Fatdog64-620 Release Notes

Fatdog64-620 was released on 17 April 2013.

Changes from 611 - Feature Highlights:

• UEFI and Secure Boot support (booting, USB installs, frugal installs)
• "Save to directory" (in addition the usual savefile).
• Bluetooth support (HID devices, audio streaming, modems)
• f2fs read/write support
• Package manager, soundcard wizard, modem dialer improvements
• Dual isohybrid: one image for ISO and flash drive, and supports UEFI/non-UEFI in a single image.
• Graphical boot menu on the ISO image
• Supports LVM and mdadm software RAID devices for savefile target
• Encrypted savefile now uses LUKS
• User Mode Linux (UML) sandbox
• New kernel, new software, software updates, and bug fixes.

Detailed changes from 611:

Updates:

• savefile-tool can now fsck and resize encrypted savefiles (thanks Hans)
• VLC-2.0.6
• Linux-3.8.7
• Flashplayer-11.2.202.280
• Update libGLU to 9.0.0
• Update netdiscover to 03-03-13 without manufacture ID's to reduce size.
• Update dnsmasq to 2.65 (latest)
• Update pmusic to 3.2.3 (latest)
• Drop old cdrkit-1.11.1 and replace with cdrtools-3.01a13 (latest)
• Seamonkey-2.17
• glipper-lite revision 284 replaces glipper 0.95.1 (thanks disciple)
• mongoose fix for cgi SCRIPT_NAME handling
• Avidemux-2.6.3
• bigreqsproto-1.1.2
• dri2proto-2.8
• fontsproto-2.1.2
• glproto-1.4.16
• inputproto-2.3
• kbproto-1.0.6
• libpciaccess-0.13.1
• libdrm-2.4.42
• MesaLib-9.1.1
• mtdev-1.1.3
• randrproto-1.4.0
• recordproto-1.14.2
• scrnsaverproto-1.2.2
• util-macros-1.16.2
• xcmiscproto-1.2.2
• xextproto-7.2.1
• xf86-input-evdev-2.8.0
• xf86-input-keyboard-1.7.0
• xf86-input-mouse-1.9.0
• xf86-input-wacom-0.20.0
• xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.3.tar.gz
• xf86-video-intel-2.21.5
• xf86-video-modesetting-0.7.0
• xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.7
• xf86-video-nv-2.1.20
• xf86-video-openchrome-0.3.2
• xf86-video-sis-0.10.7
• xf86-video-vesa-2.3.2
• xf86-video-vmware-13.0.0
• xorg-server-1.12.4
• xproto-7.0.23
• background_reshape updated to wjaguar's change: http://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=695028#695028
• guess_fstype updated to upstream, supports f2fs detection (20130205) http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00127
• mkfs.f2fs from git commit fef98ebd
• Patch Broadcom wl to name interface wlan instead of eth.
• Package-manager: download progress and cancel-able download
• Update Transmission-2.77
• Update autochown-2013.2
• Update Samba-3.6.12 (partial)
• Add 3 sets of missing Radeon firmware
• syslinux updated to 4.06
• e3 updated to 2.8
• package manager: show descriptions, search for packages
• drive-icon: option to redraw/re-order icons when it gets mangled by gparted
• update wpa_supplicant to 2.0
• lxpanel updated to 0.5.12
• Update libbluray to git 1/25/13
• Update libaacs to git 1/25/13
• Update Libvpx to git 1/29/13
• Gparted-0.14.1
• Dhcpcd-5.6.7
• Pburn-3.7.15

New Features:

• Supports UEFI and Secure Boot - with documentation
• Dual isohybrid: one image for ISO and flash drive, and supports UEFI/non-UEFI in a single image.
• Refind 0.6.7 (thanks Rod) UEFI bootloader with shim from Matthew Garret (mjg59)
• Boot menu (thanks smokey01 on insisting on this :) )
• Experimental LVM support - support savefile on LVMs
• Experimental mdadm support - support savefile on mdadm linux software raid
• "Allow read-only access to other users" in event manager (thanks Barbol)
• wvdial options for Virgin Broadband (thanks rerwin)
• autochown daemon automatically keeps all files under Downloads folder always owned by spot
• supports dm-crypt encryption (in addition to cryptoloop)
• new encryption mode: savefile will be encrypted with dm-crypt (=LUKS) by default (old cryptoloop savefile still recognised and will be loaded properly)
• "savefile" boot option now accepts directory (in addition to a real loop-mounted savefile). The "+" option in savefile is no longer used, use "/" instead.
• new "dofsck" boot option: check filesystems before mounting. Ext2/3/4 and FAT only.
• User Mode Linux (UML) sandbox (with documentation). Just add uml_utilities and linux_uml from the repo.
• Add xf86-video-modesetting-0.6.0
• xournal for PDF annotation
• New dialer that should work with dial-up, 3G and GPRS modems (Also replaces Blackberry-modem)
• New soundcard manager to set default soundcards (as well as a few other options)
• Bluetooth support (mouse, audio-streaming and bluetooth modems tested)
• Sample dnsmasq.conf which can be used for netbooting with minimal amount of work.
• Add CPUtemp, not enabled by default and perl sensors-detect not included.
• Add alternative Grub Legacy installer (legacy_grub_2013-1.1) - thanks rcrsn51
• Add peasyglue-1.3 - thanks rcrsn51
• Game Armagetronad Advanced.
• Move kernel source to separate sfs file. Makes administration less problematic for us.
• Add brctl (bridge_utils-1.5)
• Add dhcpcd-3.2.3 added to /usr/local/bin
• Rudimentary f2fs support - ability to read/write f2fs formatted partition
• peasydisc 1.0 replacing burniso2cd (thanks rcrsn51).
• forced loading of modules by listing them inside /etc/modules

Note about bluetooth support:

• Bluetooth support is disabled by default, you need to enable the bluetooth service first.
• You may need to get a firmware for your bluetooth devices to work.
• obexd isn't installed (available in the repo). So far only object push is supported, object pull (that is, retrieving something from the bluetooth device) isn't supported so that's why it is not included by default.

and numerous bug fixes.

For earlier release see here Fatdog64 611 Fatdog64 610 Fatdog64 601 Fatdog64 600 Fatdog64 521 Fatdog64 520