Draco GNU/Linux 0.3.1

Introducing Draco GNU/Linux 0.3.1. This is the first maintenance release for the 0.3 branch. Mostly security and stability fixes, but also some new features and enhancements. Core components are Linux 2.6.23, GCC 4.1, Glibc 2.6 and OSS 4.0.

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Where to get this release. Please consider using torrent or mirror.

Draco 0.3.1 [ MD5 | SHA1 | ASC | GPG | Torrent ]
Draco 0.3.1-r1 [ MD5 | SHA1 | FIX: #7 ]
Draco Boot 0.3.1-r1 [ MD5 | SHA1 | FIX: #7 ]

Mirrors

Draco 0.3.1 Release Candidate [ MD5 | SHA1 | Germany ]

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Changes

Changes since 0.3.0.

Kernel

Still kernel 2.6.23, but with some improvements. Updated CFS scheduler, several CVE and ACPI fixes, reduced in-kernel modules. Kernel 2.6.16 was removed due to several instability reports.

Updated CFS scheduler
Stability fixes
Security fixes
Reduced loading time
Legacy kernel removed due to instability

Devel

Mostly security and stability fixes, new features include CVS and Subversion.

Upgraded autoconf
Upgraded automake
Upgraded bin86
Added cvs
Upgraded flex
Upgraded m4
Upgraded mpfr
Upgraded perl
Added subversion

Disk

Mostly security and stability fixes, new features include SquashFS userland tools.

Recompiled cryptsetup
Upgraded hdparm
Recompiled lvm2
Upgraded mdadm
Upgraded quota-tools
Upgraded sdparm
Added squashfs-tools
Upgraded syslinux
Upgraded xfsprogs

Drivers

Bumped or recompiled all drivers, new features include Intel 4965 wireless support, Updated MadWifi (supports popular netbooks), and precompiled drivers for OSS (removing the need to compile drivers on first boot).

Recompiled atl2
Recompiled ipw3945
Added iwl4965
Upgraded madwifi
Recompiled ndiswrapper
Added oss-drivers
Recompiled ralink (also added missing firmware)

Firmware

Added firmware for iwl3945, iwl4965, and zd1211.

Added iwl3945-ucode_1
Added iwl3945-ucode_2
Added iwl4965-ucode_1
Added iwl4965-ucode_2
Added zd1211-firmware

Network

Some security and stabilty fixes, but mostly new features. Highlights include inetd, NFS, OpenSSH, PPPoE, rsync, and more.

Added bozohttpd
Added inetd
Recompiled iproute2
Upgraded iptables
Recompiled iputils
Added mailx
Added nfs-utils
Added openssh
Added portmap
Added rp-pppoe
Added rsync
Added tcp_wrappers
Upgraded telnet
Added telnetd
Recompiled tnftp
Added tnftpd
Upgraded whois
Upgraded wpa_supplicant
Added ntp
Added dnsmasq
Added lynx

System

Several security, stability, and bug fixes. New features include Screen. pkgsrc-bootstrap updated to 2008Q3.

Upgraded acl
Upgraded attr
Upgraded bash
Upgraded bzip2
Upgraded coreutils
Recompiled db
Recompiled device-mapper
Upgraded dialog
Added dracopkg
Upgraded e2fsprogs
Upgraded etc
Upgraded gettext
Recompiled glibc (updated timezone)
Recompiled grep
Recompiled lilo
Upgraded linux
Upgraded man
Upgraded man-pages
Recompiled nvi
Upgraded openssl
Upgraded oss
Upgraded pciutils
Upgraded pcre
Upgraded pkgsrc-bootstrap
Added pkgtools
Upgraded popt
Upgraded procps
Upgraded readline
Added screen
Recompiled shadow
Recompiled slocate
Upgraded tar
Recompiled termcap-compat
Upgraded texinfo
Upgraded udev
Upgraded usbutils
Upgraded util-linux
Upgraded which

Changes since RC

Changes since Release Candidate.

Upgraded subversion and openssh to latest stable version
Upgraded unionfs due to several bugs running Draco Live
Disabled root login on sshd
Fixed several broken man pages
Fixed broken symlinks in shadows, also (re)added sln in glibc, dont know why this was removed
Fixed broken symlink in quota-tools
Fixed broken symlink in psmisc
Added kernel with USB as an option during install
Added ntp
Added dnsmasq
Added lynx
Fixed rc.oss in setup

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Notes

Various notes on this release.

The pkgsrc and pkgsrc-wip packages has been removed, more information here.
The 'dtools' package has been split in two, dracopkg and pkgtools. If you manually upgrade from Draco 0.3.0 to 0.3.1, install pkgtools and dracopkg, then remove dtools (using 'removepkg dtools').

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Issues

Known issues in this release. Found a bug? Please report.

The kernel clocksource may delay the startup on some computers (mostly laptops), this can be resolved by adding 'clocksource=acpi_pm' (acpi_pm is an example, try something else if that don't work) as bootparameters in either LILO or GRUB.
USB support for keyboards are missing during setup (#7)

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Install

Installing Draco should be a easy processes for most people. Download the latest release, burn the ISO to CD/DVD (or copy the content of the ISO to a USB disk). Then restart your computer.

Boot

Choose the right option for your computer, the default should satisfy most hardware.

Start

Let's start the installation.

Hard drive

Partition your hard drive. The installer includes fdisk and cfdisk to partition your drive(s), with cfdisk featuring a console based GUI. Draco needs a minimum of one partition, but it's recommended that you also create a swap (type 82) partition. The root partition should not be less then 1GB, if you plan to use the pkgsrc tree a minimum of 3GB should be allocated for root (or /usr).

Setup

When your are finished with the partitioning of your hard drives you can continue with the installation, type 'setup' to start the installation.

Keyboard layout

Select keyboard layout, default is US. This can also be configured later, see /etc/rc.d/rc.keymap.

Swap

Any swap partitions will be detected and configured.

Partitions

Select root partition configured earlier. You can also add extra partitions for /home, /usr etc. Draco supports EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS3, JFS, and XFS.

Media

Select source media, usually the CD you booted from. You can also perform the installation from a USB stick or hard drive.

Packages

Package selection. The minimum is already selected, if you use a wireless card and/or laptop you should also add 'drivers' and 'firmware'. There is also an expert mode, giving you the opportunity to custom pick every package in Draco, note that this could break your system if you don't know what your doing.