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

[Terrell Prude' Jr.]

Warren,

You are the man for doing all this. Talk about a bargain....

--TP


Warren Togami wrote:
> Public Beta Soon
> ================
> 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
> ================================
> * 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
> ==================
> - 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
>
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