[K12OSN] Progress: Fedora 14 Now Supported, Fixes, Public Beta Soon

[Warren Togami]

Public Beta Soon
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https://fedorahosted.org/k12linux/wiki/EL6Status
3 remaining easy bugs before the release of the Public Beta.  I am 
attempting to get that done and to revamp the k12linux.org documentation 
this week.

Does ANYONE have a non-US keyboard?  If so, please contact me, we need 
some non-US keyboard testing done before the Public Beta.

Today I thought of a new way to do the replacement EL6 kernel (PAE 
disabled, nbd.ko enabled, extraneous drivers removed).  This would 
improve the Public Beta much in terms of client hardware compatibility, 
so I will attempt to do it too.

Major Changes since Private Beta
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* Fedora 14 is now supported.  If you have the URL from the Private 
Beta, you should find k12linux-release for Fedora 14 and you can proceed 
to install like normal.  Please report back your experiences.
* Many little fixes, faster install, less noisy, smaller.
* K12Linux EL6 is now based on EL6.  Everything works great, except they 
added an annoying regression to livecd-creator that I am trying to fix.
* LDM login screen is now less broken, language and desktop selection 
now works.

Detailed Changelog
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- Run ltsp-chroot-setup only once during ltsp-build-client.
- Speed up ltsp-build-client
- Remove many error and warning messages during ltsp-build-client
   NOTE: Remaining warnings are from a new bug introduced by
   SL-6.1 livecd-creator.  They are harmless.
- Added wraplinux and mkelfimage to EL6 chroot
   Needed to boot on linuxbios, coreboot and some old client hardware.
- ltsp-update-kernels prunes old symvers-*.gz
- Shrink initramfs image by 1.5MB by removing dracut modules
   unneeded by netboot thin clients.
- Allow ltsp-build-client to work on Fedora 14 as a server.
   Theoretically this should make Fedora 14 fully supported.
- SL-6.1
- k12linux-release package contains yum definitions for K12Linux repo

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com