Upcoming PCLOS Tidbits
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sunday 3rd of December 2006 09:30:15 PM
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The long awaited update to pclos .93a has been a long time in the making, but today Texstar posted a bit of information to whet your appetite. Originally projected to be released around Christmas, no hint of a release date was given, but many components are in place and others are being worked on.
Texstar states,
We've updated to gcc 4.4.1 and a fresh glibc which will allow us to get a lot more applications in the repository that we couldn't provide with the old code base such as Last.fm, Flash 9 and other goodies. We've now have over 5,500 packages in our new repository. There are still quite a few applications missing that need to be recompiled and updated. We've converted to a xdg menu system which should work alot better for dynamic updating as well as user editing. We have kde 3.5.5 and updated Gnome 2.16 working well. We have xgl, aixgl, beryl, compiz, compiz extras and emerald all working nicely with an updated xorg server. This should bring us up to date with the other distros.
We still need to finish up the packages, test them against synaptic updating and installing. We need to get mklivecd up and running with updated hwdetection. We need to test the installer. We need to finalize the graphics from mypclos beautification project and get those into the bootsplash, login and other places. We're trying very hard to get this done as fast as possible. Im not going to put a release date out because I dont want to be forced to release something that may not complete just because of a date.
It certainly sounds like it will be worth the wait. We wish the developers Godspeed and the best of luck.
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0/93a or 0.94?
I suppose the announced packages are for 0.94, right?
Updating glibc and the like are supposed to recommend a fresh install of 0.94 instead of an upgrade of 0.93a.
Getting the packages now seems a little "Cooker" to me
re: 0/93a or 0.94?
Yeah, actually, I probably shouldn't have worded it as an "update" because updating will not be recommended. It will actually be a whole new release. I've seen references to it being called .94 as well as pclos2007. So, I guess we'll see about that.
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