Fatdog64-900 Alpha Release Notes
Fatdog64-900 Alpha was released 4 July 2023.
The Fatdog64 team is pleased to announce the debut of the next generation Fatdog64 GNU/Linux system.
The base of Fatdog64-900 is LFS 11.3 (Linux From Scratch) modified to support multilib, with packages from BLFS 11.3 and other sources.
The alpha repository comprises over 2200 packages and more will be added as time goes.
Fatdog64 900 is a new major version line and does not upgrade from any of older versions. Save file/folders from older versions aren't compatible. Start a fresh save file/folder. A few older packages may still work, but in general they aren't supported and you should upgrade to the new package version. The same applies for SFS archives.
In spite of the Alpha label, the developers have been using this version in their daily work for several months before this release.
Please report all bugs to the forum support thread.
Changes from 814:
The following list of updates, new features and changes is only partial.
Updates:
- Full system rebuild with major package updates.
- Linux Kernel 5.19.17 (same as Final 814 release)
- gcc 12.2.0
- glibc 2.37
- eudev 3.2.11
- Glib-2.74.5
- GTK+ 2.24.33
- GTK+ 3.24.36
- Qt 5.15.8
- Xorg-21.1.8
- Mesa-22.3.7
- xf86-video-amdgpu-23.0.0
- xf86-video-ati-19.1.0
- xf86-video-intel-2023.02
- ALSA 1.2.8
- libinput 1.22.1
- libgcrypt 1.10.1
- VLC-3.0.18
- ffmpeg 5.1.2
- CUPS 2.4.2
- LibreOffice 7.5.2.2
- OpenSSL 3.0.8
- LxQt Panel Qt5 1.3.0
- Seamonkey 2.53.15
- Bluez 5.66
- Wine 8.6 supporting 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications
- SMB Browser 2.2.2
- Various system tools updates
- Hundreds of other package upgrades, some GTK2 apps replaced with GTK3 version
New Features:
- xscreenshot now supports copying to clipboard. Press Ctrl-Print to activate
- dconf gsettings backend to enable application settings persistence in evince, etc
- touchegg - convert multi-touch gesture to actions
Repo:
- New package repository
- New SFS repository
Known Issues:
- Suspend/resume does not always work with certain machines.
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