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changeset 158:1b387d40e235
Update web page for 0.2.1.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:44:32 -0400 |
parents | dff36fab9e7e |
children | 6b6dda41d374 |
files | www/index.html |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/index.html Mon Apr 09 14:38:48 2007 -0400 +++ b/www/index.html Mon Apr 09 14:44:32 2007 -0400 @@ -1,6 +1,34 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> <b><h1>News</h1></b> +<h2>April 9, 2007</h2> +<p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.2.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.2.1</a> is out +(changeset 156). Significant upgrades to armv4l: the native compiler works +now, and it's using soft-float. Added armv5l and i586 targets to show how +to do that kind of variant. Added preliminary powerpc support (although +qemu can't run it yet). Reorganized the download directory and rewrote +the <a href=downloads/README>README</a>. Added squashfs back (the kernel +supports it, but it's not using it yet). Moved uClibc to miniconfig. +(Yes, the patch for this is huge, and yes I need to push it all upstream into +the Linux kernel. On the bright side, this one builds on a host that doesn't +have curses installed.) Stopped trying to build qemu (at least until they +get the gcc 3.x dependencies cleaned out), now just warn if it's not there +(so far the build only uses it to sanity-test the cross compiler, which is +now skipped automatically if it's not there).</p> + +<p>I note that some versions of Ubuntu (Edgy and up) are pushing a political +agenda. They install bash, but point /bin/sh to dash instead. (So why +install bash if you're not going to use it?) This breaks all sorts of things, +and if somebody can tell me how to force make to run "/bin/bash" instead of +"/bin/sh", I'll consider trying to deal with the mess. Until then, I suggest +"rm /bin/sh; ln -s bash /bin/sh" to get a working system. (I'm no fan of +bash, but dash is just broken.)</p> + +<p>(Those of you who use vi and want to be able to use the cursor keys while +in insert mode might want to do something similar with vi->vim. Ubuntu seems +to be trying to train users to change their habits. Dog biscuits would be a +more honest approach.)</p> + <h2>March 6, 2007</h2> <p>Version 0.2.0 is out. This one builds ext2 images which can boot up to a shell prompt under qemu. This works on i686, armv4l, x86_64, and mipsel.