017

We are pleased to release GoboLinux 017! Please visit the announcement page and the release notes for the full list of packages distributed in this version and other details.

SHA256 sum: 2e9fbea6b0ba583ccc6ad01f147c478523abd3e297df114a969bdd5b8f5d3933

017-rc1

We are getting closer to 017! This first release candidate updates 017-beta by:

• Embracing PulseAudio
• Fixing support for NVMe, pure UEFI firmware, and internationalization in the Installer tool
• Settling on NcursesW 6.2 and removing the non-wide characters Ncurses package
• Upgrading Linux kernel to 5.6.10
• Adding an experimental Awesome widget to connect to Bluetooth devices
• Adding a few desktop applications: Audacious music player, Firefox 76, and RawTherapee photo editor
• Updating our Compile and Scripts packages, which are now shipped as a Git repository (so updating them is as easy as running git pull)

017-beta

This is the second preview of GoboLinux 017. It updates several system packages and features the following improvements over 017 alpha:

• A new model for recipe management based on Git. Users can now submit pull requests on GitHub or use the revamped ContributeRecipe tool to automate that process. Recipes contributed that way are made available to other users as soon as PRs are approved. The Compile tool is fully aware of that new workflow.
• Migration of AbsTk (our widget toolkit) to Qt5: we have a graphical installer again.
• Removal of FiboSandbox, as we have been depending on UnionSandbox (a unionfs-based sandbox) for a long time. GoboLinux Rootless, which has been deprecated for several years now, was the only reason we kept it around for so long.
• Massive simplification of Scripts and Compile along with assorted bug fixes.

017-alpha

This is the first preview of GoboLinux 017. This alpha snapshot is being released primarily so that the new boot process and the installer can be tested ahead of time -- this means that the ISO still features several outdated packages that were carried over from 016.01 (Firefox included). Those will be reviewed/refreshed over the coming weeks.

Some of the changes that GoboLinux 017-alpha brings over 016.01 include:

• Incorporation of an Initramfs for improved hardware compatibility
• Deprecation of Python 2. All GoboLinux tools featured in this ISO have been ported to Python 3
• Removal of Libtool ".la" files for better source-based package management
• Support for the Meson build system on Compile
• Update toolchain to Glibc 2.30, GCC 9.2.0, BinUtils 2.33.1, and the kernel to version 5.4.15

ISO SHA256: 17a86f30e15dcbab5e99d2e8132b2747abb94d4c482a62c7dd62fd378c69c852

016.01

Here comes GoboLinux 016.01! It accumulates a few improvements since the announcement of 016.01-beta:

• Upgrade APulse to version 0.1.9
• Upgrade GoboNet to 0.10
• Upgrade UnionFS-Fuse to 2.0, fixing sandboxing issues
• Upgrade to Compile 016.01, fixing file verification logic
• Upgrade to Scripts 016.01, augmenting the "command not found" database and removing obsolete scripts
• Repackaged LibCap 2.25
• Installation fixes for UEFI systems
• Live ISO fixes when querying sysfs for system information
• Conditional use of Xorg modesetting workaround for Intel video cards

The package list is available here.

ISO SHA256: 48739770c0d664ef1b89420ad452a8e4b85d1ca83116f7a1298f205d1fdc44c6

016.01 beta

Second snapshot of GoboLinux 016.01, including an updated list of packages and several improvements over 016.01 alpha:

• Kernel upgrade (Linux 4.9.16), including better support for VMWare
• Inclusion of APulse 0.1.9 as a replacement for PulseAudio (required by Firefox 52.0)
• Upgrade Gobo-awesome-gobonet to 0.4, including fixes for wired networking
• Upgrade Subversion to 1.9.5, including Perl bindings so that "git svn" works
• Upgrade Git to 2.12.0
• Updated OpenSSL settings (certificate path)
• Updated CURL settings (certificate path), upgraded to 7.53.1
• Updated Compile and Scripts (using certificates at all times)
• ISO boot: inclusion of advanced boot options that enable booting with acpi=off and with nomodeset
• Filesystem tree fix: made /usr/libexec a symlink to /System/Index/libexec
• Minor fixes to ConfigTools, BootScripts, EnhancedSkel
• Updated location of immodules.cache on GTK+ 2.24.30

016.01 alpha

First snapshot of GoboLinux 016.01. It features the following improvements over 016:

• Support for Core2 processors (upgrades to GCC and GMP packages)
• Compile bug fix: fixes missing files when building dependencies of a program
• Compile bug fix: enables compilation of packages on the LiveCD
• Fixes Xorg support on VirtualBox and VMware
• Fixes path to SSL certificates
• Fixes to LibFFI's pkgconfig file
• Improves the detection of other operating systems when creating the GRUB config file
• Kernel command line: adds 'rootwait' option to enable installation on external hard disks
• Kernel: adds virtualization drivers for HyperV
• Automatic updates BOOTx64.EFI on UEFI systems upon the compilation of a new kernel
• Grub settings no longer have to be changed upon a kernel upgrade (it now uses the /System/Kernel/Boot/kernel symlink)
• Improves navigation of man and info pages through updated Pinfo settings
• Includes missing locale files from LibX11
• Creates missing links from DocBook-XSL-Stylesheets

New packages and package updates:

• Adds CryptSetup: enables mounting of encrypted partitions from the LiveCD
• Adds Listener: automatically cleans up broken links upon the removal of entries from /Programs
• Updates the Linux kernel to version 4.9.4
• Updates BootScripts to remove warnings at shutdown and reboot time
• Updates Scripts to use unionfs-fuse sandboxing on the LiveCD
• Updates OpenSSL to version 1.0.2k
• Updates Linux-Firmware from git
• Updates Firefox to version 52.0
• Updates Awesome to version 4.0
• Updates Python 3.6.0 package, including support for the tkinter module
• Updates Gobo-Awesome to 0.3
• Updates Gobo-Awesome-Sound to 0.2
• Updates GoboNet to 0.9 and Gobo-Awesome-GoboNet to 0.2
• Updates OS-Prober (improved detection of other operating systems)
• Removes NCSA-Mosaic + dependencies. It was fun to ship 016 with that ancient browser, but that's enough now :)

016

New release for GoboLinux 016.