The kernel has been upgraded to 2.4.25, and the
glibc libraries were upgraded to 2.3.2. The system
architecture is now fully modular. There are new
modules with new useful tools, for example, tools
for system recovery, network analysis, some
network servers (ftp, ssh), and PCMCIA support.
Support for the ClamAV Anti Virus toolkit was
added. The boot sequence has been redesigned, both
in the scripts and in the graphics.
This version includes a lot of bugfixes and a few
new features. The kernel has been updated to
2.4.23, and most of the libraries have been
updated. New setup scripts were added to improve
hardware detection and to speed up the start up
operations. DHCP is used for automatic network
configuration.
This release should be considered a release
candidate for 1.0. The uncompressed ISO image has
been reduced in size to only about 18 MByte, with
a lot of free space on the CD-cards available for
upgrades. The scripts and the library directory
have been cleaned and the various file systems
have been changed. Ext2 is now used for the initrd
image and cramfs is used for the images to allow
them to be mounted runtime, reducing RAM usage and
improving general performance. Many bugfixes were
made to the net libraries, so ping and ftp now
work.
