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New release: 2011-03-06

Hi all! The new release if finally out! It’s been almost an year since the latest release. The long time since the last update brings some interesting news for you: kernel 2.6.37.2 with reiser4 patchesgcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r1, linux-headers-2.6.36.1NTFS kernel module has been disabled in favor of external ntfs3g to avoid conflicts (ntfs3g has much much wider NTFS support than in-kernel...

March release 2010 – Happy birthday!

Hi all! The new release is finally out! It features kernel 2.6.33.1 + glibc 2.11-r1. All the “suspended” drivers were reintegrated as the latest versions would compile cleanly. Some packages have been added, most notably pbzip2 to make bzip2 scale on multicore systems. Btrfs-progs has been included as a live ebuild, to allow some fixes for the subvolume management system to be...

March release – review

Hi all! Just a quick update to notify about the status of the works.2.6.29 kernel has been released last week, and reiser4 patches are finally available. I’ve still got three main reasons, though, to delay a bit more this release: if you look at the the kernel Changelog, the git one, you’ll find out that in the last week a huge amount of fixes have been merged concerning the...

March release preview

Hi all! It’s been quite long since last post. Anyway, exams at university have ended, and I finally have some time to build the new release. Lately my main concerns were headed to gcc-4.3.3, which had to be re-emerged twice on my currently working systems to function properly. Luckily everything went fine, and the errors I got when trying to build stage2 went away. For this release...