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Clean up old references to impactlinux.com, add a FAQ explaining why that site went away, and start the long and winding process of redoing documentation.hmtl.
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Fri, 07 Jan 2011 01:15:01 -0600
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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 <p>It's a month late, but
 <a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.1.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0.1</a> is
 finally out,
-based on <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/shortlog/1318>hg commit
+based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/1318>hg commit
 1318</a>, using Linux 2.6.36, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.18.0.</p>
 
 <b><h3>Automated native build control images</h3></b>
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
 out to do.  And thus:</p>
 
 <p><a href=downloads/aboriginal-1.0.0.tar.bz2>Aboriginal Linux 1.0</a> is out,
-based on <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/shortlog/1238>hg commit
+based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/1238>hg commit
 1238</a>, using Linux 2.6.35, uClibc 0.9.31, and BusyBox 1.17.2.</p>
 
 <p>Yes, it's been over five months since the last release.  I didn't want to
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@
 <hr>
 <h2><a name="05-02-2010" />May 2, 2010</h2>
 <p>The name of the project is changing from Firmware Linux to Aboriginal
-Linux.  The new URL is "http://impactlinux.com/aboriginal".</p>
+Linux.  The new URL is "http://landley.net/aboriginal".</p>
 
 <p>Some reasons to move away from the old name are
 <a href=http://lists.impactlinux.com/pipermail/firmware-impactlinux.com/2009-October/000374.html>listed here</a>,
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@
 <hr>
 <h2><a name="03-29-2010" />March 29, 2010</h2>
 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.11.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.11</a> is out,
-based on <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/shortlog/1020>hg commit
+based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/1020>hg commit
 1020</a>.  We're closing in on a 1.0 release, but not quite there yet.</p>
 
 <p>This version upgrades to Linux 2.6.33, uClibc 0.9.30.3, and BusyBox
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@
 <h2><a name="02-02-2010" />February 2, 2010</h2>
 
 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.10.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.10</a> is out,
-based on <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/shortlog/966>hg
+based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/966>hg
 commit 966</a>.</p>
 
 <p>Yeah, I know 1.0 is overdue for a release, here's a resync point
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@
 time and instead autodetecting the presence of libgcc_s.so vs libgcc.a
 and behaving appropriately.  A largeish cleanup/refactoring of the compiler
 build (described in
-<a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/shortlog/944>commit 944</a>)
+<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/944>commit 944</a>)
 added a new "native-compiler.sh" script, which handles building the
 improved "cross-compiler" tarball that includes thread support and
 uClibc++ and is statically linked against uClibc on the host.
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@
 <hr>
 <h2><a name="12-08-2009" />December 8, 2009</h2>
 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.9.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.9</a> is out,
-based on <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/shortlog/921>hg commit 921</a>.</p>
+based on <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/921>hg commit 921</a>.</p>
 
 <p>Just a checkpoint on the way to 1.0, which is still planned for
 around new years, but there's been some schedule slippage already.</p>
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@
 <h2><a name=11-07-2009 />November 7, 2009</h2>
 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.8.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.8</a> is out,
 based on hg commit 876.  (If you want to see all the changes in this release,
-look at <a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/shortlog/876>commits 810 through 876</a>.)</p>
+look at <a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/876>commits 810 through 876</a>.)</p>
 
 <p.The current plan is to cut one more release at the end of the month, and
 then have the 1.0 release around new year's.  This could be considered a
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@
 release notes are a bit long.</p>
 
 <p>This release is based on
-<a href=http://impactlinux.com/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a>
+<a href=/hg/firmware/log/807>mercurial version 807</a>
 of the build scripts,
 and includes <b>Linux 2.6.30.4</b> and <b>BusyBox 1.14.3</b>.
 No new uClibc release is out since last time.</p>
@@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@
 <hr>
 <h2><a name=08-06-2008 />August 6, 2008</h2>
 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.9.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.9.0</a> is out
-(<a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware/shortlog/378>changeset 378</a>)
+(<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/378>changeset 378</a>)
 and can rebuild itself under itself.  (The packaging step still requires User
 Mode Linux to create ext2 images, which only works on x86 and x86-64 hosts.
 The next release should replace that with something more portable.)
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@
 <hr>
 <h2><a name=06-06-2008 />June 6, 2008</h2>
 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Version 0.4.0</a> is out
-(<a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware/shortlog/345>changeset 345</a>),
+(<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/345>changeset 345</a>),
 with kernel 2.6.25.4 and the "distcc trick" working out of the box.</p>
 
 <p>The distcc trick accelerates a native build by calling out to the
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@
 <hr>
 <h2><a name=01-29-2008 />January 29, 2008</h2>
 <p><a href=downloads/firmware-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Version 0.3.1</a> is out
-(<a href=http://landley.net/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with
+(<a href=/hg/firmware/shortlog/275>changeset 275</a>), with
 kernel 2.6.24.  The <a href=downloads/images>images</a>
 are now tarballs each containing the ext2, zImage, and run script files.
 The run scripts now run qemu-setup.sh by default so /proc, /sys, /dev