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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/en/doc/releases/1.0/relnotes.en.html Sat Mar 29 12:05:31 2008 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,281 @@ 1.4 +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 1.5 + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 1.6 +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr"> 1.7 +<head> 1.8 + <title>SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 - Release Notes</title> 1.9 + <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> 1.10 + <meta name="description" content="slitaz doc system releases notes information cooking" /> 1.11 + <meta name="expires" content="never" /> 1.12 + <meta name="modified" content="2008-03-14 11:30:00" /> 1.13 + <meta name="publisher" content="www.slitaz.org" /> 1.14 + <meta name="author" content="Paul Issot"/> 1.15 + <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" /> 1.16 + <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="book.css" /> 1.17 +</head> 1.18 +<body bgcolor="#ffffff"> 1.19 + 1.20 +<!-- Header and quick navigation --> 1.21 +<div id="header"> 1.22 +<div align="right" id="quicknav"> 1.23 + <a name="top"></a> 1.24 + <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/en/doc/">www.slitaz.org/en/doc/</a> 1.25 +</div> 1.26 +<h1><font color="#3E1220">SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0</font></h1> 1.27 +</div> 1.28 + 1.29 +<!-- Content. --> 1.30 +<div id="content"> 1.31 +<div class="content-right"></div> 1.32 + 1.33 +<h2><font color="#DF8F06">Releases notes</font></h2> 1.34 + 1.35 +<ul> 1.36 + <li><a href="#overview">Overview.</a></li> 1.37 + <li><a href="#hardware">Supported Hardware.</a></li> 1.38 + <li><a href="#livecd">LiveCD Flavors.</a></li> 1.39 + <li><a href="#install">Installation.</a></li> 1.40 + <li><a href="#kernel">Linux Kernel.</a></li> 1.41 + <li><a href="#packages">Software Packages.</a></li> 1.42 + <li><a href="#desktop">Graphical Desktops.</a></li> 1.43 + <li><a href="#support">Support and Documentation.</a></li> 1.44 + <li><a href="#security">Security.</a></li> 1.45 + <li><a href="#upgrade">From Cooking to Stable.</a></li> 1.46 + <li><a href="#people">People of the Project.</a></li> 1.47 +</ul> 1.48 + 1.49 +<a name="overview"></a> 1.50 +<h3><font color="#6c0023"></font>Overview</h3> 1.51 +<p> 1.52 +SliTaz GNU/Linux is a free, open source community project. Version 1.0 was 1.53 +released on March 22 2008 after two years of hard work. Slitaz comprises of 448 1.54 +software packages easily installed via the "Tazpkg" package manager. The LiveCD 1.55 +can be fully configured to taste, to easily create a custom distribution 1.56 +specificically for tasks such as multimedia, graphics or development. 1.57 +</p> 1.58 +<p> 1.59 +Slitaz can also be installed to your hard drive, or used with USB media - with 1.60 +"TazUSB" you are only a few simple commands away from a fully formatted and 1.61 +configured USB device, ready to boot. 1.62 +</p> 1.63 +<p> 1.64 +Technical support is provided to users via the mailing list and the official 1.65 +forum. The "Slitaz Handbook" is an instructive manual on how to use and finely 1.66 +configure the system. Slitaz can be updated easily via the graphic installer or 1.67 +by using the simple fast text installer. 1.68 +</p> 1.69 + 1.70 +<a name="hardware"></a> 1.71 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">Supported Hardware</font></h3> 1.72 +<p> 1.73 +SliTaz GNU/Linux supports all machines based on i486 or x86 Intel compatible 1.74 +processors. A minimum 128MB of memory is recommended to use the main LiveCD. 1.75 +64MB is needed for the "slitaz-loram" flavor and 16MB for the 1.76 +"slitaz-loram-cdrom" flavor. 1.77 +</p> 1.78 +<p> 1.79 +With the slitaz-loram flavour, the system is less responsive, but allows you to 1.80 +graphically install SliTaz on very old machines. Once installed, Slitaz works 1.81 +well with a minimum of 16MB memory, but forget about using Firefox to surf the 1.82 +web - you'll have to use the text based 'links' for example. 1.83 +</p> 1.84 +<p> 1.85 +Most network and sound card drivers are supported in the Kernel. Presently, 1.86 +power management is enabled by default with ACPI and support for laptops is 1.87 +enabled with the "ac" and "battery" modules. 1.88 +</p> 1.89 + 1.90 +<a name="livecd"></a> 1.91 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">LiveCD Flavors</font></h3> 1.92 +<p> 1.93 +SliTaz GNU/Linux is distributed as a bootable LiveCD allowing you to 1.94 +graphically install to the hard drive and retain the use of your previous 1.95 +system including all settings, applications, documents etc. 1.96 +</p> 1.97 +<p> 1.98 +The project distributes an ISO image called "core", which is the body of the 1.99 +system, providing a selection of multi-use packages for surfing the web, 1.100 +listening to music, audio editing, image manipulation, developing (including 1.101 +PHP/SQL), editing ISOs or burning to optical media. It's just one click in the 1.102 +application menu to find software installed by category. 