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Project Updates

03:40, 2011/07/15 / posted in Linux, Security, [project2501] / No Comments

Figured it has been a while since I have posted, so I would do a quick little update on all the shit I am working on.

First, [project2501] is still up and running, and I am working on another release scheduled for this month. Arch recently decided to depreciate aufs2 (they did have good reason), and thus my development of [project2501] has been slowed. I have moved most everything over to my netbook, which runs a custom kernel that supports aufs2, but it is a netbook, and thus not the fastest horse on the track. Things are moving along though.
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[project2501] release 0.2 Beta / possible change

01:17, 2011/06/13 / posted in Linux, [project2501] / No Comments

New release of [project2501] available today. This was mostly an update version, but I gave it a full version number since there were a few changes and additions made besides the updates. The biggest issue I haven’t gotten around to fixing is still the issue with cards that need to use the proprietary graphics drivers. I’ll get to it eventually, but haven’t had that much time to really sit down and scope it out. Again if anyone knows how this is accomplished, please let me know.

So, on the note of change, I think I may ditch Firefox in favor of Chromium. I have been using Chromium on a more regular basis, and frankly like its security practices a little better. So unless I get a slew of messages otherwise, it will probably happen in the next release.

Anyway, here is the full changelog for the current version:
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[project2501] 0.1 beta release

22:33, 2011/05/20 / posted in Linux, [project2501] / No Comments

After far too many delays, today [project2501] gets released as the 0.1 beta version!  All the basic, core functionality is there, and it boots beautifully on the machines that I tested it on.  I haven’t had much time to get the X environment working on everything I have tested it on though.  I have the open-source drivers installed for all the major cards (Intel, NVIDIA, ATI/AMD), but can’t figure out how to get all the proprietary drivers to play nicely; especially since OpenGL on each of them wants to take over.  If you know how to make this work, please leave me a comment or shoot me an email and I will get this put into the next release.  So the gist of this is, X should work on any of the cards that support the open-source drivers, otherwise, sorry.

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[project2501] beta coming tomorrow

01:30, 2011/05/20 / posted in Linux, [project2501] / No Comments

Well I was all set to release tonight, but I didn’t take into account two things: 1) Documentation; 2) Upload time.  Rookie mistakes I am sure, but none-the-less I still have a little bit of work do to on the documentation, plus I have been tweaking the file a little, and am just getting to upload it now.  At around 600Mb, its going to take some time to finish.  The project will be released within the next 24hrs though, I promise.

–aoi