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["Bertrand Juglas" <b AT juglas.name>]

Hello,
I've seen no mail yet announcing the release so i suppose you've got
problems this night.
Do you think you will have time to release it this weekend ?
Thanks for all your effort,
Bertrand

2008/6/26 flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>:
> Eric Sandall (eric AT sandall.us) wrote [08.06.26 13:54]:
>> Quoting flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>:
>>
>> > Real life is slowing me down, but I'm still chugging away on the ISO. It
>> > has also been slowed down, because there will be some slightly new
>> > developments for the ISO.
>> >
>> > The "short list" of major differences between the soon-to-be-released
>> > ISO and the previous devel release are as follows:
>> >
>> >   1) More drivers built as modules instead of builtin
>> >   2) Use of udev in the ISO's own initrd
>> >   3) Autodetection of hardware on bootup (limited?)
>> >   4) Some other (minor) bugfixes
>> >
>> > Essentially, implementing 1 causes a requirement for 2, and implementing
>> > 2 has the nice side effect of 3. However, getting 2 working properly is
>> > causing some slowdowns, as implementing that is not trivial. 1 should
>> > serve as a bugfix for people whose PATA drives were either not detected
>> > properly or not detected at all, but this will need to be tested and
>> > reported on by those with PATA drives. The release can be expected
>> > within a day or two if all goes well from here.
>>
>> Awesome, thanks Justin!
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>
> Oh, this should also (in theory) speed up the boot-time of the ISO as
> well. Of course, everyone can test that empirically after I release it.
> I've run into a few hiccups, but I'm working those out. If it goes well,
> I'll release sometime tonight.
>
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> Justin "flux" Boffemmyer
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