1.103 +</p> 1.104 +<p> 1.105 +The "core" LiveCD can also be customised and rebuilt both graphically or from 1.106 +the command line. Install your own custom set of packages, or simply use one 1.107 +of the preset flavors on the mirror. Then simply generate your distribution 1.108 +with the "Tazlito" tool. 1.109 +</p> 1.110 + 1.111 +<a name="install"></a> 1.112 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">Installation</font></h3> 1.113 +<p> 1.114 +The installation is fully automated and can be done graphically or in text 1.115 +mode. The prerequisite material and other useful information can be found in the 1.116 +Manual and Handbook. 1.117 +</p> 1.118 +<p> 1.119 +If you want to partition a disk before installation, you can quickly use 1.120 +Gparted in LiveCD mode or use a flavor containing the partitioning tool. At 1.121 +the end of the installation it is possible to setup the "GRUB" bootloader which 1.122 +is capable of starting almost all operating systems. This allows SliTaz to 1.123 +co-exist with a previously installed operating system, such as Windows. 1.124 +</p> 1.125 + 1.126 +<a name="kernel"></a> 1.127 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">Linux Kernel</font></h3> 1.128 +<p> 1.129 +Slitaz GNU/Linux is distributed with the Linux Kernel 2.6.24.2, patched for 1.130 +LZMA compression support and display correction for the virtual console. The 1.131 +support for IDE and SCSI is integrated, as are the filesystems ext2 and ext3. 1.132 +</p> 1.133 +<p> 1.134 +Most network cards are supported either directly or as loadable modules with 1.135 +'modprobe'. Video capture, if needed, requires the ieee1394, raw1394 and 1.136 +oci1394 modules installed. The management of the sound card drivers is obtained 1.137 +with 'soundconf'. 1.138 +</p> 1.139 +<p> 1.140 +The configuration of startup modules is located in /etc/rcS.conf. In 1.141 +LiveCD/LiveUSB mode you can use 'modprobe=mod1, mod2' to load various modules 1.142 +at boot time. 1.143 +</p> 1.144 +<p> 1.145 +The Linux Kernel configuration of SliTaz is available in the compressed file 1.146 +/proc/config.gz and also in the Mercurial repositories. 1.147 +</p> 1.148 + 1.149 +<a name="packages"></a> 1.150 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">Software Packages</font></h3> 1.151 +<p> 1.152 +The management of software packages is done with the custom package manager 1.153 +"Tazpkg". It's simple, fast, stable and offers an interactive mode. Among the 1.154 +448 packages available you will find anything you need to transform your 1.155 +machine to a complete graphical desktop (e17), a graphics studio with The Gimp 1.156 +or Inkscape, or to a video editor with Kino. You can experience the world wide 1.157 +web with instant messaging, VOIP, email and of course through a web browser. 1.158 +</p> 1.159 +<p> 1.160 +Slitaz is also designed to function as a powerful web server, using the stable 1.161 +LightTPD/PHP package (installed by default), supporting CGI, Perl and Python. 1.162 +</p> 1.163 +<p> 1.164 +Rsync is used for incremental backup and iptables functions as the firewall. 1.165 +SliTaz can of course also provide a complete development environment with the 1.166 +GCC 4.2.2 compiler, Geany IDE, Mercurial Repostitories and all development 1.167 +libraries. Packages can be found through the search function of Tazpkg or via 1.168 +the website: http://www.slitaz.org/packages/ 1.169 +</p> 1.170 +<p> 1.171 +The binary packages on the mirror can all be compiled by using the "wok" or 1.172 +"Tazwok" to cook. All of the developer documentation is contained in the 1.173 +"SliTaz Cookbook" and is available online. 1.174 +</p> 1.175 + 1.176 +<a name="desktop"></a> 1.177 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">Graphical Desktops</font></h3> 1.178 +<p> 1.179 +By default, the Slitaz LiveCD uses the very light and stable JWM window manager. 1.180 +The integration of the taskbar "LXpanel" makes it possible to dynamically 1.181 +provide a menu based on the Freedesktop standards. The principle is to have a 1.182 +small menu accessible via a screen click with the favourites, windows effects, 1.183 +LiveCD and LiveUSB tools, JWM configuration and system actions made available. 1.184 +Applications can also be accessed through the menu supplied by LXpanel. 