DeLi Linux Wiki

Development versions (add the relase date of each version please)

• Kernel 2.4.36.4
• Changed to pacman package system
• Dropped GTK1, changed to GTK2 2.10.x for desktop apps
• New default web browser Netsurf, additionally Skipstone
• New print system cups
• X.Org 7.3
• switched to UTF-8

• Kernel 2.4.34.4
• Added an unpriviledged user in the install script
• Added more device nodes on install image (hdaX to hdeX, sdaX to sdgX)
• New default web browser Konq-E
• New print system pdq
• X.Org 7.2
• Replaced luxi TTF fonts with Liberation fonts from RedHat
• delisetup: xorg config
• other new packages: nano, gutenprint (successor of gimp-print), xaw3d, gv
• removed from the default ISO: links2, gvu, siag
• bugfixes

• Added MCA support to the kernel
• EISA support was added, too
• added deliget - a tool for downloading and installing packages
• fixed locale setup to use xx_XX pattern
• moved pcmia-cs to base
• included jwm in xwmconfig
• added adduser script to shadow
• new packages: AbiWord, fox, xfe, xmms, samba 3 client
• removed Pathetic Writer, samba 2
• and, of course, tons of bugfixes

• Complete rewrite from scratch, here are only the most important changes
• No longer based on Slackware (but it still uses some Slackware stuff)
• Based on uClibc 0.9.28
• Kernel 2.4.33.3
• Xorg 7.1
• A ports system (borrowed from Crux)
• ksh as default shell

• fixed liloconfig/simple bug that causes liloconfig always to assume that /dev/hda1 is the root partition
• fixed permission problems on some /dev files
• Added an “Install all” Option to delipkg
• Added the beginning of delibook

• in root.gz: new “graphic” deliinstall
• new network and ppp install floppy disk
• enhanced delisetup
• new mmconfig for setting up the mail system
• Replaced lynx with netrik
• Replaced elvis-tiny with e3
• added timezoneconfig
• new libxml2
• cleaned up some old unnecessary files
• removed the texinfo system
• bugfixes
• new Slackware-like MANIFEST
• new package list pack.txt

• Enhanced delisetup top be a complete admin tool
• new package installer delipkg
• new vesaconfig for config vesa xkdrive
• rewrote xwmconfig
• bugfixes

• New delisetup
• Changed /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
• Patched pppsetup (usepeerdns)
• some bugfixes

• excluded the old smbclient and created smbcli package with samba clients from samba 3.0 beta
• removed deprecated ncftp programs
• removed wu-ftpd and added a new package with proftpd
• deliinstall calls delisetup directly now at installation
• added libiconv for better i18n support
• some minor bugfixes

• excluded openssl and openssh from the base package and put them in an extra package in series n
• new kernel 2.2.25 and new modules
• ide kernel is default now. Download vmlinuz-scsi if you need it
• new pcmcia-cs (3.2.4) extra package, excluded from base package
• modified delisetup slightly (bugfixes, for the most part), e.g.:
  • keymap setup writes to /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap directly now, it no longer links to def.map.gz
• chmod /dev/tty*, /dev/null and /dev/pty* to rw for all
• other small bugfixes

• openssh was broken - fixed
• integrated tcpip1.tgz and tcpip2.tgz
• deleted /dev/mouse link (caused problem with Xfree86SSetup)
• Added the right kernel config file
• many small bugfixes

• First public beta release