! New IRC client - tirc - looks pretty usable and is small too. Syslinux ran with the "-s" option - maybe it will fix some booting problems. Changed "links" colors to nicer ones. Reduced the browser font quality (not noticeable, I hope) and size. I also left out some accented characters (this will be noticeable to some). I also changed the name for the bootable image for use with CDs. There's no longer a help screen in e3.

Try it and enjoy the new features (and report the bugs ;-))

Detailed changes follow:

• ethernet card probing (it helps avoiding to boot windoze on unknown hardware)
• auto-detection of video chipset
• keymap selection
• rebuild of the development system (now is 'optimized' for i386)
• uClibc-0.9.20
• gcc-2.95.3 (not patched - taken directly from the GNU site)
• linux-2.4.23 - compiled for i386 with floating point emulation
  (it is bigger, but it will run on old boxes)
• busybox-1.00-pre3
• links-2.1pre14
• epic4-1.1.12 (replaces 'BitchX' which is to big)
• removed support for 'msdos' (just use 'vfat') and 'umsdos' filesystems
• updated the monitors database (now it has 3452 monitors )
• misc. fixes and changes

I've added support for the pocket adaptors - untested - please submit bug reports.
Stefan Talpalaru

Fixed a bug in setup-ethernet.
The blueflops-fs development environment is now quite usable - enjoy it !

Please test the PPP script !!!
You may use the blueflops-filesystem to modify, add programs, play with the distro as much as you like :-)
 If you do smth. interesting with it drop me an e-mail.

Enjoy!