1.185 +</p> 1.186 +<p> 1.187 +Through the support of a LiveCD flavor or an installed system you can install 1.188 +the Enlightenment (e17) desktop environment or the Openbox window manager. 1.189 +The different sessions can be selected via the F1 key when using the "Slim" 1.190 +login window. To change the default session you can use 'tazx' or manually edit 1.191 +the ~/.Xinitrc file. 1.192 +</p> 1.193 + 1.194 +<a name="support"></a> 1.195 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">Support and Documentation</font></h3> 1.196 +<p></p> 1.197 +The SliTaz project offers various means of help and support to users of the 1.198 +system, using the mailing list, forum or IRC channel. User documentation 1.199 +is contained in the SliTaz Handbook, making it possible to configure SliTaz 1.200 +to some degree. The Handbook is also available on the web site. The manuals 1.201 +of the various tools are installed on the system and are available through the 1.202 +documentation menu - they describe all the various commands made possible by 1.203 +the tools. The development of the operating system and the use of the wok and 1.204 +receipts are described in the "Slitaz Cookbook". The books, manuals and memos 1.205 +are all available online: http://www.slitaz.org/doc/ 1.206 + 1.207 +<a name="security"></a> 1.208 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">Security</font></h3> 1.209 +<p> 1.210 +For the benefit of a safe and secure system it's important to recharge and 1.211 +update packages regularly. The Firewall is provided by iptables, and the 1.212 +LightTPD server supports authentication by encrypted passwords and Dropbear 1.213 +provides a secure SSH client and server. The passwords for the users of the 1.214 +system are encrypted and only the root administrator can modify system files. 1.215 +For information about how to configure the firewall, you can refer to the 1.216 +Handbook. The packages related to security are all classified under the topic: 1.217 +Security. 1.218 +</p> 1.219 + 1.220 +<a name="upgrade"></a> 1.221 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">From Cooking to Stable</font></h3> 1.222 +<p> 1.223 +The installer of SLiTaz GNU/linux offers an update function allowing you to 1.224 +upgrade from a 'Cooking' to 'Stable' version. To upgrade the system you first 1.225 +need to boot the 'Stable' LiveCD, launch the installer, select upgrade and then 1.226 +specify the partition containing the system that you want to update. The 1.227 +installer will then clean out the system and reinstall all the packages not 1.228 +present on the CD from the mirror. When this has finished you can reboot 1.229 +with your new version of SliTaz. Note that this method can also be used to 1.230 +rebuild an already installed system, while retaining the selection of packages 1.231 +already installed. 1.232 +</p> 1.233 +<p> 1.234 +Note that the installer will keep a copy of the list of packages and a complete 1.235 +archive of the /etc directory (etc.tar.gz) in /var/lib/slitaz-install. 1.236 +</p> 1.237 + 1.238 +<a name="people"></a> 1.239 +<h3><font color="#6c0023">People of the Project</font></h3> 1.240 +<p> 1.241 +SliTaz is proud to be an international community project. The people of the 1.242 +project are the ones who develop the distribution, correct the website, 1.243 +develop the HG repositories and write the official documentation. Passing 1.244 +through Switzerland, France, Quebec, Algeria and England. 1.245 +</p> 1.246 +<ul> 1.247 + <li>Christophe Lincoln</li> 1.248 + <li>Pascal Bellard</li> 1.249 + <li>Eric Joseph-Alexandre</li> 1.250 + <li>Julien Rabier</li> 1.251 + <li>Paul Issot</li> 1.252 + <li>Andrew Miller</li> 1.253 + <li>Serge Daigle</li> 1.254 + <li>Gauthier Bar</li> 1.255 + <li>Mohamed Jabara</li> 1.256 + <li>Gwenhaël Goavec-Merou</li> 1.257 + <li>Didier Bretin</li> 1.258 +</ul> 1.259 +<p> 1.260 +The project also wishes to thank all the reviewers, testers, hackers and users 1.261 +who have taken the time to help advance the distribution. 1.262 +</p> 1.263 + 1.264 + 1.265 +<!-- End of content --> 1.266 +</div> 1.267 + 1.268 +<!-- Footer. --> 1.269 +<div id="footer"> 1.270 + <div class="footer-right"></div> 1.271 + <a href="#top">Haut de la page</a> | 1.272 + <a href="index.html">Index of /usr/share/doc/slitaz</a> 1.273 +</div> 1.274 + 1.275 +<div id="copy"> 1.276 + Copyright © 2008 <a href="http://www.slitaz.org/">SliTaz</a> - 1.277 + <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>;<br /> 1.278 + Documentation published under 1.279 + <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GNU Free Documentation License</a> 1.280 + and <a href="http://validator.w3.org/">xHTML 1.0 valid</a>. 1.281 +</div> 1.282 + 1.283 +</body> 1.284 +</html>